
Become the detective in this free prologue for Chinatown Detective Agency. Amira Darma is new to the PI game, and you’ll need to use real-world detective skills to help her solve cases, manage her agency and unravel a global conspiracy in this globetrotting neo-noir mystery.
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It's cyberpunk SG: what's not to love? It's future SG: things aren't going too well, and the state's in a period of decline. You're a PI, striking out on your own after amicably leaving the police. Your former boss hooks you up with a contact, and off you go PI-ing. Gameplay draws you in. The visuals are intoxicatingly pixelled; your headspace gets into a cyberpunkish 80s-90s, and the art direction is really good. Some of the skylines are simply amazing, I'm always impressed by the small details in the art. Character portraits pop visually and give a lot of characterisation to them. VA helps too: I'm really impressed by Justin's VA? It's just really nice to hear a SG accent lah. Wish there was more of it. What I would really want for the full game is more detail in the background shots and interactables in general: a full detective experience. Instead of having to google stuff, make me pick up and keep and examine clues as well -- that does a lot. It would also help expand the backstory and the setting of the story: I simply love the attempts to characterise the setting through the art and the writing, but not being able to say, in Bedok, click on the HDBs in the background or other background elements and learn more about the setting, or Amira's thoughts on the setting, takes a lot out of storytelling and context building opportunities. More background stuff! More doodads! more stuff to interact with! The hacking minigame isn't bad, but more diverse puzzles could be helpful? Or, if it was a unified system of hacking, since the hacking puzzle at the Botanic Gardens and the hacking puzzle at the end are totally different. Clues provided are either obvious (the last puzzle) or kinda hard (the first); I remember being stuck because I didn't understand what was being asked of me. Sometimes, things are bit cumbersome: I remember not being able to access the "evidence" menu at some points where I want to do that, but not exactly where. Phone seems kinda unuseful; emails are back at the office, calls don't do anything (for now) --> maybe it shouldn't be there unless we "take out" the phone, and using a bare-bones app menu to text, or call, or whatever (and we can read emails on the move) would be better? Time flowing is at once a source of pressure but also a source of bewilderment. The last level was supposed to be 16th of that month, but due to time ticking on I did it on the 21 of month. If time is such a pressure, it needs to be able to be paused while doing google searches for information, or it'll run out of control. Time also needs to matter in that when it gets too late (e.g. 0000 at the national library) something needs to happen. I look forward to the game, though. I love its premise and setting, and I'm confident the execution will perform.
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美术玩玩全全是我的菜,但这个字符显示不全我是真的不能忍,没玩多久我就给差评太严苛了,但拜托就算是中文试玩也走走心吧
A nice Carmen Sandiego-styled game with an interesting investigation mechanic where you use Google to research history, cities etc to solve the clues. The story seems interesting if not linear so far. Look forward to seeing more. FYI there is a autosave mechanic after you solve each of the cases.
Promising demo for an old style point and click detective game. It's comparable to the Where in ... is Carmen Sandiego titles, meaning you'll have to look up some clues to find the right answers, too. Great setting, pixelart and soundtrack! Good voice acting. One thing I hope the full game will have is a save option.
I got stuck in the game. Found the author of the citation, went to library basement but for some reason event did not start and there was literally no options to do anything to proceed further. So I am done with this one ... will not buy something that has game killing bugs causing dead ends and lacks the save option (deadly combination).
The game is pretty well designed at first play. The voice acting is well done, the game play is great with the Carmen Sandiego caper feel.
Absolutely brilliant work! The visuals, music and gameplay all tie-in together smoothly. Chinatown Detective Day One is a prologue, or demo, if you will. We play as the main Detective who has left the police task force to become a private investigator. As time goes by, we meet new people and new clients. Take on missions to resolve their problems. The clues are self-driven. Meaning that we can explore the world and investigate certain objects or talk with specific people to gain more information. It is also encouraged to use google as some of the puzzles relate to real-life information and doing so can help us solve mysteries. Very good prologue, with a decent amount of play-time. I look forward to seeing the finished product🕵🏽💜
An interesting point and click mystery game. Beautiful pixel art. Voice acting. I plan on getting the full game. I wanna see more. It is a story driven game. I would not recommend it to to people who don't want to read alot of dialog.
Really enjoyed this demo, particularly the aspect of having to perform research outside of the game to solve the cases. The characters are interesting and I love the neo-noir setting. One of the stamp cases proved to be a little bit obtuse for me and I had to dig into the forums but also found people who had the knowledge base to determine the solution themselves so it clearly was a situation where you could find the answer if you really dug into researching using the clues provided. All in all I'm looking forward to the full release and have it wishlisted for whenever it drops.
A história é fantástica. Já começa bem misteriosa e intrigante, estimulando a querer saber mais sobre o que esse mundo tem a oferecer. Bons quebra-cabeças, que tem relação com o mundo real em que precisamos pesquisar pela web em busca de pistas para desvendar muitas delas. Adorei a ideia e com toda certeza vou comprar a versão completa quando tiver a chance! Recomendadíssimo.
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