As I have previously quipped, Return of the Obra Dinn is the gold standard for detective games.
Brilliant piece of investigative media. Not a single intrusion; never outright helping you along but assuring that the player does not immediately spiral into a confused, intertangled web of characters and events.
Unfortunately, Return of the Obra Dinn stumbles, hard, around the halfway point. All the pieces fell into place in rapid succession - nevertheless I still enjoyed myself, only significantly lesser when compared.
Personally I find the story's execution boring and dislike how the second-to-last accessible area is almost entirely irrelevant to the greater plot. I suppose this is a problem with telling a story non-chronologically; readers begin to assume everything is relevant and begin to invent their own fantasy of the story - causing a lot of disappointment with the reality mismatch.
Finally, the true ending of Obra Dinn is so close to being perfect. Alas, it over-explains itself. I desperately wish the game ended upon my last oh moment, the awe-horrified realization of why I had been given an amputated hand.
Brilliant piece of investigative media. Not a single intrusion; never outright helping you along but assuring that the player does not immediately spiral into a confused, intertangled web of characters and events.
Unfortunately, Return of the Obra Dinn stumbles, hard, around the halfway point. All the pieces fell into place in rapid succession - nevertheless I still enjoyed myself, only significantly lesser when compared.
Personally I find the story's execution boring and dislike how the second-to-last accessible area is almost entirely irrelevant to the greater plot. I suppose this is a problem with telling a story non-chronologically; readers begin to assume everything is relevant and begin to invent their own fantasy of the story - causing a lot of disappointment with the reality mismatch.
Finally, the true ending of Obra Dinn is so close to being perfect. Alas, it over-explains itself. I desperately wish the game ended upon my last oh moment, the awe-horrified realization of why I had been given an amputated hand.