Posted on: June 19, 2016

lauma

Gry: 439 Opinie: 4

True to Aghata Christie style

This game pleasantly suprised me. Instead of your average "collect various things, interact with them on other things" this game focuses on deductive process of the crime-solving, and does it (in my opinion) very well. It is done very Puaroit-style - you observe people and endviroments, you draw conclusions from obtained clues, and sometimes just watch in the mirror twisting your moustache :) Added nice visuals and pleasant music, it is overall great experience. I would really like if Microids/Anuman made similar games of other Puaroit novels. Cons: controls during "little gray cells" scenes sometimes were annoyingly clunky. However, it might be because I use trackpoint, not the usual standalone mouse.

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Posted on: August 3, 2017

phodopus

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Gry: 274 Opinie: 26

Fails to live up to the promise

I'm a big fan of Agatha Christie's work - in particular, Poirot. I'm also a big fan of point-and-click adventure games. However, this one, despite plenty of ingredients that ought to make it work, fails to deliver. The 3D animation looks stylish at first glance. After a moment, though, and you'll see the wooden character animations, some really shoddy textures, and some very odd rendering glitches. It also seems highly unoptimized - on a fast PC, it's really struggling to keep up the frame-rate. The story is lifted from the novel of the same name; if you've read it, you'll know the twist already. Sadly, this twist is so obviously rammed in your face as you play this game that it loses any of the Christie 'magic'. The game itself is mostly composed of shifting from one scene to another, trying to solve puzzles that are wholly unrelated to the plot. For example, there are puzzle boxes that require a number of steps to unlock. Annoyingly, it's never really clear whether you have all the inventory items to complete a puzzle. The funniest bit, by far, is the voice acting. Those of us who grew up with David Suchet's portrayal are in for a nasty shock - the Belgian accent is lumpy, inconsistent, and almost mocking. It's the other characters, especially Hastings, who are the funniest: it's almost as if the actors were trying to impersonate a robot, but badly. Towards two-thirds through, my enjoyment dropped to about zero, and only finished it for a sense of closure. On sale, this game might give a couple of hours of entertainment.; at full price, avoid.

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Posted on: June 2, 2022

Seb-gog

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Gry: 192 Opinie: 82

Glitchy and slow

Someone wrote "glitchy" in a review below, and I really have to agree! It happened loads of times during my playthrough that the GUI stopped working so I couldn't choose between look/talk. Also some other less serious glitches regarding GUI that were a bit frustrating. But most frustrating is the gameplay itself - it often is slow and tedious, and requires you to click to focus on something, then click to go back, focus on something else, and so on, and all of those transitions take it's time... I really think they could have made a smoother interface for this game. Also the mindmap is often very frustrating, where you are putting clues together. Sometimes it's so simple that you don't even have to think, but you still need to drag-and-drop the evidence, but often it's the other way round and you struggel to grasp what the game actually wants from you. I generally like slowpaced adventures, but this was more frustrating than anything else for me. Story and voiceacting and graphics are ok - gameplay and GUI not so much, for me anyway. I bought it on a really heavy sale, and for that price it was decent anyway...

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Posted on: July 17, 2022

isiisomaha

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Gry: 171 Opinie: 10

nice little story, quite simple game

There is not much to play in a traditional point-and-click sense here. Some mini-puzzle games for ordering symbols etc. Interactive choices in discussion as a form of interrogation. Couple of items Poirot picks up and need to be used at some point. The graphics and narrative are quite nice. It is a well done portrayal of mr Poirot as seen on TV with David Suchet. But the story is simple, not much to control but to follow the story. The mini-games would have been a bit annoying since I am not so much into such puzzles, but a walkthrough is handy :). You collect points by acting like Poirot would. Or how the game authors think he would. Its quite funny twist. Worth as a short casual game on some evenings or on a trip, if you can get it on a nice discount. Worked great on a my oldish Linux laptop also which is not too common.

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Posted on: October 25, 2024

Renegado_pe

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Gry: 196 Opinie: 1

Ok

Good game for a casual gaming experience

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