Blacksad: Under the Skin

I enjoy this game, the atmosphere, and especially the music. Also the visuals are neat. But sadly there are some bugs during the quick time events, e.g. you want to grab something during a fight, grab it but the came continues as if nothing has happend and you have to replay the scene over and over.

The comic itself is good but being able to get inside the world of a noir grim tale with every essenceof the old U.S.A is another one with good soundtrack and another way to give an story like Telltale Games used to

I enjoyed the plot, and I think the mood from the comics is there, plus the strong, serious noir inspirations make for an overall rather pleasant experience. However, many choices in the game are empty, subplots feel unfinished and without proper send off. What bothered me the most however is that there's no run button, and the player can't skip dialogues nor cutscenes. If the player will fail a QTE challenge they are forced to rewatch sometimes quite lengthy cutsenes, which is annoying. Not too mention that the overall feeling of sluggishness kills replayability factor. I've also enountered a bug. I failed multiple times a space mashing QTEs. It turned out that I have to set my monitor's refresh rate at 60Hz (I had it at 165Hz), otherwise the QTEs are borderline impossible to finish. I also think there's a bit too many said QTEs, and at some places I'd simply prefer more classic puzzles instead of walking around and clicking enter or WSAD when prompted. All in all, I did enjoy the game, but I found playing it annoying quite a few times. I'd recommend it for the fans of Blacksad comic books, and people interested in noir whoodunit stories in general.

Wouldve liked an option to skip/fast forward the parts ive already played through, a sprint button and vioces to not break mid dialogue at times. A dedicated save and load button for separate files wouldve been nice as well

Mash, die, mash, still die, unplug your controller and mash both space bars and still die until after 10 tries the QTE's become easier. I don't know if it's tied to framerate but this game clearly wasn't play tested enough!