Waching daily Oct 31 2017

In Tokyo dark you're a detective who explores Tokyo's creepy underworld, but also

famous tourist destinations like Akihabara and Shinjuku

The tourist spots might be tacky

But they can be fun too. When Detective Ito needs to talk to witnesses in a maid cafe you get dragged into their full routine

Holding your hands up like paws

Reciting a chant and tasting a cat -shaped pancake, which looks delicious

Later there's a temple, surrounded by falling cherry blossoms, a friendly golden gai bar and a cat cafe

where a cat creeps up and noses into the text box while you're trying to interview the owner.

Even when you visit places that aren't as nice like a bar owned by the Yakuza

the suicide forest debate of Aokigahara or a hostess club where a gross dude hits on you it still feels like a very familiar Japan.

Witnesses won't always open up unless you find the right way to talk to them

But you can just threaten them until they tell you what you want to know if you're not in the mood for their side quests

or their pancakes.

I didn't want to take this option, except for with that one

gross dude in the club because the gaudy side of Tokyo is so cheerful.

The people might be obstructive, but as Tokyo Dark veers into murder and madness, tangling you up in the story of a suicide cult

the tacky distractions become a reprieve from the horror and traveling back to the light side of the city feels like a relief

Even the maid cafe.