Dinocop

This game is pretty unique as a detective game, being a really explicit satire of centrist politics. I think there were a couple points where it was a bit eye roll inducing, e.g. a dinosaur who literally says "I am going to go talk to a guy about lowering taxes on the ultra rich and I'm not ultra rich but I think it's great for some reason." I think that's just a bad line and it sounds like something you might have as sort of filler dialogue to replace with something better later. But overall I liked the writing in the game, which is unapologetically political and direct in its skewering. And the game is generally very exaggerated and surreal: apparently all animals are sapient but still eat each other, political parties are called things like the "Kill All Dinosaurs" party, and humans have low detail exaggerated features since they are being viewed from a dino perspective. I do feel like this game would be greatly improved if you had the ability to pass time anywhere, and if you outright removed the magnifying glass and flashlight and just used the interact key to examine things instead. I think also it should be easier to get the binoculars since I don't feel like it really adds anything to the game to gate off so many interactions for so long. Or alternatively if there were more things to do before you get the binoculars. I just think it would have been a better experience if it felt like there was less of a specific order to do the cases in and if it felt less like I was searching around for progression and more like I was investigating whatever I felt like at that time. The ending does feel too abrupt. I think many people don't like the ending based on where the characters end up, but I think that fits perfectly well with the tone of the game, it just didn't feel great in terms of the execution. Given how abrupt it is, I wonder if there were some cuts which resulted in the ending not being totally fleshed out.