The Ratline

I hate the Sonitron so much. It makes no sense as an object and the fun of the game dives off a cliff when it's introduced. Everything about it is backwards. Figuring out who is in a conversation you already have a transcript of? Sure, that's regular gameplay! Figuring out the roles and ranks of everyone who was in a conversation and where it happened so you can get the transcript? WTF.

玩到第五案就有点玩不下去了，可惜超过俩小时不能退款了，也不是完全不推荐，但是不值得，作为鲁特里代餐更是完完全全不知道，系统有点难用，只能通过打电话和搜索图书馆获取资料，好像也不能复制文件里的文字内容，所以搜索的时候就要不断把前面的证据拉出来确保打字搜索的正确性，太麻烦了。前后线索的串联不是特别环环相扣，要回头去看前面的线索的时候特别麻烦，如果能出一个搜索历史的功能会更好，有时候证据版都摆不下了只好关掉一些，回头再看的时候就有点难找到。有些谜题设置的还是比较有意思，比如[spoiler]通过星象来推理位置之类的[/spoiler]，另外总体完全没感觉是串联成一整个故事，看了提示才发现要回头看前面的案子，引导做的比较一般，没玩到结局所以不知道后续会不会有一些整体故事德串联，但目前来看给我的感觉就是非常零散，对我的吸引力不强。

First of all, do you even have a LQA phase for Chinese localization? The search bar is completely useless in Chinese, despite the effort the translator seems to make. That error even appeared in the tutorial task. It is a functional bug and seriously disturbing, to say the least. I will not change the comment until the bug is fixed.

Update: I'm at chapter 7 and this new game mechanic just ruins it for me. It's making it unnecessarily tedious with the room number combinations. it was already tedious but manageable, but adding this game mechanic just feels useless; it isn't even how wiretaps work in real life. Great story and a great game to play for 15-30 minutes before ending the day. Graphics are also well done. The game mechanics are very familiar if you have played the Roottrees and similar games (are there any others because I'd like to know). One main improvement point for me is the archive search. The search results appear only for certain keywords and isn't full-text - so you have to really guess what to type. So in some cases you already know what to search, but keywords that you think should pop up the articles just don't work; you really have to type the exact word that the story is looking for. Also the articles get unlocked per chapter, so if an article pops up in your search accidentally, it "spoils" the story because you know that it is part of the plot. It would have been nice e.g. to have searches only show up after confirming the keyword. But overall it is a minor thing. Game-wise it would have been nice if it was longer with more chapters, but story-wise I think it makes sense as it is. Looking forward to the next one from the developer!

5.5/10。 虽然很高兴看到作者同样喜欢奥伯拉丁、鲁特里和type help，但不得不说这个游戏做的还是太粗糙了，雄心壮志结果步子迈太大扯到裆。作为一款推理游戏，它首先得是一款游戏，然后才是推理作品，但这个ui实在太烂以至于完全玩不进去，要么是怎么检索都出不来想找的文献，要么就是打一个字结果本没想到的线索直接全蹦出来了，官方剧透可还行。。。案子设计的很巧妙，每一案之间的线索都是共通的，但问题也正出在这里，完全没有线索整理系统和游戏内笔记以至于只能凭印象在往期的几个案子几十条线索里重新翻找人名和照片，况且这游戏的字小的离谱不开成图片全屏根本看不清，开了全屏又不方便交互。。。真是灾难 再说回游戏玩法问题，我不是很懂一共就那么几样工具非得切成两个界面，左边线索板右边放电话号码簿和那个type help里来的神奇妙妙工具声创机，放一块不好吗，那个声创机也是很离谱，游戏一共9案这玩意第7案才登场说明了用法，我以为只是个彩蛋性质一章结束，结果在没有明说的情况下第8案又用了一次，拜托你是真觉得那个图片里的小红点就能算摄影机？几个小的看不清的编号往那一放玩家就能明白你什么意思吗？ 同时这个游戏的推理做的也令人皱眉，我不知道是翻译问题还是什么，我总觉得这个逻辑推断链条大部分案子里都是碎的，充满了强行关联、臆测和猜谜，同时这个线索提示也很难用，一共三个提示前两个不明所以第三个直接告诉你答案，看的人一脸懵，我到现在都不知道第8案的诗到底起了个什么作用，都按小黄鸭了咱们就别当谜语人了好吗 总之属于底子还行但开发者完全不会做游戏，不行咱们重制一下吧

做翻译的自己笑了没，只翻译UI不翻译游戏是吧，在愿望单好久了，因为有中文了买来玩了一下，进去就卡关了，找了半天地点和姓氏发现必须要用英文原版来填？那我为什么不直接玩英文版，还有游戏的UI也是纯纯的一坨，左上角的提示关不掉也就算了，竟然还会挡线索？

有点小巧思，但不多 作者要是还在乎评价的话就赶紧打磨一下游戏体验吧，无论是文本的校对还是ui的设计都一言难尽。推理的部分我不够专业就不多提了，总体玩下来并没有推理的爽感

There is the foundation of a good game here but it has several areas of high friction. As-is, I rate the game a 2/5. The Good: The story was good, the art was consistent and appropriate. Many of the clues worked well. The Bad: Some clues. For later cases, you're going to be digging through earlier cases to find the obscure. This may work okay if you play the game over a day or two and have a good memory for all the details. The clue pointers all seem to be there but they can be rather obscure leading to leaps of logic. The Worse: Telephone calls. Why is someone living in a South American police state going to spill their guts to a random caller? Yet this happens time and again. And why do we have a rolodex of all these random places anyway? The Ugly: The Sonitron as a mechanic is just a big no. "We're going to tell a story loosely based on history then give you this magic thing that we say works one way but actually works a different way, until it works a different way again."