8/10 I The Case Of The Golden Idol Another great indie detective game that not only makes solving crimes fun and interesting but has some surprisingly good storytelling to tie everything together.
, we made the point that names are very important and indie developers are usually rubbish at them. The Case Of The Golden Idol is an exception though, in that it’s actually a rather cool sounding name that immediately gets you interested in learning more about the game.
Thanks to movies like Knives Out and See How They Run whodunnits are unexpectedly fashionable at the moment, although if games can’t even take proper advantage of the ongoing superhero craze it’s unsurprising to find that they’ve also not picked up on the resurgence of interest in detective fiction. The release of The Case Of The Golden Idol this year is almost certainly a coincidence but it’s a well-timed one, as it’s the second best detective video game ever made.
There’s no pretending that Golden Idol isn’t a fairly ugly game, at least at a first glance, but even though developer Color Gray Games didn’t have the budget for anything else the old-fashioned visuals are surprisingly good at reflecting the game’s historical setting. The graphics, especially how people are drawn, mimic hand-drawn cartoons of the era and can be amusingly macabre in terms of the violence they portray.
So, for example, the simplest observation is that person A ‘pushed’ person B off a cliff, a statement you can make to yourself on a separate ‘thinking’ screen that allows you to examine all your evidence and form a theory. You can also match faces with names, to work out who everyone is, as well as details such as where they were at the time of the crime.
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