Lord Winklebottom Investigates

Challenging but fun.

喜歡動物偵探的設定，全程配音連小互動都有配音很棒，個人也很喜歡這種寫實動物穿衣服的畫風，而且不是只是披動物皮而已，還有很多吐槽是對著各種不同生物的行為跟刻板印象，例如長頸鹿偵探看到高高的植物就想啃，包括六角恐龍在家裡要有能快速移動的水管保持他的生存這個都意外的細膩。 能互動的物品很多，偵探跟助手的碎念還有互相吐槽很令人開心，另如看到一盒硬幣，偵探說我不可能會去拿，溫寇波頓勛爵怎麼可能會是一個小偷還拿死人的東西呢？結果被河馬吐槽你從開始進到這棟別墅就沒做過除了偷拿死人東西以外的事，我真的會笑死。 另外也很喜歡各種對應的小彩蛋，例如主角長頸鹿對應的白羅(還包括他喜歡用法語) 但是助手河馬醫學博士(他再三強調)對應的是華生 鯊士比亞這個翻譯真的棒 還有一些名畫戴珍珠耳環的山羊www 提示的部分我覺得有點太攏統，他頂多算是提醒讓你別忘了你要幹嘛並不是提示你要解開什麼謎題。

Ignoring for a min all the little glitches that happen from time to time, nothing major but annoying. This is a "must do 14 asinine things in their exact sequence or you're stuck" games. None of it makes any sense & after you've talked to everyone, picked up everything, tried everything on everything & everyone, given up & grabbed a walkthrough... it still doesn't work & you've gotta go around and talk to everyone & try everything again hoping to get past whatever minor piece of stupid is holding everything up. Don't recommend even if on sale.

Хороший квест со своим очарованием, забавными шутками и обилием любопытных идей. Не слишком сложный, но заставляет подумать. Встречаются редкие технические проблемы, которые усложняют прогресс: например, у меня иногда новые темы для диалогов отмечались как уже использованные (мелочь. просто приходилось меньше опираться на визуальные подсказки). Также у меня после загрузки сохранения во второй главе из меню пропала кнопка сохранения (хотя ведь до этого я здесь сохранялся буквально на этом моменте, очевидно) и больше не появлялась - так что после этого заканчивал игру в один заход, благо она достаточно короткая. И ещё: значок чашки чая вверху экрана - это кнопка подсказки! Обучение объясняет это не в самом начале игры, а чуть позже. В любом случае, не самый очевидный выбор для кнопки помощи (пусть и умеренно логичный) и запоздалое обучение даёт достаточно времени чтобы запороть достижение на прохождение без подсказок. Да, такое достижение здесь есть. Да, начать игру заново не представляет труда, но лёгкое раздражение вызывает т.к. кнопка действительно не вполне очевидна в своём назначении. Да, я нажал просто из любопытства и пришлось перезапускать прохождение...

Thoroughly enjoyed this game. It's quirky and funny with great British humour. Story was much better than I expected and the voice acting is great. Lovely visual style and engaging characters. Puzzles are logical and well designed. I found it quite easy and would have liked a bit more challenge - that said the lack of frustration and head scratching did make this a very fun and relaxing gaming experience. Relatively short (took me about 4 hours) but still definitely recommend! I am looking forward to more from this developer.

One of the very few games I actually regret playing. There is no sense in the plot, there is no mystery, the player has no place in the game and the mediocre humor certainly cannot make up for any of that. [b] [u] The characters. [/u] [/b] The main characters are... entirely unlikable. They are incompetent and miss basic clues, making you go through heaps of unnecessary steps to get to basic conclusions. (spoiler) [spoiler] They quite literally are responsible for a character getting killed but past a little joke this is never actually acknowledged. [/spoiler] The giraffe is decently funny on occasion at least, the humor of the hippo consists of indifference and snide coments about other types of animals (animal world racism I guess?). [b] [u] The gameplay. [/u] [/b] The mechanics are pretty annoying. This is not a big issue but basically you can interact with all objects two ways, and sometimes you think you did it right because you got the relevant information when really you were meant to interact the other way. This then means that important events don't get triggered and you have to find out which object you clicked wrong. [b] [u] The puzzles. [/u] [/b] Everything you do is tedious and overly complicated. Nothing makes sense. Yes, the game is meant to be humorous and a bit abstract, but you can't risk disregarding player experience for that. But hey, there's the overall mystery at least, right? Wrong. There is no mystery for you to solve. In the beginning you get your answers handed on a silver platter. It's just given to you, but of course you have to still go through many many steps until the characters catch up. At other times you do things that just lead to nothing, only to get handed solutions by other characters (indirect spoilers) [spoiler] like when suddenly paranormal things become real just to tell you some piece of information or a character happens to have all the objects you need. The worst though is when the game outright lies to you about "facts" just to shock you with some unimpressing plot twist. Yeah. Even the solution to the mystery is something you had no way of figuring out. [/spoiler] Nothing feels satisfying to solve, it doesn't feel like there is space for the player in the game. [b] [u] The ending. [/u] [/b ] The big revelation is... nothing short of infuriating. Surprise! You, the player, contributed absolutely nothing to the solving of this case and the main characters barely do either! I normally am on edge very quickly when a game builds any form of suspense but in this game I just did not care. The plot twist wasn't one I felt any excitement about, it just felt like the game laughing in my face as if it's my fault. I also think there was meant to be some commentary on humanity but it felt odd and a bit questionable to me. I did really laugh at one of the final scenes at least. In conclusion, I did not like this game (you probably noticed by now)

A short but sweet point and click detective game. The characters are really charming, the story is interesting and does have some funny bits to it. The artstyle is nice too. My only gripe is how they reveal the murderer. All in all, Lord Winklebottom investigates was a joy to play I hope to see more of him and Dr. Frumples.