One I had a lead, I was heading off to another country courtesy of the flight booking system called Horus (noticing a pattern?).
Enduring A Shoot-OutĪfter solving the first cryptic puzzle, you befriend a librarian, which the initial promo material made mention of your choice of associates. On that basis, I absolutely love this approach.
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Surely most of us do that anyway when we’ve played a game that touches on a point of interest such as an Assassin’s Creed title motivating that inner historian in you, or learning how to choke someone out after playing UFC 3.īut the difference here is that unless you know your Herodotus quotes off-by-heart (that Assassin’s Creed reference feels more relevant), you’re going to need to be proactive in your research. That said, what Chinatown Detective Agency Day One encourages you to do is actual research using the internet. One of the key mechanics of Chinatown Detective Agency is that it requires the player to figure things out on their own.
Once I got that, it was intuitive.Īfter meeting with the client and investigating my first few clues, I entered a library with a tooltip that said: There was zero explanation on what to do, but clicking on a row of squares soon morphed into a memory game. Once leaving the detective office, I had to hack my way into a system so that I could meet with my client – a competence test if you will. However, that assessment of clutter soon changed as the placement of world maps, a hotkey to the internet, mission log and more, was placed well and made the world easy to interact with. With the sound off, I was able to concentrate on the introduction of the first case and finding my way around the initially cluttered UI. Still, the music… even as I write this, I feel like I’ve left Spotify on as the up-tempo track with the setting of a PI office shooting the shit is totally out of place, even if the music is excellent. It’s just as well, the voice acting isn’t up-to-speed and could probably we could have got away with text only. Fortunately, the text appears on the screen. Still, not being able to hear the voice talent was a bit of an oversight. It’s a shame as the soundtrack is like a Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross collaboration and I don’t doubt for one second that The Social Network score played its part. Clicking on the settings only changes the language with zero option for audio adjustments. Unfortunately, we’re sticking with the sound in Chinatown Detective Agency Day One for the wrong reasons as the music is way too overpowering and impossible to hear the spoken dialogue. Alas, the narration lets it down a little and feels a little too disconnected from what’s being shown on screen. The opening of the game looked the part, like an animated version of The Darkside Detective, only with a more cyberpunk feel.
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