Underplayed Gems

Silver Jiken (1999)

Silver Jiken cover
Developer
Grasshopper Manufacture
Publisher
Grasshopper Manufacture, ASCII Entertainment
Platforms
PlayStation 3, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS
Genres
Puzzle, Adventure, Visual Novel

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How it feels

a tense, cerebral crime investigation that unfolds like a shadowy puzzle box of past and present murders.

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About

This debut game from developer Goichi Suda (also known as Suda51) follows the investigation of a series of murders which appear to match the profile of the killer responsible for a high-profile series of government assassinations twenty years prior.

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