The Nose

The game has a catalogue of problems, which severely detract from it's interesting premise and presentation. First of all, the English translation is awful, both in the fact that it consistently gramatically incorrect and sometimes incoherent. This is not helped by the fact that the voices characters have are indistinguishable, and badly written, with them swaying between "archaic" language and "modern." Characters also speak horribly artificially, with them referring to each other with full names and statements that make no sense for the character to be saying, as the developer pains himself to try and emphasise this is old russia. The story as a whole is badly told, as between the narrator and the characters, it is almost entirely told, not shown, which is just an awful way to tell a story in any medium, never mind an interactive one that has a dreadful translation. The developer is a Turk, so the turkish language might be better. The game itself isn't very good at telling you what you're supposed to do, which makes it incredibly easy to get lost when you start going out into the city, as the map isn't very well done, being just a camera shift to above you, with no real info abo…