This is a hint/walkthrough file for the Windows "mature" anime game
"EVE burst error", from C's ware and Himeya Soft on 3 CD-ROMs. 
There was once a lot of stuff at the C's ware web site at:
http://www.csware.com/soft/eve95/eve95.html
which included a 4 MB demo (Pentium 75, 16 MB, 16 bit color), but I 
don't think it's there any more. Try http://shop.himeya.com/ for info 
or to buy the game.

This game is called a "Multi-Sight Adventure". Why?
There are 2 heroes, Kojiroh and Marina, who solve mysteries. You can 
easily switch between scenarios. Each senario is closely connected and 
you must sometimes have the one hero do something before the other can 
proceed. So, "Multi-sight adventure".

The game also claims: Newly Developed Animation Engine "Lucid Motion" 
with Clear Animation (640x350/15fps) [big whoopee!]
There are actually little logos on the site and game case for "Multi 
Sight System" and "LucidMotion". The demo was mostly a way to see the 
Lucid Motion engine in action.

Game requirements are: Windows 95, Pentium 75 (133 recommended), 16 MB
RAM, 4x CD-ROM, Windows 95-compatible sound card, mouse.
"Comes with exquisite desktop backgrounds" means there's 33 MB of .BMP 
files based on the game, found on Disc 3, which you can use as a 
Windows desktop background image.
While the help file on the CDs mentions that there is a demo for 
Kotobuki on Disc 3, there's only Windows wallpaper there.

There's a list of character names and their voice actors available, 
which I'll use just for the character names used in both the Japanese 
and English versions: Kojiroh (was "Kojiro" in Japanese) Amagi, Marina 
Hojo, Yayoi Katsuragi, Kanomi (was "Akane" in Japanese) Shibata, 
Mayako Mido, Kyoko Himuro, Puddin' (was "Prin" in Japanese), "Seria 
Flat" (I have no idea who this is in the English version), Chief Kono, 
and Genzaburo Suzuki. There's also Ko, Amanda Lloyd, Natasha, Glen and 
Kawaga.

Story: (from the above website; it's not quite true)
Kojiroh edition - An incapable private detective, after a long break, 
is given a great job involving the investigation of suspicious art 
works. Even though he feels it's a bit of a strange job, the reward is 
huge, but he is drawn into a nightmare involving bizarre murders in 
succession.
Marina edition - Marina is a national genius agent with 99% success 
rate. Her new assignment is to protect the daughter of a Japanese 
embassy official, stationed in a certain country. As you continuing 
fighting against mystery attackers, you learn that behind the attacks 
is a fangerous [sic] government dispute.
"A Bizarre Serial Murder Mystery. There's a Serial Killer close by. A
Prohibited Psychothriller. The Multisight system reveals surprising 
truth!"

This is a "Mature (17+)" game with "Mature Sexual Themes", but it 
doesn't have H graphics.  C's ware must have wanted to see what the 
market was for a slightly less pornographic product - like an "R" 
movie rating for those in the US. Lots of sexual references, and 
barely clothed women, but no visible nipples or pubes. I don't count 
the naked woman in the opening movie, or Mayako shown naked near the 
very end (although she could have kept her panties on and not changed 
the reason for being out of her clothes).

The opening movie has a little bit of pre-story to it: Marina foiled 
a hijacking on the plane back to Japan. That's where she met Suzuki.

Even if you turn off "Delayed Text" in the game's Option menu, if 
Voice is on, you won't be able to proceed until the voice is finished. 
You can abort the voice playback by right-clicking with the mouse, 
even hold it down and keep left-clicking to move quickly through the 
story.

Even if you turn off voice and BGM, you will still get some sound when 
the game moves to a new day, and Mayako's voice on 12/4 at the 
attempted kidnapping (oops!), and Sweetie yelling just before he and 
Natasha disappear. However, I found that I needed to have voice on to 
see what happened when Mayako returns from swimming near the very end 
of the game, or the text just went by too fast otherwise. Press the 
'Tab' key to quickly move through the dialogue to the next choice, if 
you don't have voice on (you learn this from the Fliers in the Hotel 
Lobby if you persist in reading them).

You usually can't minimize the game while it's running; sometimes the 
"Minimize All" command on the Taskbar works. The Maximize command 
switches to full-screen mode.

The translation to English is very good, with humorous references to 
Spielberg, Costner, Clinton and Lewinsky - too many to the last two, 
now that it's after 2000. However, it's very obviously present-day 
Japanese in setting and tone, and waffles between the main characters 
acting like it's a game and that it isn't - as well as making sexual 
references any chance they can get. Mayako is said to be over 21 (when 
she's drinking with Marina and Yayoi) and only 18 (by Ross Mido), her 
18th? birthday is supposed to be on 12/7 according to the DBMS; just 
evidence that the translation didn't get a "final scrub" for internal 
story consistency (a "continuity check", I think it's called in the 
movie business). There are a few glitches in the text, like "Older 
men are so much more...uhld ina]", but they are really few and far 
between. Well, there's also some "speak/understand English" that 
shouldn't be there. There were a few minor typos, the most annoying 
ones being differences between what Kojiroh and Marina see on the 
computer screen while hacking the DBMS. Many references to white 
panties, though they usually appear yellow or green!

Another "continuity check" problem is the two versions of the 
interview that Kojiroh has with Ross Mido; what you hear while playing 
Kojiroh and Marina differs by quite a lot in terms of phrasing and 
even numbers and names ("Kojiroh Amazing" is not the same as "Kojiroh 
Amagi").

The game save data is found in your Windows 9X registry, in 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\C's ware\EVE burst error\GameData
or HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\C's ware\EVE burst error\GameData
Unfortunately, there's no photshop in this game! All I can suggest 
trying is playing the game over and doing graphics captures, if you 
really like what you see in the game. Except for correctly guessing 
the killer(s), which will get you an extra ending sequence, there's 
really only one ending to this game, and no way to really go wrong.

Himeya Soft used to have a "hint paper" on their website with a 
partial walkthrough. While playing the game, I made a lot of changes 
to it, and it's available from the same place you should have gotten 
this text file, as "eve_hint.txt".

Even with the "hint paper" it's possible to feel like you have gotten 
stuck, even though you really aren't. As the file says, use ALL the 
possible commands, even if they appear silly, until you're sure you've 
seen ALL the possible responses to them.
You'll have to bounce back and forth between Kojiroh and Marina 
several times to get through the DBMS hacking sequence. Because of the 
way that the game loads a saved game at the beginning of a sequence, 
you'll find you have to do some things many times before you get 
through the whole thing. A suggestion found on the old Himeya BBS was 
that you NOT use the Tab key during the hacking sequence, if the game 
crashes on you (it did on me, but only after Kyoko finished her coffe 
during the discussion afterward). Also try throwing the ~EVE~TMP.BIN 
file in C:\WINDOWS\TEMP in the Trash and starting up the game again.

Pete's review:
"EVE burst error" is an interesting title; in fact, the title itself 
makes no sense until you've seen the final scenario, and even then you 
have to treat both "Eve" and "burst error" as symbols for something 
else. To say more would give away the final scenario. Anyway, it's 3 
CDs full of stuff, who knows how much of that Japanese voice and 
sampled music and little animated scenes. Certainly one of the larger 
anime games out there; we may see nothing like it until DVDs are 
common. Essentially your typical multiple-choice H adventure, without 
the H. Interesting characters, good graphics, nothing wrong with the 
music, and a pretty good translation. The only thing that I'd find 
fault with is the lack of a photoshop and jukebox as omake once you've 
completed the game. I don't have a serious problem with there being 
only one ending and no replay value, because I must have spent at 
least 12 hours playing, with the 'hint paper' walkthrough to help me 
along. And if you want H in your anime games, and don't care about 
the story, this will disappoint you.


If you have anything to add to this file, let me know.

Pete Karsanow - bishoujo.helper[AT}sbcglobal{DOT)net
http://www.geocities.com/hentaihelper/