Anyone else loving the feeling of being stumped?

[Rich_T]

I'm still quite early in but my brain is already being tested and I find myself thinking of possible solutions even when I am not playing :) I've missed and love this feeling and already savouring the moment and don't want it to end.

[kikaider03]

The sequel have more scenario to solve. It keep being more difficulty. The dev only give a glimmer of clue to deduction the truth.No enough clue to work around. Have to guess and try others possible combinations.

It is a well thought out game.

[darien]

Originally posted by Rich_T:

I'm still quite early in but my brain is already being tested and I find myself thinking of possible solutions even when I am not playing :) I've missed and love this feeling and already savouring the moment and don't want it to end.

It's pretty great, yeah. When they work, mystery games are awesome for just that reason, and the Golden Idol games do quite a good job of finding the right balance between stumping you but not stumping you *so* hard you just give up. :-)

[Rich_T]

28.3 hours and I am finished :) Fantastic game, felt very polished and the developers really know what works. It was just brilliant and looking forward to the DLC's very much.

[Bee]

Heck yeah. It was a great ride and everything I had hoped for from a sequel in this series. At one point half-dreaming in bed, my brain came pretty close to solving one of the storylines even though I hadn't gotten all the necessary clues in-game yet.

[Varsoon]

Honestly, it frustrated me constantly that the game's solutions were often simpler than I expected them to be. I'd constantly be punished for willing to engage more deeply with the game or give reasonable doubt to anything but nope--is someone carrying a gun? No way could it have been planted on them, it's intentional they have it. Could characters borrow or use another's lipstick or drugs? Nope, they'd only ever use their own, obviously. Think you need to pay attention to all these museum displays to riddle out where the stolen artifact came from? Nah, it's color-coded. Constantly. The solution is almost always the most route 1 let down.

I genuinely feel the first game had more deductive reasoning required for its solves, but I could be wrong here. This one felt dumbed down in a lot of ways. I still enjoyed it all the same but I was only ever stumped for overthinking rather than failing to put two and two together. If anything, it was frustrating how often this game would take the tact of giving you far too much useless information--not even red herrings, just have 10+ words you'll never use that will take up space in your word banks.