Unheard - Voices of Crime

The writing is... very blunt. I dunno, I feel like I want a detective game to be willing to understate things a lot more than this one bothers to. If I play more and this just turns out to be something from the early cases, I'll change the review, but I don't feel like this game has the writing chops to deliver on its promise as a detective game. It might be specific to the English Translation, if I were really trying to give the game as much grace as I can, but I dunno.

overall 7/10 Concept - 10/10 voice acting/writing (English) - 4/10 (I agree with all the other reviews) soundscape - 9/10 (3d audio is a little off, works best I you place yourself below all characters) length to price ratio - 6/10 (buy on sale or the bundle with Orwell) (1 free Dlc in English have not tried might bring it to 8 or 9/10) pacing - 9/10 (a bit of waiting for dialogue or for your avatar to move to where you clicked) visuals - 10/10 UI and ease of use - 8/10 (need better notes system and cant fast forward or rewind without first pressing play) difficulty/quality of puzzle - 5/10 (over all fairly easy to get the right answer or at least narrow it down enough to guess and check between 3 or 4 people. see other notes for more) fun factor - 8/10 story - 6/10 (verry simple. the ending wasn't too surprising, but was fun to figure out. a little cliche, but with a small twist) other notes: The questions that the games ask are sometimes a little vague. Some of the answers felt like guess and check was required due to not enough evidence or answers coming from passing comments or other indirect information. the final case was the 1st one that I had a good grasp on how…

Solid game for the price. The mechanic of an audio-only puzzle is cool, although pretty much all the base game cases are dead simple. The first (and only one in english) dlc solves pretty much all my problems by making the narrative multilayered enough to make the puzzle actually interesting. Worth picking up on sale.

Super fun concept and it’s executed very well. Headphones in my books are a must here to really get the best form the game, but it is very playable and enjoyable with speakers too. UI flows nicely, the skill level needed moves at a nice pace. Overall my main issue is there’s not more. I paid £5 and I got great value for money, but I’d happily pay double for a larger game, triple for a larger game. There’s some things I expect should have been picked up in playtesting. Like while speaking in the room with the woman. It would make far more sense to see her the whole time and have the text appear at the bottom of the screen instead of flash switching to the text full screen. All the icons on the tablet are really poor quality too. Like I’d suspect it’s AI as the other art is good but nothing is disclosed here saying they have used AI. The replays of the story after the missions should really be skippable, if we worked it out, we know the story.

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neat