Comments on: Thoughts: Chinatown Detective Agency

By: zxcvasdfqwer

zxcvasdfqwer — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:53:57 +0000

My initial thought after reading this is that the mechanics are a direct pull-through of the old 90s Carmen Sandiego games, where you had a deadline on tracking down through various locations where clues to the next location would require assorted trivia/association puzzles of knowing where to look up the information you needed in almanacs and encyclopedias.

By: Nikola Novak

Nikola Novak — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 15:18:46 +0000

Some of the screenshots remind me of the old Mean Streets. What a game it was! Not sure if you played any of the Tex Murphy adventures, I’ll check your archive shortly

By: marienz

marienz — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:30:22 +0000

Even if the developer put in some effort to make their puzzles not trivially Googleable, if it involves “copy static text from the game into Google” I’d expect that to become trivial pretty quickly because the first result is going to be a game walkthrough… And sure enough, Googling “version m3 ukwb” (from one of your screenshots) gives me a walkthrough as the second hit, and one of the Steam reviews (talking about presumably a different puzzle) mentions “The first clue I had to look up immediately took me to a walkthrough for the game, not only was it the first result on google. Google just snipped it out, and literally made the solution bold, no clicking on anything required”. So you’d have to actively avoid looking at result snippets that contain spoilers, and having to do that will make the “breaking kayfabe” effect even worse…