Caoimhe

game where you have GTA style missions in an open world where you constantly get “you are leaving the mission area!” warnings if you stray from what you’re meant to be doing or do anything “wrong” but they don’t actually do anything and that’s how you actually get most of the story

You have a lives system like in Ace Attorney but instead of having to present the right evidence you have to learn the killer’s schedule and interupt them at the right place and time to pester them about more details of the case. If you go to the wrong place you lose a Columbo. Later levels have upper class socialites with incomprehnsible social schedules at various clubs that you have to figure out. The killer has an irritation meter and they slip up and give more clues the higher it is so you have to pick dialogue options that piss them off as much as possible while maintaining the act.

Between confrontations you can go to the diner to make connections out of clues to generate new lines of questioning. Each new question takes one unit of chilli to generate so you have to spend your chilli points on the right things to badger the killer about.

You can activate cigars to get combo (clombo) bonuses for being annoying.

There is an in-game time limit each day because Columbo doesn’t want to stay out too late because Mrs. Columbo would worry about him.

You have a lives system like in Ace Attorney but instead of having to present the right evidence you have to learn the killer’s schedule and interupt them at the right place and time to pester them about more details of the case. If you go to the wrong place you lose a Columbo. Later levels have upper class socialites with incomprehnsible social schedules at various clubs that you have to figure out. The killer has an irritation meter and they slip up and give more clues the higher it is so you have to pick dialogue options that piss them off as much as possible while maintaining the act.