“I killed someone.
I have to pay for my crime.
This is a farewell.
Goodbye.”

So begins your investigation of a murder that took place 15 years ago in √Letter, or Root Letter, a newly-announced adventure game from Kadokawa Games.

In 1999, you had a high school pen pal named Aya Fumino. However, you never heard from her after graduation.

Fifteen years later, you receive the final letter you thought she never sent… in which she confesses to murder.

You go to the Shimane Prefecture in search of the truth about Aya. All you have are 11 letters and photographs, and seven classmates who refuse to talk. If you want to learn what really happened 15 years ago, you’ll need to get the truth from Aya’s classmates while also going through her letters.

According to Kotaku, gameplay is split into two parts. During simulation sections, you’ll read Aya’s letters and choose how you responded 15 years ago. In this way, your choices affect the past and help determine which ending you get.

During adventure sections, you’ll question Aya’s classmates and use information from the letters to pull more details from them. This sounds similar to Ace Attorney’s investigation sections, and some fans see similarities between the two Ace Attorney.

And like Ace Attorney 6, we can start looking forward to it now, because Root Letter has been confirmed for a worldwide release in Spring 2016 for PS4 and PS Vita. One more trailer was released today, a very short video in which Aya introduces the game.

More information is available at the Root Letter official site, although it’s all in Japanese.

Between Root Letter, Ace Attorney 6, Black Holmes, and Aviary Attorney, we have a lot of mysteries to look forward to. Now, if Capcom would just announce localization of Gyakuten Kenji 2 and Dai Gyakuten Saiban…