Posted on: November 11, 2018
KainKlarden
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Unique take on murder mysteries
Return of the Obra Dinn is a mystery adventure game from Lucas Pope, best known for Papers, Please. It's a huge "whodunnit" type puzzle, where you piece together narrative shown to you out of order and try to figure out what happened, to whom, how and why. The premise is rather simple - a ship returns with dead bodies on board and you, with some mysterious clock that lets you watch final moments of some people on board, need to clear the fates of every single person who was on board. Every memory is presented as a freeze frame you can explore with some great voice acting and ambience that usually contains hints, which opens with a more dramatic presentation but is later available for you to revisit at any point if you need more references. Once you've filled in the names and fates of three people correctly those people disappear from the list of suggestions for unidentified people. This motivates you to be careful with your investigation, but also do some guessing at times. Thought it does become a bit frustrating in the last parts of your investigation, once you've seen all memories and easily identified about a half of the crew, as quite a lot of the rest will require at least a bit of guessing. This also involves manually finding the correct scene you want to rewatch to refresh your memory and entering it, then exiting it, finding the next one and etc. But the game is still extremely interesting, the story is good and full of quite unexpected supernatural twists that are somewhat reminiscent of how normalcy and magic combined in the classic The Last Express and the music complements the journey quite well. If you like games that allow you to really dive into untangling the mystery, restoring the chronology and feeling like a detective and you can excuse some occasional quality of life deficiencies, this game is an absolute must have.
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