Really, before a game like this is released, you should pay a proofreader (in this case someone fluent in the English language) a few Euros (or whatever the case), to tidy up the often very poorly written text in this app. It wouldn’t cost a lot and would ultimately make the world of difference to the user experience. The use of English in this game is so bad in places that it’s embarrassing.
Obviously whoever designed it thought that their grasp of the English language was good enough to somehow wing it. Well, IT ISN’T!!! Sloppy!!!
And honestly, even if the use of the English language was properly executed in this app, the script itself also needs a LOT of work. For example, text written by a supposed school principle reads like it was written by a child, including dumb assumptions and logical fallacies that no-half intelligent adult would make.
Examples:
‘I didn’t know this kid well’, and in the very same sentence; “I don’t think this guy had any enemies”.
Eh?!? What???
‘He’s dead and there’s a note, so it MUST be a suicide note’.
Really? Must it? Okay, ‘principle’.
This may seem hyper-critical but it seems like this script was not carefully considered at all, but rather bashed out in about 5 minutes by someone with zero script-writing ability, or credentials.
It needed more thought.
At first I considered paying the £1.79p to remove the game ads but then I thought, if you can’t even be bothered to write a believable or well-conceived script for this game, or to ensure that the use of language in the game is not full of errors, then I can’t be bothered to give you my money!
Aside from that, this game has some good reviews and overall it isn’t the worst of its kind, it might even be one of the better games of its type on the market, maybe. However, I quickly became bored with it and deleted it after just two days. Another criticism is that some of the in-game ‘tips’ were frankly useless and very unclear, again, not helped by the sloppy and mangled execution of the English language!
Personally I crave a detective game which focuses on finding and following the clues of a case and cross-examining suspects and witnesses (like L.A Noir), not just solving endless irrelevant puzzles for the sake of it. I don’t expect ultra-realism from these kinds of games but I’m pretty sure real-life (or even fictional) detectives don’t spend all their time cracking endless 3-digit codes and such, ad nauseam. If I wanted a puzzle game, I would download a puzzle game!
So the search for a well-designed and well-executed detective game to play on my iPad continues, but this certainly wasn’t it.
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