thinking about kougetsukan. pretty great event! really fun to have a truly story-focused one for once, since it's the biggest draw of the game in general. i'm not even really a "mystery" person (in a very broad sense of "find the specific answer to something in the story") but...

even in that sense i enjoyed it a lot, i think they did a great job of pointing toward the big misdirection there when you go back and look a second time even as the setup cleverly sets the audience up to overlook it the first time. the holmes shenanigans were just a nice bonus

it's also very funny that this is the first time iirc that the game tries to lie to the audience by forcibly conflating the perspective the whole time with the player character. it's a very fun kind of manipulation that i always enjoy in games like this

and this one never does it otherwise, it's very common to show scenes of the villains pretty directly. but also in this case it follows very strictly the "the watson character must share all their thoughts". though the whole thing with sassyshin is obviously a total parody

"well of course i could kill everyone here with my body doubles! but believe me, i wouldn't"

anyway, i think i saw a reddit link or something iof the illustration of the person possessed by the main character in this story, and it actually explained the other thing i was baffled by, that everyone at the mansion refers to them as "they" when moriarty at chaldea says "her"

(if you're her, obviously. lol)

and there's me, literally failing to make it to the end of this thread without myself conflating the player and player character. anyway, done