Harajuku Tantei Gakuen - Steel Wood
Harajuku Tantei Gakuen: Steel Wood follows a school detective club through urban cases, scene choices, relationships, and branching deductions. This catalogue entry evaluates the recorded original-platform release, including its period-specific controls, presentation, content structure, hardware limits, and intended mode of play.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.0 / 10
About this game
Harajuku Tantei Gakuen: Steel Wood follows a school detective club through urban cases, scene choices, relationships, and branching deductions. School relationships and urban cases connect well, while voices, routes, and endings support rereading. Deduction is shallow and common story repeats, and japanese text and conventions limit access. This assessment covers the catalogued PSP release and its period hardware conditions. This description covers the original psp release represented by this catalog entry and does not assume conveniences introduced by later ports. The assessment also treats period hardware limits, documented mechanics, original controls, and release-specific access as explicit evaluation boundaries.
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Harajuku Tantei Gakuen: Steel Wood follows a school detective club through urban cases, scene choices, relationships, and branching deductions.
School relationships and urban cases connect well, while voices, routes, and endings support rereading. Deduction is shallow and common story repeats, and japanese text and conventions limit access. This assessment covers the catalogued PSP release and its period hardware conditions. Overall, its main strengths are School relationships and urban cases connect well; Voices, routes, and endings support rereading. Its material limitations are Deduction is shallow and common story repeats; Japanese text and conventions limit access. This score covers the original platform release represented by this catalog record and excludes conveniences added by emulators or later ports. The conclusion also accounts for original hardware readability, input, and access conditions. Documented uncertainty remains explicit. The evidence supports this balance.
Strengths
- School relationships and urban cases connect well
- Voices, routes, and endings support rereading
Weaknesses
- Deduction is shallow and common story repeats
- Japanese text and conventions limit access
Who it is for: Players who value school relationships and urban cases connect well and accept the language and handheld limits.
Play notes: Expect deduction is shallow and common story repeats and japanese text and conventions limit access.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Voices, routes, and endings support rereading; Japanese text and conventions limit access. | Reviewed | 6.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension School relationships and urban cases connect well; Deduction is shallow and common story repeats. | Reviewed | 7.1 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Voices, routes, and endings support rereading; presentation is judged within the original platform conditions, with no bonus for age alone. | Reviewed | 7.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Judged on the original psp release's input, readability, saving, and accessory conditions. Deduction is shallow and common story repeats. | Reviewed | 6.2 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Idea Factory
- Publisher
- Idea Factory
- Release date
- 2009
- Platforms
- PlayStation Portable
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Interactive Narrative · Primary genre
- Tags
- Story-drivenInvestigationRomanceBranching ChoicesMultiple EndingsModern SettingVisual Novel2D Graphics
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- PlayStation PortableWorldwide2009
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