Tantei Jinguji Saburo: Yokohama-ko Renzoku Satsujin Jiken

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**Tantei Jinguji Saburo: Yokohama-ko Renzoku Satsujin Jiken** (探偵 神宮寺三郎 横浜港連続殺人事件, *Detective Saburo Jinguji: Yokohama Port Serial Murder Case*) is a murder mystery adventure game developed by Data East and released in 1988 for the Nintendo Famicom in Japan.

## Story

***And then the phone bell rang...***

One day, two men visited Sanzo Kumano at Yodobashi Police Station in Shinjuku. One is Shin Isesaki, the Chief of the Criminal Division at Yokohama Kagayama Police Station. The man accompanying him is Hitoshi Hinode, who has just returned from a half year of service as a cargo ship navigator on the Central America route.

According to Hinode, his fiancé Eva Christina, who works at the Yokohama Consulate of the Baraka Republic, has been missing for the past few days. What's more, what makes him feel uneasy is that Iris Hart, who works at the consulate like her, was found drowned two days ago in the port of Yokohama.

The cause of Iris' death was drowning, and the Kagayama Police Department's investigation into the two women was unexpectedly stymied by diplomatic privileges, and Isesaki's investigation ran into a deadlock from the beginning.

Frustrated by the unresolved investigation, Isesaki consults Kumano, a senior at the police academy. A difficult case even with the power of the police...

After pondering about it for a while, Kumano picked up the phone and dialed to Saburo Jinguji's office.

## Gameplay

Unlike the first game, *Yokohama-ko Renzoku* is a pure adventure/visual novel game, ditching the overworld exploration and opting for a pure command selection gameplay; this would become the standard for the rest of the series. This title also removes the time limit from the original, allowing the player to investigate and interrogate people at his own leisure. In addition, a system has been added to check the investigation status by command selection at each progress point of the investigation, making the story easier to understand.

Due to this game being released in cartridge format it does not feature battery save, instead opting for passwords to save the player's progress in the story.

### Commands

* **Go to** (そうさにいく): Move to another location.
* **Listen** (ききこみ): Talk with people.
* **Brief description** (ひとかんさつ): Analyze a person's behavior.
* **Investigate** (ものしらべる): Examine objects and evidence.
* **Show something** (なにかみせる): Show a piece of evidence to a person.
* **look around** (まわりみる): Investigate your surroundings for suspicious activity.
* **Call** (よぶ): Summon a character to your current location.
* **Take** (とる): Pick up objects and evidence.
* **Contact** (れんらくする): Contacts the other investigators by phone.
* **Tobacco** (たばこすう): Lights up a cigarette. Helps Saburo to think.
* **Stop** (そうさやめる): Quit the game and save.

## Overview

The story revolves around the mysterious disappearance of Eva Christina, an officer who worked at the Baraka Republic consulate in Yokohama, as well as the murder of Iris Hart, another officer who also worked in the same consulate.

### Main Characters

* **Saburo Jinguji**: The game's protagonist, whom the player controls during the game.
* **Yoko Misono**: Saburo's assistant, she follows the player around and assists during the investigation.
* **Sanzo Kumano**: A veteran inspector and friend of Saburo, he relies information about the case.

### Other Characters

* **Eva Christina**: An officer at the Baraka Consulate, she's been missing since the night she met Hinode when he returned to Japan.
* **Hitoshi Hinode**: A cargo ship navigator and Eva's fiancée.
* **Shin Isezaki**: The Criminal Division Chief of Kagayama Police Station. He is Kumano's junior at the police academy and is investigating both Eva's disappearance and a smuggling group operating in Yokohama.
* **Robert K. Busk**: The consul of Baraka Republic.
* **Pierre Marquez**: Master of the Fjord Bar and a foreigner.