Ratalaika Games ported this HD version to Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox at a budget price point rated PEGI 7, considerably gentler than what the mystery’s subject matter might suggest. Exploring the murder scene plays out in first-person, point-and-click style, letting me examine objects, question suspects, and move freely through William Auten’s wealthy estate at my own pace rather than being funneled down a single fixed path.
Auten himself isn’t just a random victim either. He heads a pharmaceutical company that sat at the center of the industrial espionage plot running through Jisei, and picking up that connection gave his death a weight the estate’s polished rooms wouldn’t have carried on their own for anyone coming in fresh off the first game. Detective Mikolaj Gurski returns from that earlier case too, sarcastic and laid back on the surface but visibly aware of more than he lets on, working alongside the group rather than treating them as suspects the way he might have once.
Aki Mizutani takes point the moment the group forms, brash and outgoing enough to speak directly into people’s minds when the investigation calls for it, a power that fits her personality as much as it fits the plot. Her twin brother Naoki reads as her opposite in almost every way, quiet where she’s forward, carrying an eidetic memory that makes him the group’s quiet voice of reason rather than its loudest presence. Li Mei, who lives with the twins, stays the hardest of the group to get a read on, present in every scene without ever quite explaining herself, and I spent most of the investigation treating her silence as its own kind of clue.
The protagonist’s real name never comes up over the course of the story, though his new teammates end up calling him Kangai rather than leave him nameless entirely, a nickname distinct from Kansei, the actual term the game uses for the shared psychic ability that lets him and the rest of the group do what they do. Defined almost entirely by what that ability lets him do, seeing the final moments of anyone’s death the instant he touches their body, that anonymity kept me focused on the mystery itself rather than on any backstory the game was holding back. That mystery pulls in a small but distinct supporting cast too, Kevin Nealy, a money-motivated IT hire at Auten’s own company, Sophia Millerson, the personal assistant who handled William Auten’s day-to-day affairs and knows the business inside out, Liam Auten, the victim’s party-happy nephew already known for getting into trouble well before anyone died, and Marissa Klein, a chipper magazine reporter who happens to be the last person who saw Auten alive and has no shortage of her own motives for poking around. What the protagonist’s power eventually reveals about Auten’s death complicates the investigation more than it simplifies it, tangled up with exactly the kind of secrets Aki’s own group keeps close.
Multiple endings sit at the end of all that digging, and unlike the original Jisei, reaching two of them here is what actually unlocks a third, true resolution rather than leaving every ending sitting on equal footing. That structure gave real weight to going back and trying a different combination of accusations once I’d already seen where my first read of the evidence led me.
Character art leans fully into an anime style built around large, expressive eyes that sell every reaction without needing extra dialogue to explain it, work credited to character designer M. Beatriz Garcia, the same artist behind the original Jisei. Creative Freaks handled the environment art specifically, and the estate itself spans considerably more rooms and backgrounds than Jisei ever gave its own single setting. Wandering room to room actually felt worth doing here instead of just clicking through a checklist of the same two or three locations.
Full English voice acting covers every named character, and hearing Aki’s bluntness land in actual line reads rather than just text on a screen sold her personality faster than her dialogue alone managed. Apphia Yu voices Aki, Micah Solusod plays Naoki, Cherami Leigh gives Li Mei her deliberately unreadable delivery, and Christopher Niosi returns as Detective Gurski’s voice from the original game, with R Bruce Elliott rounding out the cast as William Auten himself. Marc Conrad Tabula composed the score, returning from Jisei as well, with Aural Wave contributing the opening theme specifically. That music plays underneath the investigation without ever pulling focus from the actual questioning, which is about the right balance for a mystery that wants you paying attention to what people say rather than to the music behind them.
By the time the prologue’s fragments started connecting to what actually happened at the Auten estate, I’d stopped treating this as a simple whodunit. I started wondering how much of what Aki’s group wasn’t telling me mattered just as much as anything the suspects were hiding. Sakevisual built the original story as the second entry in their Green Tea Line, following Jisei and preceding a third installment, Yousei, that hasn’t made it to consoles the way this one and its predecessor have. That original PC release carried a 13-plus rating for its crime scene and blood depictions, and this HD console version keeps a version of that same warning intact through an epilepsy notice on its own storefront listing, a small but real reminder that the game’s murder-mystery premise isn’t purely bloodless despite its softer PEGI 7 rating. A full playthrough with the voices left on runs somewhere around five to six hours, and Ratalaika’s console work here makes a strong case for picking this HD version up over the original PC release if a controller and a couch are what you’d rather use to solve it.
Verdict
Kansei: The Second Turn HD wraps its investigation into the Auten estate murder in a prologue built for newcomers, a point-and-click structure that rewards actually exploring, and considerably more ground to cover than Jisei ever gave its players. Aki and Li Mei’s contrasting approaches to the group’s shared power carry the character work, and a returning detective, a true ending locked behind two others, and a full voice cast make this console port an easy way to spend a few hours solving a mystery worth distrusting everyone in.
