30 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 7.6 hrs on record (1.4 hrs at review time)
Posted: Dec 2, 2019 @ 11:47am

Been trying to figure out what bugs me about this game. In most sneaker-type games, the guards move in defined movement, but in Serial Cleaner, the movement is modified after every objective. So, as I get closer to the end of the level, the guards have increasingly unexpected movement. And when I was caught by a surprise movement, toward the end of the mission, the gameplay gave me little interest in going back to do it again.

Also, the time it takes to get into the gameplay is tedious. Instead of a end-of-level cutscene, there is a dialogue that requires moving around a house map, to get news about previous missions. I am not sure that the mission stories are so funny or interesting that they need follow-up. I cannot see something that compels me to keep playing these missions, as each one feels like shoplifting sacks of potatoes and tossing them in the back of a car.

There were some pleasant extras, such as the famous-movies extra maps, and the scratchy-record music provided a decent soundtrack. But the price on this seems way higher than what I would expect for this rather simple game interface. The game does take up 2,600 MBs of diskspace (somehow), and it uses the Unity game engine (oh that's how). The game asks for permission to obtain the local IP address in the settings, but it is not made clear how it is used in the game. I think most Unity games obtain these types of metrics, anyway, and I think the developers got some people upset unnecessarily by saying it. Anyway, I vacuumed some blood with an Ubuntu Linux desktop and used radeon mesa graphic drivers and an xbox-type gamepad controller.
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2 Comments
buckysrevenge Dec 2, 2019 @ 6:39pm 
From what I remember, the devs said the game uses your IP address to estimate your location to determine your local time so it can set the level to day time or night time. Seems like a weird way to set this up, IMO
Evgueni [Linux user] Dec 2, 2019 @ 5:15pm 
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