First of all, the conclusion, I don't recommend this work, this is a well-behaved reasoning word puzzle game in every way, well... Or the travel promotion game, which was fully hoisted by 2001's Reverse Judge 1, let me take it slowly.
First of all, the gameplay part of "Square Root Film" is basically no, all you have to do in the game is to watch the story, spread around the places you can go, click on the yellow box that is framed on the screen, collect important testimonies (called synesthesia in the game), and advance the plot.
The yellow box is all that can be pointed out
Synesthesia is initiated
The reasoning part is also lackluster, in the puzzle chapter the protagonist will find the real murderer, and then give you the option to launch the truth, this process will basically not be wrong even if you don't use your brain.
No spoilers, this is not the real murderer, just to advance the plot
The whole game part is arranged step by step, you can go where, click where to search for evidence dialogue, directly pull out the murderer, point out the real culprit clues have told you, when playing is really very sleepy.
If "Square Root Film" has any advantages, it is probably its plot, its story is a pure intrinsic reasoning, and the reversal of the last three chapters is still wonderful.
Personally, the scripts of the first few chapters of the game are a complete waste of time when viewed individually, the murderer can see it at a glance, and there are logical loopholes in the technique, which are all to pave the way for the cases in the last three chapters of the story.
The story structure is divided into five chapters of the male protagonist Yakumo chapter and two chapters of the female protagonist's glass step, it is recommended to play the female protagonist first, because the plot about the identity of the female protagonist plays a narrative trick, which is one of the few surprises.
The second chapter of the male protagonist Yakumo mentions that Yakumo has a sister who is an actor, and Li Bu just happens to be an actress, anyone will involuntarily guess that Li Bu is Yakumo's sister, and expect the two of them to meet in the subsequent plot, as for the truth, I will not spoil it, interested friends to understand it themselves.
The heroine steps
In addition to the core narrative trick of reasoning, there are also a small number of highlights in the game, and what impressed me more was the two performances after Yakumo was married into a murderer and escaped.
The reporter interviewed the two female protagonists around the male protagonist, their faces were beaten and changed their tones, but they did not say good things for the male protagonist because of personal friendship, but all kinds of dislikes and big truths made people laugh. (Although it is a dream made by the male protagonist)
There is also a cameraman who has been following the protagonist group around the golden hand, at this time suddenly revealed his true face, it turned out that he was a super beautiful teenager who was distressed by his appearance, and had been reducing his sense of existence like a ninja, this reversal really made me laugh, others said that they did not notice that he was so good-looking, and the criminal police who had dealt with him several times before even directly said that they did not know this super beautiful teenager at all.
There is also the fact that it is obvious that the emerging image writers came to Shimane to participate in the TV series shooting project, but like the possession of the god of death, wherever they go, where they will be killed, the criminal police handling the case are cold and want to complain.
This work and "Fanggen Shujian" as the same to Shimane Prefecture as the stage, but also became The Shimane Prefecture tourism promotion game, those detective locations are mostly local attractions do not say, the game will suddenly appear to ask questions about tourism knowledge strange men and creatures that look like local mascots, it is really people can not spit can not, do not know whether they do the game is seriously engaged in reasoning or serious tourism promotion?
Overall, if you're not a big fan of the genre, I don't recommend starting this game, because you can choose other games of the same genre instead of wasting time in this work, of course, Shimane Scenery and Character CG are also one of the selling points of the game.