{"id":1617,"date":"2022-05-21T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/21\/review-the-centennial-case-a-shijima-story-a-campy-murder-mystery-from-square-enix\/"},"modified":"2022-05-21T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T15:15:00","slug":"review-the-centennial-case-a-shijima-story-a-campy-murder-mystery-from-square-enix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/21\/review-the-centennial-case-a-shijima-story-a-campy-murder-mystery-from-square-enix\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story &#8211; A Campy Murder-Mystery From Square Enix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Almost to die for.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you had told us in January that an FMV murder-mystery title would become one of our most memorable experiences on the Switch this year, we\u2019d have looked at you as if you were one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/centennial_case_a_shijima_story\">The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story<\/a>\u2019s prime murder suspects. Directed by Koichiro Ito (scenario designer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/metal_gear_solid_v_the_phantom_pain\">Metal Gear Solid V<\/a>) and produced by Junichi Ehara (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/nier_automata\">NieR: Automata<\/a>) at Square Enix, it somehow slipped our notice for a while like a clever killer skulking about in the night, but we\u2019re ecstatic to have finally caught this culprit.<\/p>\n<p>The Centennial Case revolves around Haruka Kagami, a mystery novel writer, and Eiji Shijima, a scientist studying the cellular ageing process. After a skeleton is unearthed at Eiji\u2019s ancestral home, he asks Haruka to travel with him to investigate the mysteries that surround his family, while he himself searches for a fruit passed down in his family that can halt the ageing process.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/the-centennial-case-a-shijima-story\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Review: The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story &#8211; A Campy Murder-Mystery From Square Enix<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Almost to die for.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you had told us in January that an FMV murder-mystery title would become one of our most memorable experiences on the Switch this year, we\u2019d have looked at you as if you were one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/centennial_case_a_shijima_story\">The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story<\/a>\u2019s prime murder suspects. Directed by Koichiro Ito (scenario designer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/metal_gear_solid_v_the_phantom_pain\">Metal Gear Solid V<\/a>) and produced by Junichi Ehara (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/nier_automata\">NieR: Automata<\/a>) at Square Enix, it somehow slipped our notice for a while like a clever killer skulking about in the night, but we\u2019re ecstatic to have finally caught this culprit.<\/p>\n<p>The Centennial Case revolves around Haruka Kagami, a mystery novel writer, and Eiji Shijima, a scientist studying the cellular ageing process. After a skeleton is unearthed at Eiji\u2019s ancestral home, he asks Haruka to travel with him to investigate the mysteries that surround his family, while he himself searches for a fruit passed down in his family that can halt the ageing process.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/the-centennial-case-a-shijima-story\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}