Alternate Jake Hunter: DAEDALUS The Awakening of Golden Jazz

Alternate Jake Hunter: DAEDALUS The Awakening of Golden Jazz

released on May 23, 2019

Alternate Jake Hunter: DAEDALUS The Awakening of Golden Jazz

released on May 23, 2019

The latest addition of the Detective Saburo Jinguji, a hard-boiled adventure series that boasts a 30-year history. The adventure will intrigue newcomers, and delight longtime fans. Jinguji's adolescence is explored in this never before told origin story! This is the story about the creation of Jinguji Saburo and his humble beginnings. And yet, young Jinguji Saburo who is alone in the world takes up the gauntlet for himself and for his late grandfather!


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Like some of the other games in the series, Daedalus has a pretty solid mystery shackled to gameplay that tests your commitment to finish it.

This Saburo Jinguji entry (under his original name here, rather than "Jake Hunter") ditches menu-based adventure gaming for a 360-degree camera view, liberal point-and-click investigation, a conversation mechanic, multiple endings... all of which I appreciated. But the implementation was seriously lacking. The UI appears to be trapped inside of a soap bubble. Some of the elucidation sections were poorly worded, if not completely opaque. And there was a persistent problem with options that should be possible to investigate in any order apparently being implemented linearly. E.g. Saburo says "I need to investigate the hardware store and the church," going to either of those locations has him act as if he is supposed to be there, but the conversation at the hardware store will not trigger until you've seen the one at the church, even though there is no logical relation between them. Lots of little things that made a decent story kind of a slog.

Anyway, I got this on sale for PS4 for $6, and at that price it was an enjoyable enough experience, believe it or not.

Was a fun game, felt like the story moved slowly and then kind of rushed to wrap itself up at the end. One single trophy eludes me because it won't trigger no matter how many times I fulfill its conditions, so that's frustrating as I'm soooo close to platinum for this one.

I really wanted it to click with me, but the weird pacing, the gameplay, the character, the humor, nothing is on point.
I got to the first real chapter thinking sure, i can stand this, and 40 minutes later of me just jumping from one location to another, doing absolutely nothing, while the mystery was pretty much solved at the first few minutes killed any interest i could have had in the game

I'm very mixed on this game. Daedalus has to be my FAVORITE game art wise, and it's aesthetics are amazing. Soundtrack is alright too. But the issues come with the story in this game. It feels like it's going somewhere but it just falls apart at the end. It feels very unfocused and badly done, which is a huge shame, as this could have been promising. The gameplay can be kind of clunky too, but I can give that a pass.
I'd reccomend getting this on a sale or checking out the other MUCH BETTER games in the series (Jake Hunter Ghost of the Dusk and Jake Hunter Memories of the Past).