Death Note: Kira Game/Gameplay

Like the series, Kira Game is a point-and-click adventure game with a plot revolving around the Death Note series. Light Yagami is trying to hide the fact that he is the Kira, while L is trying to find out who the real Kira is. You must both steer suspicions away from you and target the suspect. As L, you must find evidence to prove who Kira really is. You must interrogate other people and meet familiar faces from the anime/manga series itself.

Main Menu
The Main Menu is set up into squares, each one representing a different mode or option. Story Mode is a full story from beginning to end and split into episodes. Your goal depends on which character - L or Light - you choose. Single-player mode is its own random story. Unlike story mode, single-player mode has nothing to do with the anime/manga series aside from the characters. Out of a group of people, you must decipher which character is the Kira. The final mode is VS mode. Play head to head against another person with the DS's wireless multi-card play.

Basic Gameplay
Every move you make should be based on how people act towards you and what they say when you interrogate them. Depending on their behavior, you can choose to keep interrogating them, accuse them of being the Kira, or move on to another suspect. You also must keep the suspicion directed away from you, shown by the green numbers at the bottom-right corner of the screen. You start with 100/100, but depending on your actions, they can go down, thus affecting your status as trustworthy. Every action can cause a reaction, either on your part or another characters' part, so choose your decisions wisely or lose the game.

Also be aware that others can suspect you as being Kira. Whether or not you really are Kira, you don't want to be thrown in jail for it. Keep an effort to have the investigators vote for the person you suspect is Kira instead of having them vote for you. This will result in a Game Over and having to try a new investigation (or start the chapter over in Story Mode).

Confidence
A major part of prosecuting a suspect is having confidence. Accusing a suspect of hiding their true identity isn't a good thing to do immediately. You need the support of your allies to back you in accusing a suspect, or else they will begin to lose trust in you. Your supporters depend on who you are. L's supporters are fellow investigators (as a detective trying to solve the Kira case) like Watari and Matsuda. Kira's supporters are most likely his followers - either people he appointed as his supporters (as in the case of Mikami) or original holders of the Death Note (as in the case of Misa). The people who you are associated with respect you and look to you for answers. Making impulsive decisions will leave you with no confidence in yourself and your associates with no confidence in you.

Apples
In the story mode episodes, there is usually an obvious objective and a bonus mission. Bonus missions are usually extra objectives like finding out who the Kira is in a given amount of time or finding Kira's true identity in one try. Apples can then unlock things like extras and hidden characters. Obtaining the highest amount of apples will unlock a secret episode featuring L's successors, Near and Mello. For how to obtain every apple from each chapter, go to the walkthrough.

Special Moves
If you don't want to go by the manual way or need a little boost or if your confidence is dangerously low, there is an alternative path and a way to get you back on track. When choosing your action, press on the box at the bottom-right of the screen with the red characters and the explanation point. This will give you a set of options to choose from. Pick one and your character will appear on a background that tells you a major action is happening. Your character will say a quote and then, when you return back to the usual screen, the other characters' statuses will have changed.

Voting
The final step to the investigation is voting. When you've decided you found who you were looking for, drag the blue bubble onto their picture and a result screen will show up shortly afterward. This screen will show who voted for who and how many votes each person got. If everyone happens to agree that you're the Kira, you'll be put in prison and lose the investigation. If you put the right person in prison, the investigation will end and you will have accomplished your goal. If you end up putting the wrong person in prison, the investigation will continue and you'll lose 20 Max Proposal Points, which gets your reputation down. If you keep putting the wrong person in prison, the choices will be narrowed down and the other (whether it be L or Kira) will know who you are by then, which will be a lost investigation.