Detective Butler: Maiden Voyage Murder 1.0

Detective Butler: Maiden Voyage Murder is a visual novel sort of following the story of a detective very loosely based on Sherlock Holmes (although drawn in a much more anime kind of style) who starts off very swiftly solving a murder at the beginning of this story. It then switches to a young man based in LA who is about to go on a cruise on an old cruise liner which has been decommissioned since 1962 with his father and numerous business associates.

The character animations are quite nicely done but all too often as with many of these types of visual novels the developer has gone for a lazier option of just having one still photo in the background that is not particularly interesting while it tries to progress the story, however the story itself moves incredibly slowly and the lack of particularly interesting pictures makes the game almost too tedious to bear at certain points.

Sometimes the conversation seems contrived and the whole first chapter just introduces us to characters but lacks in any development of the characters or the plot with the exception of getting these people on to the boat and mysteriously finding Detective Butler also on board the boat.

You can download Detective Butler: Maiden Voyage Murder visual novel here for free.