Virtual reality threatens to be the next big thing in computing when we leave behind ugly bags made mostly of water to fulfill our dreams and desires in a fully virtual world free from limitations. I’m here.
Along with ads served by Facebook.
A story set in a world where such virtual reality exists can easily become noir. Because once you start mixing human impulses and stripping out real-world consequences, things can get very dark very quickly.not you For real Kill people, steal cars, so… go ahead.
But as the adage “delete my browser history when I die” suggests, what we want and what we want people to know about us are two very different things.and in the world of Game Decyou play a character whose job is to find dirty laundry and put it away or toss it in the incinerator so it’s never seen again.
Game Dec (short for Game Detective) is an interactive point-and-click adventure. Set in a dystopian world where the millionaires live in incredibly tall skyscrapers and the poor make their living in the toxic depths of the ocean, crime, mystery, and mystery in a vast ocean of alternate realities where most humans retreat. , earns its living by carefully investigating violations.
The first is pretty standard and vulgar. A missing teenager may have escaped into the world of age-restricted BDSM. Her husband suspects his wife is cheating on her in VR. But as the game progresses and you interact with the people you meet in the case, strange things start happening. The man falls to his death in the “realium”, but is unharmed. Mysterious clan members are obsessed with certain numbers and trees that should not appear in the game. The client forgets the previous event.
I won’t go into too many details about the game. Because, after all, it’s a mystery. Choose Investigating it is as much part of the game as discovering what happens.
Played in a top-down isometric style, GameDec roams the city’s ups and downs armed only with his skills. Skill is the most important tool in this game. As I say, the game is mostly dialogue driven. Which dialogue options you choose when interrogating people not only determines how the plot progresses, but also how your personality develops in the experience system. , and suspicious or sympathetic responses gain ‘Green’ XP. In addition to yellow and blue XP, accumulate these points to unlock new dialogue options, resolve disputes, and invest in skills/careers that lead to new information on cases.
For example, you can build hacking skills that allow you to interact with your virtual environment in useful ways. By increasing your knowledge and popularity, you can use your social media presence to convince people to give you what they want. Real-world doctor skills help diagnose motives and analyze corpses. Alternatively, characters can invoke street skills to bully mobs.
Beyond dialogue choices, your actions have a practical impact on the game. Subversive posters may gain street cred. Digging in a trash can might reveal clues, or it might smell so bad no one wants to deal with it. But not everyone wants to spend all day with you, so act and talk with caution. Some characters will cut you off if you waste your time.Criminals may be escaping while questioning witnesses.
Another aspect of the game is the deduction system. Each section of the game has a mystery and each mystery consists of several questions. What really happened, why X was killed, how X was killed, etc. However The answer will only become clear through the process of investigation. Failure to find clues or ask the right questions will lock you out of a particular solution. The game will not be interrupted (you can continue at any time), but you may get wrong or incomplete solutions.
There are some issues with the interface. GameDec uses one stick for movement and another for object/NPC selection. It’s easy to make the wrong choice if you’re not careful. In a very frustrating moment, I was unable to speak to an important character.Minute.
GameDec is an interesting game with fun mechanics for dialogue junkies like me. I also enjoy the current game tropes. One of the worlds is FarmVille clones where people might really be working to death.
If the ending was a bit unsatisfying – you made a choice and the game ended – it was Game Dec would surrender. You will get the answer, but will it make you happy? Anything else you could try?
Forget Jake, it’s Chinatown 2.0.