Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure - Director's Cut
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1933 will go down in the history books as the year America passed the 21st Amendment to the Constitution. The Prohibition is over. To the delight of millions, alcohol can now flow freely across the thirsty land. Two days before the official announcement, bars and clubs across the land are stocking u...
1933 will go down in the history books as the year America passed the 21st Amendment to the Constitution. The Prohibition is over. To the delight of millions, alcohol can now flow freely across the thirsty land. Two days before the official announcement, bars and clubs across the land are stocking up on quality whiskey.
This is the enthralling story of a scruffy but shrewd private investigator who, by an unfortunate mixture of circumstances, becomes the prime suspect in a mysterious murder case. Jack now has only 48 hours to slip the noose and find the real offender. The sands of time are rapidly running out and Jack has to unravel the mysterious plot he now finds himself caught up in the middle of.
Eye catching hand-drawn animated graphics
A classic film noir atmosphere with a great musical score
State-of-the-art voice acting
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manual (45 pages)
soundtrack (MP3)
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Jack Orlando is a detective adventure game with a 1930s US backdrop. The game has good visuals and fantastic music that stuck in my ears for the last 20 years (which is why I bought the game on GOG), but it is severely let down by everything else.
The controls are clunky with superfluous clicks everywhere. There are dozens of junk items to collect. Dialogs are often meaningless and important dialog options are hidden in repetitive trees. Death is just around the corner and you can die without warning. Riddles are pointless and often lack hints on what to do, especially if giving stuff to people is the solution.
Worst of all is the dialog. It is racist and misogynous, disgusting at times, and cannot be excused by the historic backdrop. I cannot recommend this game at all. Stay clear, but it is worth listening to the soundtrack.
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.
Do you remember games like Broken Sword, Monkey Island 3 or Discworld? Well, if Jack Orlando was developed by LucasArts or Sierra, it should be named among them. It has an unique atmosphere (just look at the images), which you cannot experience in any other classic adventure game, really classy story about a lone private eye and for just six dollars it should be yours right about now.
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