Samuel Sage: The Mystery at Penby Inn

[h1]本格ミステリー…？[/h1] 日本語対応 本格ミステリーポイントクリック…と 魅力的な言葉が並んでいるが 分岐は無く一本道で調べられる場所を調べて 進めは謎を解く暇もなく勝手に解明編が始まり 謎が解けていくので困惑した 探すべきポイントも解りづらいが Hキーでハイライトされるので詰まることはない 最後の謎解きパートもヒントを示す物を ミスしても違うと思うから選びなおしてねという ゲームオーバーすらない設計なので 嫌が応でも解ける、小学生でも解ける 内容に対して価格が半分でも高いと思う 実績も無いので本当にアレゲーハンターに勧める

评价为别买 1. 糟糕的像是从低成本色情游戏里面扒出来的建模 2. 故事剧情非常狗血。旅馆死人了，探长在有监控视频的情况下抓错了人，只因为嫌疑人是前夫的现任女友。 3. 破案的方式是给探长出示监控视频（.....无力吐槽） 4. 全程看剧情，总时长不到1个小时，文字速度不可调，除了调查环节唯一有操控的地方是出示证据（6选5或6选2，出错了也没有任何失败惩罚，个数不对的话无法出示） 5. 杀人动机更搞笑了，老头年轻的时候追一个带着儿子的寡妇结果寡妇意外去世，老头自愿把孩子抚养长大。长大后发现这孩子成了个混混然后申请了隔离，混混很不满于是加入了竞争对手想用闹鬼的方式逼老头把酒店卖掉，结果没控制好力度把老头吓死了，然后按照早先留下的遗嘱酒店给了老头侄子（男主），然后继续吓男主，不巧碰上律师被认出，然后灭口.....嗯，就在摄像头下面行凶 6.破案之后发现真的有鬼魂..... 建议二位编剧以后别写故事了，这行太难了不适合你俩.....

Samuel Sage is a mystery story that starts, and then ends in the blink of an eye, with little to no fanfare. It follows the titular Samuel Sage. After his Uncle Ed dies, Samuel inherits his hotel, the (again) titular Penby Inn. Samuel arrives at the hotel to get up to speed on how it's being run, and also finalizes the ownership transfer with Ed's lawyer, James Wang, who is staying at the hotel for a few days. But, the next day, James is found dead in his room, and the receptionist Gemma is arrested for his murder, so Samuel investigates to find out what really happened. Samuel Sage (the story) really only has the bare minimum necessary to be considered a mystery. There's a death, there's some investigating, and there's a final "parlor room" scene where Samuel reveals the true culprit, but that's it. There's no red herrings, no misdirection, no last gasp from the culprit to try to pin the crime on someone else, just a bare-bones "mystery" that comes and goes in (for me) barely an hour. (And that's not to mention to extremely unnatural-sounding dialogue—the whole time I was thinking, "No one talks like this!") Speaking of bare-bones, the presentation of Samuel Sage is also very lackluster, and it lacks many features I would consider the bare minimum for a modern visual novel. The characters all have this odd, blurry filter applied to them, and the backgrounds are all plain, barely serviceable 3D renders. The game doesn't have any way to change the speed of the text (although luckily you can press tab to make the whole line appear at once; still, it's annoying to have to press twice to do what you can does in one press in many other games), and the only way to advance the text is to click one specific place in the bottom right corner of the screen. Also, there is no fullscreen option, and the highest resolution is 1920x1080, so I had to play windowed on my 2560x1440 monitor. (I had wanted to play on my Steam Deck, on which the game did run, but I didn't feel like retooling my control scheme to use tab to skip to the end of a line of text.) Overall, the one word that best summarizes Samuel Sage would be underdeveloped. The characters act extremely unnaturally, like they're just vessels for the mystery that is hardly worthy of even being called that, and the presentation, UI, and features are lacking, to put it mildly. 3/10

[h1] Genre [/h1] Eine kurze Murder Mystery Visual Novel mit leichten Point & Click Einlagen [h1] Story [/h1] Wir spielen einen Self-Made Man namens Samuel Sage. Unser Leben verläuft recht Simpel und es passiert nicht viel. Plötzlich bekommen wir einen Anruf von unserem Onkel der etwas mit uns besprechen muss. Wir witzeln darüber und verabreden uns mit ihm ein paar Tage später zum Frühstück & Schach. Später bei ihm angekommen öffnet uns sein Freund & Anwalt die Tür und berichtet uns das unser Onkel verstorben sei und wir sein Hotel erben. Das Hotel hat aber derzeitig einen nicht ganz so guten Ruf und schon sehr bald finden wir heraus was dort los ist. Als dann auch noch ein Mord passiert, gerät alles aus dem Ruder und wir wollen herausfinden was dahinter steckt. [h1] Gameplay [/h1] Das Spiel ist eine Mischung aus Visual Novel und Point & Click Adventure. Wobei der Visual Novel Anteil hier der Haupt Gameplay Aspekt ist. Das heißt wir lesen uns durch die Story und treffen immer Entscheidungen wo wir als nächstes hingehen wollen. Das Spiel ist dabei komplett Linear und man muss jede Entscheidung so oder so treffen und kann nichts übersehen. Der Point & Click Anteil kommt dann in den einzelnen Räumen wo wir Beweise finden müssen, es ist total simpel gehalten. Wir bewegen die Kamera in der First Person Ansicht und müssen einfach alle Hervorgehobenen Orte anklicken, dies tun wir solange bis wir alles im Raum gefunden haben und die Story geht weiter. Musik ist ordentlich und die Charakter Sprites sehen ordentlich aus [h1] Pro/Contra [/h1] + Story ist Ordentlich + Spannend + Musik ist ordentlich + Charakter Sprites sehen gut aus + Nette Idee mit den Point & Click Einlagen +/- Leider keine Achievements [h1] Fazit [/h1] Eine ordentliche Murder Mystery Visual Novel mit spannender, wenn auch Linearer Story und leichten Point & Click Einlagen. Wer gerne Murder Mystery Spiele spielt und nichts gegen Visual Novels hat, kann hier ruhig zuschlagen 👑 Powered by HoI 4 Deu Curators group in German / English 👑⠀⠀⠀[list][*][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/30388691/] Follow Main group [/url][*] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40282064/] Follow Second group [/url][*] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44688798/] Follow third group [/url][/list]

This is a nice , but slow-paced game. I would recommend it to anyone who likes detective fiction, or crime fiction stories. The story is well written, with an interesting plot twist.

This is a good game for lovers of detective stories. I enjoyed playing it and would happily recommend it to others. The game is not very long, dialogues are well written.

看得出来做得很认真，一板一眼的，中途还不忍心给不推荐，但通关后我还是想建议大家不用浪费时间。 完全不用带脑子看的剧情。探案推理的部分毫无悬念，就是不断罗列相当明显的线索。整体上只是一个普通老套的犯案故事，同时呈现方式也致命地无聊。 我怀疑写整个故事只是为了最后的浪漫爱情结尾，可这个浪漫爱情估计只有编剧自己在感动。我是挺无法理解看到女人长得好看说话友好会做饭就想和她结婚的，更理解不了两人刚认识，经历了一个案子就要互相托付终身了。莎士比亚是这样的吗这不对啊！ 这么一说我想起来了，整篇故事开头就是找老婆给自己做饭的开幕雷击言论，我怎么没趁早跑掉呢…… 官方中文很生硬（大概原文就是这样）不过还算能看，但是人名之类的译名都有几处前后不一致的地方。交互细节还有很多可以优化的。但是看这剧作水平，我就毫不期待新作了。

Overall a positive experience. I would recommend this game for people who are looking for a nice story. Things I liked: 1) I really liked the audio in some parts of the game, it helped enhance my playing experience. There were some points in the game where I just decided to linger to listen to the end of the tune. 2) The backgrounds in some parts of the game are very nice (such as the hotel lobby, and the uncle's office). I particularly enjoyed exploring the office location, 3) I got stuck in some parts of the game, particularly when exploring the app on the computer. Thankfully pressing H on the keyboard showed the hints and I could proceed. 4 I liked the story in general, I am a fan of murder mystery novels, so I was trying to guess all along who the killer may be. What I really liked though was the motivation. Written well, seems true to life. Things that could have been better: 1) Character art was not the best at times, however I was engrossed in the story after a bit and driven enough to learn who the killer was, so this did not bother me. All I can say is, it is different. Could be considered a good or bad thing. art is subjective. 2) I would have liked more puzzles, The way it stands the player 'solves' the murder mystery by presenting some evidences and leading to a conclusion. There is no wrong answer, if you get a wrong answer you simply try again. Bit more challenging items would have been nicer. 3) Steam says the app is not compatible with my deck... which was a bit of a bummer. It is not the developers fault as they clearly say it is for PC, but it would have been nice if I could have played this on my commute instead of my laptop. Note to developers, please, please, please support Steam Deck. 4) The game play is linear, there isnt much choice as such. It kind of works for this title, but would have been nice to have different story paths. Overall a nice game, I would recommend to anyone out there who is looking for a easy-to-play single player game.

Hmm... It's not that this game is overly bad... I just think it can benefit from improvements. Many of them that is. For one, the text is super slow to appear. I am a VN reader and if the text speed can't be increased... I start to fall asleep. Thankfully there is a workaround: Enter + Tab and the text insta appears. You will still have to snooze through "A few minutes later..." Which became an irritant. The characters, while well uh... Designed/animated/created... All stare blankly at nothing. I had to stop looking at them entirely. The game is linear and if you missed something... They will make sure to repeat it for you 3+ more times. That isn't the problem. The problem is that the evidence is useless. As in... You don't need to freaking read or examine it in your inventory... All because the MC will just freaking lay it out anyway... Sure you need it for the *reveal* at the end... But otherwise... MC's motives... Uh... At first he doesn't give a sheet, whines about it and then suddenly he ends up resolving a mystery. Thanks [spoiler]dead[/spoiler] uncle and a hot woman. It's just strange. While the story was okay and a quick read, there are glaring issues -> ESPECIALLY when you think about it... Come to think of it... They are rather blatant. I will only do two: 1. The Detective that was on the case *should have* removed herself from the case. Not only could she not keep her emotions out of it... She couldn't freaking see past the [spoiler]planted[/spoiler] evidence. And if this is the way she acted? There was no way that *ex-guy* of hers would call her and ask her for a favor. Unless he is freaking dumb af. (Which is another thing... Most characters are completely useless!!!) 2. The fire extinguisher is locked behind a Smart Cabinet in the kitchen. Yep. You read it correctly. That's a freaking safety violation!!! DO YOU KNOW how many disasters/fires occur in the kitchen?! YOU DO NOT remove access to tools that can AVOID THAT!!! Let's wrap this up. MC who didn't give a sheet, suddenly gives a sheet, goes to solve a crime whilst moaning all the while about it, tells everyone else what happens, then... Finally gets a breakthrough because the Detective is too incapable of investigating past her own attachment/emotions, and thanks to MCs freaking genius PC skills he figures it out. All because evidence was recorded and the killer(s) were dumbasses. Literally. Now I wont go into the killer'(s) motives. Sure grief does bring about hell, but... The way it's presented? It sounds like they were greedy lil pigs in the end. All for them and none for the rest. Now okay, the MC is rich. But see, this one lady knew him since he was little... Couldn't she... I don't know... TALK TO HIM? Ask him for help? Tell him what the situation was? That would make her... Almost human even! Maybe if the bad *person* actually talked to the Uncle at first too and hell, he could've *pretended* to be a changed person? Something else might've happened. Sigh. And here I tried not to be overly detailed... All that aside, I will give credit where credit is due. The "supernatural" twist was great. I didn't see it coming. Which made me think even more that this *should've* been a supernatural mystery. I can't comment on the lady's tale though... Haven't thought it through yet. It was... Weird. So there you have it folks! More themes of "let's not talk about it" and "we be selfish beeps". While I wasn't bored, I actually rewrote the story I've read. And if I have to rewrite something someone else wrote............ :)

This is the first visual novel game I have played, and to be honest did not now about this genre until a friend mentioned it to me. I am therefore not in a position to compare this game to other visual novels. However, I can say that I enjoyed playing this game. The experience was somewhere between reading a novel and watching a play. I am a slow reader so it took me a little over three hours to finish this game. I liked the story. It is simple but entertaining.