Wait, really? That's surprising. I guess Nonstandard Game Overs for situations like this is a Yamazaki thing?

Also, could someone describe the Case 5 bad ending to me?

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Just posting again since there are more people who've finished the game now :p

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One slightly more specific thing about question 2. Basically, I'd say the answer is technically "no".



I've watched up to the very beginning of Case 4, and regarding Question 5: a character makes a pun on a Japanese word that sounds like their English name at one point. That's the closest I've seen to something really hard to localize. The moment makes no sense anyway, as it's established that all characters are speaking English in the London cases, and the character in question is English. Why would they make a Japanese-specific pun on their name?

Regarding clues relating to English, they do exist.

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tl;dr of above:

No, there's no hard to localize clues.

I'm convinced that was Janet Hsu. Her name is listed in the game's credits, after all.

Ryu? Ryuu? Ryuun? Is there a more correct translation/one you prefer over the other?

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Well, those are not translations, but romanizations: using the alphabet to (approximately) write down words from another language. There are always several accepted conventions to that, also for Japanese. It doesn't really matter which one you use, as long as you're consistent within the same body of text.

For example, the most common transliteration system you'll usually see (in newspapers articles; tv; articles that just happen to feature a Japanese name, etc.) does not differentiate between long and short vowels. So that'll be Ryu (and for example Tokyo and Osaka, which in reality do feature elongated vowels). Names on Japanese passports etc. also follow this custom. In academic articles however, it's common to indicate elongated vowels with a macron. So Ryū, Tōkyō and Ōsaka would be the norm there.

Ryuu is actually less common in general, but you'll often see it on the internet in relation because it does show it's an elongated vowel, and it's easier to type than using macrons all the time. People in the process of learning Japanese especially tend to favor this system, because it helps them remembering what the original Japanese word is supposed to be, especially in regards to the elongated Ō, of which there are two in Japanese (o'u, and o'o). But this system is seldomly used in official texts meant for publishing, as it's actually not easy to read for people w/o any knowledge of Japanese and romanization systems (it's not immediately clear to most people how an "ou" should be read, and how are they going to guess that "ou" and "oo" are supposed to be read in the same manner?).

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Seems like I did. :) Thanks for answering!

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If you really want to know...

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