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Admin Reborn Gumby Posts: 11407 | Feel free to share anything about Psychic Detective (1996) here! ----- Now you see the violence inherent in the system! |
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Admin Reborn Gumby Posts: 11407 | Contemporary reception was lukewarm at best. To quote one professional reviewer: "Imagine you're watching Jurassic Park und you control the camera so that you can follow the plot from any character's point of view. [...] I just don't like sitting in front of my game console to watch a movie."Yeah, you didn't actually play the game, did you? Posted on Mastodon ----- Now you see the violence inherent in the system! |
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Guest | I remember finding it kind of at odds with its affordances. You have all these buttons in front of you for switching perspectives, and that's the only way to interact, so it all basically encourages you to keep on switching perspectives a lot. But in fact that's just about the worst way to get any understanding of what's going on. Posted on Mastodon |
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Admin Reborn Gumby Posts: 11407 | I agree, it has more than a few rough edges. For me, it only clicked when I understood that this is essentially just like the classic real-time mystery text adventures. Just on a continuous timeline instead of turn-based. The mind-jumping being a primary mean of movement. Seeing how short it is end-to-end, I found the "just experiment" approach quite a good match. Posted on Mastodon ----- Now you see the violence inherent in the system! |