Jantei Monogatari

Excerpt from Genesis Game Guide by The Scribe

NAME:             Jantei Monogatari
AUTHOR/VENDOR:    Telnet Japan
RELEASED:         1991
TYPE:             Tile game
LANGUAGE:         Japanese

PREMISE:          You play the role of a private investigator whose latest
                  case takes him to an exclusive all-girls school.  The
                  story is advanced by playing a tile game with the various
                  characters, or you can skip the story and just play the
                  tile game itself.

IMPRESSIONS:      If you are ignorant of Japanese, if you are not a otaku,
                  if you don't care for tile games, or some combination of
                  the three, then you'd better skip this one.  It's a
                  shame, really, because this has some of the best anime
                  cinemas I've ever seen in a MegaDrive game, and the story
                  is actually pretty good given the constraints of the
                  format.  If only they had made a true RPG out of this
                  one...sigh....

VARIATIONS:       This game is commonly referred to as Clock Tower due to
                  the opening cinema.  It is not to be confused with the
                  game of the same name for the SNES or PSX.

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