Posted on: December 28, 2022

ArtistTempy

Jeux: 116 Avis: 13

Fairly Standard PnC Mystery but not bad

This is a fairly standard Point and Click Mystery game where you move your character around, gather clue and interview people to help solve the Murder of Walter Jones via a series of steps. It's not amazingly long and some areas of the map do the standard 'flesh out the map' without too much point, but nothing hughly bad or out of the norm. The Game style seamed to scream more 1999-2005 style with the pre-rendered backgrounds and 3D modelled characters, but came out around 2007 so while not 'state of the art', does the job pretty well and no real complants about the graphical style.. However, there are the odd times when you probebly will MISS an item to pick up because it doesn't stand out so a bit of mouse hovering is useful at times to make sure you get everything. The Story isn't too bad and gives some interesting characters, though a fair bit of it seams a bit underdeveloped (I was left with a number of questions unanswered, which is find though a couple of them seamed to be of SOME importantance to the case but oh well, not a HUGE thing). While English is my first language, I did find some of the written Lore material a bit hard to fully read with the fancy fonts, but these are filler more then needed to complete or enjoy the game. Very much a standard but still good short mystery PnC for the early 2000s (despite it's 2007 date). Brought it when on ofter for 59p, and i would say it's clearly find for up to £2 mark but I'm not sure i would say to buy it if it was much higher then that.

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Posted on: April 10, 2023

payomag

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A great detective story

Rather a quite difficult adventure, but with a logical inputs and outputs. Spent some 15hrs on it... Sometimes just running up and down the tower :) Slowly putting the clues together. And changing the opinion who might be a murderer. A good adventure with a good detective story. It has some "flaws" like repetitive questions - but you are a policeman, aren't you? :)

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Posted on: December 3, 2023

VelociRapture1

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Awesome!

Best $1.37 I have spent in a very long time! I played this for several days straight while stuck home with COVID-19 (I'm still fighting it as I write this review). A perfect game for a rainy day. The atmosphere was awesome, the Art Deco designs were glorious, is it perfect? No, but I was kept guessing until the end and was determined to finish it. I must have touched 1000 games, but I rarely actually finish them. I must admit I had to rely on a walkthrough a couple of times that I got stuck, but that's ok, one thing I learned is that even if you examine areas thoroughly, you will not see certain things until you go back "at the right time" so I tried not to beat myself up about that as it's not like I missed a clue, the clue wasn't there until it was time for it to magically appear. Other than a couple of frustrating moments over that, I thoroughly enjoyed this game and will miss it in a way. I won't spoil anything, but I wish there was a better explanation at the end as to one particularly important item and how it goes. I wish there was a way to replay this game and have different culprits, because... well, there is more than one person who had motive here to be sure. Thank you to the people responsible for putting this together!!!

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Posted on: August 22, 2022

Thunker

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Un beau cadre !

Les environnements sont plutôt agréables à regarder, on sens bien la patte de Syberia surtout avec cette tour démesurée sur une si petite île. Les angles de caméra sont bien choisies. Quand on explore cette structure, on se sens vraiment insignifiant. La modélisation des personnages est pas terrible, tout le monde vous regarde avec des yeux vides. C'est très flagrant avec le PNJ "Baina" qui semble être totalement droguée vu qu'elle ne parle pas. Pendant les dialogues, vous voyez que les gestes que font vos interlocuteurs ne font pas naturels, ils font très "robotiques". La musique est très bonne et surtout discrète. La VF est pas mal mais j'émets de sérieux doutes sur la voix du héros que je trouve totalement ratée. Les lèvres des personnages ne bougent lors de leur dialogue hors "scène" où les interrogent. C'est pas sérieux ! L'histoire est sympathique, on se sens vraiment dans une enquête policière. LE PPA qui nous permet de voir les indices et de résoudre l'affaire est bien réalisé et intuitif. Je trouve que le coupable est trop facile à identifier, en tant que joueur, on comprend assez rapidement qui est le tueur. C'est peut-être sa tête mais j'ai vu juste dès la première rencontre. Les documents à lire sont intéressants mais certains sont difficilement lisibles tout comme quelques objets à ramasser. Le cadre avec la tour est surprenant et mon interprétation est qu'elle représente la famille Jones à mesure que l'histoire avance : elle prends l'eau et se fissure... A mon avis, il manque une carte pour se repérer car il n'est pas rare que vous courriez partout pour trouver une salle... J'ai personnellement découvert existences plusieurs endroits vers la fin du jeu... Ok j'étais pas au courant du jardin ?! Sinking Island ou L'Île Noyée en français est un jeu plutôt bien écrit mais assez court. Si vous aimez fouiller partout dans un cadre original presque poétique par moment (oui j'ai vraiment aimé cette tour), je ne peux que vous le conseiller !

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Posted on: February 6, 2024

XYCat

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Decent detective game

This game seems like a regular point & click adventure, but it actually requires a bit more effort from the player. You're a detective investigating the case of a dead rich guy and there are twists and turns in the investigation, but the main difference from most games of this kind is that you actually have to figure out what happened yourself. What I mean is that you gather a ton of witness statements, clues, and documents, and then to progress there is this mini-puzzle where you have to put the right pieces of evidence to make a conclusion regarding the events that led to the victim's death. And you really do get a lot of statements in particular, so you have to sort of pay more attention a bit more than in games where the game makes the conclusion for you just from gathering select evidence. Also, it's a Benoit Sokal game, so the environmental themes are present here as well, and actually relate to the story of the game too, which is also interesting. What's not great about the game is that it somehow hogs processing power. I mean it had my CPU fans spinning for no good reason and I had to use a tool to limit this game's resources usage. No reason to put unnecessary wear on my hardware over a retro adventure game. Another not so great thing is that in a couple of instances you have to backtrack for no good reason because a clue spawned somewhere you already visited, or an item appears only after you do specific dialogues. Also, at least once instance of an item that is very hard to see, so it's easy to get stuck on that.

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