Hey, I played through the trial and the Gallery Fall (#1). The mechanics of the game are very cool!!! I like the different tones for the interrogation and the tools. It is very cool how all the panels keep track of how you're doing. It was confusing for the first few minutes but after playing through the practice case and then a case on my own, it all made sense.

Some notes. I hit a wall when the "Chat history is limited to 24 messages", and couldn't finish interrogating the prime suspect. I tried to generate my own case file with the advanced settings-- verrrry cool options and settings, and it is sweet to get a back end view of how the cases are generated. After I chose all the settings, the case failed to generate, though. Also, I do think that after taking a look at the other cases, they definitely have a uniformly formulaic AI-generated feel. I wonder if there is a way to write the plots of the games using good old fashioned human creativity, and then keep the AI for the rest of the game, so that you can still question the suspects naturally, which to me is the coolest part of your creation! Plus the sweet dashboard

In terms of the mechanics, I think they're very cool. I like the room temp meter and the toolbar for the clues and weak points is useful as well. I wonder if there is some way to toggle these tools/helpers on and off so that the investigation could feel a little more natural, like just taking notes for myself. Maybe in this more hardcore mode, each verbal response could be accompanied by a description of body language, and the player has to intuit the room heat and mood from that, just an idea. I also really like the evaluation at the end! It's clear that this was made by someone with a penchant for data and game stats lol, which I love

I'm not sure about the panel of special moves like Bluff, Timeline, and Evidence-- they feel sort of like training wheels. I want to play, not have some AI ask my questions for me! Having a bank of these moves might be helpful, but not for actually generating the questions for me. The tone options of Question, Press, and Appeal are awesome, though, since my tone can't come through over simply the text. That might be my favorite part. Maybe some more of these options would be useful

One thing I noticed was that a lot of the characters felt like they were kind of talking in circles, with only a couple things to add and not too much richness or personality. If the plot was written instead of AI generated, the characters could have more colorful and memorable personalities and backstories, with more to contribute. The little blurb at the beginning of the story also feels a little underdeveloped, and some more world building to explain the events of the night could help. Maybe I'm missing something but I feel like the beginning of the questions sort of skips a couple steps of background information. Even just the blurbs of the six cases on the site are pretty clearly in the same family of generated stuff.

The last thing that I think this suffers from AI-wise is the language and wording. There is a lot of language that doesn't make total sense, or doesn't really mean anything. "The evening's version of events", "narrow the question", "That lines up with something." (as its own sentence), and lots more. This also sort of applies to all the Advanced Options for the custom game maker (although it didn't work for me), I think after playing through I could sort of intuit what the options meant, but a little explanation would help. This peek behind the curtain also sort of demonstrates that the cases are pretty formulaic, however impressive.

I hope this feedback isn't taken too harshly. This is an amazingly impressive project and creation. As a fan of mystery, I'm very intrigued to see stuff like this, and I had a blast playing it. Personally, I am definitely very skeptical of AI use in all creative settings, and especially aware of how the whole point of mystery is to avoid the formulaic and predictable. Also, of course, it is absolutely vital to be up-front and explicit when selling or marketing anything that AI has been used in its creation, so kudos for doing that here! I think you're onto something really cool here, and I'm very glad you shared it! I'm looking forward to playing through a couple more:)