Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases

(SPOILER! )The game is fine the mechanism is a bit tedious but ok. However Poirot was not a law and order guy, he was a people person and would have handled a lot the situations very differently, with manners or so to speak. Also he would not condemned a case of justified self defense like it was some bad thing. He is always graceful and cares about true justice. I dislike how this story makes him out to be some ordinary police who goes around shouting 'the law the law'.

本作剧本是原创的，在保证玩家交互感的前提下，案件质量不错，把波洛早期在比利时当警察时的青涩和后日转向个人侦探的过程描写地很好。 推理玩法方面，本作底层逻辑跟前作《ABC谋杀案》是类似的，都是通过与角色对话或调查环境中的物品来获得线索。但不同之处在于，前作是将大问题转化为多个小问题，提供选择题向玩家提问。本作是在思维导图中将可能存在联系的线索进行连线，慢慢推导出二级线索，直至得到最终结论，相当于把问题分解得更细了。另外对话线索的占比相当之高，与环境线索的比例是64开甚至是73开，大部分游戏时间都是在与角色进行对话。由此还衍生出了嘴炮玩法，根据不同角色的性格特点，选择选项击破心理防御才能获得线索/秘密，结局的导向也建立在嘴炮成功与否上。另外本质上，《ABC谋杀案》其实是一款披着侦探游戏皮的ADV，有不少独立的、游离于剧情之外的puzzle小游戏；而本作则是一款真正的侦探游戏，有且只有推理一个玩法。 思维导图式的问题分解、嘴炮玩法的设计和剧情我都觉得不错，但是我仍然无法对本作给出好评。除了人物移动速度过慢之外，最大的问题是思维导图的线索连线缺乏逻辑以及获得对话线索的过程太过武断。 首先是线索的连线缺乏确定性逻辑，可能这一处是将相似的线索连线，另一处又是将矛盾的线索连线，整个游戏都没有一个统一的连线推断标准，甚至不少连线可以说是无厘头。我个人很多时候基本只能靠线索本身在思维导图里位置来连线，靠得比较近，或是处于横屏竖直位置上的线索更有可能连在一起。如果还连不上就只能连续失败3次等游戏提示，游玩挫败感很强。这绝对不是我缺乏推理能力，我看B站主播谜之声还有其他几个UP的实况视频基本也是类似的，连线很多时候全靠猜。推理玩法核心就是线索连线，但无疑本作是搞砸了。 线索本身的获得过程也很武断。比如一些从对话获得的线索，游戏会自动从原始对话将其整理出来，但光看对话部分线索是非常隐晦的，甚至到了我完全不觉得线索一定成立的程度，逻辑链的发起点是存在问题的。 比如，从Zak的对话可知他跟少校互相不对付，两人在战场上曾交战过，以及认为少校凭着军衔目中无人。结果思维导图里这个对话被直接总结为“Zak认为少校瞧不起他是因为class divide”（阶级差距），为什么不可能是战争的原因呢？实在是太过武断，后续剧情里也确实证明两人不对付的真正原因正是战争中发生的事件，而不是两人的阶级差距。这个线索单纯是为了和另一个线索连线生生造出来的。 类似的例子非常多，我玩到中后期都有一点放弃推理角色的对话了，都是直接照着思维导图连线。 总的来说，本作推理玩法的逻辑链发起点有问题，逻辑链本身也是断的，这两个缺点对一款推理游戏来说是致命的。个人不推荐推理迷尝试，游玩体验确实不佳，而若是剧情党，或许去B站云一云会是更好的选择。 PS：觉得有帮助的话可以康康我的[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44921690] 个人鉴赏家 [/url]与[url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/mylonelycabin] 群组 [/url]

Dumb logic connections, forced to watch long cutscenes that just replay the information I theoretically had to deduce. Forced to walk around scenes back and forth. Nice visuals. No subtitles (that I could find)

I picked up this game because I generally like Microids games and love a good mystery and Agatha's work. Overall, it's a solid title but only if you enjoy JUST simple adventure game. The story puts you in the shoes of a young Hercule Poirot. He gets invited to a lavish, remote mansion for an engagement party with the wealthy Van den Bosch family. A sudden snowstorm traps everyone inside, someone gets murdered, and you have to dig through everyone's dark secrets to catch the killer. From there, it's all about interrogating guests and uncovering thier secrets. The art style is pretty nice, though the top-down perspective took a bit of getting used to. My main problem with the gameplay is that I expected more actual searching and investigating. ;// The deduction system is extremely easy, which might disappoint you if you're looking for a real puzzle-solving challenge. The upside? It makes for a very easy 100% achievement completion. I really liked that you can go completely at your own pace. It took me about 10 hours to finish because I only played a couple of chapters a day. I was enjoying the atmosphere and just didn't want to rush through it. The voice acting was surprisingly good, which made one technical bug even more annoying: during cutscenes, the audio ran fine, but the video kept lagging (??) way behind the voices, throwing off the timing. It was veeery annoying :( All in all, the cutscene bug is annoying and it won't challenge your brain ;)), but it's still a fun, light mystery game. Worth a try.

1.2 hours to convince me that i'd rather be reading the books and feeling clever instead of connecting the dots and feeling deranged and stupid

I played this game for about 8 hours in 2023, but it frustrated me too much to continue. I came back determined to finish it and, to be honest, I should have just left it alone. There are parts of this I quite enjoyed. The characters are interesting and the voice acting is well done. Large parts of the plot are intriguing and engaging, though the ending wasn't the sort I generally enjoy. The problem with this game was, unfortunately, the gameplay. Like many detective games, this uses a mind-map system for solving the mysteries and, like many detective games, it has its issues. There is a particular layout to the mind-map that, once you spot it, makes 'solving' things more a question of connecting literal dots than figuring things out. This can be something that you ignore or work past, but what annoyed me most was that often I would have to make what felt like obvious and unnecessary connections in order to get to the conclusions I had already reached. One key instance of this was what made me drop the game 3 years ago. As a story, it's perfectly fine. As a game, it falls short.

Hübsch gemacht und liebevolle Grafik, recht passend. Umso mehr schade, dass das Rätseln & Kombinieren bzw das Weiterkommen sehr starr ist.. Man kommt nicht einen Schritt weiter, kann nicht mit den Personen sprechen, wenn eine Kombination noch nicht zusammengefügt wurde, und davon gibt es viele.. Noch schlimmer, diese sind oft nicht nachvollziehbar.. Bsp aus dem Prolog: Etwas wird aus einem Haus gestohlen, anstatt direkt rein zu gehen um die Bewohner zu befragen und danach eventuell das Haus außen zu begutachten, schlendert man erstmal paar Minuten an jede Ecke und guckt sich Schnitzereien an Bank & Pavillon an, man MUSS auch alles abklappern, sonst kommt man nicht weiter.. erst DANN darf man ins Haus und was dabei rausgekommen ist auch nichts... Schöne Aufmachung aber leider nicht viel dahinter und zieht sich. Krimi sieht anders aus.

the game is monotonous and the gameplay is constantly the same, quite boring unfortunately. The most frustrating part though, is connecting the clues in the mind map. Nearly half of the combinations make absolutely no sense and leave you frustrated because there is no objective way to know two seemingly random and completely different points are connected.