Liar Trick -Psychological Crime Mystery-

[h1]Trick Me Once…[/h1] Winter hibernation hit me hard even before winter actually started…But now I am ready to return to reviewing. At least I think so. My writing skills are a bit rusty right now, so please, bear with me – I will do my best to describe all important parts of [b]Liar Trick -Psychological Crime Mystery-[/b] while keeping it short and fun. A pinky promise. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2301337546 [b]Pros:[/b] [list] [*]The idea. If you are a big fan of criminal shows that involve psychology and similar topics, like The Mentalist, Criminal Minds or Lie to Me, then you will definitely enjoy the gameplay. By the way, I found this visual novel pretty educational too – it gives you a lot of facts and info about various books, people or techniques connected with the craft; [*]Unique and interesting gameplay. I will talk about it more in the second big part of the review, but to cut a long story short, Liar Trick combines not only mechanics common for the genre, but also its own unique additions that have not been used before. And this mix works really well; [*]Characters’ design. While I do have some questions about Aska’s costume – in …

[i]Liar Trick[/i] is a mystery visual novel with gameplay focused on analyzing facial expressions to detect lies. The gameplay is a unique and interesting take on the detective genre; however, issues with the UI and the recently added English translation can add frustration to the experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8vsQymO7BE [i]Liar Trick[/i] is primarily based on the work of Paul Ekman, who posited that there are universal facial expressions that indicate particular emotions, and by observing subtle minute changes in someone’s expression, it’s possible to tell whether they’re lying or being truthful. The gameplay mainly consists of watching a suspect’s face and identifying the emotions displayed, choosing which responses were suspicious and should be investigated further, and answering multiple-choice questions to solve the mystery based on the information you’ve learned. Of course, facial expression analysis is simplified and fictionalized for the sake of the game, and Ekman’s theories are controversial, to begin with. But the developer obviously put a lot of research into this project and shows their work, citing several resources to check out if you’re interested …

A pretty good detective game that uses facial expressions as their main gameplay focus which is unique compared to other similar titles. It's very satisfying when you succesfully identify the faces and exposing the truth. A lot of the theories used in the game is well researched and a big kudos to the developer for this. The characters are also pretty likable from what I've experienced. The English translation is not too good but definitely understandable and readable. But this issue is definitely understandable as the devs might not have enough resources to translate properly. Overall I like the game a lot and definitely recommended for people who likes Detective games! Will also look forward for the developer future games!

[h1]A wonderful experience, with a unique and interesting idea. [Joy: Truthful] (Eng and PT-BR review)[/h1] [b]At first I found the game quite strange, then I started to understand what all the emotions shown on the mannequin were about and I knew I was facing a unique and brilliant idea for a game.[/b] [i]In short: due to an accident Patrick Truth lost the ability to express emotions but gained photographic memory, becoming a true human lie detector. With a strong desire to expose all people's lies, Patrick becomes a police consultant, evaluating and resolving the most diverse cases based on interrogations of the suspects and those involved. During these interrogations, the player must observe people's faces and correctly identify the emotions displayed and assess whether they are true or false and within the context of the testimonies to find out if they are lying. Associated with Patrick's great reasoning ability and deductions, the player will solve several cases while knowing more about the characters in the game and discovering some surprises involving Patrick's peculiar condition.[/i] [list] [*]The most innovative aspect of the game is due to the gameplay of identifying …

I have mixed feeling about the game, Its one of those game that I would group similar to Pheonix Wright, whether through its gameplay or perhaps thematically. The game mainly concentrate on exposing lies in order to solve the case. There almost no investigative gameplay going on other than detecting facial feature or deduction on the whole narrative. Though I applaud that the game wants to try something different, but different doesnt necessarily means fun.I do enjoy the characters and the story, but at the end it doesnt resolve all of the mysteries and sets up a sequel. If the sequel does come out one day, I hope the developer would find a way to implement better gameplay. Even though I would Recommend this game to all the people who loves Pheonix Wright, unfortunately it does fall to to the very bottom of my list of "kinda similar games", as I felt games suchs as Aviary Attorney or Detective Grimoire are much better games.

This game has an interesting mechanic involving recognizing facial expressions and determining if they were truthful or not. This mechanic naturally ramps up in difficulty as the story advances. There are also sections where you tell specific lies for information and deduce what happened in cases. I loved the art/characters and the story was interesting. Some aspects did remind me of the Ace Attorney series, and the game even mentions it. On the downside, while you are in game, there is no way to access options like music/sound effect volume. If you want to edit those settings, you would need to exit to the main menu which can be kind of inconvenient. The prologue unfortunately has a number of grammatical/spelling errors, but the frequency of these lessens as you progress through the main story. After completing the tutorial in the prologue, the main story gives you another tutorial but more in depth that I found a little tedious to go through twice. Altogether, the prologue + main story can take ~10 hours depending on your reading speed/ability to solve the mysteries. Regardless, I enjoyed my time playing and look forward to one day playing the sequel to find out where the stor…