It should be mentioned that from what I've read this is a demo for Song of Farca, not a separate story, it's a chapter of the full game but you can get achievements separately.
I wanted to like this one, I could excuse the kind of weird writing and the terrible Hollywood/CSI depiction of hacking, because sure, it's just a point & click adventure game, and while I like that to have a good narrative, maybe it doesn't need one. The actual gameplay _should_ be pretty cool, you have puzzles where you hack cameras and drones and other devices to distract people so you can yoink info out of computers and stuff like that, you can interrogate people and call out their lies with clues you collected, all sorts of puzzles like that, that's definitely a great concept.
Except… nothing is logical. You're presented with video evidence where you have to select a combination of 3 sets of 3 options for what the correct zoomed in video looks like, for example, and this would be interesting if you had to carefully look back at what clues you've been offered. But when it's "which of the 3 does this person look like" and the only relevant info you've been given so far is something about an "old black man" (also you can't go back to the conversation to revisit the wording), and 2 of the options match that description, you end up having to just guess.
Interrogating suspects is where it really falls apart. You can only try every item (luckily, you can retry conversations somehow) you have until you get dialogue that goes somewhere other than "I don't know what this means", even if they're not actually disproving the character's statement as such. And the "make a conclusion" option is very dodgy because the wording implies you're delivering a final verdict and you should only go for it once you know for sure, but you never actually do. It's more like just making a statement, from two pieces of information you've stumbled across, luckily it will only highlight what second clue you can use once you've selected the first one, rather than selecting every single combination. But there's not that much logic for when you want to make each statement, or when in the game you can do it, because for some reason that matters. I often found myself thinking "okay, I'm pretty sure I tried that option already, but I want to make sure there's no additional dialogue after that. Wait, what? Worked this time."
This quickly turns into the old adventure game curse of clicking every single random thing in sight in case you missed something. The game tells you when you've fully investigated a location, and a little (!) marker for locations and your investigation board, but not for people so you can end up calling everyone you can to try telling them every single can. There's seemingly no penalty for retrying dialogue endlessly, so it's not _hard_, but it gets quite annoying, especially as the text speed is fixed to "normal". Why is that even in the settings? Is it just to show you that it's in the full game, and you can't change it in the demo? Why not? Who locks text speed in demo versions? And for that matter, who the hell locks resolution options?? Too bad if someone wanted to try this game but wanted it in windowed mode, I guess. Or doesn't have a 1080p display.
Needless to say I will not be getting the full game.
