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星影の館殺人事件 (Hoshikage no Yakata Satsujin Jiken): A Curious and Curiouser Free Occult Mystery Game | Minidoshima

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Disclaimer/CW: Although this article doesn’t use any grotesque imagery as screenshots for the game, people queasy with such imagery relating to corpses and food should be advised from playing it. For better or for worse, the mystery genre is rooted in the optimism of the Enlightenment and rationalism1. Upon reading works like Sherlock Holmes and Murder on the Orient Express, one gets the impression that amateur detectives with their inductive reasoning and knowledge are backed up by the latest developments on science and technology. Or at the very least, it feels like there’s some…

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