A fucking masterpiece

So does life, but here we are.

Are you really going to play this game twice?
It's not 60$ it doesn't need replay value.

It's the only detective game that I know where deductive reasoning isn't pigeonholed to "choose what happened out of those three pre-made variants".

It's playable

The contrarian levels in this post are through the roof.
But in all seriousness, what makes you feel the need to be such a contrarian?

The game's tolerable dude, relax

kek
You contrarians hate being called out so much.

not op, but it is pretty fun when you actually start to understand what happened and who people are. The doesnt hold your hand and you have to figure out stuff on your own. I really liked it. Gonna assume people that didnt like it doesnt have patience or got stuck and didnt want to try more.

>anyone who does not share my particular judgement of a game is sperging out
ok

Also personally I love the game. Incredibly neat little mystery-at-sea story which you piece together through the course of a detective puzzle that actually requires you to detectorate your way through things. The music is divine as always. Also qt indigenous Taiwanese princess gf :3

Just browse Yas Forums for a few months, that way you will lose enough brain cells to forget all the solutions and be able to replay it again. I've done this with several games now.

it's the only game I've enjoyed in years.

Probably my favorite game of 2018. One of those games I wish I could forget in order to experience it all over again.

My favorite revelation was probably finding that the chinese topmen wear different shoes, and the shoes are visible when they are sleeping

damn, didnt realize that. They werent that hard to discern anyway

They were literally impossible to discern if you didn't use this piece of knowledge. Anyone who beat the game without knowing about this or the hammock tags was just guessing.

I noticed the hammock tags but I didn't correlate them with the numbers listed in the book. Suffice to say, I was rather irritated by that.

>the game literally relies on the fact the chinese all look the same to make its most devious puzzle
beyond based

The Chinese people could look extremely different from each other and the puzzle would be the same difficulty. You still have to match names without knowing who's who, just like with any other person on the ship.

What about Her Story

我觉得你应该不说,傻子。

> First two chapters are literally irrelevant, the hidden seventh chapter is inconsequential and pointless.

Sloppy.

It has some really annoying flaws that kept me from finishing, mostly to do with usability. It should be much easier to get into a specific memory tied to information you have. I know that there were several points where I went "I need to get back to the scene with the dudes on the life boats" or whatever and then I had to try and figure out which fucking unmarked corpse on the boat was the one I was looking for, even though I have all sorts of logs and data about that memory in my journal from which it should have been trivial to revisit.

In a game that's largely about trying to remember specific details and piece things together about them, making it so arbitrary how you got back to those spaces was pretty dumb.

There's a number of cases in the game where relying on steretypes can lead to the wrong conclusions. I was entirely convinces the guy with the tattoos was scottish because he looked like someone of of braveheart.

The first two chapters make for a great epilogue, which weirdly enough makes them a great introduction too. Seeing the remaining crew murder each other to death because they have nothing left is gr8.
The hidden last chapter was a fucking let-down, though. Literally nothing.
In our defence, that guy's tattoos do not look papua new guinean at all.

I got his nationality (or close to it) right away because he looked like fucking Queequeg

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The accident that happens in the first chapter does play into minor events later though.

>I was entirely convinces the guy with the tattoos was scottish because he looked like someone of of braveheart.
He was obviously french because he was torn apart and nobody could have been torn apart outside of a memory. Obviously.

You get at least a couple of named crewmen you can see in numbered hammocks, whose number matches the position of their name in the ship's passenger manifest, so it's definitely not impossible to put it together this way

It's ok.
Saying something is ok is not some next level contrarian statement. I define it as being just "ok" because, to me, these kinds of detective games need me to get invested in the characters, which I wasn't in this game; and this wasn't due to any failure in their part, but because that was never the intent of the game to begin with, and that's fine, but that will still subtract from my subjective evaluation of the game.

Also name me more detective/mystery games. I'm starved for them in the quarantine and played everything I could.

>First two chapters are literally irrelevant
Calm before the storm, not to mention the second chapter is a chance to show most of the crew and give vital information on almost half of them while the shit's not hitting the fan.

In regards to the hidden chapter, i thought the thing with the monkey was really cool. It also explained how the ship actually got eventually got home. But i will admit it was not the most interesting chapter in the game

Nah fuck that I was invested from the outset. The ship itself is the interesting character.

Have you played ghost trick or the ace attorney series? They are great character driven mystery games.

But his tattoos are literally ooga-booga stereotype.

Also, outer wilds is a really good mystery game.

I loved it as well, soundtrack was great too. Only real problem is that it takes a little too long to load back into the bit you want and the locked chapter was a bit of a letdown. I started Papers Please last night and its pretty good so far but I fucked up the first few days royally so only my wife is currently alive.

Yes, to both. Also played Danganroppa, Your turn to die, Unheard, tried Murder by Numbers but found it boring as shit...Played the 999, Zero Time Dilemma, Virtue's Last Reward. Played AI: Somnium Files. Played Zanki Zero...

I think that's all.

>But his tattoos are literally ooga-booga stereotype.
If you ignore the face tattoos and fail to think even a second about what year it is in the game, I can see someone thinking those were woad tattoos.

I will try this one, thank you.

Half of the game is literally padding. Why can't I just go from scene to scene, why do I need to walk through the ship over and over again. What does that add to the game. What a waste of time. Otherwise it's ok I guess

Still, I am pretty sure the Chinese topmen in particular only rely on noticing their socks and shoes in the hammocks. There's nothing else I could find.

They look Celtic. They don't look papua new guinean at all. Pope fucked up a few times like this, like with the Taiwanese fuckers speaking Chinese.

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tfw seeing the fight against the crab monster through the planks and hearing this for the first time.

game confused the shit out of me with all of the looping/time warp shit, what with the pocket watch, the doors and all of that
I could barely ever tell where I was in time

If you go into the countryside enough in Britain during that time period you would find full celtic niggers.

>There's a number of cases in the game where relying on steretypes can lead to the wrong conclusions.
This is the reason why I had the carpenter and the carpenter's mate switched for hours.

No? I managed to find them without using hammocks tags. Though I cant remember how I did it so maybe I was just guessing.

> guy with the tattoos was scottish because he looked like someone of of braveheart.
Same

kek

I mean me too, but only because wouldn't having a black man ordering a white man around IN AMERICA be weird as fuck? It was already weird in the UK in the early 20th century, and that place and time was a lot less racist than late 18th century America.

Did Celts do full body tattoos at 1800-s though?
> the Taiwanese fuckers speaking Chinese.
It's one of chinese dialects.

and to be honset, could anyone non-chinese or taiwanese tell?

>Did Celts do full body tattoos at 1800-s though?
Probs not desu but I'd allow it in a piratey game like this. Either way I deliberately looked up "papua new guinea tattoos" and "papua new guinea ritual scars" when I saw that nigga, saw they looked nothing like what he had, and decided he couldn't be papua new guinean and now I am mad.
>It's one of Chinese dialects
Indigenous Taiwanese people do not speak Chinese of any form.

Me, nigger. I was playing this game while practicing for my Chinese final exams.

Only game where I actually felt like a detective. Kind of wish it had a more frightening atmosphere, though. Maybe as you figure out more stuff and fill out your book, you see stuff moving in the corner of your eye, just to give you the sense of someone watching you.

This. That one flashback where they're all sleeping in the bunks went from worthless to indispensable after I realised that.

No fuck that shit I hate horror games, the spooky atmosphere they already had is quite enough for me.

Someone post the pasta about learning chinese and how it is a mistake if you want to use it for business. I will correct myself
>non-chinese, non-taiwansese and non-chinese learning people

I went back to that flashback multiple times, but I could never find anything like that...

>I'd allow it in a piratey game like this.
It's piratey, so some tropical fuck is much more probable than Celtic tattoo-head. Okay, I was bamboozled too by russian guy, who participated in shooting execution, I was sure that only british people were allowed to bring justice under crown.
>do_not_learn_mandarin.jpg

Good thing I'm a huge humanitiesfag and I'm learning it so I can then learn Classical Chinese and read ancient Chink literature.
The pasta's kind of wrong. I mean, yes, Chinese businesses will try and make as much money as humanly possible at your expense, but that's not why learning it for business is bad. It's bad because there's way more Chinks who know English than Anglos who know Chink, and the Chinks who know English are totally okay with salaries we'd think are way too low. You've just got too much competition.
You should read some piratey shit some time nigga. Obviously it's mostly Anglo-centric, and Anglo-centric stuff has a lot of celtic shit in it. Welshfags and Cornishfags pop up a lot. Remember that the entire pirate accent is literally just a West Country accent with a bit more grizzle to it.

The flashback where everyone is sleeping is probably the most information-rich in the entire game. On the top of my head You can connect crew numbers to a bunch of people, you can see the persian guy's sword hanging by his bunk, you can identify the indians and you get hints about who the russians are because they are playing cards nearby

Honestly tho that attitude's a nigger attitude to have. It's the attitude that lead to Pope having a bunch of Americans voicing Welsh and English characters because to his ears their accents were alright. But to anyone from the region they were horrific, and that's a big fucking deal because if you hear the wrong accent you'll assume they're from the wrong region. Apparently Americans aren't used to the idea that an accent can place you in a very specific geographic region and social class.

Luckily everyone's identity can be figured out without hearing their voices.

That's why he thought it was fine. But you've missed the point -- if I hear someone's accent, and it sounds scottish, I will assume that they're scottish even if all the other evidence points to them being from the north of England and it turned out the voice actor just got the wrong accent.