The Rise of the Golden Idol

I loved the original game and the Spider of Lanka DLC, but unfortunately The Rise of Golden Idol suffers from the same flaws as the Lemurian Vampire DLC. This series is no longer about elegant logic puzzles. It’s instead a convoluted and poorly written game of Mad Libs, requiring conjecture and word swapping to ‘solve’. I abandoned it on realising how tedious I was finding the garden scenario (I was playing offline so my play time is not accurate). I think this is the end of my time with this series.

极其糟糕的中文翻译，即使打了民间汉化补丁也于事无补，这对一个以字词排列来破解谜题的推理游戏来说就是最致命的缺点 故事逻辑松散，没有第一部环环相扣的紧密逻辑，让本就因灾难汉化难以理解的剧情变得更加迷惑（穷举试出来最后那人的动机时给我看笑了 可以说是方方面面都被第一部碾压的平庸之作

The gameplay loop is actually kind of meh, but the story is so weird and the art is so trippy that it's still fun to uncover what's going on. Definitely better with the "with highlights" setting off so that you have to click around a bit and not have everything handed to you.

An A+ mystery and a worthy sequel to the first one, which is saying something, since the first game was already incredible. A little less grisly than the first one, which you can be happy about or not I guess (I'm a bit sad about it). But if you liked the first one, you'll love this one too. And if you don't know the first one, then HOO BOY you better play that one first. ---- Also there's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of fantastic DLCs that I forgot to mention and they're all worth it

Its a very fun deduction-narrative game, but it finally falls flat by its tedious structure of getting the point and plot, but repeating the same action of trial and error by correcting adjectives, that feels like a hit and miss.

It's rare that a sequel to a good game successfully captures the magic of the original. And this one... may or may not. Depends on the player. But for everything it changes, it expands with sheer WALLs of lore. XD I enjoyed this very much, to the point where I will set it on the same quality shelf as the original. They experimented with some things, and kept true to others. There are some chapters of this game that FAR outshine the original (the apartment complex chapter is a microcosm of sheer storytelling), while still building the same world. Great game, great DLCs.

我操你的简体中文第二章监狱那关信息直接是错的恶心我半天，还有改完英语改不回去了？？？？？

把汉化包的问题解决好，就是当之无愧的神作了。

The Rise of the Golden Idol feels like half a step forward, one step back compared to the first game, but is overall still a good game. In a nutshell, I just wasn't as big a fan of the puzzles in this one. The first game had more of those good "aha moments" as you figured out what had ACTUALLY happened. Here, many cases were really just as they seemed at first glance which made for a very frictionless experience. The first game's DLC cases were maybe a bit too complex, but this was very much an overcorrection. There are just too many cases that just feel like filling out a kid's Sudoku puzzle. What's left is a killer soundtrack, some pretty good visuals, and a fun alternate history mid-20th-century setting. For the asking price I had a good time.

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