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Enzai: Falsely Accused

Enzai
American Cover of Enzai.PNG
Cover art for the American Release
冤罪
Genre Historical fiction, Psychological, Romance, Eroge
Game
Developer Langmaor
Publisher
Genre Visual novel
Platform PC
Released
  • JP: September 13, 2002
  • NA: January 25, 2006
Original video animation
Directed by Toshiyuki Sakurai
Kinomi Noguchi
Produced by Koichi Murakami
Okabo Doji
Written by Hikaru Takeuchi
Studio Adonis
Japan Home Video
Released April 23, 2004October 22, 2004
Runtime 30 minutes per episode
Episodes 2
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Enzai (冤罪?, lit. "False charge") is a yaoi game made by the Japanese software house Langmaor, which was later translated to English under the title Enzai – Falsely Accused. It was the first yaoi game released commercially in the United States. The game is also the first that Langmaor developed.

The story is set in post-revolutionary France in early 19th-century. Although the specific date is never given, Napoleon Bonaparte is still in power. One character remarks that it is several years before the 20th anniversary of the French Revolution, placing the game's events in the years before 1809.

The protagonist is Guys, a young boy from a poor family, who gets caught stealing candy from a Paris store. However, after being railroaded by a city detective named Guildias, Guys finds himself accused, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a man he never met.

From that point on, most of Enzai takes place inside a dark, claustrophobic, dirty prison. In there, Guys experiences humiliation and torture of various kinds, much of it involving nonconsensual sexual acts.

The primary goal of the game is for the player (as Guys) to locate evidence and witnesses that can exonerate him of the murder, unveil the true killer, and get him released from prison. Secondary goals include learning the killer's true motives, finding out the backstory of the murder, keeping Guys both physically and psychologically healthy, and forming a romantic bond with other male NPCs in the prison.


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