The Incident at Galley House

难得的变格推理，整体逻辑比较顺，前期的伏笔最后也都填了，跟着提示看流程还是很丝滑的，而且自己推理的自由度也有，打折可以玩玩

玩通后感觉这个游戏像是为这段话包了一盘饺子：人的一生要经历三次死亡：第一次是指医学认证的死亡，即呼吸和心跳都停止；第二次是当亲戚朋友在葬礼上与你作最后告别，从此之后，你生前的各种复杂的人际关系将被抹去；第三次是当这个世界上还记着你的最后一个人离开了人世，或者你被之前认识的人完全遗忘。 这盘醋前三分之二都挺好玩的，剩下三分之一的时候，真相渐渐揭开，留给玩家的没有惊喜和期待，只余最基本的逻辑思考题，已知某某死在某地，那么某时出现的是哪些人。总共就那么几个时间线，之前发生的和之后发生的差不多都清楚了，玩得我注意力开始涣散。 打折可玩，原价太贵了，流程也就几小时。 这个灵异结局我还是能接受的，毕竟也没人说这是安乐椅侦探。但是我觉得主菜还是要丰盛一些的……我是指加利一家，如果这部分做的内容更多更详细，让研究院现在篇变成一个结尾，而不是现在这样占据了三分之一篇幅，感官上会好很多。 加利篇后面几个时间线也没有什么信息量，基本上就是人们怪叫然后去世。 就算所有场景全看完了，我也想说，这帮谜语人能不能好好说话，就算和失忆症无关的话题，随便的闲聊，也能随时随地跑题、岔开话题、突然停住（跑走），没有一个人能做到”句句有回应，事事有着落“，想象一下我和他们说话，简直要窒息。 管家我看之前正常的，结果遇到小胡子就开始说谜语，我以为他知道什么宅邸的幽灵之类的惊天秘闻，结果其实就是模棱两可随便说几句有关小胡子妹妹的干扰项。 托尼突然离开我以为发现了阁楼装置的秘密，结果也不说，直接走了，就差那么点儿时间吗，几句话都没有。 说要报警一直不报，面对尸体竟然只是“有人要吓唬我们”。 有人要找的人名在亲人的怀表上，第一反应是偷走那东西。 停停，我说还有人类吗？你们的脑回路是怎么长的？ 也就v和D俩夫妇貌似稍微正常点儿，出事了知道躲，本来心大的他们俩的举止在一众牛鬼蛇神中被衬托的尤为正常，到后来v也沦陷，也就D正常些，v怀孕瞒报已经是这帮神人互相哈气环节中最无害最无关紧要的一环了。说真的这个情节设计出来根本意义不明，没有起到任何作用。 这真的很搞笑有谁懂我？前期每个人看起来都心怀鬼胎；中期发现其实是信息差，大家都是好人只是有各自的隐情；最后没有信息差了，发现没有误会也没有隐情，什么都没有，那种制作组想打造的信息差误会，落到实处变成了一帮易怒的谜语人在互相装懂哥。 一直教堂教堂的，我以为有什么重要信息，结果什么都没有，也没有那种“死去的妹妹在人们口头一直有戏份”的设计，没有死者暗线，说真的是我露了什么吗，鲁伯特邀请约翰来解决前妻问题是有什么前情提要吗？加上阁楼的通灵装置是想说还有后续还有阴谋吗？玩得力竭了。总之希望人们别学这游戏里的人，见到尸体第一想法是瞒住丢掉，有话不好好说，只说半截，用反问来回答问题，这些都是不好好沟通的体现。

Super jeu d'enquête, qui ne prend pas par la main mais ne laisse jamais le joueur bloqué. Les différents tableaux sont très jolis et le doublage anglais de bonne qualité.

Context: I really liked Roottrees, and I understood that this game was made by different people, and the Roottrees devs just made it 3D, but I have a lot of issues with the game, independent of any previous works. At the end of the day, the game is fine and I got my money's worth, so I recommend it. Spoiler warning I really enjoyed the first half of the game; the mystery hooked me and I got attached to the VERY well written characters. Every character had their own personalities and quirks, and I became attached to them. [spoiler]But then after you solved the mainline (kinda) you get introduced to the team your playable character came with to investigate the mystery. Admittedly, it was sick as ♥♥♥♥ to see your memories being toyed with, however, I didn't care about my team. Not only did they make horrible decisions throughout their time, they were boring and annoying. While the mainline had characters like "Martha, the strong matriarch keeping it together for the family" and "John, the seemingly meek, but steadfast piano salesman", the present had "Pippa, the cocky, mean nerd" and "Meg, the literal psycho". It seemed like the devs ran out of steam near the end, and I was completely zoned out for it.[/spoiler] Did this ruin the game for me? Absolutely not! But this left a really bad taste in my mouth: [spoiler] the shallowness of it all. The whole game is just "watch the cutscene, read the transcript, put in the code, and watch the next cutscene. It was fun to make connections, and the feeling I got when the screen did the wavy little flashback effect was PRIMO, looking back, the satisfaction didn't last, primarily because you weren't working towards solving a mystery per se, but to just get the narrative. What caused the whole thing? Memory ghosts, pocket watches, and film? nah. [/spoiler] There's a mechanic when you put a face to the name, which I thought matching all of them correctly would reward me in some sort of achievement or something, but in reality, [spoiler] you just had to match 7 of the almost 20 for the last cutscene.[/spoiler] Idk, maybe I'm trippin, but at the end of the day, I didn't HATE the game, I just thought it was at worst mid, and at best interesting. 5.5/10

I really enjoyed this "Obra Dinn"-esque genre of puzzle games, and this one is an absolute delight throughout! I really love how I slowly realized what's going on, figured out some tidbits but never the full picture while it slowly unveiled itself. And all this time I felt the urge to know more - I had to keep going.

Excellent puzzle game. Loved it to the end.

One of the few games I’ve gotten 100% of the achievements in—though, admittedly, I did have to look one up, as the game doesn’t require it to progress or finish. It reminds me a lot of "Unheard: Voices of Crime", but I absolutely HATED that game (apologies to anyone who felt otherwise) and found it to be a chore to finish. So, discovering that this game was similar in nature, I really thought I had bought another dud. Thankfully, I was very wrong—I actually really enjoyed "The Incident at Galley House". The singular setting tying everything together gave the branching storyline much more cohesion, whereas Voices of Crime felt like a disjointed mess that only served to frustrate me. The timeline makes sense, and the notebook and bookmarks are great tools for keeping track of everything, especially if you take breaks between play sessions. I was able to really enjoy the narrative and required minimal assistance as I progressed—which is a big plus for me. I really hate when I have to cave and look something up for mystery games! Overall, the only thing that could make this better is if it were more animated. Heck, I would totally watch this if it became a movie! Thanks for the adventure, Devs—I'm definitely going to have to check out "The Roottrees are Dead" next. Cheers to a good time!~