RpauPrivate Detective
Posts : 439
Joined: 15 NOV 2002
Status : Online | I found Guilty Bastards thanks to a link provided by Joy (Thanks!! ) The homepage of the game is nice and prompt me to download and install it. The story is very common but it works since it is reasonably well written and structured. You are a private detective who is hired to solve the case of a movie-star recently strangled. You will meet and talk to several suspects, visit the scene of the crime and so on. By the way of these actions , evidence is found and here starts the best of the game. The puzzles to obtain evidence are really good and, more interesting, very varied. Some are inventory-based, some requires exploration and interaction with the environment while others recruits the memory abilities of the player. Additionally, some information and events are triggered when you show or talk about the evidences with key people. An interesting feature is that you must choose carefully the person since a bad choice can results in unwanted consequences, and even in death. The Hugo interface is very well exploited. You can see the faces of the characters, the rooms. There is music, too, tough a bit repetitive.
So, is this a great game? Maybe, but has some important drawbacks. Dead ends, lots of them. If you fail to accomplish a key puzzle you will find wandering in the city for hours asking what to do. More hints to avoid this would have been welcome. Furthermore, some actions were thought to be done early in the game and if you want to do later (when more dangers are stalking you) you can still try to do but most of your efforts will fail.
Overall, a good game that could have been better if the problems above described had been polished. But is a really interesting game worth of playing.
“even the lover of the myth is in a sense a lover of wisdom, for the myth is composed of wonders”
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