The Shapeshifting Detective

I love classic adventure and detective games. I have loads of experience with FMV games and have always liked them. I could not bring myself to play this game for more than nine minutes. Every single thing about it was pretentious and annoying, and even at the sale price I snagged ($2.50 or so) I was inclined to request a refund.

Bored conversations, all you can do is try out all of the character and talked every options. There is no surprise that I try to be fun and adventurous in these two hours, and there is no feedback. From trying to expose yourself or get drunk or try to irritate others, then you get nothing. The dull conversation waste all my patience, and I can't even skip them or making them talk quicker by any chance.

I was entertained for some time. Everything falls apart at the end, tho. With multiple endings and multiple killers within these endings, the whole story is kind of a pointless waste of time, as there isn't a definitive answer to what is truly happening or who is actually at fault.

Kind of wish there was just a neutral option, but I ultimately didn't like this. The idea is really neat. A "shapeshifting detective" has a lot of potential as a story hook (and it's definitely not something I've ever seen before), but I thought the execution was fairly poor overall. The story is confusing, a lot of choices are just there to waste your time, and it just gets extremely tedious to play at points. There's also a lot of weird dialogue that I didn't care for, but it just wasn't for me, in the end. So I can't really recommend it.

First fmv game so I I don't want to give a negative review despite it's flaws. There's an annoying bug when going to the next chapter and the acting was cringy sometimes. Also, killer reveal was kinda underwhelming on my playthrough (idk if it's just for that one specific killer because it's randomized apparently) and some details about the murder iirc wasn't explained at all. Still, I played all the way because the idea was truly interesting.

I'd give it a very soft recommendation. The story and the mechanics were interesting.... and the live action part was pretty new for me for a video game. The transition was a bi abrupt and choppy for me.

6/10

Kısa ve etkiliydi. Diyalog çeşitliliği ve karakterler arasında geçiş yapmak süreci hızlandırdı ama bir o kadar da etkileyiciydi. (It was short and effective. The variety of dialogue and the transitions between characters sped up the process, but were equally impactful.)

Not my fave of the weird 'real people' murder games, but it wasn't bad.

no idea what this is....