This Bed We Made

I was genuinely pleasantly surprised from this entire endeavor. Having said that, constantly replaying so often to get all the achievements was not exactly something I enjoyed especially because cut-scenes and dialogue was not at all skip-able, however that is a review for another game. I enjoyed the ACTUAL voice actors, not ridiculous AI voices that don't know how to keep an accent to save their lives. I loved the personality the characters had and made you either love or hate them. I never met the other maids save for the opening sequence where they're talking smack about me RIGHT in front of me... but you'd best believe just that little writing in their character development made me throw away their cigarettes so guess who's NOT going on smoke breaks? That's right. THEM. I loved the cleaning aspect and the fact that Sophie had probably the worlds best wipe cloth ever known to man-kind. The mop was the same way! I enjoyed every little nuance of the actual maid part of the game, as well as the puzzles! They weren't incredibly difficult, and so long as you're actually paying attention to what is needed- you don't really have to worry about failure. These types of deduction games are much more enjoyable when you don't get to frustrating boiling points and are forced to scour the internet for guides that may or MAY NOT have the actual solution you're looking for. All-in-all it was beautifully done. [i][u]After this line is possibly a ton of spoilers, so please refrain from clicking lest you spoil the game for yourself. (But this also contains the issues I had with the game... so... read at your discretion)[/u][/i] I have a few small issues with the way some characters spoke... like I am fully certain people in the 19-almost-60's wouldn't talk the way [spoiler]Andrew did when he catches you snooping by the Manager's office[/spoiler]. That kind of took me out of the immersion a bit, and of course the unskippables but that is really honestly it. She walks plenty fast, so while I lamented not being able to RUN... she got to the destination with a quickness. The last thing I could think of is either Sophie was incredibly dense, or her emotions need to be evaluated- [spoiler]because I'm certain if someone came across that much blood, a dead body and clearly having to touch it to leave it... she would have probably screamed. Possibly fainted- or almost did at the very least. There should have been a nice dialogue, though, of why she didn't just call the cops on the room phones- if it was because they only are for internal calls, either establish that in the beginning of the game somehow, in passing dialogue maybe with the front desk? Or when Sophie's making calls to the front? Or even when she see's the body she can mention (to herself) how she wishes the phones in the rooms made outbound calls or something. It was kind of a strange plot hole, that she was trapped on the 5th floor and HAD to move the body to call the cops... also she could have easily moved the building materials, I'm pretty sure she moved the heaviest thing there, which was the bag of plaster. So everything else could have been moved aside to descend the stairs without disturbing the body.[/spoiler] I wish that had been a route to go to further [spoiler]her innocence when she's being interrogated[/spoiler] Also this was no reflection on the game or anything like that, but I think I found a really gnarly bug. I had managed to turn on all the radios that I could, all the TVs I could, and all the water faucets I could... and even starting a new game- some of the faucets were still on, audibly. Visually they weren't. Turning them off and on again didn't stop the sound either... and it seems in doing all that glitchy-ness, I had somehow managed to glitch out [spoiler]the foot prints in the blood by the ice box, because even when not leaving foot prints, the cop accused me of walking through it- and since the faucet bug- I've never had him skip that line of questioning, he's always suspicious of me touching things even when I only take the ice pick. He constantly asks "you're a size 7, right?" indicating that he has seen my foot prints there, despite them not[/spoiler].