Funny game with an interesting cast of characters and great art, but unfortunately falls a bit flat in the game design. The characters in particular in this game are actually quite memorable, which is saying a lot because I've played a lot of games and I remember most if not all characters from this game even weeks after playing it. The jokes are also pretty funny, especially if you dig noir and aren't put off by protagonists that can be a bit of a jerk. One area that I feel that the game suffers in though is general game design. The puzzles can for example be quite annoying for a number of reasons. The big one is that there are a small number of puzzles you can't solve before you do other arbitrary things before it, so even if you figure out the puzzle ahead of time because the game drops very obvious hints at you, you won't be able to solve it until you for example talk to a specific NPC and exhaust their dialogue tree. You'll erroneously assume your correct solution is wrong because the game refuses to let you do it, but that solution will magically start working with no warning once you do some other arbitrary thing. That said, I was never stuck for very long on a puzzle and once I understood what was happening to me it was easy to play through the rest of the game. I could see past this if the game came with a good hint system since I could just look up what it wanted me to do, but though the game comes with a built in hint system in its journal (you get a sticky-note with some hint-like information) it only updates sometimes and has literally never helped me with a puzzle I was actually stuck on. Overall, a good game and one I'd recommend to other point-and-click enthusiasts since it did scratch my itch, but not the first game I'd recommend to someone just getting into into the genre since it's not as accessible as other entries. :)
