DETECTIVE - Stella Porta case Reviews

Would I recommend this game? No. Just no. A thousand times no! I can't think of any "pros" so, let me just go through a few of the "cons." First of all, the movement was agonizingly slow. If you think other walking sims are slow, you haven't played this one yet. It makes other walking sims feel like racing games. I have a pretty decent system and rarely have problems with other games, so I have to think it's the game mechanics. Story? What story? I wouldn't really call it a story. It was fairly unimaginative, not very cohesive, and pretty lame. Graphics? Nothing to write home about. In fact, they were pretty uninspiring. Not great. And then there are the little 3 text narratives you get after you complete each of the three cases. Whoever wrote the ones in English was OBVIOUSLY not a native English speaker. Genders kept getting mixed up. For example, the pronouns used for a woman were often, "he," and "him," or "his." And vice-versa for men. And it wasn't just a one-off, it was recurrent throughout the game. It would have been very confusing, however, it was easy to infer who they were talking about and you soon realized these were typos, or rather errors in translation. I cannot believe I played this game until the end. I usually quit after 15-20 minutes when a game just isn't doing anything for me. I probably spent a total of 35-40 minutes game time. I don't know, because the movement was so slow and the game was so boring, I took several breaks. I paused the game, walked away, and came back to it several times. I don't know why I kept going back to finish the game, because DETECTIVE - The Stella Porta case was easily the lamest game I've ever played. Perhaps I stayed in it just for the achievements. You know, "I've come this far, I must as well get the rest of the achievements." It was an easy enough game and anyone who plays should have no problems getting all the achievements. I like supporting independent game developers, and I've played a bunch of really great indie games, but this wasn't one of them. I paid almost 8 bucks for this game, and IMO, it was too much for this very short and uninspiring game. If you must play it, make sure it's on sale.