The 25th Ward: The Silver Case

This is a direct sequel to The Silver Case that manages to be just as interesting and even improve on the original. A detective Visual Novel mixed with mythology and new age of technology i best suda51 fashion. The controller support is basic but functional, unlike in TSC, the music is just as jamming and athmospheric and the illustrations are more colourous and numerous in this entry. Perhaps Suda51's best work right next to Killer 7 in my humble opinion.

No save points except at the end of hours-long chapters, no keyboard shortcuts like in The Silver Case, sluggish controls made of using arrow keys to rotate a tetrahedron or polyhedron "keyboard", monotonously knocking door to door in large buildings as "investigation", having to repeat dialogues a lot because you can't tell when they have finished. I enjoyed The Silver Case but would prefer watching The Matrix to this sequel.

Sequel to The Silver Case with plenty of references to Flower, Sun, & Rain, this toes the line of "is this a game" a bit better than both while still being firmly a visual novel. It is still very much "on rails" but there are a good amount of puzzles throughout, and three intertwining stories (that can be played in almost any order but tie together roughly by chapter). It doesn't seem to end as satisfactorily as either, with a goofballs final choice that I wound up looking up endings for on youtube. I laughed a lot, I gasped a lot, I scratched my head a few times. It definitely feels like the series isn't done telling tales, but what form it takes next is anyone's guess.

Yet another SUDA 51 experience. Its a fairly straightforward text based dungeon crawler, albeit with that certain Goichi Suda flair for the outright bizarre. Some puzzle elements will madden, but overall its another great interactive artwork. Kudos