Posted on: September 19, 2021

chrlpolk

Spiele: 640 Rezensionen: 30

Not Great

Glitchy - graphics distort, and occasionally the mouse pointer won't give you the "observe/talk" choice. The solution is to quit the game (sometimes close the program entirely) and start from the last save point. Slightly annoying, but fortunately, the game saves after every dialogue and major interaction. There are three types of puzzles: Problem solving, Conversation, and Clues Problem solving puzzles are of the variety found in "escape room" games. Object manipulation, discover secret hatch to reveal a numeric code that will open another hatch, etc. Conversation puzzles consist of dialogue choices, and give you "Ego Points" (which serve no real purpose game-wise) for properly roleplaying Poirot. If you're not familiar with the character or source material, no worries! There are no "wrong" choices, and the game will play out the same. Clues you learn through exploration and conversations can be used by Poirot to answer questions relevant to the case. The first phase of the game gives the impression that these are open questions and can be solved at your leisure; soon after, you will not get them, except in forced segments when the questions are posed and must be answered to continue. Although I found this to be the most interesting part of the game, there are many times when the clues aren't quite clear in relation to the question, and it becomes trial and error. Plot is fine - after all, it does take heavily (but with some differences) from a bestselling book! Get it on sale, if the three types of puzzles described sound interesting to you.

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Posted on: February 18, 2016

Pops-

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Spiele: 131 Rezensionen: 6

Good game

This game is a welcome change from all the other stuff on the market at the moment. I found it enjoyable and really relaxing especially good to wind down to after a long day at work. I hope there will be future games like this as the studio did a really good job.

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Posted on: June 19, 2016

lauma

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Spiele: 441 Rezensionen: 5

True to Aghata Christie style

This game pleasantly suprised me. Instead of your average "collect various things, interact with them on other things" this game focuses on deductive process of the crime-solving, and does it (in my opinion) very well. It is done very Puaroit-style - you observe people and endviroments, you draw conclusions from obtained clues, and sometimes just watch in the mirror twisting your moustache :) Added nice visuals and pleasant music, it is overall great experience. I would really like if Microids/Anuman made similar games of other Puaroit novels. Cons: controls during "little gray cells" scenes sometimes were annoyingly clunky. However, it might be because I use trackpoint, not the usual standalone mouse.

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Posted on: August 3, 2017

phodopus

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Spiele: 274 Rezensionen: 26

Fails to live up to the promise

I'm a big fan of Agatha Christie's work - in particular, Poirot. I'm also a big fan of point-and-click adventure games. However, this one, despite plenty of ingredients that ought to make it work, fails to deliver. The 3D animation looks stylish at first glance. After a moment, though, and you'll see the wooden character animations, some really shoddy textures, and some very odd rendering glitches. It also seems highly unoptimized - on a fast PC, it's really struggling to keep up the frame-rate. The story is lifted from the novel of the same name; if you've read it, you'll know the twist already. Sadly, this twist is so obviously rammed in your face as you play this game that it loses any of the Christie 'magic'. The game itself is mostly composed of shifting from one scene to another, trying to solve puzzles that are wholly unrelated to the plot. For example, there are puzzle boxes that require a number of steps to unlock. Annoyingly, it's never really clear whether you have all the inventory items to complete a puzzle. The funniest bit, by far, is the voice acting. Those of us who grew up with David Suchet's portrayal are in for a nasty shock - the Belgian accent is lumpy, inconsistent, and almost mocking. It's the other characters, especially Hastings, who are the funniest: it's almost as if the actors were trying to impersonate a robot, but badly. Towards two-thirds through, my enjoyment dropped to about zero, and only finished it for a sense of closure. On sale, this game might give a couple of hours of entertainment.; at full price, avoid.

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Posted on: June 2, 2022

Seb-gog

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Spiele: 197 Rezensionen: 82

Glitchy and slow

Someone wrote "glitchy" in a review below, and I really have to agree! It happened loads of times during my playthrough that the GUI stopped working so I couldn't choose between look/talk. Also some other less serious glitches regarding GUI that were a bit frustrating. But most frustrating is the gameplay itself - it often is slow and tedious, and requires you to click to focus on something, then click to go back, focus on something else, and so on, and all of those transitions take it's time... I really think they could have made a smoother interface for this game. Also the mindmap is often very frustrating, where you are putting clues together. Sometimes it's so simple that you don't even have to think, but you still need to drag-and-drop the evidence, but often it's the other way round and you struggel to grasp what the game actually wants from you. I generally like slowpaced adventures, but this was more frustrating than anything else for me. Story and voiceacting and graphics are ok - gameplay and GUI not so much, for me anyway. I bought it on a really heavy sale, and for that price it was decent anyway...

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