Publisher: Enix
Developer: System Sacom
Release Date: 10/26/2000
Date Played: 1/21/2020
Region: Japan
Time Played: 2 hours 10 minutes
What’d you think?: This was a murder mystery adventure game set on a train, with heavy FMV use, every reply to you is voiced, and almost all of them with full video. I don’t know if it bears any non-superficial similarity to the similarly-named Agatha Christie novel. I know a teacher was murdered on a train, probably by a student, other teacher, or maybe a train attendant. I know, I, another teacher, have been tasked with solving this murder, and one of the students (guaranteed to be innocent for some reason?) is my Watson, helping me. I think that I have a two-hour time limit on this game. My Japanese is very limited but not so limited that I couldn’t tell that the notebook mentioned the phrase time limit after mentioning the train departing at 11 and arriving at 1. I think I reached this limit and got a game over before discovering who did the murder. I’m not even sure if I was close, but I was on disc 3 of 4. Only on a few occasions did I have to make a choice that I couldn’t remake. If I knew more Japanese I could’ve had a pretty good time here.
YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNJBXitiaXo
