Shouldn't have been released in it's current state. Lagged more than any game I've ever played. Opening the menu sometimes took full several minutes, if it opened at all. You'd open it and then just sit there waiting for it to pop up, sometimes having to go into a building to make it finally open (I'm guessing the game is just so large that it had trouble loading the outside map AND the casebook at the same time). Running through the city crashes the game, cause it's so large and badly rendered-- you literally walk off the map. Combat was awful-- skipped everytime. The music and voice acting skips terribly like bad records-- sometimes the scenes end before the voice overs can finish so they get cut off. And none of the cases are solvable without following a walkthrough, or in my case, several different ones. On that last note: none of the crimes have TRUE ANSWERS. You could literally choose any answer and the game pretty much agrees with you that you chose correct... What's the point of a mystery solving game if all answers are the right ones? Not enough instructions on how you're supposed to do anything in any part of the game (so you're just lost trying to guess where to go in a real city sized map). Sometimes, Jon just lies to you and tells you there's more to find, when in reality you found everything (in every walkthrough I used, which was about 5, I found everything they did, but for some reason Jon would tell me I'm missing stuff, and I truly wasn't). And the disguise part of the game was unneccessary and unfun-- too hard to figure out what disguise you need, and if you buy the wrong things, you can run out of MONEY, so you gotta do sidequests so you can afford to get more clothes. I dreaded doing anything BUT the mainstory line (which was guard-railed by walkthroughs the whole way due to being impossibly difficult), as I was fed up with every case not having a clear culprit. I'm glad its over. Story was good, so it's a pity the gameplay was so awful.
Shouldn't have been released in it's current state. Lagged more than any game I've ever played. Opening the menu sometimes took full several minutes, if it opened at all. You'd open it and then just sit there waiting for it to pop up, sometimes having to go into a building to make it finally open (I'm guessing the game is just so large that it had trouble loading the outside map AND the casebook at the same time). Running through the city crashes the game, cause it's so large and badly rendered-- you literally walk off the map. Combat was awful-- skipped everytime. The music and voice acting skips terribly like bad records-- sometimes the scenes end before the voice overs can finish so they get cut off. And none of the cases are solvable without following a walkthrough, or in my case, several different ones. On that last note: none of the crimes have TRUE ANSWERS. You could literally choose any answer and the game pretty much agrees with you that you chose correct... What's the point of a mystery solving game if all answers are the right ones? Not enough instructions on how you're supposed to do anything in any part of the game (so you're just lost trying to guess where to go in a real city sized map). Sometimes, Jon just lies to you and tells you there's more to find, when in reality you found everything (in every walkthrough I used, which was about 5, I found everything they did, but for some reason Jon would tell me I'm missing stuff, and I truly wasn't). And the disguise part of the game was unneccessary and unfun-- too hard to figure out what disguise you need, and if you buy the wrong things, you can run out of MONEY, so you gotta do sidequests so you can afford to get more clothes. I dreaded doing anything BUT the mainstory line (which was guard-railed by walkthroughs the whole way due to being impossibly difficult), as I was fed up with every case not having a clear culprit. I'm glad its over. Story was good, so it's a pity the gameplay was so awful.
