I think I picked up Star Apprentice: Magical Murder Mystery due to the low barrier of entry (it's free), and the short playtime of it (1 hour). While I don't normally write about visual novels, I do believe this one spends more time on its bullet hell segments. See, the gameplay is about you trying to solve a murder, and you do that through dialouge. And by dialogue I mean you play a bullet hell game where you dodge bullets and shoot at words. While it says you have to find the contradiction in the words, they just kind of come one after another, and if you just attempt to say everything is a contradiction, it just won't let you until you're correct, so that's one way to cheat it. But they're not as difficult to find that you would need to resort to that.
It's a very linear story with no decisions. I found the culprit to be rather obvious from the start, but who knows, maybe you won't. Regardless, the bullet hell portions were decent (still no mouse movement, which I don't understand how every game fumbles). Not too difficult, not too easy. The final fight was difficult enough to take several tries, but not enough to be frustrating.
Overall, an enjoyable experience for an hour. It's nothing amazing on either the story or the gameplay side, but there's nothing bad about it either. If the genres are to your liking, give it a try, otherwise probably best to skip it.
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