
You play the role of Red Johnson, a private detective who is trying to find his place in the corrupted city of Metropolis. Discover the city, its unique atmosphere and get to know the rules quickly if you want to survive!
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For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
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Red Johnson was a drab experience in almost every way. While the esthetics were pleasant, the tone of the game was very inconsistent - it ranged from somewhat humorous and lighthearted to very serious, full of curse words and thriller-like narrative. It was difficult to adjust to when it so abruptly changed halfway through the game. The puzzles had a lot of potential, and some of them very actually interesting and logical, but a huge chunk were overly difficult and took half an hour per puzzle to complete, made little sense, were broken, or my favorite - one puzzle had multiple solutions but only one was accepted by the game. It was obviously ported from a console version and the devs were either lazy or very time-constrained - they made players perform QTEs and various trivial actions in the PC version with mouse movement. Which would be fine if it worked, but the mouse actions here barely register - you move your mouse, nothing happens, or sometimes you need to move your mouse slightly, sometimes fully, and there's no way of telling which one you need. I cursed at this BS after I failed some miniscule QTE action for ten times in a row (restarting the sequence every time) because the game wouldn't recognize my mouse movement to the left. There are other flaws, e.g. UX issues, sometimes some video stuttering, clumsy UI, etc. All things considered this game has barely got anything going for it apart from the atmosphere. To add insult to injury, they never released the last chapter and left chapter two with a cliffhanger. Seeing how it's been years, I doubt they'll ever finish it. Wish I hadn't wasted 20+ hours of my gaming time on this...
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain*languages with full audio support
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Eskiden microids oyunlarını çok severdim. özellikle syberia. Bu da aynı ayarda artık tarihin tozlu raflarında yer alan vasat idare eder bir oyun.
3/10 God awful quick time events
In realtà il gioco presenta alcuni aspetti peculiari che in altre circostanze gli avrebbero meritato una recensione positiva almeno per il mio gusto personale. Il gioco, infatti, ha un atmosfera fantastica, è un noir allo stato dell'arte con la tipica città marcia e corrotta abitata da tutto e di più: poliziotti pigri e incapaci, prostitute, papponi, gangster, ubriaconi e chi più ne ha più ne metta. E come in ogni noir che si rispetti c'è un mistero da risolvere e lo si fa con i buoni e vecchi metodi: raccolta di prove, interrogatorio dei testimoni (anche pestandoli un po' se necessario) ricerche d'archivio e analisi comparative. Fin qui sembrerebbe un gioco fantastico ma c'è un problema. L'indagine è stracolma di puzzle casual fino all'inverosimile. Uno o due ci possono stare ma qui spuntano fuori di continuo e nella maggior parte dei casi sono spudoratamente riempitivi (e frustranti). Finora l'unico caso con un gameplay simile che ha funzionato è "Agent A: A Puzzle Game" ma per motivi molto chiari; prima di tutto già il titolo diceva con molta trasparenza: questo è un gioco di puzzle; in secondo luogo perchè il gioco riguardava l'infiltrazione nella villa di una spia, piena di congegni e meccanismi bizzarri dove lo schema dei casual puzzle è perfetto. Per Red Johnson Chronicles non si può dire lo stesso. E nonostante ciò, il vero peccato imperdonabile è un altro.; lo stesso che mi ha frenato dal recensire il gioco per anni, sperando che vi si ponesse rimedio, ma invano: l'assenza di un finale. Le cronache infatti dovevano essere, almeno nei piani iniziali, una trilogia e purtroppo il terzo capitolo, quello finale, non è mai stato rilasciato e dopo tanti anni ormai, direi che possiamo smettere di aspettare. Quindi se lo comprate, sappiate cosa aspettarvi. Una storia interessantissima ma mutila di finale e un gameplay che comprende aspetti di indagine poliziesca ma anche tanti, tanti puzzle casual. Quindi, siete avvisati!
Un excellent jeu que je recommande totalement malgré sa faible note sur Steam. Les points forts: originalité du gameplay, graphismes, musique, humour, dialogues et scénario pour adultes. A revoir: la maniabilité à la souris pour certaines actions en QTE mais à l'inverse de ce que j'ai lu dans certains avis négatifs ça n'empêche pas de continuer et finir le jeu. Plus bloquant le puzzle du début du 2nd épisode que j'ai du refaire des dizaines de fois. Avec ce pack on a les 2 jeux pour le prix d'un donc n'hésitez pas à l'essayer. Une astuce pour ne pas perdre votre temps après l'installation: avant de lancer Red Johnson, mettez votre affichage sous windows à 100% et non pas 125% comme c'était mon cas sinon vous ne pourrez jamais y jouer et c'est impossible de le modifier dans les réglages du jeu.
I had to let the game running in the background to post the review... The only thing I see when I start the game is a black screen. I hear sounds but everything is black. Unplayable, 0/10.
[h1]Overall = 3/10[/h1] The game’s not without its charms and the mashup of ideas to make a traditional yet more involved point and click adventure game is a fascinating production, but it focuses on all the wrong things and is wrapped up in a poorly performing package. It’s very stylish with its grimy, industrial noir presentation and detailed character models, but the game is made and runs very badly. For the first 6 hours it ran horribly slow for no reason, there’s no graphics or control options, the controls are unresponsive and swap around for no reason, animations are very limited and wooden, background graphics are blurry or not present, the backward letters on the title make it hard to read and the instructions often have placeholder text in them. The investigations do have depth to them, but it is rather hit and miss due to the game focusing on the overly difficult puzzles rather than the actual investigation. The first case was nothing remarkable; traditional gumshoe fare, rather cliché and with mediocre voice acting and characters. The second case was lot more wacky, but also silly and due to lack of useful information, coming to the right conclusions at the end was nigh on impossible. Each “challenge” has a superfluous scoring system based on the time you take to complete them, but when combined with the unresponsive controls, instant fail quizzes and unhelpful hint system, they become more and more of a chore. The final indictment process ensures you are paying attention, but slows the pace right down when it should be coming to a crescendo and due to the obscurity of some of the clues, is not as satisfying as it should be.
The plot of this game is simply stupid. The riddles are 50/50 one of these are fun and quite challenging, other just impossible to solve (spoiler warning!!! for example franch braille in part 2). Audiovisualy this game is good I like that, but the whole experience is disturb by logic wholes in plot. I don't remember the last time i faced palmed after seeing the ending cutscene. For a guilty pleasure or drunk plays and loughs with friends this game is ok, for any thing alse... no I'm disappointed
horrible controls
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