Wonderfully engaging games that I ended up beating in a single sitting today. I was not expecting to enjoy this as much as I did, but on reflection it is understandable because I really loved 80 Days, another inkle game. This is a series of choose your own adventure book turned video game, and the sheer amount of different choices you can make is staggering. There's a lot of paths to take which adds a lot of replayability. Part 2 even has a built in time travel mechanic that allows you to take different paths while keeping your items and clues to solve the mystery. And I noticed many of the decisions I took in part 1 affected me a lot during 2. I look forward to seeing how all the dumb shit I did comes back to bite me in the ass on Sorcery 3. Presentation is nice, I liked the maps and the drawings every now and then that illustrated different locations and characters, they have a very unique style that is very striking. My biggest complaint is that part 2 kinda drags. I wanted to solve the mystery, so I had to fuck around the city about 4 times, and see a lot of the same stuff more than once. I appreciate how different it feels from part 1, and there was a lot of cool stuff to see in Khare. Maybe I wouldn't have felt it as bad if I hadn't played through both games in one sitting, but oh well. Also the combat isn't great, but very tolerable. It's mostly a guessing game but there's enough clues to kinda know what you're doing.

Reviewed on Oct 24, 2022


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