This is largely an interactive fiction game. You play as a detective solving monstrous crimes! Play three exciting cases with 12 diverse and deep characters to solve the mysteries! Follow the trail of clues and use your puzzle solving skills to reach the climactic conclusion!
Controls: Mouse. Definitely just the mouse.
Click on people or bodies to interact with them. Click on items then people or bodies to use the item. Click to skip text typing.
Credits: Nathan Patel (@gnatpat) - Programming Felix Marrington-Reeve - Art Tom Odell - Music Archie Evans - Programming + SFX
Holy crap this is polished! The motion and feel is perfect for a detective game. If it followed the theme better this would get straight 5s all across the board from me :)
This was a great entry. Another one I was looking forward to play as I watched its development. Great overall. Was not expecting it to morph into a fighting game.
omg this was so fun. first solving the murder, then a dark-souls-esque (stretching it a bit) boss fight. the mood is the best i've seen in all the entries I've tried, very well done! cover art very interesting, it's what drew me in!
Though I liked the fighting sequences the real meat of the game is the interrogation mechanic. The animations were well done and the dialog was humorous. Great job!
Great job! The title animation looks like the guy is jerking off. :D Having the text read out faster or be there instantly would've made this more enjoyable to play.
I loved the art, the sound, the mood this game gave off. It was really fun to solve those cases. The only problem is it doesn't really follow the theme until the fight with a monster. It was fun!
Wow, this game is really well done! Great cases, good audio, nice pixel-graphics and it looks very polished. Are you planning to release this game? I hope so :-)
Just finished all 3 cases, fantastic game! I absolutely loved how the instructions actually like, and it turning into an action fighting game all of a sudden was a pleasant surprise! The humor was great too!
Great idea for the theme; not only is it original, it gives you a whole framework for setting up these detective stories. The art was great, and I particularly liked the protagonist design.
The fights were frustrating at first, but after I approached it as solving the puzzle of their movement patterns vs. viewing it as a pure action sequence, I enjoyed them more.
A short finale sequence after solving all three cases would have been a nice capstone.
The visual brought me back to the time when I still had my Game Boy! I really enjoyed the detective parts, but I had a rough time with the fighting mode. Great job, guys!
Loved the story parts, they reminded me of Phoenix Wright games. I wished the cases would've been more problem solving and less fighting as I think the fighting was the weakest part of the game. Loved the atmosphere, story and graphics though. Good job!
It's a very good game, I liked it! Graphics are good especially monsters sprites. The three stories are fun and the game is very polished. This is a great entry, good job!
Totally engaging through the entire length of the gameplay! The writing is dynamic and funny in each case, the boss fights are spectacular. Enjoyed it very much! Great work!
Super cool game! A really well-implemented mystery interrogation game followed by an acceptable fighting thingy. And three whole cases! Thats a lot of content for 72 hours. Awesome job.
First of all, really nice polish and effort on display here. Loved the art and the quirky little stories.
The gameplay I wasn't totally happy with. The adventure part kind of has that all-too-typical adventure game story/puzzle disconnect where your character is a detective who solves mysteries but all you actually do is complete errands for people and rub objects on each other until something happens. But the stories were all pretty silly, so in that way it didn't really matter as much.
The boss fights kinda came outta nowhere with no fore-warning and I found them more irritating than fun. A boss battle is to a game level as a final exam is to the term's coursework, so this was like if I spent a term studying underwater basket weaving and then got to the exam and it asked me to write an essay on Shakespeare.
I really liked it, and very well done and very innovative. The graphics are very well done. And the surprise case endings was perfectly unexpected! Keep up the awesome work.
This is a great game, nice approach of the theme, the dialogs are funny and I truly enjoyed solving the cases (but I must admit that although I find it innovative, I really hated the fighting... I just refreshed the game to solve each case from the start...)
This game is great! I love the original concept, the artwork, and the humour. I feel that the fight scenes were a little restricted, but I still think it's cool that each was different.
Quite funny point 'n' click detective game, which actually had some pretty good twists. Plus I love the animation The fighting parts were a bit weak however, you can easily beat all three monsters with just one technique over and over again.
A refreshingly original take on the theme. Brilliant mood, straight off the bat I was engrossed in your sepia-tinted world of mystery and intrigue, the title music was the perfect opening and immediately set the tone for the rest of the game.
The dialog system was smooth and being able to skip text once you've finished reading prevented any frustration or unnecessary waiting around.
My only harsh critique is that the fight scene feels quite out of place and detracts from the main strength of the game which is the dialogue and story.
I always like when a game subverts expectations. When I first got into the combat part though I found the controls (mostly hit detection) to be off putting, I think it's important to have a well polished second part when you pull a switcheroo like that. ^_^ Once I got the hang of it though, I finished all three chapters fairly easily. Nice work on this.
First boss was easy stuff... after learning to jump with him not away :P Fun though! the blinks should be faster and not as long though... there were a couple time i had no clue where my guy was lol
Very nice entry! The cases were interesting. The fighting was a bit less fun, since the movement was not so smooth. The music is good. I like the art style. Well done!
Nice detective game! So rare to see something like this in LD.
I think I would have preferred a shorter, more compact experience to the amount of content you managed to make here. Sequences like the fight (which is blocking but results in no penalty but a time drain) were exciting but I feel could have been achieved using less intrusive designs (for instance, a short mini game that uses the mouse).
Otherwise great writing, art and ideas. Good stuff!
Found a bug where if you get a double KO in the fighting part, you still get a win but the battle music doesn't stop. Other than that, absolutely loved the storytelling plus the parts where you accuse the suspect of being the monster reminds me so much of the Ace Attorney games.
Nice entry. I really liked the story, depth and different characters. The graphics (outside of fights) were very nice. The fights were funny, but not that fun.
I really like the narritive, music and graphics. Point and clicks as a genre rely majorly on content and having lots of it so I don't think it's the best choic for a jam. That said, with the limited amount of time what you managed to create was impressive and well done. The fighting mechanics were quite clunky but that's understandable. Overall, great entry!
Really enjoyed solving the cases. Nice mechanic there, great art, it was wonderful. I found your use of the theme pretty refreshing too. I must admit I didn't enjoy the switch to a fighting game. It felt unnecessary for me. The case solving was more than enough (maybe if I didn't find it impossible to beat the monster I'd feel differently though).
Every part of this entry just *worked* together, the pixel art, the low-colour palette, the tweening motion, the beautiful sound effects, the music, the gameplay, the humour, the weird combination of game genres. Every part had its place and worked to make an excellent and enjoyable whole.
Great sound and a nice look. It delivered a fun flowing story. If you decide to take this further, the monster fights seem a little out of genre and might be jarring to fans of this slower paced style of game. Nice job!
Awesome entry! a lot of content for just 3 days! Loved all 3 of the cases and the art was superb, good job!
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DDRKirby(ISQ)7 Sep 2015, 21:08
Amazing! Not only did you manage a polished detective-style game, but when the fight scene started I was like omg, this is like Nightshade!!!
To be honest the fight scene was probably a bit unnecessary but I guess it works well enough. Art style really works well here, good job with the palette and I think the manipulation of the sprites works well. Great job guys, looking forward to reading your blog posts!
I liked the investigation parts but the fight parts, not so much. @richardjs already mentioned the puzzle approach and I think that the fights could've been a better fit to the game if they were less action oriented and even more puzzle like. Like having to figure out the monsters weakness and then defeating it with a single move or something. As is I just don't feel the fight scenes really added to the game.
Wow, that was amazing! Great visuals and gameplay. Those battles were a really nice change of pace. The humor was also great, probably the funniest game I played this LD. I really enjoyed this a lot, good job!
A wonderful entry all together! The fights were hard to figure out because they are a bit unresponsive and it's hard to judge exactly what will land and what won't, thereby ending up in a bunch of restarts, at which point I have to listen to the instructions again. A faster retry would make fighting a lot more enjoyable.
That had to be described in a long text but it is an extremely minor complaint in an awesome entry. Well done!
Really great and polished game. I don't know what else to say but congratulations for the exceptionnal job you've done. The humour is great, the art is awesome, the sounds superb, everything is perfect. Might have liked something like a stamp thing when a case was done and this'll get you only 1/5.. Just kidding ;) here's your A+ sirs.
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I love the style and the choosen colors^^ (we have chosen the same color palette ;) )
COOL STORY! Really enjoyed playing it, it really got me! ;)
Great overall. Was not expecting it to morph into a fighting game.
The second part of the cases rekt'd me ;-;
I had some problems, like more dialog options than space though. I can't remember how I ended there and I can't reproduce it anymore.
The best case was the first one with The MONSTER CLOWN.
EPIC
WELL DONE!
Are you planning to release this game? I hope so :-)
Superb job!
The fights were frustrating at first, but after I approached it as solving the puzzle of their movement patterns vs. viewing it as a pure action sequence, I enjoyed them more.
A short finale sequence after solving all three cases would have been a nice capstone.
I also made a story game, maybe you'll like it
bit bummed that i was never the monster though.
-Loi LeMix
I definitely felt the beat-em-up sections at the end were the weakest part. But they were still plenty fun and each monster made me laugh.
Great entry, now words. Its brilliant polished game. All is done perfectly
The gameplay I wasn't totally happy with. The adventure part kind of has that all-too-typical adventure game story/puzzle disconnect where your character is a detective who solves mysteries but all you actually do is complete errands for people and rub objects on each other until something happens. But the stories were all pretty silly, so in that way it didn't really matter as much.
The boss fights kinda came outta nowhere with no fore-warning and I found them more irritating than fun. A boss battle is to a game level as a final exam is to the term's coursework, so this was like if I spent a term studying underwater basket weaving and then got to the exam and it asked me to write an essay on Shakespeare.
But I had fun with it nonetheless. :)
The fighting parts were a bit weak however, you can easily beat all three monsters with just one technique over and over again.
The dialog system was smooth and being able to skip text once you've finished reading prevented any frustration or unnecessary waiting around.
My only harsh critique is that the fight scene feels quite out of place and detracts from the main strength of the game which is the dialogue and story.
However, other than that, fantastic game! 5/5
funny and good graphics..
the point'n click part is maybe too linear but there are three cases: impressive work!
The cases were interesting. The fighting was a bit less fun, since the movement was not so smooth. The music is good. I like the art style. Well done!
I think I would have preferred a shorter, more compact experience to the amount of content you managed to make here. Sequences like the fight (which is blocking but results in no penalty but a time drain) were exciting but I feel could have been achieved using less intrusive designs (for instance, a short mini game that uses the mouse).
Otherwise great writing, art and ideas. Good stuff!
Still a great entry though, no question :)
Love how you turned the theme!
I can't believe that you could do all that in so little time... this is... monstrous! :D
A really fresh entry! Nice work.
To be honest the fight scene was probably a bit unnecessary but I guess it works well enough. Art style really works well here, good job with the palette and I think the manipulation of the sprites works well. Great job guys, looking forward to reading your blog posts!
Love to see a point&click adventure on LD!
Solved all three cases. 8)
The fights were hard to figure out because they are a bit unresponsive and it's hard to judge exactly what will land and what won't, thereby ending up in a bunch of restarts, at which point I have to listen to the instructions again. A faster retry would make fighting a lot more enjoyable.
That had to be described in a long text but it is an extremely minor complaint in an awesome entry. Well done!