Shuten Order opens with a bizarre sight: pieces of a dismembered body tumbling from the sky alongside a heavenly chorus. What makes things even more bizarre is, somehow, this is your body, and the only one who can solve the murder is you, guided by a pair of hands-off, business-like angels and the power to tap into an ability called the 'power of god'. For mystery game fans like me, it's a catnip set-up.
Playing as Rei Shimobe, you've lost all memories thanks to inhabiting what the angels call a temporary body. With only days until it turns to ash, she's got to figure out who killed her, get them to confess, and then kill that person in order to achieve full resurrection. Not being able to remember how you died is one thing, but the insular city of Shuten is a strange place that defies expectation as it is. Home to the titular Shuten Order, a strange cult-like religion counting down the days to humanity's extinction, every street corner and home is filled with countdown clocks as this world draws closer to the end. What's weirder? Rei discovers she is actually the Founder of the whole thing, and that one of the five ministers who ran the city alongside her is likely the culprit.
