Tantei Shounen A (Windows) Concise Guide (Version 0.5 - Limited Edition) Current Update: Friday, 23 August 2002 Previous Update: Monday, 19 August 2002 Created: Sunday, 18 August 2002 By Don "Gamera" Chan (crs1219@hotmail.com) 1. Acknowledgements 2. Nutrition Information 2.1 1st Impression 2.2 2nd Impression 3. Links 4. Solution "Setsunasa!" (*1) Disclaimer: I send the newest version of this file to only seven Websites: - http://www.gamefaqs.com/ - http://vgstrategies.about.com/ - http://dlh.net/ - http://www.gamesover.com/ - http://www.cheathappens.com/ - http://www.ggmania.com/ - http://www.gamenemesis.com/ If you downloaded or read this file at other Websites, the SysOps of the other Websites probably leeched it from one of the above Websites. Dementi: J'ai envoye la plus recente version de ce fichier a seulement sept sites webs. - http://www.gamefaqs.com/ - http://vgstrategies.about.com/ - http://dlh.net/ - http://www.gamesover.com/ - http://www.cheathappens.com/ - http://www.ggmania.com/ - http://www.gamenemesis.com/ Si vous avez telecharge ou lu ce fichier a partir d'autres sites, les responsables de ces sites l'auront probablement pompe a partir de l'un des sites ci-dessus. 1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks to these sierra hotel persons/organisations: - Jean-Luc Barbera of France, for the French translation of the Disclaimer, and the English translation of the NOIR foreword. (After all, English and French are the two official languages up here in Canada, the True North Strong and Free.) (Social democracy in action.) "Le noir, ce mot designe depuis une epoque lointaine le nom du destin. "Les deux vierges regnent sur la mort. "Les mains noires protegent la paix des nouveaux-nes." - NOIR (TV: 2001) 2. NUTRITION INFORMATION (Introduction) Title: Tantei Shounen A Genre: Map movement type adventure Rating: Adult Only (Keep out of sight of children and parents) Players: 1 OS: Japanese Windows 98/Me/2000/XP Maker: Foster On Sale: Friday, 19 July 2002 2.1 1ST IMPRESSION Tantei Shounen A (officially "Tantei Syounen A" and possibly "Detective Boy A") for Windows, by Foster, came out on 2002.07.19. I'm not familiar with the other games by Foster. Got this game because the chara designs by Sky House look typical, the game is voiced, and the screen shots don't seem to involve the abnormalities that I dislike (see below). The game is on one CD. It doesn't seem to contain any omake directory or files. The player can choose the install size. Standard install for 59 MB (actual), or full install for 190 MB. I chose standard install, and the game needs the CD in the CD drive to run. Don't know about full install. The game has 12 save game slots. The save games are in just one small BIN file in the game directory. The player can't change the protagonist's name, or the save game slot titles. The game screen has a standard layout. Chara portraits (thighs and above) superimposed on a background illust. Rectangular message window above the bottom edge of the screen, with small icons for System (options), Auto Mode, Reread (rewind), and Rapid Feed (fast forwards) in the lower right corner. RMB is also for options. The options menu/window looks like a small notebook with hand-written notes, and includes the load/save game slots page/screen. On the bottom edge of the message window is the Item button. Click it to display and explain the items that the protagonist carries. The female chara are voiced. The male chara, except the protagonist, are also voiced. When they speak, the chara's eyes and mouths aren't animated. Anyway. The story of the game... *SPOILER ALERT* The male protagonist is Hinagata Akira. An unfortunate and unimpressive school boy. During his summer vacation, one day, the two main heroines, Teruyama Momiji (long straight black-grey hair) and Saionji Yukari (blond hair in twin tails), meet him and drag him to his aunt's Shirokuma Tanteisha (officially "Sirokuma Tanteisya", meaning "White Bear Detective Agency"). His aunt's missing, his parents are out of country, and the two heroines, who are his aunt's assistants, verbally convince him to become the acting director (more like "drone") of the tanteisha. (At first glance, Momiji looks like Tsuyuha Neesan in Seireitsukai Elementalors, and the protagonist looks like Yahiko chan in Ruroken (Rurouni Kenshin), IMO.) A crone... I mean an old female shop proprietor named Kawada Mitsuko immediately comes to the tanteisha and tasks the protagonist with finding Miko chan, her missing white Yorkshire terrier. The game then changes to map movement mode, like in Doukyuusei and Kakyuusei. (Actually, back in the early '90s, I played Princess Maker and Sotsugyou, and didn't play Doukyuusei or Kakyuusei.) The protagonist's SD icon is in a bird's eye view map of his city ward, like in the ancient RPGs for the Famicom and SFC (Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon: Another Story, Dragon Quest, &c). RMB shows the entire city map. Some buildings are outlined and look mildly more colourful, and are probably event spots. The player manually walks the protagonist to these buildings. Some streets end at the edges of the map, but the protagonist can't exit the map. The player can't load/save game in map movement mode, unless the message window is on-screen, and the protagonist can't immediately re-enter the tanteisha. Indeed, the protagonist can't enter spots that has no scheduled event. In the upper left corner is a clock. Time passes only after the protagonist enters a spot and gets an event. From north to south, the city map has effectively five west-east streets. On the north side of the first (northmost) street, from west to east, are: a mansion (apartment building) and Sichiya Collection (Kawada Mitsuko's shop). On the second street are: Egeon Sea (commercial building), a commercial building, Shirokuma Tanteisha, and a park. On the third street are: Guru Guru 2, a police station, Poplar (restaurant), Cotteria Hamburger, and Kansukeya. On the fourth street are: Hotel Risto, Honobono Fake, Bowling, and a game centre. On the fifth street are: Hotel Kim Kim, a construction company office, a commercial building, NcDomald's, a club (unlabelled blue-grey building), and a game centre. (I'll figure out the names of the nameless buildings later.) 2.2 2ND IMPRESSION Some players who cleared this game claimed that they completed it in as few as three hours, and that the game has only one or two multiple choice nodes overall. (-_-;) Maybe simple is best. "Ecchi nano ha ikenai to omoimasu." - Andou Mahoro san, Automatic Maiden Mahoromatic FYI, in Ecchi games, I dislike anal, android, bandage, bestiality, bondage, boys love/gay/homo/Shouta/yaoi, Burikko, byoujaku, choukyou, gakuenmono, kemono, kichiku, kyonyuu, Lolicom, Mah Jong, maid, nun, nurse, okama (maybe except the Hokuto no Ken type), orgy, scatolo, slime, tentacles, and zombies. (I know. Picky, picky.) "Ecchi nano mo ii to omoimasu." - Pink Pineapple, 2002.08.25 3. LINKS - http://www.foster.gr.jp/dba/top_flam.html The Tantei Shounen A official HP in the Foster HP. Has a playable demo of about 6 MB. - http://www.zdnet.co.jp/gamespot/s-club/special/tantei/index.html The Tantei Shounen A section in the GameSpot Japan HP. - http://www2.bbspink.com/test/read.cgi/hgame/994958238/l50 A message thread that's coincidentally about Tantei Shounen A. [Ramble ON] - http://selios.free.fr/ Selios' Lairs, by Jean-Luc Barbera of France. English. "Selios' Lairs is primary a fan site on different things I enjoy a lot, some of which are not well known outside Japan or by rare fans worldwide. "Les Antres de Selios sont avant tout un site de fan sur differentes choses que j'apprecie beaucoup, don't certaines sont tres meconnues en dehors du Japon hormis de rares fans de part le monde." - http://home.attbi.com/~kagamix2/xp-compatible/ The Japanese Gaming Guide to Windows XP, by Kagami of USA. English. "Windows 95/98/Me/2000 Japanese PC Games on Windows XP." [Ramble OFF] 4. SOLUTION "atasi no 'sigoto' ha hito wo korosu koto yo. hito wo 'tasukeru' tame zya nai wa." - Mireille Bouquet (CV: Mituisi Kotono), NOIR (TV: 2001) *SPOILER ALERT* JULY 26 The protagonist gets an item: a city map. 15:00 at Cotteria Hamburger, southeast of the tanteisha. The protagonist meets his classmate, Kinoshita Yukiko (Meganekko with long straight brown hair), and gets a clue. He then automatically goes to NcDomald's, finds Miko chan, and goes to the tanteisha. The protagonist gets an item: a dog. 19:00 at Shirokuma Tanteisha. The protagonist and Yukari automatically go to Shichiya Collection and return Miko chan to its mistress. 20:00 at Shichiya Collection, northeast of the tanteisha. Kawada Mitsuko gives the protagonist a new task: to find Connie, a white Maltese. He must attempt and fail to enter three or four spots before he can enter the tanteisha. He then automatically says good night to Momiji (no relation to the Blue Seed heroine) and sleeps in the tanteisha. The protagonist loses an item: a dog. JULY 27 Morning at Shirokuma Tanteisha. (Yukari's panchira CG...) Anyway. A man named Mr Nitta gives the protagonist a new task: to stalk... I mean monitor his daughter, Nitta Masumi. 14:00 at Cotteria Hamburger. (Not Lotteria or Coppelia, and this time, the protagonist can't enter NcDomald's.) The protagonist meets his target, Nitta Masumi (shortcut light brown hair and in a famires uniform). Seems she doesn't want to be her father's (figurative) slave at home. 16:00 at Cotteria Hamburger. The protagonist must attempt/fail to enter about four spots before the clock becomes 18:00 and he can enter the tanteisha. 18:00 at Shirokuma Tanteisha. The protagonist meets the gaki who answers the phone at the tanteisha, Nana chan (Loli). He and Momiji then automatically go to Cotteria Hamburger. 20:00 at Cotteria Hamburger. The player (not protagonist) sees a Momiji Ecchi event. (Bondage (light) and non-consensual copulation...) So Momiji was already chuuko when she and Yukari first met the protagonist... (-_-#) JULY 28 13:00 at Shirokuma Tanteisha. The protagonist may attempt/fail to enter about seven spots before the clock becomes 17:00 and he reminds himself to go to Cotteria Hamburger. Or, the protagonist may go to these event spots: 13:00 at Kansukeya. (The shop east of Cotteria Hamburger.) The protagonist meets the male shop proprietor, Kansuke. The protagonist gets an item: a picking tool (lockpicks). 15:00 at NcDomald's. The protagonist finds Connie, but can't immediately enter Shichiya Collection. The protagonist gets an item: a dog. 17:00 at Cotteria Hamburger. The protagonist manually follows Masumi to a cosplay party at an event hall on the 5F of the unlabelled blue-grey building east of NcDomald's. There, Masumi and he have an Ecchi event (cosplay). 22:00 at unlabelled blue-grey building. The protagonist should go to Honobono Fake and report to Nitta Papa. (So Masumi unsafely copulated with an absolute stranger like the protagonist... and seems she was already chuuko... but he still thought her behaviour was all right...? (@_@;) He's more... unjust than I thought. Also, when her circle get their doujinshi printed, or when they pay (maybe about 20K Yen) for a desk at a doujin event, does she benefit... I mean pay the fees in the same cashless way? Plus, will she re-appear later in the game? BTW, no, I didn't play Comic Party.) The protagonist then automatically goes to the tanteisha and reads a memo from Momiji about a new task: contact Itou Momoyo at the imekura (image club) Watashi no Oheya. JULY 28 14:00 at Shirokuma Tanteisha. The clock quickly becomes 15:00 and the protagonist can only enter the mansion northwest of the tanteisha. 15:00 at Watshi no Oheya. __ Don "Tsuru Hiromi Inochi" Chan (Aho) http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/recognition/146.html http://www.cheathappens.com/author.asp?ID=81 *1 "Sakuretsu!"