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WhiteHowler posted:Okay, true, it's what you're lead to believe happened until the very end. But still, kidnapped Seowon had the same name as deceased baby Seowon, unless I really missed something. Same first name, different last names. The confusion is intentional within the story too; the reason Seowon got kidnapped is that Minyeong was already wandering around the playgrounds looking for her daughter after the school notice worsened her delusions, and upon hearing a child being called "Seowon" who had no visible guardian (because the caretaker was out of sight due to the stuff on their side) immediately concluded she had found her and took her home (to literally everyone's dismay).
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Nick Buntline posted:Same first name, different last names. The confusion is intentional within the story too; the reason Seowon got kidnapped is that Minyeong was already wandering around the playgrounds looking for her daughter after the school notice worsened her delusions, and upon hearing a child being called "Seowon" who had no visible guardian (because the caretaker was out of sight due to the stuff on their side) immediately concluded she had found her and took her home (to literally everyone's dismay). Okay, that makes a bit more sense explained that way. We didn't get the Reasons to suspect Seowon's mother unlocked until the very, very end, so for most of the story we thought the English teacher/ex-husband was responsible -- even when we figured out he didn't take a random kid for the ransom money, we thought he did it at the behest of his ex-wife who had become delusional with grief.
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cant cook creole bream posted:I liked between horizons. The setting is fun and the puzzles were all quite well done. Except for one of them, which felt like I was missing a crucial mechanic and therefore messed up. I’ve heard the translation is pretty rough though.
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theblackw0lf posted:I’ve heard the translation is pretty rough though. I found it alright, a few stray typos but otherwise fine. There was an Update which specifically improved the English translation a few days ago. That probably fixed the glaring issues before they came up for me. Some scenes are voice-acted and since some of them are set in London, they actually have some voiced English scenes. Those are heavily accented, but that makes perfect sense in-universe. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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https://x.com/keke_094/status/1773478581248922079?s=20 Oh gently caress this is the most lit thing I've seen in videogames in maybe the past decade?
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touch detective loving rules and its a shame the first two games never really got a lot of attention back on the DS (leading to us initially not getting the third). Hoping this release gets more people interested in the trilogy 
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New Nancy Drew is announced dropping next month. My wife got me into them and we’re psyched it looks good. The Nancy Drew community is losing their collective poo poo. https://youtu.be/5B_nRAyXtzQ?si=pBIL8kXkNcfswmmJ
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islands of insight not going out without a fight, new content added today
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Cardamommy Issues posted:New Nancy Drew is announced dropping next month. My wife got me into them and we’re psyched it looks good. The Nancy Drew community is losing their collective poo poo. Jesus, that company was supposed be dead in the water. 70% of the staff has been gone since 2015, Her has always been in the red, and Midnight in Salem didn't sell great. I know the company was supposed to have some kind of big anonymous investor but I was sure they'd gone too overbudget to pay the bills by now.
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You’d think their company was 1 social media person and some unpaid interns the way they’ve been acting the last couple of years. They used to pump out two games a year so nobody thought this new game would ever materialize after they cut the team loose.
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Yeah, I’m more than a little concerned that they spread themselves thin, especially with the number of suspects in the trailer. The voice direction seems about as bad as Midnight in Salem’s was, even the normally good Brittany Cox sounded flat here compared to Lani Minella’s Nancy. Still gonna play it, just going in with lowered expectations.
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Stayed up way too late tonight finishing up The Roottrees are Dead. Incredibly enjoyable, though I did need a nudge when I started to run out of momentum somewhere around 30-35 family members identified and another nudge to lock the last pieces in before the big "final question" (which I already knew the answer to, that part was fine). Can't wait for the remade/remastered version, the AI art definitely caused some headaches and made identifying some people a lot harder than it probably needed to be. Definitely going to be a day one purchase.
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Hey! Just cross-posting from the classic adventure thread, after I was pointed this way. (Apologies - I'm on my phone right now!)Major Isoor posted:Hey there! As I've recently played through the rerelease of Blade Runner on Steam, I've regained the itch for a classic investigation/adventure games. I've been out of the loop for a long time, however the main thing I remember from the classic P&Cs is that so many of them involved focusing on pixel-hunting for tiny items and backtracking endlessly, due to finding key #42 which unlocks a door near the start, giving you safe combination #12 towards the end, which has a false back revealing a secret compartment that also has a false back (requiring a walkthrough to notice) which contains the handle to a broken lever in some other section of the game, etc. etc. I've played Disco Elysium of course, which was amazing - but if anyone has any other investigation game picks, I'd greatly appreciate it!
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Pure investigation I would strongly recommend return of the obra finn. For questioning and investigating, Contradiction is a fun fmv romp. The centennial case I haven't played but I believe also falls into the latter category
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Major Isoor posted:Hey! Just cross-posting from the classic adventure thread, after I was pointed this way. (Apologies - I'm on my phone right now!) Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments The Roottrees are Dead Hypnospace Outlaw Shadows of Doubt if you don't mind janky early access
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Oh interesting, I recall seeing Obra Dinn a while back, but didn't realise it was that type of game at all. I'll check out your suggestions, thanks!
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OP is somewhat dated but has good suggestions.
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Major Isoor posted:Hey! Just cross-posting from the classic adventure thread, after I was pointed this way. (Apologies - I'm on my phone right now!) I'm currently playing Pentiment since it came out on PS4, and I love it! I also adored Obra Dinn, and Paradise Killer was my favorite game of 2020, although that requires a bit of basic platforming, etc.
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Megazver posted:OP is somewhat dated but has good suggestions. Anything I should add?
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Snooze Cruise posted:Anything I should add? Unheard: Voices of Crime https://store.steampowered.com/app/942970/Unheard__Voices_of_Crime/ The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass https://store.steampowered.com/app/1432500/The_Sekimeiya_Spun_Glass/ Judgement and Lost Judgement https://store.steampowered.com/app/2058180/Judgment/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2058190/Lost_Judgment/ The Roottrees are Dead https://store.steampowered.com/app/2754380/The_Roottrees_are_Dead/ Overboard https://store.steampowered.com/app/1546920/Overboard/ Painscreek Killings https://store.steampowered.com/app/624270/The_Painscreek_Killings/ Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective https://store.steampowered.com/app/1967430/Ghost_Trick_Phantom_Detective/
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Major Isoor posted:Oh interesting, I recall seeing Obra Dinn a while back, but didn't realise it was that type of game at all. I'll check out your suggestions, thanks! You gotta play Obra Dinn, Major. Drop everything and play it
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As one of probably not very many people who completed The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass, I think it's a pretty neat experience, but with a couple of caveats: - There's not very much actual gameplay in it, it's largely a visual novel with very few branching choices. Most of the interactivity comes down to a quiz near the end of the game before they start explaining everything (the quiz doesn't actually affect anything, it's just for fun to see how well you managed to figure out the plot. Speaking of which...) - The story sacrifices characterization, theme, pacing, tension, drama, pretty much everything that makes a story a story in order to weave its elegantly complex ontological mystery. It is a very good puzzle box of a plot if that's what you're looking for, with an explanation that mostly ties up everything neatly at the end of the game, but if you're not interested in the personality-free narrator bringing everything to a screeching halt every few minutes to bloviate another convoluted theory at you that's immediately disproven by the next scene, this may not be the one for you.
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Inadequately posted:As one of probably not very many people who completed The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass, I think it's a pretty neat experience, but with a couple of caveats: adding to this its also pretty long. hltb has it at ~40-50 hours. i quit after 4 1/2 and hadnt finished chapter 1 despite being a fast reader.
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i've just finished the first case of https://store.steampowered.com/app/2128480/Staffer_Case_A_Supernatural_Mystery_Adventure/, and it seems like some good stuff. the game is not new, but the english translation is.
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The new Nancy Drew game doesn’t appear to be launching on Steam. They’re going with their old service that removes your ability to redownload it after a certain period of time lol. Just charge $5 more for a Steam version and make more money from a much wider audience bing bong so simple. Edit- oooh they’ve added an option to switch between a fixed camera “click edge of the screen to move” style and a “walk around in a 3D space” style that’s interesting.
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Baffling choice. Maybe they ate a lot of refunds from the last game on steam?
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Duck Detective released. Two hours long, short and sweet. Comes with a story mode toggle if you get stuck. Couldn't figure out the safe combination, so here it is for reference: twoonefour https://store.steampowered.com/app/2637990/Duck_Detective_The_Secret_Salami/
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Duck Detective, Paper Trail, and Isles of Sea and Sky are in a bundle for 28% off! That's a pretty dang good deal
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Obra Dinn is also discounted on Steam, btw. So I've taken the opportunity to pick it up, seeing as everyone here recommended it to me earlier. Gotta get Pentiment and a bunch of others too, for that matter. Although I'm hoping I can hold out until the sale in around a month, since I've accumulated a respectable list of P&C adventures/mysteries to buy now
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Buy several additional copies of Obra Dinn. You're going to want to save all of them for last, because you will want too try to capture the feeling of your first playthrough, and that playthrough is going to harm your perception of all similar games that come afterward. It's very good, is what I'm saying.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2527600/The_Detective_Reaper_Invites/ This looks interesting, lying door puzzles but in a roguelite form with murder mystery coating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5icNaPuIpo
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Mimic Logic is also basically the same thing, except vaguely RPG themed instead of card driven roguelite themed.
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Yeah I have mimic logic, its cute. Personally I could play a million games that are just lying door puzzles lol.
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Gave up and refunded Little Locked Rooms. The concept is good, trying to figure out the method by looking at a diorama of the scene. But it's too linear and they just hand you the clues in the one blob, where Golden Idol makes you gather them first. There's also a scoring system which docks you for wrong answers. This is counter-intuitive because the entire point of detective-work is eliminating the irelevant details one-by-one in the search for the truth. The player needs to have a greater degree of agency than what's offered.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Duck Detective released. I found Duck Detective a bit disappointing. The writing for characters and dialogue was great and funny, but the mystery execution and mechanics were a lot clunkier than The Roottrees Are Dead, Golden Idol or Obra Dinn - there were a lot of places where it wasn’t clear what I was being asked to figure out, or where I ended up doing trial and error because there just weren’t good clues to work with. There also seemed to be a few times that a clue was given in a cutscene with no way to go back and reference it. It was generally fun, but there were just too many absolutely frustrating “how am I supposed to figure this out” that didn’t seem as common as in any other fill-in-the-blank game.
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One of the games showed earlier today at the Gurellia Collective Very low stakes encyclopedia brown detective game. Looks neat.
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I gotta say, purely speaking to terminology, I'm getting sick of the word "cozy".
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Discendo Vox posted:I gotta say, purely speaking to terminology, I'm getting sick of the word "cozy". oh i hate it too lol. which annoys me to no end because like a third of the time a game uses that word i am like, oh no, this is actually something i would play, lmao. it feels like folks just moved onto cozy after people realize everyone was starting to find, wholesome, tiresome.
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“Cozy” was great when it meant indie games that emphasized friendly and detailed NPCs, cottagecore aesthetic, and non-demanding game play. Now it just means “please buy this game”
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