Posted on: April 13, 2020
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Gry: 213 Opinie: 10
Retro graphics murder mystery done right
This game is an extended "Whodunnit" murder puzzle with 60 fates to be resolved. You have a crew manifest, a picture of all people, but you must not only correlate who on the picture is which crew member, you also have to find their cause of death. The game helps you by locking in correct answers for every few you get right. The most fun is the unrolling of what happened, when you travel backwards through the ship's fraught history by chains of murder scenes. It gets kind of tedious when you have several similar candidates (same country of origin/ethnicity) to chose from, several people doing the same jobs. But if you pick up on clues, you can at least group the people efficiently. You can assign a crew member role to people before identifying them - like "unknown officer", "unknown steward", etc. Wish I noticed sooner. In fact, the game pretty much gives away some identities in ways that I thought were too easy to assume. What doesn't help is the graphics of a game. Sometimes you think somebody is a certain ethnicity or origin and then it turns out they aren't. Also, navigating between clues and "frozen in time" murder scenes can be terribly time-consuming due to navigating the ship and jumping through the scenes. Visual connections between scenes can be especially hard to spot - I guess it takes the right kind of observer. The amount of clues in this game is staggering and on one occasion even the game itself cheats when giving you info. [SPOILER: Keeping an eye on who is in a scene is more helpful than you might reasonably expect.] The atmosphere of the game is great, I liked the music, and the events that unfold are dark and interesting.
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