Today’s game is The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark (which I’ll just be shortening to The Darkside Detective). I played the first one back in January after me and my friend did a game exchange. I gifted him Oneshot (which I absolutely fucking loved) and in return he gifted me this. I loved the original and he ended up gifting me the sequel (unfortunately there’s Oneshot 2 I could gift him).
This game is definitely more of the first one. The humor and art work both feel the same. This one kind of has a more poppy kind of feel though to the aesthetic. Though. I will admit I was in the first case only and that was because it was a 2 hour ordeal for me.
That’s my main gripe about this game. The puzzles feel far more abstract than the last one. Like. There was a cup of coffee introduced at the start and I had to take something all the way back from the end of the level just to dunk it in the coffee. There was no indication the coffee would do that. Legit if I didn’t have the thought “may as well try the coffee” I don’t think I’d have found it.
This game really reminds me of L.A. Noire if it was a Point and Click with a Supernatural spin to it. Especially this second one which had the explorable world segments returning from the first one. With how much time I spent on it really felt a little more explorable. The original just kind of felt like “go here. Solve this set of puzzles. Then go here and do these”. The sequel is far more involved.
After the first level was done I was ready to clock out. My friend told me this one is just weirdly long so we’ll see if that’s the case. I hope not because I like this being the kind of thing I can pop on and clear in an evening or two.
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I never played it but I watched the ChristopherOdd Let’s Play of it and enjoyed it. Fun little game for sure.