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Full game available now!

Robert@Hobiboxsteam_community_announcementsModAct_487997664_1588304186_0ModAct_487997664_1588306992_4mod_require_rereview

2248d ago

Master Magistrate is finally out of Early Access! Our warmest thanks to everyone who's supported the game. The full story is available now, with all its twists and turns. In each case, you meet suspects and fraternize with allies and enemies before moving between different locations and interviewing witnesses to piece together more evidence. Finally the case comes to trial and, as prescribed by historical Japanese law, you preside as magistrate—judge and jury in one—to uncover the truth and bring justice to the criminal. A samurai’s best weapon may be his sword, but the magistrate’s words are his weapon. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35762385/a16cb6ce792c5f35b7669a8700ceb7bf6566b09c.jpg{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35762385/b2b21c2ff85b27e665e02e27c673f4f056043361.jpg{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35762385/39c10759bd54cbc5f259ca20d1a31540ccb99819.jpg{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35762385/5aa7b554c3e0c4031523c7da53995defe677084c.jpg{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35762385/fad54dc22a9e82bee21369cbc45a35b425ff04b7.jpg

The Story

Chapter 1: Ouka Riot

Meet the people of Oukacho, the samurai police of the shogunate, and the warrior vigilantes of the Shinsengumi. A young girl is found covered in blood⁠—standing over the gory corpse of a ferryman, brutally murdered in his own home. How did she do it? Could she somehow be innocent? And if she didn't⁠ do it—who did?

Chapter 2: Burnout Engine

When a fire breaks out in a residential building, the Magistrate's Office's star mechanic Rimu is there to save the day. In the aftermath, though, it falls to the magistrate to investigate the cause. A sushi salesman, a petty brigand, and Rimu's mentor all witnessed the fire, but can you cut through the flames of confusion and lies and sift truth from the ashes?

Chapter 3: Tempered Steel

The town's biggest moneylender is dead in his basement, and the town's most famous thief is back from the dead and admitting to the crime. Is he telling the truth? What could he be hiding, and why? And why has a man who should have been executed spent the last sixteen years in a dungeon?

Chapter 4: Shogun’s Justice

A series of atrocities roils the city. Could the roots of conspiracy stretch deeper still into the past—and wider in the present? Can those roots be severed or will they strangle the future—and nourish themselves on the magistrate’s blood?

Full release on June 12!

Robert@Hobiboxsteam_community_announcements

2290d ago

Master Magistrate will emerge from Early Access on June 12, 2020, with the release of the second half of the story. The existing Early Access release features only the first three chapters, around half of the story. Each chapter represents a separate case. In each case, you'll meet the suspects and fraternize with allies and enemies before moving between different locations and interviewing witnesses to piece together more evidence. Finally the case comes to trial and, as prescribed by historical Japanese law, you preside as magistrate—judge and jury in one—to uncover the truth and bring justice to the criminal. A samurai’s best weapon may be his sword, but the magistrate’s words are his weapon. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35762385/a16cb6ce792c5f35b7669a8700ceb7bf6566b09c.jpg{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35762385/b2b21c2ff85b27e665e02e27c673f4f056043361.jpg{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35762385/39c10759bd54cbc5f259ca20d1a31540ccb99819.jpg{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35762385/5aa7b554c3e0c4031523c7da53995defe677084c.jpg{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35762385/fad54dc22a9e82bee21369cbc45a35b425ff04b7.jpg

The Story

Chapter 1: Ouka Riot

Chapter 2: Burnout Engine

Chapter 3: Tempered Steel

Chapter 4: Shogun’s Justice

Character Routes

These additional, romantic branching stories focus on the female members of the cast and will be hosted off-Steam as a separate, free patch. This patch, which will also release on June 12, 2020, will contain mature sexual content and is intended only for players over the age of 18.

Post-Early Access Pricing

Master Magistrate: $29.99 USD * The game will release with a 20% launch discount. * The price will increase from its discounted Early Access state on or around May 4, 2020. * These are US prices. Prices for other regions are set based on Steam’s regional pricing.

Content Update & Release Plans

Robert@Hobiboxsteam_community_announcements

2427d ago

New bonus content, UI improvements, and an update on release timing!

New Content

This update adds the bonus scenario chapter included in pre-order versions of the Japanese release. When all the girls' clothes go missing, leaving them stranded in their underwear, it's up to Shimei to stay on task long enough to uncover the truth! What villainous brigand would dare do such a dastardly deed?! What terrible fate has befallen the missing Hijikata and Kondo?! Discover the answers to these critical questions and more! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35762385/e85dc49126e31d1e6e5f543f8756e25015d790af.png This chapter unlocks after completing Chapter 3! It's a whole lot shorter and a heck of a lot less serious than any of the main chapters, but we hope you don't mind a little spicy silliness. Now available in both English and Chinese! You can access this chapter from...

Improved Chapter Select

The initial Chapter Select screen in the first Early Access version had two problems. One, it only barely had room to display all the content in the game without the bonus chapter, and it couldn't do it prettily. Going horizontal has its price. Two, a lot of people never even noticed it. We hope you'll agree that this new version looks better, and it's certainly capable of supporting the full content of the game. To avoid spoilers, this is the most minimal possible version of the new chapter select screen. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/35762385/3ba24e0b0cf0124b8dd5ad1ce7354bc148dce857.png Looks a little bare-bones, right? Play a little and it should start to look a lot more populated! In addition to adding new chapters as you unlock them, it'll also now get a little fancier according to your progress...! And, in order to help new players find this screen, the Start button now changes to say Chapter Select after the first time you start the game. This is a really great feature that's always made the game a lot easier to navigate on repeated visits, so we hope more players will take advantage of it now!

Improved Chinese Localization

The Chinese team took another pass over the whole game looking to find and remove misspellings and other typographical errors. Additionally, we took another look at formatting to make the whole thing a bit easier on the eyes.

Release Plans

We expect the whole game to be fully translated, edited, and ready for release in May 2020! Follow us on Twitter @shira_vn for all our news that's fit to share!

The Accountant Patch

Robert@Hobiboxsteam_community_announcements

2496d ago

This is The Accountant Patch. These notes also include a summary of disparate fixes made over the course of a week or two. Many of the changes detailed below are extremely trivial, so strap in and get ready for a wild ride!

Visual and Functionality Fixes

Corrected a line overflow error when obtaining the Motor item in Chapter 2
Corrected an error in which Iidenosuke's character sprite was mispositioned, which originated from the shift to a horizontal UI
Caught choice buttons twitching when clicked and corrected the issue
Fixed an issue where the Clues button appeared overlapping with a text window after an Argument
Made it easier to access the History while reviewing evidence to present during a trial

English Text Fixes

Corrected a typo in Ideha's character bio.
Corrected line breaking for several decisions in Chapter 3.
Corrected several instances of inconsistent capitalization surrounding stuttered remarks.
Corrected Koume's use of honorifics to be more accurate and consistent. This might be more important than you would think...
Altered the line introducing the mountain temple Ritsuganji to make it easier to parse.
Renamed the evidence "Sakatas' Use of Oil" to "The Sakatas' Use of Oil"
Miscellaneous text adjustments.

Accountancy Fixes

We have been informed that an Accountant must possess a college degree. As the availability of degrees from properly certified educational institutions during the Ouka period of pseudo-Japanese history is dubious, we hereby grant Ryu Ootaki the rank of Honorary Accountant, just in case. She is referred to as an "accountant" in-game and no longer calls herself a "bookkeeper", an act of self-debasement which would, we are informed, tear to tatters the pride of any true accountant. We have ambiguated the accounting capacity of Koume Kawai to non-specific financial operations. Additionally, we have taken another look at the use of Numbers in the game and tightened up the cases in which they are written out longform and when they are written with numerals. We now prefer to write them out longform, except in cases where they are both large and specific, and in cases in which they refer to an hour of the day. Finally, we also made a few internal changes to reduce the duplication of lines, which makes it a lot harder for bugs to appear and should help facilitate the translation of Chapter 4.

Master Magistrate now available in Early Access!

Robert@Hobiboxsteam_community_announcements

2517d ago

The samurai detective game Master Magistrate is now available in Early Access! Solve three puzzling mysteries as you get to know the game's cast of cute girls, dependable daddies, and colorful townspeople!

Chapter 1: Ouka Riot

Chapter 2: Burnout Engine

Chapter 3: Tempered Steel

Golly, mister, three whole chapters?

Yep! Investigate, examine, and expose all the answers today in over ten hours of gameplay! And if, while you're at it, you should happen to detect a localization bug or typo—please let us know!

Wait, what isn't available yet in Early Access, again?

Glad you asked!

The main story's final chapter
The post-story, adult-only branching romance routes for each character
The most polished possible experience

Those things are planned for release next year. If you're ready to play anyway, then come on and jump in now! We think the game is a lot of fun as-is, and it will only get better from here.

Master Magistrate news & patch notes

Master Magistrate news & patch notes

The Story

Chapter 1: Ouka Riot

Chapter 2: Burnout Engine

Chapter 3: Tempered Steel

Chapter 4: Shogun’s Justice

The Story

Chapter 1: Ouka Riot

Chapter 2: Burnout Engine

Chapter 3: Tempered Steel

Chapter 4: Shogun’s Justice

Character Routes

Post-Early Access Pricing

New Content

Improved Chapter Select

Improved Chinese Localization

Release Plans

Visual and Functionality Fixes

English Text Fixes

Accountancy Fixes

Chapter 1: Ouka Riot

Chapter 2: Burnout Engine

Chapter 3: Tempered Steel

Golly, mister, three whole chapters?

Wait, what isn't available yet in Early Access, again?

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