Once Upon a Crime in the West is like going to Walmart and buying the Great Value version of Return of the Obra Dinn. Now that sounds like an insult, and to some extent it clearly is one, but Return of the Obra Dinn is an all-time great game. So even a cheaper version of that formula is quite a bit of fun.
There's a really pleasant creepiness to Once Upon a Crime in the West that makes it a joy to experience. It's colorful and flat and mildly upbeat despite the impending doom of the murder mystery that you know is coming. The camera is a clear riff off of the pocket watch from Obra Dinn, but it's a formula that's pleasing anyway. I enjoyed the characters and their voice actors, which is a really impressive high point for such a diamond-in-the-rough indie game. The writing is engaging and humorous and really quite clever with the Abbott and Costello style comedy of New New Town and Old New Town.
I was disappointed by how 'little' mystery there was to solve. And how easy it was to solve it. There wasn't much backtracking or guesswork or real detective work. It was all much too straightforward. But the story itself was still enjoyable enough to experience. And that's at least half of why you're playing this sort of thing.
There's a really pleasant creepiness to Once Upon a Crime in the West that makes it a joy to experience. It's colorful and flat and mildly upbeat despite the impending doom of the murder mystery that you know is coming. The camera is a clear riff off of the pocket watch from Obra Dinn, but it's a formula that's pleasing anyway. I enjoyed the characters and their voice actors, which is a really impressive high point for such a diamond-in-the-rough indie game. The writing is engaging and humorous and really quite clever with the Abbott and Costello style comedy of New New Town and Old New Town.
I was disappointed by how 'little' mystery there was to solve. And how easy it was to solve it. There wasn't much backtracking or guesswork or real detective work. It was all much too straightforward. But the story itself was still enjoyable enough to experience. And that's at least half of why you're playing this sort of thing.
I fucking adore murder mysteries. They're just so addicting and interesting to me because I genuinely gotta look for every detail and that's great.
Once Upon a Crime in The West starts with like 7 characters dead on a big shootout, and you get to see the 12 days prior to the event and how everything unfolded with a characteristic style. Every character has their own accent and color to better identify them
There's for example this scottish guy that most people don't understand because they use other toned accents and words so he has a friend that translates for him and I adore that. I love to see accents being used in videogames and having subtitles accomodate that. It immerses me into a world where I also don't quite know unless I'm scottish myself or something like that, and It's genuinely great. This character was one of my favorites because the way he was handled was really well and had a lot of depth.
I don't want to spoil much because the game is like 2 hours max, but it was a treat and I loved every single second of it.
Once Upon a Crime in The West starts with like 7 characters dead on a big shootout, and you get to see the 12 days prior to the event and how everything unfolded with a characteristic style. Every character has their own accent and color to better identify them
There's for example this scottish guy that most people don't understand because they use other toned accents and words so he has a friend that translates for him and I adore that. I love to see accents being used in videogames and having subtitles accomodate that. It immerses me into a world where I also don't quite know unless I'm scottish myself or something like that, and It's genuinely great. This character was one of my favorites because the way he was handled was really well and had a lot of depth.
I don't want to spoil much because the game is like 2 hours max, but it was a treat and I loved every single second of it.