The best mystery VNs since Ace Attorney!
Pulse Translation has completed their latest English translations project consisting of two mystery/adventure visual novels by Team Tetrapod. These are Staffer Reborn and Staffer Case: A Supernatural Mystery Adventure. Both titles are available now on Steam!
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About the Games
Staffer Reborn is a game of supernatural abilities and logical deduction set in 1960s America. It tells the story of a man trapped in a cycle of death and resurrection caused by his supernatural ability and the investigator who was recruited to help.
The Lieutenant, a man with the supernatural ability to resurrect, has reached the end of his life and awaits death from old age. However, his revival ability steals this natural death from him, sticking him in a cycle where his old age kills him every fifteen minutes.
Players must step into the shoes of the investigator who takes the case, investigate the Lieutenant's ability, and help him achieve eternal rest.
Talk to the people around the Lieutenant and investigate the items in the room to obtain new information on the case. The information you uncover will be recorded on files detailing your findings.
If you succeed in collecting all the information there is to uncover, at that point, it'll be time to start logically deducing what you can from it.
Ensure you've got a solid grip on the situation surrounding the Lieutenant thus far.
Use the information in your records to uncover new truths lying in wait.
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Staffer Case is a new sort of mystery game, asking players to find clues, arrange them into documents, and point out the contradictions between them to solve a series of murders.
The game is set in a fictional version of London in the 1960s where 10% of all residents have some sort of supernatural ability. In this city, incidents involving staffers, the people who have these abilities, are constantly occurring.
Players take the role of the Mana Affairs Division's newest detective, Notrick, in order to make sense of these incidents. Since the tricks buried within these staffer cases, at their core, revolve around the supernatural abilities of these criminals, conventional investigative methods won't be enough to solve them. Instead, players will have to rely on the documents that explain what their suspects' abilities entail to make sense of everything.
Fortunately, it's not only the criminals who have these supernatural abilities. All of Notrick's fellow detectives at the Mana Affairs Division are also staffers (Excepting gumshoe Notrick himself, of course!) The senior detectives use their supernatural abilities to investigate crime scenes and organize their findings into documents. Testimonies that account for emotional distress, invisible trace that tells when evidence was left, even memories that remain in objects—find contradictions using the various clues at your disposal!
Each mystery unraveled leads you closer to the truth lying at the heart of each case!
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Translation
Now available in English, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Pulse Translation handled the new English releases of both games.
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