Enzai: Falsely Accused - Gameplay

Gameplay

Game interaction is extremely limited, as Enzai is a visual novel. Most of Enzai's gameplay consists of reading text and seeing stationary artwork, most of which is yaoi-themed.

Player input is limited to, at a few junctions in the story, the ability to choose one of two paths. However, these choices do not give the player the ability to truly affect the storyline. Some examples of the choices the player is given - open a box prior to an envelope, eat with one character or another, or randomly draw a lot to determine a prison work detail.

In order to obtain the "good" or "official" endings, the player must select the correct choices in a specific order. Therefore, it is rather difficult to get every ending and every scene without help. The nature of the gameplay, and the incomplete revelation of the aspects of the main conspiracy means the player doesn't find out the entire conspiracy until the players has found all endings and unlocked all the scenes.

How and why every main character that is a prisoner came to be there is revealed if the player finds all endings and unlocks all scenes. However, one difficulty in getting all the endings and unlocking all the scenes is that some choices always lead to instant death unless a specific scene was unlocked in gameplay. The players must then select what is usually instant death in order to get a certain ending.

While there are eleven endings, only seven of these are "official" endings that can be unlocked and re-experienced in the option menu. Only sex scenes can be re-experienced after being unlocked in the option menu. The player must play through the game over again in order to experience dialogue or dramatic scenes.

Thus, while the player technically guides the game, it is essentially a random process, and the player has little (if any) ability to affect the game's outcome without playing the game several times and using a trial and error process.

There are, in fact, two unrelated conspiracies—one with Durer, Bollanet, and most of the prisoners, and another involving Guys, Guildias, and his imprisonment. In the game, it appears that Durer is aware that Guys is innocent, and that Guildias is corrupt, and vice versa. Durer and Guildias thus are partners in the evil prison system.

The game has a number of possible endings:

• Several endings involve Guys being shot to death when he unsuccessfully attempts to escape from prison. In one of these endings, he is held by his lawyer, Lusca, as he dies; in the others, he dies alone, although he usually expresses satisfaction of having at least tried to gain freedom.
• Two endings involve Guys becoming the victim of Durer, a prison warden. In one, Guys (along with many other prisoners) is murdered by Durer as part of a conspiracy. In another, Guys gives up hope and resigns himself to being under Durer's control for the rest of his life.
• Many of the (happy) endings involve Guys proving his innocence, being released from prison, and becoming romantically linked with another character.
• There is a default ending if Guys is successfully released from prison, but does not form a romantic bond with another character.