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The Portopia Serial Murder Case

ポートピア連続殺人事件

Publisher: Enix
June 1983
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20 Ratings / 2 Reviews
#20 for 1983
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Crime investigation#41 ADV#37 Detective#41 Text adventure#10 Graphic adventure#531 Mystery#243
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ポートピア連続殺人事件
1983 • Enix  
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ポートピア連続殺人事件
1983 • Enix  
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JP
ポートピア連続殺人事件
1983 • Enix  
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ポートピア連続殺人事件
1983 • Enix  
Cassette
JP
ポートピア連続殺人事件
1983 • Enix  
Cassette
JP
ポートピア連続殺人事件
1985 • Chunsoft Enix  
Cassette
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ポートピア連続殺人事件
1985 • Chunsoft Enix  
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Portopia is a very interesting and overlooked game in the NES canon - overlooked because it never leaved Japan, and the Western world would soon grow acustomed to other more exciting forms of adventure games, but I get the feeling history would've been much more different if Portopia had been played by Westerners.

In true LucasArts fashion, before LucasArts made adventure games, you can not lose, die, or get stuck in Portopia. That's the game's strongest design principle, and for the rest of the game you play a detective that's on the hunt for clues, and walks from location to location examining witnesses and calling for their alibis. The world is your oyster and the world is made surprisingly alive and vibrant for just a 40Kb game, but retro games' inclination towards obtuseness shines when you realise you need to use your magnifying glasses to hunt for invisible clues that are telegraphed by nothing. You're going to need a walkthrough to beat Portopia and it's deeply flawed, but it is inspiring in what it managed to capture in the NES era, and was one of those games that inspired Hideo Kojima that storytelling in games could be so, so much more.
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nathangraves ポートピア連続殺人事件 2023-02-18T01:47:25Z
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lizzen ポートピア連続殺人事件 2023-02-14T16:45:11Z
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Arschooo ポートピア連続殺人事件 2023-02-03T04:25:37Z
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YetAnotherHollow ポートピア連続殺人事件 2023-02-01T01:27:18Z
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GalacticHole ポートピア連続殺人事件 2022-12-14T15:28:38Z
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MentalMsuic ポートピア連続殺人事件 2022-09-28T18:09:26Z
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secondskin ポートピア連続殺人事件 2022-09-19T18:36:31Z
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nakedsquirtle ポートピア連続殺人事件 2022-09-01T21:11:34Z
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hevykofe ポートピア連続殺人事件 2022-08-20T10:10:03Z
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  • slib 2021-07-28 16:49:26.651638+00
    far from bad, and it basically made Enix, but this certainly was a graphic adventure game from 1983
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  • Bskeezer 2023-03-03 18:25:38.582521+00
    Definitely one of the most influential games ever made, but it also definitely hasn’t aged very gracefully
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