Posted on: October 10, 2022
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Hacker Detective
SoF plays sort of like visual novel with puzzle gameplay elements. As private investigator with house arrest, living in this cool city on Mediterranean island, we solve series of cases loosely connected by recurring characters, while working remotely all the time. Fortunately she has access to technologies allowing to hack everything out there in the blink of an eye (don't ask how it works) and even has this super AI helper that she wrote alone from scratch! Future, man. Main minigame is hacking security cameras and drones to get evidences and info. This gets slightly more complex with progress but only really difficult part of the game might be figuring out passwords which involves sometimes rather abstract puzzles (but there is hint system). Collected data is then used to create arguments during conversations, which is impossible to fail as there is infinite number of retries until you get it right. The only irreversible parts are occasional choices that might affect story in minor way, although most choices are rather illusionary. E.g. in early cases game forces player to incriminate basically random person out of three based on a "hunch" due to lack of hard evidence (great detective work indeed...) or choose to make or not deal with blackmailer - but then it's mostly meaningless anyway, even when subplots return later. For the large part it's linear and only few decisions matter. I found protagonist likeable and storytelling quite involving, each chapter/case being like separate episode of TV series but with this bigger picture constantly forming in the background and culminating in intense finale. It's really fairly nicely put together, which is important because with repetitive and simplistic gameplay it's mostly story that keeps player interested. Dialogs I assume weren't written by native English speakers because they feel awkward sometimes. Music is pretty good and fitting, could have more tracks though. While it's not perfect I enjoyed it very much.
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