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Shut up and start wiping. Can't you see I'm struggling with the corpse?
As soon as those CSI hot shots arrive shining their UV lamps, this ground will light up like a Christmas tree. You really think this'll work?
Don't worry, just keep cleaning, I've got a plan. This is one mystery the cops will never solve.
Ominous, but we won't know what's up with these two for a while. In fact...
As it turns out, this conversation hasn't even happened yet. It's about five months in the future. Here's the full timeline for your perusal outside of a jerky GIF.
It's a bit of a beast, with lots of branching paths for us to explore. I'll explain the lock and key symbols when they come up. For now, though, Jane's just been assigned to Criminal Division - Team II, and it's time to meet the officers she's been placed in charge of.
Congratulations on your assignment. Um, you don't mind if I speak freely, right?
[...]
George here is the most senior member of our team, and the most vocal. We'll be speaking to him a lot, and he's quick to give Jane advice on how to navigate the muddy waters she's found herself in. As a note, Jane has no dialogue of her own in the game, but you can usually infer what she is meant to have said from other character's responses.
Hey, just because I'm older than you, doesn't mean you have to be all formal and polite. I mean, you're the team leader, after all.
You Police University graduates always rise quickly through the ranks. I wouldn't be surprised if you pretend not to know me in a few years.
Well, it doesn't really matter. When you're a high-ranking officer, I'll be living off my retirement pension. I don't need to be on your good side. So, don't expect me to lick your boots.
[...]
Team! Gather 'round. Welcome our new Team Leader, Jane Blue.
Let's see. Yo, Frank! Frank Rivers, get your ass over here! Make sure to bring the Captain with you to the welcoming party as soon as the Chief leaves the office! The Team Leader, Patrick and I will head out together...
Wait, we need to finish up the paperwork before we go out for a drink. Moon! Bring me that file.
Team Leader, this is Corporal Patrick Moon, he's a bit of a slacker.
Moon, you didn't even start this file? You don't want to lose more achievement points for slacking, do you?
Frank Rivers and Patrick Moon are two other characters we'll be seeing quite a bit of. Vetta doesn't have an especially high opinion of either of them, clearly.
Anyways, here's a file that the previous Team Leader didn't complete. It's your first task as the new Team Leader. It shouldn't take long. Just send it off before we leave for the party.
Most dialogues will end with a saying dramatically popping onto the screen like that one. It's a little weird, but overall adds to the atmosphere.
After the scene finishes, the game boots us back to the timeline. From here we can select our case, and see what the relevant crime is. In this instance, a contempt case.
I'm not sure if these excerpts are real life cases (presumably from Korean courts) that inspired the ones in the game, or if they're fictional as well. Either way, they give us an idea of what to expect. Interestingly enough, the screenshots on Legal Dungeon's Steam page are different-- in it, the officer was called "System Whore" rather than "Bacon Shit".
Hello, Criminal Division II: Team Leader, Lieutenant Jane Blue. I am the CIS program helper, "Mini Jane”.
What you studied in University was purely academic, and since you have no experience filing cases, this may seem unfamiliar.
The investigations for the cases you'll be reviewing are already complete. This case file is short- only seven pages. This is a great opportunity to flex your legal muscle and impress your team.
Your first position is in the Criminal Division - Team II, so you must have high expectations regarding your given assignments.
Unfortunately, there won't be any dynamic crime scenes where you reveal clues and chase down criminals. Your job is to fill out the Investigation Verdicts to be sent to the prosecutor. These documents incorporate findings from our investigations and state our final verdict on the case.
So, as the Criminal Division II: Team Leader, it's your job to fill out this document with the information gathered through previous investigations.
Sounds fun, right? Go ahead, and press the Help button to learn how to use the CIS.
At last, we get to our main screen. This is where we'll read case files and determine our verdicts. I went ahead and highlighted some points of interest:
1. Notifications - Here we will be notified of any updates to CIS, giving us new tools in our belts.
2. Search - We can drag blue terms here to get more information.
3. Documents List - This is more or less a table of contents for the current case file. The cases will get much, much longer, so this is very useful.
4. Legislation - This is laws that may be relevant to the current case. Almost every law we encounter will be Criminal, but sometimes others pop up.
5. Precedents - These are cases related to laws, showing how courts have interpreted them. I never use this menu, since it's not organized by law. Instead I usually open the law and select the precedents from there.
6. Terms - This is essentially vocabulary, most of it extremely basic and obvious.
7. Investigation File - Here is where we can click through and read the case file. At the bottom is shows what page we're on and how many pages are in the document, and the arrows allow us to move forward a page or jump to the end.
8. Investigation Verdict - This panel is where we'll drag relevant information from the file in order to reach our verdict. Currently it's blank, but it'll give us prompts.
Mini Jane will actually walk around the bottom of our screen, Shimeji-style, and sometimes flash if she has something to say. If she gets in our way, we can pick her up and chuck her across the screen. To proceed, we need to click on that red question mark. It's always the same information about CIS, and we'll never click it again, so I didn't bother to highlight it.
Help posted:
CIS Overview
The Criminal Information System, CIS, was co-developed by the Ministry of Justice, the Prosecutor's Office, and the Police Agency. The program assists officers in creating and managing criminal case files. Searching for criminal case records, laws, and precedents via the CIS will help officers write investigation files and review the criminal process, from arrest to sentencing.
1. Investigation File Overview
All written investigation files are stored in the CIS. The CIS uses an internal analysis system to display specific sentences and words that may be searchable or provide clues within the investigation files. Blue indicates Searchable words. Drag them to the search window to look up the laws, precedents, and criminal case records stored in the Police Agency Database. Other colors indicate information important to writing Investigation Verdicts and can be dragged-and-dropped into the documents with ease.
2. Investigation Verdict Overview
The CIS automatically displays components required for Investigation Verdicts. Users can search for keywords that match the displayed tags and drag them to complete the legal document.
Let's enter the Basic Info about the suspect. Drag and fill the blanks with information relevant to the tag.
For each case, we start off by having to fill out basic information about the case in sections. We click around the file for the relevant information and then drag it into place. First though, let's take a minute to read over everything.
Suspect's Criminal Record posted:
Case No. 1001
The suspect was contracted for interior furnishing of a hospital owned by the Plaintiff, Jack Bright, from November 17th, 2006 to December 31st, 2006. The suspect was found not to possess the required license to carry out construction and was sued by the Plaintiff after the construction was completed.
Not all of our case files will be this short. I'll be making off-site dumps for the larger ones so that they don't clog up the thread.
Once we've dragged over all the relevant information, we can hit submit, and it'll fill out the form for us. We repeat this for the suspect's criminal record to get this:
Wow, you found all the answers, not bad.
But, that was simply copying personal information. Now we'll enter the actual Criminal Facts. You'll get a taste of what it's really like to be in the police force.
To enter the Crime Committed by the suspect, you'll need to search for the Applicable Law. You can easily check what crime the suspect was accused of by reading the case file. It's difficult to memorize what clause of what criminal law the crime belongs to.
That's what the Search Window of CIS is for! Drag any blue word to the Search Window.
We can do as Mini Jane suggests and search, or just click on "Defamation" under the legislation tab.
Law posted:
Criminal Law #1000 (Defamation)
The sentence for Public Defamation is up to one year in prison or a maximum fine of 2,000 dollars.
[Related Precedents]
99-001, 02-002
99-001 posted:
Verdict No. 99-001
Defamation is a false judgment or derogatory expression, which may lower a person's social standing. Defamation is
dependent of the situation, social norms, and the objective meaning of what was said; The emotions of the victim do not affect the sentencing. Vague insults such as “You're as terrible as your parents" does not qualify, but profanities containing emotional disdain such as "crazy bitch" are considered Defamation.
02-002 posted:
Verdict No. 02-002
Publicity is established by multiple persons witnessing an event. In this case, although the Defendant swore behind closed doors, three other policemen and Witness A, of an unrelated case, heard the profanity. So there was a chance of the slander being spread by Witness A, and the victim's good standing was damaged in the eyes his colleagues.
Thus, there are two requisites for Defamation: "public" slander and "malicious content".
When the team investigates a victim or a suspect, they try asking questions pertaining to criminal requisites.
After selecting the appropriate law, we now have to fill in details about the crime. Giving us this:
You're doing well. We can send this off when you finish the "Investigation Results and Verdict" section.
While the police's verdict on whether to indict the suspect is important, it has no authority to launch a criminal suit. As the police lack the power to undertake an investigation or indictment, our verdicts are mere suggestions and have no binding effect.
Ultimately, the responsibility of indictment falls into the hands of the prosecutor. So, don't feel too pressured working on the verdicts.
And with all that out of the way, it's time for us to decide our verdict. We do this by mentally battling it out with the suspect in the Legal Dungeon. This is a pseudo-RPG battle system that is the main gameplay of LD. These segments take place in the lower right corner of the screen, and so the screenshots will be considerably smaller, but also rather gif-tastic in order to show off the fun animations.
In order to proceed, I need the thread's opinion: should we push for Indictment or Non-Indictment? In order to help you decide, here is what the game asks us to consider in our argument:
1. Is "Bacon Shit" an insult?
2. Was the incident public?
Anyone who uses evidence from the thread to present a compelling legal argument will have their vote counted twice.