Red Johnson's Chronicles - 1+2 - Steam Special Edition Reviews

I hate your f*cking QTE🤬

It's that stupid kind of fun. Would recommend.

I CAN'T MOVE FUCKING DIAL, MOUSE DOESNT FUCKING REACT TO ANYTHING YOU HAVE TO FUCKING WAVE IT LIKE FUCKING FLAG ON 4TH OF JULLY TO DO ANYFUCKNGTHING RELATED TO GAMEPLAY AND THER ARE A FUCKING LOT OF IT. I CAN FUCKING TURN THE FUCKING DIAL FUCKING HELLL FUCKING FUCK. This is the worst fucking piece of shit port I've ever seen. MOVE YOU STUPID FUCKING DIAL! ARRRRRRRGGHHHHH!!!!!

Got 10 minutes into the game and coudlnt continue, really annoyed that i paid for this. There are no options to change graphics settings your stuck with what they give you, you cant rebind the keys and the game seems to have alot of quick time events. Id give this game a pass or wait till its on sale.

Cool noir atmosphere, music, world remind me of The Longest Journey. Awesome characters, voice acting is one of the best in video games. Red Johnson is so hot! QTEs are horribly implemented: you must use your mouse to perform various movements and that don't work most of the times. Gameplay is very repetitive and puzzles are too difficult. I hope if the third part will be released then it will be more close to classic adventure than to collection of fucking hard puzzles which make me insane.

I feel robbed. The game is unplayable. Horrible controls and doesn't support my ultrawide monitor (the screen goes black). Had to use my secondary monitor to play. but even if the game barely has any action to it, moves awful on my Nvidia 1050Ti. I should've listened to other reviews and give the money to a poor guy or something. I never felt more ripped off. Microids must pay me to play, not vice-versa. I'd love my money back

Oy. Playing this was frustrating. There are a lot of puzzles which, even using the hint system and looking up a solution... I don't get the logic. The controls are frustrating on keyboard and mouse, as you get to try and click/drag to gesture in directions to make things happen... and the detection for what you are doing is spotty. It only does cardinal directions and there's no control customization. It's point & click & pray. The first game has a better mystery, although a bit QTE heavy. It's a bit weird to have a lot of the CSI elements handwaved away by a magic computer analyzer, but then have the "whodunnit" boil down to filling out the paperwork in detail in the form of multiple choice quizzes. And recreating awful sketches of individuals... without hints. Even referencing a picture on a wakthrough, I botched 1. That's... not good. And it ends with a bit of a cliffhanger, of course. And the studio is utterly defunct. I've had better times with hidden-object games. It's currently on sale for $2. If you're hard up for a night or two of frustrating control and math-heavy moon logic... I would not recommend paying more than that.

First of all, for windows 10 players who have problems with the game's resolution, just locate the game's exe file in the steamapps folder and tweak the compatibility setting. The system will first try to run it under win8. If the game still won't show up properly, just say so and the system will change the DPI setting automatically. That's what works for me. The art and style is totally my cup of tea. Story's great. You meet some very colorful characters. VO's good. You get the feeling you are actually investigating a case. The puzzles need multi-steps to solve, which will make you feel smart :) You can fail a puzzle too, i.e. you can accidentally erase a tape instead of ejecting it. But you get to decide when to save the game so that's some solace for the OCD in me. All in all, a very very solid entry in the point and click puzzle adventure genre for me.

Red Johnson's Chronicles: A budget detective adventure game with mostly mixed reviews, and for good reason, as it mostly leaves me with mixed feelings. This is a 2-in-1 pack of detective games, and contains a launcher for two totally separate episodes. Set in a rundown, crime-ridden big city, our protagonist is a skilled but insufferably cocky private eye who frequently solves crimes for the local cops. In the first episode, he is contracted by a bumbling patrolman to solve a random murder that may be connected to the recent prison escape of a notorious thief. In the second episode, a criminal mastermind puts a bounty on Red's head as he searches for his missing brother. Each episode takes roughly 4-5 hours to complete. Tonally, the game is very comic-book-noire; it's a serious mystery but filled with wacky offbeat characters that prevent it from being too serious. As I am writing this, Red Johnson came out almost seven years ago and has fewer than 20 reviews on Steam. I liked the look of it, though, so I gambled and picked it up on deep discount at 99 cents. I definitely feel like I got my money's worth, but I also feel like there are plenty of better mysteries and adventures that you could be spending your time with; while there are definitely positives with this game, they are ultimately outweighed by the negatives. Here are the positives: Aesthetically, Red Johnson is pretty good! The visuals in Red Johnson are quite nice, from its filthy streets to its cluttered indoor environments. I have no complaints about the environments, character models, or animations. The game's voice actors also cast well and do a fine job in carrying the story. Red Johnson also goes out of its way to really add variety to the gameplay. Puzzles are varied and include inventory puzzles, finding hidden collectibles, examining and comparing evidence, mechanical puzzles, dialog puzzles, even making police sketches based on descriptions. The stories are solidly decent - not spectacular, but also not at all bad, and they were enjoyable enough to keep me playing. It is not where the main problems with this game lie, and if you like a good mystery story, you might still enjoy the game IF you have the patience to deal with some super frustrating mechanics. There are two major negatives in my view which prevent me from recommending the game. First is the uneven game design combined with how the game treats failure. Puzzle difficulty is all over the map and ranges from trivial to impossible; sometimes objectives are extremely unclear. There is a hint system, but it's irritating, patronizing, and also costs in-game currency to use. Furthermore, there's QTEs all over the place. Dialogue puzzles sometimes require you to make wild guesses or to remember very specific details. With each puzzle, QTE, or conversation, you are always given a grade afterwards, based on time taken, hints used, and number of mistakes and if you're me, that grade is frequently not great. It autosaves over itself like crazy, too, so no save scumming allowed. The whole thing adds this crazy level of stress to what should be a nice casual experience, and punishes you for failure or even just taking a few seconds too long. The other major problem is the game's control scheme. Other reviewers mention it, but it truly is bonkers. It's not remappable, and consists of mouse+spacebar and the V, B, and N keys. And the mouse is not just click-based, there's tons of things where you need to click and also do gestures like sliding or rotating or rapidly shaking. The sensitivity for the mouse is also extremely problematic, and while lowering my mouse DPI helped a lot, it would still misregister gestures during QTEs a lot (causing failure) or make me spin my mouse in little circles for 45 seconds like a madman to lower a windowshade pixel by pixel or some such puzzle nonsense. All in all, Red Johnson is okay, but will require dealing with some pretty serious frustrations to get real enjoyment out of it. For adventure games with a similar vibe, I would instead recommend Chicken Police or Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller.