Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora

A fun but flawed noir adventure game with a charming world and fun writing. Definitely worth your time if you can deal with it's bugbears, the main ones being kinda jank puzzles and getting lost.

The aesthetics and the writing are charming, but the puzzles, objectives and investigation mechanics are shoddy and mostly unenjoyable.

The most frustrating aspect of this game is that i could have been a good game: - Interesting gun mechanics - Story that starts off strong - Detective Noir is always a winner However the aspect of the game is also what lets it down: - Reloading and ammo swapping is needlessly tedious - Story gets way to convoluted to follow and there is no task list - I don't know how you're meant to resolve the case in 15 different ways. I struggled with 1. - The game incessantly needs to point out that the main character is a girl, as if the player would forget. You may as well be a genderless block for all the story needs the main character in it. The most severe criticism and the main reason for the negative score is the maze-like navigation and platforming. With no map. The camera changes angles on certain screens so you keep not knowing which way you're facing. You need to travel to same same location multiple times, but the game doesn't give you convenient shortcuts after you traverse a perilous section. Nope just do it again and die repeatedly and lose a heap of progress because the checkpoints are few and far between. What should have been a funny and whimsical detective adventure game, is more correctly a frustrating puzzle platformer with wonky mechanics and no idea which way you should face.

A well written, charming and genuinely funny noir indie adventure game about a pair of private investigators uncovering a criminal conspiracy. Can recommend to those that like indie games and the noir investigative genre.

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Fantastic design and story writing, Absolute bargain

a surprisingly deep story for an 8 bit game

The basic concept of the game is great, a sort of noire detective game with a side-kick character and a great sense of humour, with a fair bit of social commentary. However, the technical shortcomings of the game make it basically unplayable. It is way too easy and entirely likely to accidentally sequence-break the game. The game is open-world, so of course you go explore. So, I did a fair bit of exploring, and when I thought I had enough clues and evidence for a search warrant, I went and talked to the Chief to get one. But he tells me no, and to go to a specific place. So I go there, and when I arrive, there are two characters who weren't there before, who tell me about a murder I didn't even know had happened.

I'd recommend this game if even half of what you did made sense, or there was more descriptions to what's going on except 'speech bubbles' for everything. I've played it before and gotten further yet it's been long enough that I can't even get past the first 'mission' location you visit after getting the phone call. How is it a game that's been out almost 10 years not have any kind of walkthrough except videos of someone else playing?

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