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Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir (Switch)

It was nice to have a remake of this game and have it finally localized into English, but after playing it, it feels like they made it too close to the original game. The game constantly has you going through a number of menus just to find the correct order of how to proceed - sometimes you have to choose the same option two or even more times just to keep going, without any reason pointed out to actually do so. It got frustrating enough that I eventually just pulled up a guide multiple times just to find out what to do. I feel like it would be easy to put together a similar dialogue system like Ace Attorney instead of sticking with the NES dialogue and stuffing the menus with several options that provide nothing.

The story isn't that impressive either. I guessed at who the culprit was an hour into the game and was correct, which made the entire story completely predictable. There's a lot of loose ends with a number of the characters who survived, and I assume most of them will go unresolved as the second game is supposed to be a prequel to this one. I will play the second game at some point, but I'll lower my expectations a bit while playing through it.