Category: Mystery

Kara no Shojo: Reiji Tokisaka’s Erotic Detective Agency

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I am always a bit hesitant to start visual novels. I don’t mind some sex in my story telling and I know that the way the Japanese PC game market works is that the conventional wisdom is that you have to throw in some sex to get people to play. I just want to play something with more story than sex and the sex should not make me throw up in my mouth a little. I was interested in Kara no Shojo because it is a historical murder mystery set is post WWII Japan. The question in my mind was is this murder mystery with some sex thrown in for flavor or a sex game with some murder mystery for an air of legitimacy. So when the demo came out I was curious to test the game out to see how much of an impression I could get.

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Gosick #023: Sauville is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.

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It seems that Victorique has done nothing more than simply delay the plans of   her father. Despite her efforts Jupiter Roget is revealed to be a Gray Wolf and chased out of the court, Rupert de Gilet is now in the pocket of the Ministry of the Occult, the Monstre Charmant are mere a tools of the Marquis, and Kazuya has been shipped off to Japan. It seems that war is coming and nothing can stop Albert’s plans. Those who wish to stand up to the Ministry of the Occult can seize one moment of vulnerability but taking advantage of it might come at a great cost.

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Gosick #022: A Donnie Darko Christmas

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Victorique circumvented the machinations of the Ministry of the Occult and the Science Academy but she merely escaped a single battle while the war in the shadows rages on. As the campus celebrates Christmas both sides are attempting to use Kazuya as a pawn to control the heart of the petite gray wolf. The legend of the Monstre Charmant, protests in the street, secret agents, kidnappings, deportations, love, and hate are all part of the powder keg of that is Sauville. The only question is when will the match fall to set everything ablaze.

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