The more I played this game the less I liked it.

[Yappaholic]

When I started I thought it was a solid 8/10 game and was really surprised how good it was but wow did it drag in the worst possible wway. Why are you fighting the giant over and over spamming the same moves. The stealth sections get so incredibly obnoxious not because they are overly hard but just tedious because there are very specific routes. They never introduce any flavor to the combat. The level up system is horrific and feels borderline pointless. It's a shame because the dialague + story + characters + voice acting are top notch. But wow by the end I was just begging for it to be over. So many LONG w key segments with nothing going on. I think afterwards it ends at a 6/10 for me. They really just showed the best they had in the opening couple levels and never added or built on anything. The giant snake was fun. But that was about the only magic in the second half. Am I the only one who felt this way? I really wanted to love it but man it felt like a chore to finish.

[katzenkrimis]

Originally posted by Yappaholic:

Wow did it drag in the worst possible way.

Am I the only one who felt this way?

It felt like a chore to finish.

Tough crowd.

But understandable.

Gamers are the least patient humans on the planet.

Saying that a fifty-hour game drags on, doesn't compute.

The level up system is perfectly balanced for such a short game. If you rush through it you won't earn enough to try other skills. Not that a gamer who is on the clock would care about learning new skills.

This game sets such an example for Frogwares on how to properly design their Sherlock Holmes games that I have to give it a thumbs up.

12,000 people played it.

That's more than 12 times the number that play those godawful Holmes games.

[emitfudd]

I'm only in the second area and already bored with the game.

[Spartan448]

Eh. You probably just don't like immersive sims. If you like the dialogue and the characters but don't like how it plays, then don't feel bad about it - different people enjoy different games differently; ♥♥♥♥, I'm not a big fan of BG3 and everyone raved over that one. Just queue up a LP of the game and watch it in your spare time or leave it on in the background, and don't worry about ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ who think its some kind of cardinal sin if you don't enjoy consuming products you don't enjoy consuming.

[Yappaholic]

Originally posted by Spartan448:

Eh. You probably just don't like immersive sims. If you like the dialogue and the characters but don't like how it plays, then don't feel bad about it - different people enjoy different games differently; ♥♥♥♥, I'm not a big fan of BG3 and everyone raved over that one. Just queue up a LP of the game and watch it in your spare time or leave it on in the background, and don't worry about ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ who think its some kind of cardinal sin if you don't enjoy consuming products you don't enjoy consuming.

Would not call that an immersive sim at all. The enemies are completely janky. The fighting makes no sense in the real world it's completely cartoonish. People can eat literal bullets from point blank in the head. What. That's the weirdest category Ive ever heard someone call this game. The biggest problem though really is after you've played 1/3 maybe even 1/4 of the game you've seen everything other then some cool puzzles nothing adapts changes or challenges the player in any other wway. There's no evolution of gameplay. It's a shame.

[Yappaholic]

Originally posted by katzenkrimis:

Originally posted by Yappaholic:

Wow did it drag in the worst possible way.

Am I the only one who felt this way?

It felt like a chore to finish.

Tough crowd.

But understandable.

Gamers are the least patient humans on the planet.

Saying that a fifty-hour game drags on, doesn't compute.

The level up system is perfectly balanced for such a short game. If you rush through it you won't earn enough to try other skills. Not that a gamer who is on the clock would care about learning new skills.

Has nothing to do with patience. There's no pay off, there's no deep systems under the hood theres no evolution of gameplay. In fact this game is the complete opposite in that it shows you exactly what it is in the first 3 hours and then for the next 10 does the exact same thing with maybe a slightly different color pallete. OTHER then the puzzles which I thought were all very well done.

[Origami]

I dropped it halfway through the Vatican. I was bored to death, honestly.
Starting an adventure game with hours of fetch quests and photography missions was not my idea of a good time.

[Yappaholic]

Originally posted by Origami:

I dropped it halfway through the Vatican. I was bored to death, honestly.
Starting an adventure game with hours of fetch quests and photography missions was not my idea of a good time.

Honestly that was easily one of the worst levels. Atleast the later open world areas were flat so you could just sprint everywhere. But ya. if you hated that you would not have liked much else. It's such a shame cause there really is a good game buried in there but man they focused on the wrong thing. All the open world did was just add boring hold W key fluff time to the game.

[JacEEEBABY]

The game has no replay value, it holds your hand while costing 70$, its a failure imo.

[Yappaholic]

Originally posted by JacEEEBABY:

The game has no replay value, it holds your hand while costing 70$, its a failure imo.

Oh god I could not imagine ever replaying it. Beat it once on Xbox gamepass and probably hated the last 1/3 of it.

[Rocco_96]

I haven't played the game, but I dislike how so many games now cram in an XP system and collection of resources so you can upgrade your character and add skilss and improve equipment. Why can't Indiana Jones be fully capable from the start? Why go thru this grind of collection XP and other points?

[Samz]

I don't think the game gets terrible towards the end but I do think the Siam section is pretty meh.

The boat feels pretty slow and the boss fight near the end is kind of bad imo.

That said I think it picks up fast after it and I loved the finale.

[Waldo]

Yeah its just not a very good game

[TimObscene]

It's mid. I was enjoying it but crashes have really killed my motivation. The save system just feels jank. I'll give my latest example to keep it short. I'm in the jungle section and I'mm hunting down the medicine bottles. I have 5 more to collect at 3 different dock locations. I go to all 3, collect the bottles and start heading to the village to exchange them. About halfway there there BOOM game crashes. I load back in and I'm 3 docks away with 5 medicine bottles to collect again.... WTF??

[JefferyNothing]

Originally posted by Origami:

I dropped it halfway through the Vatican. I was bored to death, honestly.
Starting an adventure game with hours of fetch quests and photography missions was not my idea of a good time.

You dont have to do any of that though if you dont want. This is a you issue really. Just progress through the story if thats all that interests you.

[Yappaholic]

Originally posted by Titus:

Originally posted by Origami:

I dropped it halfway through the Vatican. I was bored to death, honestly.
Starting an adventure game with hours of fetch quests and photography missions was not my idea of a good time.

You dont have to do any of that though if you dont want. This is a you issue really. Just progress through the story if thats all that interests you.

Even if you don't want to do any of the side stuff you still have to just hold W through the open world back track and walk all around it in 90% of the open wworld parts.