Early parts of the game are kind of mediocre. Some decent atmosphere inside the building and all, especially because of the sounds, but the gameplay just feels... uninteresting. The telekinetic powers early on are reminiscent of The Force Unleashed, except very basic and not nearly as interesting, and the starting weapon is not very fun to use. Maybe it gets better later on but after about 4 hours of playing I hit what seems like a gamebreaking bug where a necessary mission cutscene in the janitor's office won't trigger no matter what I try so I can't progress. Not going to replay the uninteresting early game for what might be a slightly more interesting later section, so that's all I can base my review on.
Not much in the way of solving mysteries in this one, mostly just finding hidden object, solving weird puzzles in an odd mansion and then watching cutscenes. It runs perfectly fine, so no technical issues, just not the same as some of the other Sherlock games.
A fun space fighter action game that lets you take out bad guys, mine space resources, hunt for loot in the cramped corridors of broken down capital ships and trade with various stations scattered around the area. As you fly around in FTL, random signals or distress calls offer you a chance to jump in and possibly save some freighter or blow up a bunch of outlaws. I have only played up until the first attempt to hack the jumpgate, but so far the story, character writing and voice acting have all been really solid around 95% of the time. I especially like Officer Shaw during the quests surrounding his station. The game looks visually stunning in many places, even if it sometimes causes my 6800 XT to peak at around 300W according to MSI Afterburner. The out-of-ship cutscenes feel a bit like watching panels out of a narrated comic book, which works pretty well. My only minor gripes are with how there could have been a bit more variety for the random signal areas, and how one particular story event felt a bit forced. Other than that, this is basically how I had originally hoped Rebel Galaxy Outlaw would feel.
