Mark & Lara: Partners In Justice

Ich habe es gestern gekauft und direkt auch mit meiner Freundin gespielt. Seit "We were here" bin ich (und auch sie) ein großer Fan von Spielen, die wirklich auf Coop ausgelegt sind und nicht alleine gespielt werden können - denn dann ist zusammenspielen meist noch viel besser, da es von Anfang an so gedacht ist. So auch bei "Mark & Lara": Die beiden Police Detectives müssen zwei Verdächtige verhören und herausfinden, wer lügt und was in Wahrheit bei dem (angeblichen) Selbstmord passiert ist. Spannende Prämisse und auch extrem gut ausgeführt. Nach jedem Gespräch kann man mit dem Partner vergleichen, was die beiden gesagt haben um zu sehen, ob sie sich gegenseitig widersprechen. Ein wahres Erfolgsgefühl kommt auf, wenn man sie bei einer Lüge überführt hat und so der Wahrheit einen Schritt näher gekommen ist. Hin und wieder muss man auch im Internet (im Spiel, nicht wirklich im Internet) nach Dingen recherchieren, die teilweise nur mehr Hintergrund zu den verschiedenen Charakteren gibt, teilweise aber auch entscheidend für die Lösung ist. Das hat bei mir an einer Stelle gar nicht mehr funktioniert und ich musste das Spiel neu starten. Ansonsten funktionierte aber alles wunderbar. Noch ein Bonuspunkt: Man braucht für das Spiel im Grunde genommen keine Internetverbindung. Wenn ihr im gleichen Raum seid und beide eine Version des Spiels besitzt, dann könnt ihr direkt loslegen, ansonsten müsst ihr eben über Sprachchat oder Oldschool über Telefon mit dem anderen kommunizieren. Einziges Manko: Die Musik ist etwas nervig und wirkt etwas deplatziert. Aber nichts Weltbewegendes. Für 4€ bekommt ihr etwas mehr als 2 Stunden Spielspaß. Wenn ihr das Spiel auch aus der anderen Perspektive spielen und den anderen Verdächtigen mal vor der Nase haben wollt, dann sogar bis zu 5 Stunden. Für mich ein extrem fairer Preis. Von mir eine absolute Kaufempfehlung. Ende des Jahres soll auch ein zweites Kapitel erscheinen!

Nice and short little coop crime puzzler, with about 2h of playtime, totally worth its money. Really looking forward to a second case.

This game was gifted to me by a friend as they didn't realize you needed two players before they purchased it originally. Look...Mark & Lara: Partner in Justice has great artwork and the story is decently written, it's pretty easy to tell the writers aren't from New York with names/locations and other word choices that wouldn't be common in the US. But the gameplay is terrible, the "Zing" search engine portion is maddeningly idiotic, and the one time the artwork is awful with that MS Paint Zing logo. Plus buggy to all boot. At certain points I could no longer click links, had to go out attempt to interrogate, and then start the search from scratch as the drop down of things I had correct was gone. Without spoiling the specific things you need to look up in the first puzzle...just...no it's awful. Thennnn you play the most tedious game of "What one thing in several pages of dialog doesn't add up?" there is maybe one of these that actually made sense to suspect as odd/out of the ordinary. I like detective/deduction games. Played a lot of Detective a Modern Crime Board Game and Chronicles of Crime and while those can be a bit frustrating and challenging, this is just...awful. There's a lot of potential...but a good game this is not.

jogos co-op são jogos co-op. é muito difícil de você jogar um jogo com um amigo e não ser divertido, mesmo que seja por motivos que não foram objetivados pelos desenvolvedores (entregar uma experiência de qualidade, eu imagino) então tipo, apesar de ter sido divertido, não foi porque o jogo é bom, ele é cheio de problemas, e mesmo eu tendo gostado de um personagem em específico e da história um pouco, pelo preço acho que não vale a pena não... sim são só 10 reais, eu sei, mas com 10 reais tu vai lá no Pingo de Ouro com o seu amigo, compra um pastel de Frango e Catupiry cada, e ainda sobra sabe... só sei que de graça talvez eu recomendaria o jogo, o que é muito duro de falar, porque respeito muito os indie devs, mas esse jogo chegou a ser cômico de tão esquisito enfim, se você tiver 10 reais pra rasgar vai em frente eu acho, mas infelizmente não consigo "recomendar" esse daqui...

What a cool concept. Unfortunately, I think that technical limitations hold this back significantly. It relies a lot on searching the in-game computer system for hints, which is a really cool concept until you realize that if you search a slightly different term, it will give you nothing, and some search terms are quite specific. I feel terrible leaving a negative review, because the developers for this game are incredible and quite involved with the community, but the gameplay is really lackluster for how cool of a co-op game concept this is. My advice for a sequel would be to literally have a database of a bunch of random info and actual clues that you can search for like a REAL BROWSER, otherwise it's almost impossible to find anything without hints.

I enjoyed this very much, but it was too short. I was hoping for more cases. Hopefully there will be more in the future. But overall, really enjoyed the uniqueness of the game. Thank you

Неплохой кооп на пару часов.

This game is, in a word, bad. The English translation is awkward and stiff, and while I can't necessarily fault Italian devs for it, in a genre that involves a lot of examination of words, it's not really helping. And this game is ENTIRELY words. I regularly play visual novels, that is not the issue. the issue is reading and rereading the entire script of the game to figure out the 2 specific lines (that are sometimes pages and pages apart) that contradict. The "internet searches" are comical in how little they bring up because "figuring out what specific phrase to search" is something you're supposed to do, and if you get any information early you will figure everything out even faster than you normally can. If you get ahold of a search term from later in the game, you can straight up jump to the ending which feels like and oversight (but admittedly would be fun for attempting a speedrun). There's better murder mystery visual novels (that you can get for the price of this for you and your friend). There's better asymmetrical co-op games. Admittedly I don't know of any that combine those two things specifically, but there's plenty of mild overlap. I promise, whatever itch you need to scratch, there are better solutions than Mark and Lara: Partners in Justice.

Um bom jogo pra jogar com amigos/namorado(a), simples mas muito divertido.

It's a fun game to play with you friend, especially if you both like solving mysteries and detective games. I played it with my sister and we had 2 hours worth of fun. I think the price is very much worth it, although I was sad that it was only one case. The price for 1 case makes sense if you compare it to those detective games you can buy in online shops, which costs more per case. There are some typos and slight grammatical errors, but it's still very good! Interactive, and can be played on different devices, with no need of online connection besides Discord for communication. :D I hope there are more games like this!