Xexx
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Murdered Soul Suspect
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Hope it's an ok game!
Vorph
Silver Baronet of the Realm
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IGN's review scored it a 5.5. I don't trust IGN much (especially considering some retard there gave Drakengard 3 a 4.8 just recently) but it's about the same everywhere else so far too. Worse still, they all say the same things: very short and completely on rails with only one ending, extremely easy to the point that you simply cannot fail the investigations, awful stealth/combat sections, tiny "open world" map, etc. The only difference of opinion seems to be whether or not the story is any good.
This was a game I was really looking forward to, but after the disappointment of Beyond: Two Souls last fall I decided to wait and see how it turned out. It's unfortunate, if the reviews are right, but the whole concept seemed extremely ambitious for that studio. Square Enix hasn't really done any promotion for the game either, so there were a lot of warning bells there too.
This was a game I was really looking forward to, but after the disappointment of Beyond: Two Souls last fall I decided to wait and see how it turned out. It's unfortunate, if the reviews are right, but the whole concept seemed extremely ambitious for that studio. Square Enix hasn't really done any promotion for the game either, so there were a lot of warning bells there too.
Vaclav
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Sitting in my car for the evening(lots of appointments today), I'm hoping the bad reviews are just a case of reviewers without an affinity for it. (since its really not a defined genre from the looks LA Noire is closest and that was almost completely unique)
New genres are a good thing, will be really disappointed if this flunks out.
New genres are a good thing, will be really disappointed if this flunks out.
Vaclav
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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About 1-2 hrs in so far, it's very much investigation - almost entirely - not enjoying it too much personally, it's a change of pace, but to something I'm not really too keen on personally.
Reminds me alot of old "Myst" style games in fact, basically just searching everywhere for everything then some minor puzzling.
It's probably OK for a narrow type of person - unfortunately, I'm not one.
Reminds me alot of old "Myst" style games in fact, basically just searching everywhere for everything then some minor puzzling.
It's probably OK for a narrow type of person - unfortunately, I'm not one.
Vorph
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I love point and click adventures, Fahrenheit/Heavy Rain, L.A. Noire, etc. and this game is not doing a thing for me.
The gameplay is like if you took L.A. Noire and removed the driving and guns, replaced them with 5 times as many dumb collectibles, then also removed any possibility of failure. I understand why the pre-order bonus was a cheater map for all that shit; the city isn't even that big and there's like 240 things to collect. The 'puzzles' are like being given a multiple choice quiz with 7 answers, 5 of which could technically be considered correct, and you're expected to pick the 3 'most correct' ones. I made a couple mistakes early on by overthinking things, before I realized that the solutions really are just braindead easy.
Can't judge the story yet but I'm not terribly optimistic based on the fact that the killer seems to be superhuman/supernatural.
The gameplay is like if you took L.A. Noire and removed the driving and guns, replaced them with 5 times as many dumb collectibles, then also removed any possibility of failure. I understand why the pre-order bonus was a cheater map for all that shit; the city isn't even that big and there's like 240 things to collect. The 'puzzles' are like being given a multiple choice quiz with 7 answers, 5 of which could technically be considered correct, and you're expected to pick the 3 'most correct' ones. I made a couple mistakes early on by overthinking things, before I realized that the solutions really are just braindead easy.
Can't judge the story yet but I'm not terribly optimistic based on the fact that the killer seems to be superhuman/supernatural.
RobXIII
Urinal Cake Consumption King
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I'm having an ...ok time. I LOVE the concept, but they couldve done so much with it. Collections and side stories are just average, the engine runs well enough but feels 'loose' in that my character hitches and gets stuck pretty easy.
I've encountered a few bugs already too, latest one I had to posses someone to get past a ground obstacle, that person then pathed incorrectly and got stuck in a wall, had to reload that one.
Ive been playing 7 hours slowly (so about 4 hours for an average gamer), and it's 90% collection, with the rest being really braindead investigations. With no way to fail. I could be playing the chinese version and still click my way through it.
Again though, I love the concept, and to steal a line from every sub-par MMO "It has potential"
Xexx
Vyemm Raider
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I dont own any last gen systems anymore so im pretty eager for a good game to release. Unfortunately this is not that game.
Vorph
Silver Baronet of the Realm
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No, not at all. This could easily have been my GOTY if it was done by a competent studio.