Recent reviews by euqil

Some of the games are good, probably 90% of gameplay is the Tarot Solitaire, the others are not as good.

I love the series but I would definitely not recommend to start with this one, even though it is the best installment so far. I feel like the past games (DLC) are definitely required for context/lore and for knowing how to navigate the case solving.

There are many quality of life improvements in this one - the only major problem I had was the Final Clash where a lot of the information needed to be assembled but very little information was given. Some of the things repeat of course - names of the characters and so on but it is impossible to track what's uploaded where and who's who. I think that this problem was not really anywhere besides 2 scenes at the end - the 'identify 200 hobos' and the finale.

Godot is a good engine choice for this game but I have one major peeve and that's switching between scenes. When you want to look something up you stare at a screen that shows 100% for what feels like eternity. I think for finished scenes this should be rather quick so it would make revisiting faster. Maybe as an option to just load everything and switch between scenes than loading them on demand might work.

Anyway, still one of the best detective series. Still the same highlights and flaws as the past installments.

This is one of the worse games from WI and I've played a bunch of them. It is shot nicely but it is super slow. Playing it is like trying to prod a slug through a football field. Every other animation has intro, the actual thing happening and then outro. Kinda like you would expect in an FMV game. Except the intros and outros are super long.

That said, the game is predicated on repeating the same bits and endlessly retrying different things to get different branches and endings. That makes it stand out but it also makes me feel like I am wasting time playing, because of how long it takes to get the new bit of the story.

The best thing is the production value - light, camera etc. For an FMV game it looks nice and some of the actors are quite good.

The script is horrible though. The problem is that you are meant to play several times so the first time you are trying to figure out what is going on and it doesn't make sense, which is fine. Second time everything makes sense already but it does not make sense in context - why the characters say what they say and act how they act seems out of place. Once you break the mystery, which is the first playthrough, it just becomes completely tedious.

After getting a second and third ending I figured out that there is a problem with consistency, where some of the information does not match. You could either have a game that has different settings in different playtroughs or same setting in different ones. Here it looks like it's the same, except sometimes it is not.

What made me quit, uninstall and never play again is the pointless 4 door section that takes forever to play, where 'gameplay' is watching the main character walking through doors back and forth in absolutely attrocious pace, which only highlights how SLOW the game is.

I know the WI games are trying to be deeper than they are but I would take the naivite of something like Poe and Munro over this game, that tries to pass a plot with a message instead of having a theme and sticking to it.

I struggled to care about any of the characters - playing this game made me identify with the archivist the most.

Play Shapeshifting detective instead - it's a similar theme done better.

Kinda basic horror game. Way more could be done with the setting I think. It is too much like Layers of fear when there is not much to do and you just walk forward.

Not really for me - I expected more random chatting and fishing. There was fishing but

Took me a bit of time to get into it but it's all right

I wanted to like it.
I didn't like it.
I like Bithell games. This one - is ... fine

It's all right and it has a bunch of good ideas. Not mindblowingly fun but pretty interestesting. I can recommend it.

Creative, entertaining and interesting - not very hard to play or finish.

A bit short but new and entertaining enough