made an account just to say that i really enjoyed this game!!!! the bullet hell sections were really challenging, but not to the point of rage quitting lol. my friend who watched me play it is convinced the cat did it
So I decided to finally revist this game and install it, but it's saying Mircosoft Defender SmartScreen prevented from running? It's safe to run right?
Fantatstic game btw. It's a brillant love letter to ace attorney and touhou games.
Windows Defender being overly cautious is a sign it's doing its job! If it does get something wrong, you'd want it to block a safe app over letting a malicious app run. This is normal behaviour. Downloading any executable off the internet is always a risk. The 2.x version of the game is built on the open-source Godot game engine, which has functionality for things like file access or opening the URL to our discord server that Windows Defender may be reacting to. These are normal parts of games, but could be used maliciously if someone intentionally did so. Star Apprentice only accesses its own appdata folder. The exact same build is on Steam as well, and they do malware checks on everything on their platform. I'm confident our own game is safe, but be sure to use your best judgment whenever downloading anything off the internet, including here on itch.
Fun game, neat design space. A bit more mystery-solving-ness would be nice, but it's still fun. Totally called the killer as soon as they showed up, but that's probably just because tropes.
victoria's interrogation was really interesting :o
"jail it is then"
wow the final boss rly went all out on the insults
and the difficulty how did i go through that
also this is actually the first bullet hell game i played !! :DD
i should also mention the fact that when i quit the interrogations i cant move .__.
i had to go through the whole game again becuase of that but hey at least i have an excuse to play it to see the plot and stuff yayayay :pppp
NAGITO KOMAEDA ON THE SPECIAL THANKS SECTION
Great game, liked their designs, voice acting fits them and was amazing, gameplay was difficult and enraging, but not "i want to break everything" enraging, more like "*sharp inhale*" kind of enraging (im using enraging too much lololol). And great mystery too! Amazing job! ^^
Heya! Just wanted to let you guys know that I really liked this game, it has a very interesting twist of genres I've never seen before. I'm completely horrible at the actual danmaku sections, but I can appreciate the creativity put into the mechanics. The gameplay, art, and story are well done.
If you don't mind, I also recorded my playthrough here:
The only pieces of feedback I have is:
The text and menus occasionally glitch out as mentioned in the FAQ, even in the desktop version with my gaming PC, so definitely look into different engines for potential future projects.
More mechanics involving the use of the evidence we collect would be cool (e.g. using truth bullets on statements in Danganronpa). It might be hard implement it during bullet hell, but as a suggestion, you could limit how many times it'll happen and make the danmaku a little easier when the mechanic is necessary.
A slightly more conclusive epilogue would be nice, I feel it ends a little bit too abruptly at the end. Even just a little victory screen would be sufficient (e.g. like how there's confetti at the end of a Phoenix Wright case).
Anyways, I might be biased because I love Phoenix Wright/Danganronpa, but I still highly rate this project because of how unique the premise is. I wish you all the best of luck for any future plans!
Love the game so much so far -- really nice art and story! There is no way I am going to beat that battle though, and I forgot to save before, so maybe I'll try again another day lol
sorry to hear that :( yeah, the web-deploy of the game specifically is a bit buggy, hopefully you were able to save and resume your progress! thank you for playing our game regardless!!
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made an account just to say that i really enjoyed this game!!!! the bullet hell sections were really challenging, but not to the point of rage quitting lol. my friend who watched me play it is convinced the cat did it
The interrogations are gonna crash my game 😭😭😭
good game
So I decided to finally revist this game and install it, but it's saying Mircosoft Defender SmartScreen prevented from running? It's safe to run right?
Fantatstic game btw. It's a brillant love letter to ace attorney and touhou games.
Thanks for playing!
Windows Defender being overly cautious is a sign it's doing its job! If it does get something wrong, you'd want it to block a safe app over letting a malicious app run. This is normal behaviour. Downloading any executable off the internet is always a risk. The 2.x version of the game is built on the open-source Godot game engine, which has functionality for things like file access or opening the URL to our discord server that Windows Defender may be reacting to. These are normal parts of games, but could be used maliciously if someone intentionally did so. Star Apprentice only accesses its own appdata folder. The exact same build is on Steam as well, and they do malware checks on everything on their platform. I'm confident our own game is safe, but be sure to use your best judgment whenever downloading anything off the internet, including here on itch.
Great stuff! I struggled a lot with the "mental space" gameplay so I had to turn on infinite lives really quickly lol. Really fun mystery, though!
awwww man! im gonna miss playing thius game and raging too 😅😅😅
The mystery was so good and the minigames, wow slay, bu that last one had be stumped for a week, but it felt awesome beating it!
so yeah 8.5/10 im gonna miss this, so excited for yall other projects ^^
Fun game, neat design space. A bit more mystery-solving-ness would be nice, but it's still fun. Totally called the killer as soon as they showed up, but that's probably just because tropes.
Thank you for playing! We agree that there should be more mystery solving, so we're changing that for the sequel.
Woo, sequel!
awesome game
I finish the game and damn I LOVE IT.
things i have to say
rip that lansam ayyy(minnie would hate me lol)Great game, liked their designs, voice acting fits them and was amazing, gameplay was difficult and enraging, but not "i want to break everything" enraging, more like "*sharp inhale*" kind of enraging
(im using enraging too much lololol). And great mystery too! Amazing job! ^^Good, very Touhou-like gameplay!
Super cute and fun!! Appreciate that you added an "infinite lives/health" accessibility option as well ^_^
I was surprised when i saw i could play on my phone, at least in the browser version, the game really made my day. :)
glad you enjoyed :)
Heya! Just wanted to let you guys know that I really liked this game, it has a very interesting twist of genres I've never seen before. I'm completely horrible at the actual danmaku sections, but I can appreciate the creativity put into the mechanics. The gameplay, art, and story are well done.
If you don't mind, I also recorded my playthrough here:
The only pieces of feedback I have is:
Anyways, I might be biased because I love Phoenix Wright/Danganronpa, but I still highly rate this project because of how unique the premise is. I wish you all the best of luck for any future plans!
Thanks so much for playing our game :)
Love the game so much so far -- really nice art and story! There is no way I am going to beat that battle though, and I forgot to save before, so maybe I'll try again another day lol
thanks so much for playing our game, you got this!! :)
My game encountered a bug :( its getting so good so far. I know this is not your fault but ya...
sorry to hear that :( yeah, the web-deploy of the game specifically is a bit buggy, hopefully you were able to save and resume your progress! thank you for playing our game regardless!!
lovely game! thanks