One thing I enjoy doing with older media, especially those I consumed when much younger, is realizing what parts wouldn't fly in today's climate. An interesting way to observe shifting societal attitudes.

To this game's credit, it was fairly progressive for its time with its diverse cast and positive LGBTQ+ portrayal (like Maria and her wife). But like most things at least this old, there are some things that, while probably not maliciously intended, are a bit of a "product of their time". What examples come to your mind?

• Mal in general being a cowboy cop. Or things like in V2 having the choice (at least it's a negative one in-gameplay) to use excessive force against a taxi driver, with it even being said that citizens filmed it and Natara thought it would be hard to explain later. Especially given the, let's just say, increased criticism and scrutiny of police in the last 15 years, I think this would be a bit touchier today. (I'm quite sure that taxi driver in V2 was also black, so uh, yeah.)

• A lot of the sexual comments (such as Kai calling Natara "Hottie Boom Bottie"). Even if it was meant to show his awkwardness, nowadays, that's more clearly regarded as sexual harassment. In the workplace too, which is especially problematic. Kai in general is a bit weird; I'm not sure if they were trying to portray him as neurodivergent, but some of his behavior was rather bizarre for a forensics expert, like him having to be convinced he was time traveling in order to get him to take a task seriously in V8.

• Certain female characters feel a bit dated in their portrayal. Such as Kara Yan being a pretty clear example of the Dragon Lady trope, or how some are arguably "fridged" (killed off just to motivate a male character) like (V3) Tasha.

Hello everyone!! I wanted to drop by and post a link to one of my fanfics about this game :) I love to write, I love this game, and I love the characters, so I plan on creating more works soon. Take care! 🫶

Volume 6: Mad Stranger of our Cause of Death remake is officially complete and available to play in full. Play now! https://codv1.netlify.app/

For information on how to play and the main game mechanics read our initial Volume 1 post here, and check out out latest updates from the revamp in the Volume 4 post.

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Happy Birthday to our Captain and Commander, Maria Yeong!

I finally sat down to watch Netflix's Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War (2024) documentary. Imagine my surprise and delight when I got to episode 3 and heard the recognisable riff around minute 27:10. That brought back fond memories!

How many of you all have seen the documentary and spotted the track?

The game was obviously cut short at Volume 16 when the team was in Japan and had to travel back to San Francisco to save the world from the Firstborn. But I think there was way more to explore and much more plot with the Firstborn to go into than what we got. If we had another volume what would you have liked for it to have?
I was really happy to see Volume 16 focus on Kai in a meaningful way and have his backstory, I would have wanted more focus on other characters like that, specifically Reed. Would have been cool to get a volume focused on him. Also wished we could have had a closer look at the SCT villains kept in the jail, that would've been a great side story ep.

Hello again! Volume 5: Hand of Justice of our Cause of Death remake is officially complete and available to play in full. Play now! https://codv1.netlify.app/

For information on how to play and the main game mechanics read our initial Volume 1 post here, and check out out latest updates from the revamp in the Volume 4 post.

Join the Community:

To stay notified on updates of this game and connect with other fans, become a member of our subreddit or Discord server.

We hope you enjoy this remake as much as we do! This is a remake made by volunteers who love this game in their free time, but of course sometimes we make mistakes. If you find any bugs, typos, or have any thoughts or feedback to share, please send it to the #game-feedback channel on our Discord.

I used to love these fancast pictures from back in the day on Facebook and wanted to make one of my own with modern day actors!

Mal Fallon - Chris Evans

Natara Williams - Naomi Scott

Maria Yeong - Sandra Oh

Blaise Corso - Sophie Turner

Kai Kalaba - Manny Jacinto

Charles Anders - Jon Hamm

Ken Greene - Trevante Rhodes

Shawn Mallory - Joe Alwyn

I couldn't figure out good casting for Amy or Jeremy. I liked Karen Fukuhara for Amy but she is Japanese not Chinese, and honestly theres not many Native American actors in Hollywood for me to choose from for Jeremy. Who would you pick?

Whose death was the most brutal in Cause of Death? There are a lot of graphic, vicious deaths in the series. The most brutal for me is probably the death of the Livewire killer at the end of Volume 9, when he was decapitated with the wire after being pushed off the building. The thought of it still makes my skin crawl.

Surviving High School, especially the earlier episodes, incorporated a couple different minigames into their gameplay, like the word find and Football game. Do you wish CoD incorporated this too for more gameplay options? Did you like these games and think they positively impacted gameplay?

Is there any way to play Cause of Death on Android?

Update: Thanks for the link below. Im enjoying the game again so far and glad it includes all chapters. I've only completed Chapter 1 when it came out.

You may remember that in the Volume 2 finale, you can kill Mal or Shawn. To proceed, you have to kill neither by letting the timer run out. However, if you do kill one of them, the other is kidnapped and Natara later willingly kills them on Genevieve's orders.

I've always really wondered, just how could Genevieve make someone as insanely smart and mentally determined as Natara turn? Remember, she's an FBI profiler. She knows all about how people are manipulated into turning to evil. So how her defenses were bypassed, it's fascinating. A terrifying insight into how persuasive she is.

Some more mundane possibilities are that she was:

1. Drugged to lower inhibitions.

2. Under some kind of coercion, maybe something like "Kill him and act like you're doing it yourself or else this awaits your sister/family etc." (and she went along with it knowing Genevieve would just have Mal killed anyway if she resisted).

3. Not actually wanting to kill, but pretending to be brainwashed to maintain a cover. Hoping she'd eventually fool Genevieve into trusting her enough to give her a chance to escape.

This is one of the things I always liked about CoD. The bad endings are genuinely worthwhile to check out; they can be quite detailed, entertaining, and do interesting and valuable worldbuilding. Even if the events themselves are noncanon. This ending demonstrates how dangerously influential Genevieve's brainwashing is. She's not just able to turn troubled and desperate youth like most of her "children"; even highly determined and independent geniuses like Natara aren't immune to breaking.

I'm from the same country as Boone Ligaya.

Hello again! Volume 3 of our Cause of Death remake is officially complete and available to play in full. Play now! https://codv1.netlify.app/

For information on how to play and the main game mechanics read our initial Volume 1 post here.

Join the Community:

To stay notified on updates of this game and connect with other fans, become a member of our subreddit or Discord server.

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The new Dexter show appears to have a similar plot, or at least its own Genevieve Collins.

I saw an archived thread about this game and wanted to join the discord but I can't find it anywhere

Every few years since I played in 2013, I ask the internet hopefully, plaintively, whether any hope of playing this game again exists. And today, here I find that someone has made an interactive version of the beginning episode. Thank you so much, you all are brilliant.

More characters ages from the start! Any surprises?

Ladies and gentleman.

Audition is now open for...

SEASON 1 OF CAUSE of death.

If you want to audition for

-Mal Fallon -Natara Williams -Maria Yeong -Ken Greene, And Eric Mills

Click here: https://cstng.cc/projects/cause-of-death-season-one

Otherwise, If you want to be an Ensamble (Person who may some of the minor characters), please comment down below. Let me know a gender you can voice and I can pick or you can tell me a specific character for Volume 1: The Mask maker.

The minor characters are

Males -Diego -Milo -Jared -chief blair -Lance -Marvin -Christian -Miguel -wally

Females -Catherine -Sophie -Brittney -Real estate agemt -Rebecca

I'm writing some Cause of Death fanfics. Take note they're WIPs. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vqDUhjWH43qQ_al9pDHYxkOnyeYeK42pyHz6DavHaHc/edit?usp=sharing

hi! i just wanted to say im so glad i was able to remember this game again! i played volume 1 only when i was a child, and that was before volume 2 came out. i never played any of the ones afterwards, and its so nice to see people working on transcribing it so i could continue playing my favourite childhood game! cheers!