Posted on: February 15, 2023
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Interesting noir mystery, with issues
Blacksad is a comic book created by Juan Diaz Canales screenwriter and the artist Juanjo Guardnido, and they have been releasing it for Dargaud for quite some time. Since the comic book has quite good setup of noir mysteries in the anthropomorphic animal based world, similar to ours, and quite specific art style with vivid expressions and world building. It was interesting to see how it would translate into a video game adaptation. Pendulo studios are no strangers to point and click games, their Runaway titles were humoristic and serviceable, but Blacksad is a different beast. I didn't like that the controls were tank like on mouse and keyboard, if you have a joystick it is a much better experience. They simplified it to be as basic and barren it can be. Although it has some interesting mechanics, Blacksad has a feature where he uses his senses of smell, eyesight and sound to find more clues, and there is a something akin a thought cabinet where you can combine the clues that you found to get resolution for the case. The animation can be quite janky and uncanny valley, basically couple of characters have great animation for their expressions, while the rest look like dolls. (especially female characters) I deem that the animation style doesn't serve justice to the comic, it could have been much better, but I do think that the studio loved the original material, they even worked on a story with the creators. And the storyline and the mystery are very good, there are twists and turns and this is the driving force to finish the game. Also the game is badly optimized, you will constantly see the loading sign, you go into a new place, loading, conversation over - loading, it's weird to see something like that in a game that came out in 2019. There were some bugs, game crashing when the senses menu is open and not being able to get out of it. I would suggest that you buy it when it's on a sale. Hopefully the team will work on new Blacksad titles, and improve.
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