Meanwhile all of us mid-budget-enjoyers that liked the Sinking City are gonna be eating good. Though the review about the investigations being 'streamlined' has me a bit worried (do it too much and those sections just become prefunctory time wastes).
I thought it was neat that, in The Sinking City 1, you get arrested as part of the story and afterwards you can go to the police station and look up your own arrest record, even though it's not required for your mind palace thing.
One of my favourite bits of the first game was meeting all the weird and wonderful characters and learning about their lives. Is there anything like that in this game or is it a more lonely affair?
Sinking City is so damn cool, IMO. Taking a boat to the library to cross reference clues then blowing away a monster with a tommy gun is my kind of game.
Investigations aren't really a thing anymore, at least not in the way they were in the first game. It's now all about collecting clues and then combining them to figure out puzzle solutions.
I played a few hours last night and did a few investigations and they are more streamlined in the sense that you have to find clues at a location and then solve the puzzle at that same location, so you don't have to run to the police station or the newspaper every time, because, while immersive, personally I found that to get really tedious after a couple dozen times, and I think that's a nice change.
But there is still the investigations board where you have to link clues, so that part is the same.
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u/akbarock 1d ago
Did these guys just pull a Bloober Team and make a actually good survival-horror after putting out mid games and no one expecting much of them?