Lucifer Within Us

Lucifer Within Us

released on Oct 15, 2020

Lucifer Within Us

released on Oct 15, 2020

You are a digital exorcist, seeing beyond this reality into alternate timelines of the accused. Solve murders, purify the possessed, and purge their daemons.


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Un juego que recuerda a las partes de investigación de Ace Attorney con algo de mejora, ya que además de recoger cosas por el lugar del crimen, puedes interrogar y desmontar las líneas temporales de los sospechosos de un forma visual e interesante.

El problema viene de todo lo demás: parece la introducción a un juego más largo tanto por su baja dificultad como por su exabrupto final, historia sin interés con un giro final más gracioso que inteligente (el juego no intenta ser gracioso) y algunas pistas finales que pueden resultar poco intuitivas (la última media hora de juego he estado buscando nuevas piezas porque pensaba que tenía que seguir la investigación cuando ya tenía todo para terminar).

Es corto, sí, y también resulta algo interesante su forma de tratar los casos, pero el resto de problemas no permiten que aprecie ni el juego ni de su extraña ¿cristiano-futurista? historia.

This game is wasted potential. And it's really sad.
There is a great foundation, both in mystery solving gameplay, great visual style and interesting world.

But it's not a complete game. It feels at most like a demo, or a prologue to the actual game.
The cases feels like tutorials, with them all being relatively simple and easy to solve. They were somewhat brought down by some very weird visual spoilers that happen during all the cases, which spoil the killer before you're even done solving the case.
Still, they were fun enough to play through, as an introduction to the world and mechanics, but I was excited to get to the ACTUAL mysteries.

And then the game ended.

A detective game where my head didn't explode and felt clever enough is good in my book

Similar to an Ace Attorney game, but you cross-examine multiple testimonies at once and order of events is pretty emphasized. I feel like it needs a lot of pulishing and clarity, apart from more content (you can complete the game in less than 2 hours), but the idea and lore are interesting.

It was better than I expected. I had read that it was more like a demo than a game and took less than an hour to beat. With those expectations I still bought it and was very pleasantly surprised.
The mysteries were interesting, the mechanics solid, and it took me almost 3 hours. There were some annoying spots where I got stuck on mechanics I didn't understand or contradictions that I either tried at the wrong time or that didn't seem like contradictions at all based on my reading. All in all though, I am glad I tried it.

This could have been a great game, it brings a lot of good ideas in terms of gameplay and story but it's brought down by the length of the game, it barely feels like a demo of a game rather than the full game itself and it's quite sad because it had a lot of potential. The game also ends on a cliffhanger which a bummer since it has not sequel.