Thrills! Chills! Kills!
Kumitantei is very much a love letter toDanganronpa, pitting a class of 16 gifted students against each other in a killing game - or rather, science experiment - under the encouragement of an antagonistic conjoined cat-like creature(s) with more than a hint of Monokuma about it. The player will have to investigate crime scenes to solve murders and uncover the mystery of the locked bunker of the Janus Institute in which the group find themselves trapped.
While it’s all very Danganronpa upfront, Kumitantei plans to mix in some ideas from further afield, too. As the player interacts with characters and gifts them items found around the world, they’ll be able to build up a level of trust similar toPersona’s social links, with that trust then seemingly playing an important role as you attempt to discover the truth behind the Apathy Experiment and its killer host.
Replacing Danganronpa’s bullet-based class debates are clinical trials and card battle debates, involving an element of deck-building and cardplay to overcome opponents using your influence. There’ll be other retro-inspired minigames, too, with the game citing the manga of legendary Ranma ½, Inuyasha and Urusei Yatsura creator Rumiko Takahashi as a key influence on the game’s horror-conspiracy tone alongside eighties anime and Japanese culture.
