Posted on: January 6, 2019
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Has great potential, plagued with issues
A murder mystery set in the 30s isn't something I could ignore, but this game is so clunkily put together, I doubt you'll want to complete it even with a walkthrough in hand. Me, I wished there was a sequel to be found. Looking at it objectively, Jack Orlando is a game with a handful of almost every problem imaginable. This feels like a game rushed into release, that also suffers from having an amateurish studio translating it into English. Playing this game, the first thing you'll come across is the horrendous dubbing, which seems to be done by one kid on a crappy PC microphone, as if someone corrupted the originals and decided to do a Mr. Bean - fix it alone and not tell anybody. Luckily the dubbing becomes better and more fitting for the characters later on, and makes you actually enjoy the dialog. But to get there you'll need to traverse hearing a high pitched kid's voice coming out of an elderly woman, and you'll have to suffer a handful of freezes, which thankfully eventually went away. Sadly, the audio itself has some glitching later on, and can be barely audible at times, or seem to not be played at all. The animation is also clunky, with every movement feeling like it could use a few extra frames of animation, but surprisingly the walking animation fits the background - there's no walking on air. The world is also filled with areas to visit, which you can walk on foot to, but most areas only offer one pointless interaction, and one place you can enter. Gameplay comprises of pixel hunting items on the ground, and trying to figure out which 10% aren't useless. Plot is fairly boring, with a pretty forgettable villain. We're constantly told that Jack is an amazing sleuth, but he comes off as an aging, bumbling detective, who stumbles into the solution. The only major highlight is the dialog system, which manages to recycle lines, yet make conversations sound natural. But most conversations being pointless doesn't make you want to experience them.
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