Serial Cleaners

I consider Serial Cleaners to be a side-grade to the original game. I generally liked the unique character mechanics (sans Bob's blood slide) once I got used to them, and the cleaning mechanics felt good overall. On the other hand, the stealth mechanics felt distinctly worse, particularly in regard to the cops. Making bodies heavier (compared to the first game) was a good change as it made moving them feel like more of a risk, and the introduction of limbs and throwing big evidence was a change I liked, as it helps add variety to the gameplay loop and acts as a tool to distract cops. Cleaning blood also feels alot more forgiving than the first game, as I find myself leaving fewer tiny droplets, and the highlight when cleaning and in cleaner vision makes it alot easier to get stuff hidden by the isometric level layouts. Psychos chainsaw was probably my favorite character mechanic due to its neat interactions with the cops and environment, but the hacking skill from viper and parkour skills from Lati were also really good. Bobs blood slide was just rarely helpful, but it wasn't really an issue. The story was staggeringly meh. Lati was the only one with any meaningful change, Bob was very bland, Psycho had a moment of character with his girlfriend but was just "crazy dude with a chainsaw" the rest of the time, and Viper was ... irritating on a good day. There are apparently multiple ending, but I never felt like I had anywhere where I could have meaningfully changed something. My biggest issue with this game is the removal of the vision cones from the first game, closely followed by the gun-cops. With a lack of vision cones, guards ability to see me often felt random. Sometimes I could sprint in the open and they would completely miss me, other times I could be barely sticking out from a corner 3 rooms away and they would see me. While the checkpoints every time I cleaned an non-blood objective made these much more minor issues than if they had happened in the first game, it just made every level so much more tedious. The gun cops exaggerate this issue a dozen times over; where if a normal cop was to see me, I had a chance to run away and use either my skills or evasion tools in the environment, gun cops immediately open fire and basically guarantee that I will have to reload from my last checkpoint. Overall, there I definitely something missing from this game; something was lost from the transition of the stylized graphics of the first game to the generic pseudo-realistic style present here. I can't really put my finger on whats different, but its not enough to change that I did generally enjoy playing this game. It took me 8 hours to beat the game and I 100% the base game at the same time. You are required to buy the DLC if you want to actually 100% this game.

Decent game, however it is seem to be just of the mark. Buy it on sale The voice acting and dialog is stiff. The story doesn't really catch on The gameplay is fun but repetetive

Too easy to attract police attention, and the gameplay often boils down to the same routine: getting spotted by a cop way outside your line of sight, running in circles to break line of sight, hiding in a corner until the alert level drops—then repeating the same cycle.

36个小时包括33小时本体和3小时DLC，而3小时DLC中包括因游戏崩溃而重新打的2小时。 没见过如此不智能的保存机制，DLC第三关打完而且百分百清洁后，因为播放结算短片时游戏崩溃，整段1小时完全没有保存。【6.19凌晨三点编：已卡退第三次 :)】本体已经数不清多少次这种游戏崩溃导致的重玩。最大的bug是角色上电梯后掉下去了，因为电梯没有墙所以多走一步就会坠楼，然后卡在底层上不来。反馈后也没得到任何回复，纯凭我一遍遍打才通过的。(；′⌒`) 36小时是因为对全成就的追求，而非对这个游戏的喜爱。但玩了才发现根本达不到全成就，本体只有18个成就，剩下的要买DLC。 恐龙公园也有很多bug，每关的短片不能跳过，而且据说以后一关有bug达不到100%清洁，我还没打到因为刚才游戏崩溃了，打了一小时的我也崩溃了。 真是崩溃了，怪不得没有中国人玩，玩点别的潜行游戏吧，不差这一个。 Good story setting. Worst gaming mechanism ever. Run. Run fast. As fast as you can. Such a heart-breaking game. Getting depression because of it.

[b]TL;DR[/b] Serial Cleaners was definitely an interesting experience. Overall, I would say that the game was a net positive and was worth playing - even though it has some problems. I will not be purchasing the DLC, though. [b]Pros[/b] 1. The game mechanics were really fun to learn and play with. 2. I enjoyed the middle and later levels a lot because they allow for different strategies and experiment with verticality. 3. Sometimes you have to switch between two cleaners to complete a level and they have specialized capabilities which allows you to approach the same areas in different ways. 4. The outline of the story was entertaining and made you want to learn more about each character. 5. There were different situations (no spoilers) for each level and they were always refreshing in my opinion. 6. I thought that the jittery and subliminal visuals were really well done. This is subjective, though. Others may find this annoying. 7. The additions of checkpoints and opportunities to get out of rough situations made completing this game tolerable. Sometimes cleaning scenes with a high level of stealth would take at least an hour. If progress was reset every time you get busted, I would have most likely quit. [b]Cons[/b] 1. The earlier levels (the first five) were really annoying to complete as a first-time player. Most of them were really small or had limited strategy. 2. Levels that were active crime scenes subverted my expectations and were my least favorite in terms of believability. If blood, evidence, and/or bodies are tampered with during a real investigation, law enforcement wouldn't just forget about it after 30-60 seconds and continue on with their patrol pattern. Once I stopped thinking/caring about crime scene procedures, the game was much more enjoyable. 3. I didn't like the writing for most of the story. Characters feel like caricatures of what they should have been. Bob seemed like the only convincing person to me. For example, Vip3r was my favorite character to play, but had the most annoying dialogue in the entire group. 4. Some hiding spots are either bugged or hard to use. 5. The action button on the controller sometimes had me open/close doors or pickup bodies if two interactive objects were too close together. There's more I could write, but I will leave it at that. I would rate my experience with the game a 7/10.

Eigentlich wollte ich dem Spiel eine echte Chance geben, aber nach rund 30 Minuten war bei mir schon die Luft raus. Nicht, weil es besonders schwer oder anspruchsvoll wäre, sondern weil es von Anfang an einfach nur nervt. Man wird ständig von der Polizei entdeckt oder steht vor dem Problem, dass die Cops genau da rumlungern, wo man eigentlich sauber machen soll. Und dann stehst du da und denkst dir nur: Ja super, was jetzt? Die Karten machen das Ganze auch nicht besser. Die sind unübersichtlich, extrem eng gebaut und geben dir kaum Überblick. Oft siehst du gar nicht, wo sich die Polizei gerade aufhält, bis es schon zu spät ist. Gefühlt kommen die aus dem Nichts oder haben Sichtlinien, die man selbst überhaupt nicht einschätzen kann. Das sorgt nicht für Spannung, sondern für Frust, weil man ständig für Dinge bestraft wird, die man kaum beeinflussen kann. Dazu kommt die hakelige Steuerung, die in diesen engen Levels besonders negativ auffällt. Statt clever zu schleichen, rennt man meist nur im Kreis, versteckt sich irgendwo, wartet bis der Alarm runtergeht und versucht danach wieder, ein paar Blutlachen wegzusaugen - was ebenfalls nur hakelig und im ständigen im Kreis drehen funktioniert - sich dadurch zeitlich auch noch streckt was taktisch nicht gut ist, bevor man erneut entdeckt wird. Dieses Schema wiederholt sich ständig und fühlt sich schon nach kurzer Zeit wie Arbeit an. Die Charaktere und ihre Geschichten reißen da auch nichts raus. Das sind größtenteils langweilige Klischees, die eher so wirken, als hätte man sie irgendwo zusammengeklaubt. Die Story wird zwar erzählt, fühlt sich aber gezwungen und belanglos an. Interesse kam bei mir jedenfalls nicht auf. Technisch macht das Spiel ebenfalls keine gute Figur. Fragwürdige Speicherpunkte und Situationen, in denen Aktionen einfach nicht so funktionieren, wie sie sollten, ziehen das Erlebnis weiter runter. Wenn man dann noch Spielzeit verliert, weil nichts gespeichert wurde, ist die Motivation endgültig im Keller. Optisch ist Serial Cleaners wirklich schick und der Stil weiß zu gefallen, erinnert mich etwas an die alte kantige Sega Grafik. Aber das reicht halt nicht, wenn das Gameplay frustriert, die Levels keinen Überblick bieten und sich alles ständig wiederholt. Unterm Strich ein Spiel, das gut aussieht, aber spielerisch enttäuscht. Für mich definitiv keine Empfehlung, außer vielleicht für ein paar Cent im tiefsten Sale und selbst dann nur mit sehr viel Geduld.

If you liked the chaotic whimsy of the first game, and thrived in the controlled mayhem that you constantly found yourself in, prepare to be heavily disappointed: Serial Cleaners is nothing like that! Instead of one character, you now have four at your disposal. However, you don't actually have a choice, as characters are tied to specific missions. There are a few (three or so) missions, where you can actually switch between two of the four characters, but that switching is optional, and may not be necessary, depending on your playstyle. What is worse is that there an extreme focus on the back story of the characters, which is generic, not particularly well told, and most annoyingly part of the mission - whenever you restart a mission, you need to wait through the story over and over, which takes a while, even if you are skipping as quickly as possible. For some reason the perspective was turned to isometric. However, the levels are designed in such a way that there are constantly small areas, which you cannot actually see. While this may sound like a nice challenge regarding finding the last stains to clean, it is usually just annoying, because more likely than not there is some obstacle in those areas, which you can't easily pass, without seeing why that is the case. Had there been a rotation option, things may have been less of a nuisance. One of the most infuriating things in the game is the object recognition. To interact with objects, you need to stand close enough to them. More often than not there are at least two objects in such a proximity to each other that it requires pixel-perfect positioning to actually get the one or the other. To add insult to injury, the focus may switch mid-click, so that instead of "hide" you click on "make noise and alert everyone". Again, this could have been solved with an explicit cycle-through option, but no such luck. While the game itself is somewhat monotonous, and not very interesting, the Dino Park DLC decides to mix up things in the worst possible way - it brings speed-runs into the mix! What on earth is the purpose of speedruns in a game, which punishes carelessness, and rewards stealth and good planning? Yes, it results in a significantly longer time spent in the DLC, but given that it is not particularly fun, that is not really a benefit. Overall, it seems like there were many good ideas, but no time or resources to polish the outcome.

Nice art style, looks damn good. Overall pretty nice and atmospheric, but still runs well even on low end machines.

Cleaning made fun. Like this game

Изометрическая тактика - не мой жанр, хотя идеологически он мне симпатичен. В итоге нашлась игра в жанре, которую я огромным удовольствием прошел. Serial Cleaners это идейное и нарративное продолжение симпатичной игры Serial Cleaner. В первой части мы играли за Боба, который приводил в порядок места преступлений - в продолжении у Боба появилось 3 подельника и честное 3d на движке. Геймплейно это стелс-тактика - на уровнях надо находить улики и трупы, чтобы отнести это всё в машину и тихонько съебнуть. Вот только по уровням будут ходить копы, спецназ, охранники, а вокруг могут сновать бдительные мимокрокодилы, поднимающие шум - поэтому стелс наше всё. Разные персонажи предлагают разный стиль игры, равно как и разную музыку на уровне. О, музыка. Одна из двух жемчужин этой игры. Записанная аж двумя оркестрами, это преимущественно нуарный джаз либо acid jazz, но есть также рейв-композиции и немножко роцк. Звучит стильно до безумия, а еще помогает влиться в поток выполнения миссии. полный текст в ТГ: https://t.me/gonzocalls/141