i binged the shit out of this game in one sitting and it took me something like 7 or 8 hours and it was a fucking blast its so addictive i could not turn off the game i was like "just one more triplet... just one more" and ended up finishing the game entirely this is so fucking weird my god
from a gameplay standpoint this is possibly the most esoteric and out there gameplay loop ive ever seen in my entire life the way in which you "play" this game is unreal honestly and though doing the whole explore the boat > discover a corpse > watch flashback animation > explore flashback > write down clues > another animation > (sometimes: unlock a new dead body in the same chapter) > rinse and repeat might have resulted into a repetitive mess and an entire slog to go through the game is structured in a way that you never lose interest in what youre doing you have to observe EVERYTHING and come to the conclusion yourself theres no one hand holding you no one doing the explanation for you its you a weird book and a weird boat and a weird story and thats it and it feels so rewarding tbh
basically the gameplay loop revolves aroung pinpointing correctly in the big crew illustration the name and the cause of death of said person . now that would be very easy if it werent for the fucking 60 crew members names and A LOT of death situations you can put in the solution like A LOT OH MY GOD when i saw that i was almost gonna drop this because it was like sensory overload like i didnt even know people could die in so many ways electrocuted ? burned alive ? tore apart by a sea monster ? the world of possibilities is neverending and all go back to death umh anyway . but lets just say that if youre very alert you can at least put most of the deaths right (some deaths i could not for the life of me figure out how these people died i swear what the fuck i dont know if its the artstyle but i could not understand what was happening they couldve all gone to a burlesque show and the performer danced and cracked her neck falling and i wouldnt know a thing) and then they ask you whats the name of the person who killed them and youre like (☉_☉) because who the fuck knows this man i dont know this man at all as for revealing the characters names theres a lot of clues they give you like nationalities uniforms jobs position on the map vicinity to some other members sometimes they even say names in the audio log of the death flashback or speak in a certain language like thats a lot of stuff to use for your enchanted necronomicon ??? umh chronology
now thing is the game uses a system that i dont know how its called but lets say its called the triplet death system so that means that logs in the book are convalidated every 3 right logs you put so basically if the blindfolded goddess of luck began to root for you somehow you can take a lucky guess on your third and the game will stop to tell you that youre a conniving and sly fucking bastard and convalidate 3 profiles . FUN
i felt this was not a game for me in the beginning because im kind of dumb puzzle games are not for me and make me feel even more stupid than i already am so this game was a surprise for how enjoyable it all is its just incredible i didnt know i could enjoy puz- puzz- sorry i cant say that word without feeling nauseous
story feels like a marginal thing because clearly the main focus is being a phantom detective with a magic clock to watch brutal murders or deaths unfold before your eyes and trying to see which sailors were having a gay affair unbeknownst to the other 58 straight people (probably none but i felt the homoerotic tension between someone in here and im not taking that back) but apart from that its just a slow and steady massacre of every fucking crew member on this joy trip and gets into some really weird monster horror stuff which i shouldve kind of expected like a sailor tale without a giant fucking kraken halving the company or weird titted mermaids trying to drown everyone on board would be weird and also... grotesque spider umh things and chinese sorcery honestly this a strange game dont look at me im trying to rationalise here
i felt like the art style was gonna make my diopters fall vertiginously but for some reason i grew accustomed to it very quickly ? unbelieavable also they do really cool stuff with particles effects and like shading or something im not that sure what i played thats the thing and also you can change the monitor to like idk macintosh or commodore and the screen will change color thats like so cool honestly how do you even think of that Acclaimed Papers Please Creator umh checks name pucas lope
anyway its great you should play it if you like tragedies like i do because life is a neverending spectacle of bad stuff and death omg sorry where did that came from lmaoooo i meant to say if you like puzzle games because youre a psycho and nobody should trust you ever
from a gameplay standpoint this is possibly the most esoteric and out there gameplay loop ive ever seen in my entire life the way in which you "play" this game is unreal honestly and though doing the whole explore the boat > discover a corpse > watch flashback animation > explore flashback > write down clues > another animation > (sometimes: unlock a new dead body in the same chapter) > rinse and repeat might have resulted into a repetitive mess and an entire slog to go through the game is structured in a way that you never lose interest in what youre doing you have to observe EVERYTHING and come to the conclusion yourself theres no one hand holding you no one doing the explanation for you its you a weird book and a weird boat and a weird story and thats it and it feels so rewarding tbh
basically the gameplay loop revolves aroung pinpointing correctly in the big crew illustration the name and the cause of death of said person . now that would be very easy if it werent for the fucking 60 crew members names and A LOT of death situations you can put in the solution like A LOT OH MY GOD when i saw that i was almost gonna drop this because it was like sensory overload like i didnt even know people could die in so many ways electrocuted ? burned alive ? tore apart by a sea monster ? the world of possibilities is neverending and all go back to death umh anyway . but lets just say that if youre very alert you can at least put most of the deaths right (some deaths i could not for the life of me figure out how these people died i swear what the fuck i dont know if its the artstyle but i could not understand what was happening they couldve all gone to a burlesque show and the performer danced and cracked her neck falling and i wouldnt know a thing) and then they ask you whats the name of the person who killed them and youre like (☉_☉) because who the fuck knows this man i dont know this man at all as for revealing the characters names theres a lot of clues they give you like nationalities uniforms jobs position on the map vicinity to some other members sometimes they even say names in the audio log of the death flashback or speak in a certain language like thats a lot of stuff to use for your enchanted necronomicon ??? umh chronology
now thing is the game uses a system that i dont know how its called but lets say its called the triplet death system so that means that logs in the book are convalidated every 3 right logs you put so basically if the blindfolded goddess of luck began to root for you somehow you can take a lucky guess on your third and the game will stop to tell you that youre a conniving and sly fucking bastard and convalidate 3 profiles . FUN
i felt this was not a game for me in the beginning because im kind of dumb puzzle games are not for me and make me feel even more stupid than i already am so this game was a surprise for how enjoyable it all is its just incredible i didnt know i could enjoy puz- puzz- sorry i cant say that word without feeling nauseous
story feels like a marginal thing because clearly the main focus is being a phantom detective with a magic clock to watch brutal murders or deaths unfold before your eyes and trying to see which sailors were having a gay affair unbeknownst to the other 58 straight people (probably none but i felt the homoerotic tension between someone in here and im not taking that back) but apart from that its just a slow and steady massacre of every fucking crew member on this joy trip and gets into some really weird monster horror stuff which i shouldve kind of expected like a sailor tale without a giant fucking kraken halving the company or weird titted mermaids trying to drown everyone on board would be weird and also... grotesque spider umh things and chinese sorcery honestly this a strange game dont look at me im trying to rationalise here
i felt like the art style was gonna make my diopters fall vertiginously but for some reason i grew accustomed to it very quickly ? unbelieavable also they do really cool stuff with particles effects and like shading or something im not that sure what i played thats the thing and also you can change the monitor to like idk macintosh or commodore and the screen will change color thats like so cool honestly how do you even think of that Acclaimed Papers Please Creator umh checks name pucas lope
anyway its great you should play it if you like tragedies like i do because life is a neverending spectacle of bad stuff and death omg sorry where did that came from lmaoooo i meant to say if you like puzzle games because youre a psycho and nobody should trust you ever