Overview: You're a police detective who's died and become a ghost (in Salem, Massachusetts). Something is keeping you from moving on. Use your ghost investigation powers to solve the mystery of your own death.
20180209:
Today I decided to play Murdered: Soul Suspect. I chose it by ordering my games on SteamDB by price and glancing down the list of games I have yet to play.
I was enjoying the atmosphere of the game and the investigation/possession mechanic seemed promising. That is, until the game introduced these demons that can only be defeated from behind (with a quick time event). It felt like it was added just for the sake of difficulty.
Then, if that weren't bad enough, I eventually ran into a bug where I was stuck in a menu and not even alt+F4 worked. I manually closed the game from the taskbar.
Setup: Increased various visual settings. Keyboard / mouse.
Steam Game Time: 58 minutes
Thoughts:
Pro:
+ Promising premise / setup.
Neutral:
~ I'm not sure what I think about the investigation mechanic. It's kind of cool, yet sometimes unintuitive.
Cons:
- "Enemies" are annoying: I tried to sneak up on a demon, somehow got spotted and had to hide, which was stupidly simple yet tedious, and then had to try two to three more times. Was this part of the game necessary?
- Ran into a bug: can't exit clues menu. The number of users commenting in a Steam thread indicated it's prevalent. Possible solutions: 1) turn off v-sync, 2) don't use touchpad, 3) windowed mode instead of fullscreen, 4) don't alt-tab when playing in fullscreen, 5) use a controller
Summary:
I saw the trailer for this game a long time ago and thought it looked cool. Unfortunately, my actual gameplay experience did not match my expectation. Of course, I suppose it didn't help that the game bugged out and I got stuck in the game menu while playing.
Murdered: Soul Suspect (PC) (2014)
Relevant Links:
Murdered: Soul Suspect (Wikipedia.org)
Murdered: Soul Suspect (PC) (MetaCritic.com)
Murdered: Soul Suspect (Steam Store Page)
20180209:
Today I decided to play Murdered: Soul Suspect. I chose it by ordering my games on SteamDB by price and glancing down the list of games I have yet to play.
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| Detective Ronan O'Connor |
I was enjoying the atmosphere of the game and the investigation/possession mechanic seemed promising. That is, until the game introduced these demons that can only be defeated from behind (with a quick time event). It felt like it was added just for the sake of difficulty.
Then, if that weren't bad enough, I eventually ran into a bug where I was stuck in a menu and not even alt+F4 worked. I manually closed the game from the taskbar.
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| Ronan talks with another ghost named Abigail. |
Setup: Increased various visual settings. Keyboard / mouse.
Steam Game Time: 58 minutes
Thoughts:
Pro:
+ Promising premise / setup.
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| Ronan is somehow able to reveal Abigail's private drawings. |
Neutral:
~ I'm not sure what I think about the investigation mechanic. It's kind of cool, yet sometimes unintuitive.
Cons:
- "Enemies" are annoying: I tried to sneak up on a demon, somehow got spotted and had to hide, which was stupidly simple yet tedious, and then had to try two to three more times. Was this part of the game necessary?
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| Ronan runs into a demon. |
- Ran into a bug: can't exit clues menu. The number of users commenting in a Steam thread indicated it's prevalent. Possible solutions: 1) turn off v-sync, 2) don't use touchpad, 3) windowed mode instead of fullscreen, 4) don't alt-tab when playing in fullscreen, 5) use a controller
Summary:
I saw the trailer for this game a long time ago and thought it looked cool. Unfortunately, my actual gameplay experience did not match my expectation. Of course, I suppose it didn't help that the game bugged out and I got stuck in the game menu while playing.
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| The player must correctly interpret flashbacks for clues. |
Murdered: Soul Suspect (PC) (2014)
Relevant Links:
Murdered: Soul Suspect (Wikipedia.org)
Murdered: Soul Suspect (PC) (MetaCritic.com)
Murdered: Soul Suspect (Steam Store Page)
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| I went into this menu screen and got stuck there. |
Date/Time
Friday, February 9, 2018
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22:10
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