Chronique des Silencieux

Salutations Un 2Min sur le jeu :) https://youtu.be/IJwgvJFX7eo J'espère que cela vous plaira, bon jeu à tous

An extremely challenging puzzle/detective game requiring a lot of patience and cross-examination. The charming art style and a well written story make it all worth while. Check out my full review below: https://youtu.be/jKd5QLVvVj4 A walkthrough is also available on my channel if you need a little help.

Ca vous trouerai le baltrou de sortir un jeu stable et sans bug ?

Un jeu très sympathique et une belle histoire interactive, provenant d'un studio qui mérite d'être soutenu. Très chouette direction artistique, extrêmement "signée". À sa sortie, le jeu avait quelques problèmes d'équilibrage et quelques typos qui traînaient, mais l'équipe de développement a été très réactive pour tout améliorer au fur et à mesure, et on peut désormais dire qu'on a un vrai bon jeu. Le jeu n'est pas facile, comme tout point-and-click à l'ancienne qui se respecte, mais il a sa logique. Certains mécanismes de jeu rappellent un peu ce qu'on a récemment pu trouver du côté du jeu "Poirot: The first cases", qui nécessitait lui aussi un petit temps d'adaptation pour comprendre la logique des connexions d'idées à indiquer au jeu. Petit détail positif : le jeu est globalement fonctionnel sous Linux, via Proton.

The most confounding crime here is why the game is so unknown. But seriously, the game has a lot going for it. I love the animated look, the characters are surprisingly expressive during conversations. Menus are easy to read and mostly smooth to navigate, which is important when you'll spend so much time there poring over evidence. The story is good so far. It's rare to get a straight up detective story like this that also has proper detecting gameplay; usually its one or the other. History and geography play a factor too, it is a genuine period piece that uses the setting and I'm sure the developers' own knowledge and experience to give an earnestness to it all. Others have noted the issues. The English translation can sometimes be awkward, though not enough to impact the story or your deductions (that I've seen). Most of the difficulty so far has not been from failing to understand the mystery, but not knowing how to register that knowledge with the game to fully explore all the leads. Finding just the right lines to compare can be time consuming, though it does at least feel like detective work and putting things together is rewarding. It can sometimes just feel arbitrary when one connection is fruitless and another yields progress. Still, the investigation mechanics themselves are good. I like how open the connections and hypothesis systems are, it lets deductions feel more like your own and less guided. The confrontations where you use your evidence to corner a suspect are a fun gamification of the classic detective speech. Overall I think this is worth a try for anyone interested in detective games, so long as you accept some jank and frustration are a part of the process. There is a hint system now, and you're allowed to make mistakes, so don't let the reviews about difficulty put you off. Will update if my opinion significantly changes as I get further.

Really charming so far, enjoying the art style and the story; look forward to playing more.

I'm a fan and sucker for detective and mystery games and loved the look of the art style. It's a good game so far and all, but unfortunately it's got plenty of bugs to it. From texture issues, to clicking issues. Sometimes when coming from the journal my controls would be completely locked and i'd be forced to restart the game. So I would recommend it at a later time(and would be happy to change my review when the game is more polished) when everything is a lot better for players.

I really want to like this game, because I love detective games like Ace Attorney, Danganronpa, Golden Idol, etc. However, I'm at the first confrontation and so far I felt that finding the right connection is more a matter of luck than anything. For example, I thought one hypothesis concerning the drugs was obvious. In fact, I got it right on my first try. However, before I was allowed to make it, I had to find a connection that felt less decisive than several other better pieces of evidence. The confrontation is similar in that several sentences could be used to prove or contradict the same thing, except only one seems to be accepted as correct, making it more of a guessing game than anything. Perhpas I'll play it again at some point, but I'm not confident that the game's connections become less ambiguous later on.