Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases

The legend had to begin somewhere.

If you are a fan of H.P. series or any other detective theme game or show, I highly recommend this game, The graphics are beautiful, UI is well designed, music is well suited and beautiful, and most importantly the story and the pacing just keep you wanting to play more. Well done.

the gameplay mechanics are easy to use and understand, and i enjoyed the storyline

I've been playing this game for almost two hours but still haven't finished chapter 1. It told me to inspect the chimney in Angeline's room, I've checked almost everywhere and have been in her room for almost 10 minutes. I'm annoyed so I won't recommend it. This is just my opinion, others might like it or those who want a challenge. I'm so tired

I found the system of making deductions a bit pedantic at times, with some connections not really making any sense. The gameplay is also quite slow when it comes to the resolution - you as the player realise all the facts fairly swiftly but the game forces you to take all the baby steps rather than being able to make the deductions you want to. So by the end it was quite tedious, especially with the replication of Poirot explaining the crime to the other characters - while this mechanic works in the books because Agatha Christie held back some of Poirot's thought process, in the game, because you have to do every step of his thought process, the denouement cut scene (and the fact it cannot be sped up or skipped) was very boring.

It's fun, but not a particularly difficult solve. It is actually such an easy solve that sometimes I had problems realising what they wanted me to connect, since it was so [i]obvious[/i] that it was confusing that I needed to connect them at all. Eg. something saying "character A helped character B", and then another saying "character B was grateful for character A's help". We are talking this level of obvious. And since there are many clues, you will try many many times to skip over intermediate clues since you don't really need to connect the easier ones to know what is going on. Fortunately at some point the clues you actually need to connect glow a bit so then you realise you first need to get the intermediate clues for that. One other thing that frustrated me was that there are a couple of instances in which if you investigate some random stuff, it kicks you out of the scene before you can finish investigating. As a methodical every-item investigator, this locked me out of an achievement (thankfully someone uploaded a save game so I could still clock it in). The story is good though. Wish I would've gotten information about what happened to [spoiler]Florette after the prolog…