The Ratline

I will recommend this with two big caveats. First, the good. The vibes were immaculate: the art, music, atmosphere, all of it was extremely well done. I think the beginning and the end were very solid. The final case was my favorite, sort of a victory lap for [spoiler]those of use who noticed the man in the multiple early photos.[/spoiler] I generally liked the structure of the game, finding the intel and trying to piece it together. This leads me into my caveats. I think while the information gathering part is neat, I ended up relying pretty heavily on the hint system near the end. It is somehow both too difficult AND too easy. I would often stumble into all of the Archive articles for that chapter by complete accident while trying to find something else, which felt like I didn't really earn any of them. At the other end, the [spoiler]Sonitron[/spoiler] (and the phone to an extent) was a major headache. The [spoiler]seventh[/spoiler] chapter which relied heavily on it was by far my least favorite, and seriously killed any momentum or motivation I had by that point. I also didn't like that I couldn't view the previous suspects I had identified. The second caveat is that the end-of-case wrapup questions stopped working for me at some point, which I think impacted my understanding of what I had just done. Overall a very promising, if flawed, game. I think it could use more robust tools like an in-game notepad or some way to create profiles for non-suspect characters. I ended up doing this somewhat, but it would be nice to have integration within the game's photo reference system.

打完第六案打不下去了， 第一，ui操作有点反人类，打开照片研究细节呢，一不小心点到人头就跳出来个输入框，很膈应人； 姓氏/名字/所在地要先切好再输入，输入完再切会清空； 线索面板也太小个了，一个案子线索收集齐就满了，可你还得翻前面的线索啊； 抽象的图书馆搜索系统，当我尝试着只输入一个“的”字并得到线索时，我释怀了。 第二，我打完的几个案子几乎都没有任何趣味性可言，也没有任何吸引人的点，没有任何爆点，很朴素的找线索然后推理。 几个案子间能感受到有一条暗线，一直在暗示后面会汇集起来来个大的，但在抵达那里之前我已经完全丧失兴趣了。 打的过程中感觉有点麻木，有种先想好几个毫无关联的案子，再努力往里镶嵌某些相同的要素营造出一个系列故事的感觉。 越打越烦躁，有点恶心，不是很喜欢，弃游好几天越想越恶心，不打个差评感觉心里不舒坦。

It's pretty good

不是哥们，你这游戏虽然有中文，但搜索名字的时候要英文拼写才行是不是有点搞？

类奥伯拉丁/金偶像/鲁特里，安乐椅侦探式推理。游戏里也明确表达了对多部前辈作品的致敬。 很难给好评的一个作品。主要缺点一是bug非常多，各式各样的bug都有。最影响游玩体验的就是检索能出来与本章节无关的线索，算是被剧透了。毕竟本作也不是鲁特里那种非线性的。 二是操作很难受。不能划线取词，全部检索和填空都需要手打。没有笔记。UI 也过于粗糙。 中文本地化方面，和鲁特里是一个汉化者。可能因为时间有限，没有那么好的完成度。专有名词不统一、错字等情况还是相对多的。加上原文就挺谜语人，玩起来就更难受了。 谜题部分中等，量不大。这类型解谜免不了要猜，这一作逻辑链时断时续的，大部分我还算满意的。声创机纯扯淡，比红珍珠的通灵还难用。不过内置了提示，不会卡关，不影响成就。 剧情结合历史这方面我个人还是挺喜欢的，可惜你生错了版本，现在这时代犹太人风评不太好。

好玩

Quite an adventure and leaves a cliffhanger for a sequel

Over all, I enjoyed this game and had a good time with it. I think it’s a solid 7/10 from me. I hope that we get a post game DLC some day. Gameplay wise, the puzzles felt compelling to solve and I found the solutions satisfying to get. I would recommend playing with a notebook to hand, and being liberal about what you write in it (your future self will thank you). Story wise, I found it compelling, though I will admit it isn’t as solid as something like The Roottrees Are Dead, especially when it comes to worldbuilding. A degree of suspending your disbelief is needed to enjoy the world of this story, and there were times when things felt a little too coincidental, or nonsensical for the world they were in (don’t think too hard about how people on the phone are sending you things, or how/why the sonitron works that way). As others have noted, people on the phone tend to feel a little too eager to tell you things they probably wouldn’t in real life [spoiler] (Jesus Christ Davide, I’m understanding how the secret police caught you) [/spoiler] but you kind of just have to let that one go. There are a few fun little irrelevant things to find though, like [spoiler] Easter eggs to other games in the genre [/spoiler] or [spoiler] a little side conversation between characters from a previous case [/spoiler] [spoiler] (fly high Cyril Lampley, your only crime was accepting an acting job). [/spoiler]

前几关只能说挺普通的，678章非常好。跨章节查询需要自己做笔记挺恶心的。总体开看不值40块钱，也当不了鲁特里和奥伯拉丁的代餐

Haven't have this much fun in a long time on a game. Any little detail could be the difference between solving a case or not. For some reason it says "STEAM REQUIRED TO PLAY THIS GAME" or something when I open it, but the game works fine. A ton of fun, intellectually stimulating, can pause at any time and step away to do something, think about a case, and come back to it.