crime mystery recommedations

[miria]

hi im looking for a VN with    crime mystery    or  visual novels similar Danganronpa any recommedations?

translated VN's  

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Cartagra and Kara no Shoujo. Although the mystery isn't the most thrilling part of those games.

Umineko corresponds too.

[miria]

tnx

[Funyarinpa]

Umineko if you want your brains to be killed in a closed room murder with a witch being the primary suspect.

 

Its prequel Higurashi also works too, to my knowledge. However, I have not read that yet.

 

If you liked Danganronpa, you'd like 999 for the DS. Emulate it on your computer if you have to, that VN is a masterpiece. Its sequel Virtue's Last Reward is my favorite game of all time.

 

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[Decay]

Umineko is a true mystery work, and is like a love letter to the genre. It's not really a standard detective fiction work since it doesn't follow a detective around who is finding clues and unraveling the mystery, but is more of a thriller mystery taking place on an isolated island. But it goes much, much deeper than that. It holds a lot of inspiration from And Then There Were None and other Agatha Christie works, contains a lot of meta-commentary on the genre, and manages to be a really fun read with some adrenalin pumping moments. It's also extremely long, be warned (by some measurements, all eight episodes combine to be the longest VN ever written, if you consider it as one work). Is completely non-interactive, it follows in the tradition of older mystery novels, where the story itself is designed as a "game" or puzzle, and not all of the answers will even be given by the end. The art is really bad by default, but there are unofficial fan made patches that replace it with better art ripped from the untranslated PS3 version.

 

I can't say that Higurashi is a true mystery story, and you shouldn't read it if that's what you're really looking for.There are some mystery elements, sure, but it doesn't take long for that to stop. It's made by the Umineko author and there are plenty of Higurashi references in Umineko, but it's not really a prequel or required reading. 

 

Kara no Shoujo is an interesting hard-boiled detective mystery VN. The protagonist is a grizzled private detective who gets hired by girl's high school to look into the disappearance of some students, and leads into a series of very gruesome murders, complete with explicit art showing it all, of course. Is somewhat infamous for some incredibly violent bad ends. Is pretty open ended with the ability to go to a large amount of places at any given time to progress the investigation and has other minor interactive elements like evidence presentation, but all of these choices means that it's actually pretty hard to find a correct path without a guide. Maybe that's the point, but it's a little too unforgiving in my opinion.

 

Let us not forget the Phoenix Wright series. A soft-boiled mystery series where the protagonist is a defense lawyer. Contains interactive detective segments where you visit various locations, search for clues, talk to people, and interactive courtroom segments where you question witnesses, present evidence, etc. It's for DS, IOS, Wii, and 3DS. Very much emulatable. Only loosely considered a VN by some yet is very highly acclaimed.