Speaking of other reviews: there’s something I don’t understand about people – why to play adventure games if you dislike riddles so much? It seems like gamers are all grumpy about lock picking and such – but that’s not really a big problem, just a little bit of work for grey cells, this is what adventure game offers on the contrast to any action game (no offense for the action genre, truly). Just got yourself a shooter and don’t bother about location wandering searching for items and too much thinking… or just go “watch all the cutscenes” on youtube – then you’ll get a story without doing anything at all… This game is superb. In anything and everything about it. And not the least of things that plays here is that this is the second part in the series – Post Mortem gloriously started it, and all the hopes were for Still Life 2 but this game doesn’t have anything to do with previous installments, it should have been Vic going to LA and continuing her investigation, not what it turned out in the end. What to say about the story – it’s hard to put into words because you got so many feelings while living it through with Gus and Vic that you can’t just stop thinking about it even after the final “teaser”… So many unanswered questions, so many hypothesis. Without “spoilering” too much – judging by Vaklav’s face he recognized the man on the moment he was unmasked, this alone gives a lot to ponder. The style is perfect – no matter is it Prague or Chicago – you feel deep inside everything happening on the screen and your own soul-state jumps from being funny (like Miller, Mia and Vic share a scene together) to dreadful – and all of this in a row. This game has only one single fault – it has an end, another fault – fault of the series – that it didn’t continue in the right way, and that developers didn’t give us Gus’ “London case” that Vic described as “romantic and mysterious", then we could have 4 perfections instead of just two...
