This whole game was just a yikes, I'm sorry... really rough and poor experience
It wasn't all bad. I liked that to find certain items of evidence you needed to rotate the room and look at it from different angles.
Thats where the positivity ends though. The writing start to finish is so bare bones. All the dialogue is just exposition and case details, none of the characters have any nuance or layers to them.
It is also a REALLY ugly looking game. The main character in particular has eyes that are not centered and rolled up to her head. All the character models in general are poor. Some are just copy pasted and they slapped a mustache on them. They have no emotion or differing facial features.
The presentation all around is just poor. If there is music in the game I cannot hear it at all. The mixing is so bad that even when you turn the volume to the max you still barely hear it. And there are hardly any sound effects to begin with. No voice acting.
The rooms themselves have ok detail but they did the bare minimum: they reuse the exact same rooms for several levels, with the same set pieces and items tossed around even if they are not relavent.
The investigative work is also poor. The presentation on it is non existent just a blank screen with the text and then you connect correlating pieces of evidence with lines.
They really made zero attempt at all to make investigating take effort. If there is an incriminating piece of info you need, it is always right next to the suspect in the garbage or just on their table in plain view. And sometimes you just rifle through someone's bag right in front of their face with no ramifications or issues at all.
The whole game just feels lazy and uninspired. I don't dislike most games I play, but this one was just really bad. It has a good skeleton for a game somewhere but there is no meat or substance at all. Skip this one and stay far away.
It wasn't all bad. I liked that to find certain items of evidence you needed to rotate the room and look at it from different angles.
Thats where the positivity ends though. The writing start to finish is so bare bones. All the dialogue is just exposition and case details, none of the characters have any nuance or layers to them.
It is also a REALLY ugly looking game. The main character in particular has eyes that are not centered and rolled up to her head. All the character models in general are poor. Some are just copy pasted and they slapped a mustache on them. They have no emotion or differing facial features.
The presentation all around is just poor. If there is music in the game I cannot hear it at all. The mixing is so bad that even when you turn the volume to the max you still barely hear it. And there are hardly any sound effects to begin with. No voice acting.
The rooms themselves have ok detail but they did the bare minimum: they reuse the exact same rooms for several levels, with the same set pieces and items tossed around even if they are not relavent.
The investigative work is also poor. The presentation on it is non existent just a blank screen with the text and then you connect correlating pieces of evidence with lines.
They really made zero attempt at all to make investigating take effort. If there is an incriminating piece of info you need, it is always right next to the suspect in the garbage or just on their table in plain view. And sometimes you just rifle through someone's bag right in front of their face with no ramifications or issues at all.
The whole game just feels lazy and uninspired. I don't dislike most games I play, but this one was just really bad. It has a good skeleton for a game somewhere but there is no meat or substance at all. Skip this one and stay far away.