*Has only played the demo/first episode, planning on buying the fourth episode.*

My main complaint that I thought was a missed chance was the witch talk to Battler in the kitchen. I’m not sure if what I was watching was poorly subbed, but while they ‘did’ mention that Beatrice exists, and that she ‘is here but you can’t see her’, neither the servants nor Maria mention that she’s behind Battler. He even does a look behind him! >.<;;

My only other nitpick is sorta minor, as I think they downplayed most of Hideyoshi's moments that make you respect him as the main person that cheers everyone else up in the Ushiromiya family. Ah well.

And if I end up not being able to buy the fourth episode before the anime starts releasing their episodes for the second episode I'll probably have to stop watching. ^^;;

Let’s assume that the goal of the killer is to kill the six (we know it’s not so) and to remain undiscovered. If a detective can reason who the killer is based on the impression they were trying to leave (returned key, knowledge of the place, disfigured faces) than clearly the killer is not doing a good job – he got discovered through some mental exercise .

The Rokkenjima type of game – where one of the players lacks information about the other – in Game Theory is called Bayesian game. The solution to this game is often – this case included – a strategy of randomised actions. This can be visualised by culprit having to choices: return and not return the key. The culprit decided between the two by tossing a coin – this way detective cannot spot the culprit through logic alone.

Also, there is great difference between “chessboard thinking” and the game that takes place on Rokkenjima. In latter, Bayesian game, the best thing for criminal to do is almost always to use randomised actions. In the “chessboard thinking” – Extensive Form Game – the goals of the game are clear, the players observe each others moves thus the game can be solved is a rather simple (albeit calculation intensive) way.

P.S. It’s a bit late, so i might have made a few mistakes in terminology. Also, i haven’t double checked the solution for the “key return” problem, but i’m quite certain it a random strategy.

looking forward to the next analysis, going to play ep 2 now.

random aside: the glass breaking in the anime is no where near as creepy as it is in the vn; I started muting the game whenever I suspected the glass breaking would occur soon (I’m a coward)