Present Evidence: the Performer's Fire Trick

About this game

Developer: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. · Publisher: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Cel-shaded & anime · Screen type: Focus / Tech Trees

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What to study

The confrontation verb, Ace-Attorney style, but played on the notebook graph instead of in a courtroom: the board zooms to the Eyewitness node and the player presents a piece of evidence against the prompt's claim. The evidence card does the arguing, a photograph and a short, factual paragraph about how the fire trick works, so the deduction lives in the text, not in a dialogue tree. Presenting in place, at the node the evidence answers, keeps the whole case visible as context; the graph behind the card is dimmed, not dismissed. Frame at about 1:09 in the Announcement Trailer video (Steam), a pipeline scene-change survivor (candidates/v0_0032.png at 69.4s); the trailer's closing caption sits at the bottom edge, disclosed here.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

master-detail detail-card map-nodes

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Photograph List Chart Button prompts

Screen inventory

• left: the evidence card, opened from the board, 'The Performer's Fire Trick', a scene photograph and a paragraph explaining the mechanism (charcoal sealed in a pot, opened to flash) and its bearing on the second incident
• above it, the deduction prompt as an inner-monologue fragment: 'You wouldn't need to be a fireworks craftsman to cause this explosion. There's another way...', the question the presented evidence must answer
• right: the notebook graph zoomed to the Eyewitness seal node, clue tiles still greyed and unresolved around it, evidence is presented at a node, in context, not from an inventory list
• five violet diamonds and a Recover prompt at top-right carry the mode's stakes across from Review Memory

Top 3 colors

#d1ccbf 29%#504d4e 20%#979490 16%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD., The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother screenshot: The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother - Announcement Trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD..

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: pipeline scene-change frame (candidates/v0_0032.png, 69.4s) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native), settled evidence-presentation screen, card text, photo and graph nodes sharp and legible; the trailer's caption at the bottom edge is disclosed in the study note

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-21); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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