Blade Runner

My heart is beating, my palms are sweating. Where did this suddenly come from? I have been waiting so long to finally be able to play this game again. It's a fantastic adventure game, absolutely teeming with atmosphere and nostalgia. For fans of both adventure games and the movie.

I had the game back in the days but never finished it. Finally GoG have it and I'm super excited to have a go at it again after so many years 😁👍👍👍

A really fine adventure with the right Blade Runner feeling. The puzzles may not be as elaborated as in other games of it's kind and it might not have left such an impace as for example the Monkey Island series, but it's a solid adventure with some action elements, the storytelling is great and you even get to use the 3D photo analyzer. The game uses voxels for the character modes which allows a model with only a few polygons to look quite realistic, also other than a 2D character it can react to the lights around id, but it also makes them look blurry. This technology was abandoned, since using more polygons creates better results. But for time and genre where 3d cards were far from being standard equipment, it was a good compromise. If you don't have this game it, buy it. I however, own the CD version already which works just fine with ScummVM, so I'll wait for a sale.

OK, I own the original. Now I have the replicant. :-) This is a true classic. Just buy it and get to it. I am so happy to see this here on GOG. This is why I joined GOG so many years ago. Amazed that they have managed to get this here on GOG. A real achievement. Enjoy!

It is not really an investigation game sinse you just click on stuff when your mouse cursor highlights and wait for things to happen (this is not a let down for me because the story seems kinda cool). And also, the manual mentions you can change how your character will talk to people (nice, normal, angry or user's choice), but it doesn't mention that if you choose anything that isn't "user's choice" your character will choose the questions he makes to the suspects. So it was only when I decided to change from "normal" to "user's choice" that I realised the game was locking me from a cig part of the gameplay (being able to choose what you will question the suspects for, which is really important because depending on what you choose, the conversation can end and the suspect will never talk to you again). The biggest problem on this game for me is that you really need to be very careful with the pictures analysis (really like the first movie, where Deckard enhances the image quite a lot), but in this game there will be really important clues behind other elements (when you find these important clues, that are behind other elements like walls, the game rotates the pictures around so you can see what you highlighted (it's kinda hard to explain, but without much spoilers, this happens at the first photo of the first crime scene). So I didn't found this important clue and got into a dead end on the third act, and this was when I decided to pull up a walkthrough and discovered I had to go back to the first photo from the first crime scene because I let a clue pass. So, if you're reading this and still want to play this game, I highly advise you to search for a walkthrough for your first playthrough, or be really careful while searching for clues on crime scenes or on the image analysis of the Esper machine.