追光探偵物語 FOLLOWSPOT — A Detective Story

Story

Japan's job-market "ice age." The protagonist, a final-year university student looking for work, sees a notice for a detective's assistant on a neighborhood board and visits a detective agency at the edge of the shopping street.
The director hires the protagonist on the spot as a trainee, says he'll be away for a while, and leaves the office.
Together with a senior detective, the director's daughter, the protagonist starts looking into the requests that come in.

About the game

This is a retro-flavored, command-based detective adventure made in the style of adventure games on classic Japanese PCs such as the PC-88/98 and X68000.
You choose commands such as Look, Talk, Examine and Move to question people and investigate.
The graphics use a "line & paint"-style look modeled on those classic PCs: each scene is drawn on screen from line art to color.
The game is set in an old neighborhood in suburban Tokyo in the early 2000s, and consists of a prologue and 13 chapters.

Features

• Command selection — Look / Talk / Examine / Use-Show / Think / Move / Deduce
  
• "Line & paint"-style graphics — scenes are drawn from line art to color
  
• Case notebook — records testimony and evidence; includes a glossary
  
• Prologue + 13 chapters
  
• ADV features — save anywhere (multiple slots), auto mode, skip read text, backlog, chapter select

Language

This game's text is in Japanese only, with no voice acting. There is no English localization at this time; future localization is undecided.