Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express

"The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances." Elementary. Well, not quite.

It isn't Poirot. It is a Kenneth Branagh look a like but it isn't David Suchet so its no Poirot. That out of the way, its repetitive and needlessly clunky. It is ok at first but it gets tiresome pretty fast. Procedural doesn't cover it, it is pedantic. Every time you do anything requiring a little thought, and I do mean EVERYTHING, you get a small scene from fake Poirot saying "I'm brilliant cos I'm smart!" or something similarly smug. It say skip at the bottom but you cant skip it fast enough, so what's the point in the skip? Why is it set in modern times? Why does Poirot have a MOBILE PHONE??!! They've done him dirty here by placing him in modern day and expecting him to do a lot of carrying. Poirot doesn't work in modern day because his ability is negated by modern tech and knowledge. He was ahead of the curve in the early 20th century but not when ppl walk round with the internet. I don't normally speak so negatively on games but Poirot would spin in his little grey grave if he knew this waited for him. I love Poirot but I don't love this. Buy it for being a game with Poirot in the title but don't buy it if your expecting anything like the Belgian detective.

Murder on the Orient Express is an okay detective game, and my second detective game ever played after Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter (and the only one I could compared to). Again, compared to Holmes, O.E. seems to take itself less serious (probably because how the source material is in general -I never read or saw anything about the series whatsoever- and probably because of the funny accents), it looks the same, if not slightly not as good as Devil's Daughter but still looks good (same issue with Holmes as it doesn't have that much in-depth with the facial expressions, but the movement of characters feels more stiff in this one), I liked the twist in chapter 12 (even though it was a clusterfc since the 12 juros verdict) and the puzzles are much easier than the other game (excluding chapter 11, that one is a doozey). The only thing that really bothered me a bit was the voice acting. It felt like most of the dialogues were just read out from the paper without much effort put into the acting. It kinda "fixes" itself thanks to the accents. Overall, Murder on the Orient Express is a game worth checking out if you want a lighter, more funnier version of a Sherlock Holmes game a…

Enjoyable experience. Although at times game feels silly with some of the animations; got stuck with some of the puzzles and had to look up a guide; I like the addition of a secondary antagonist though I end up solving the cases just like when playing with Poirot. But overall, the game provides a good enough "Poirot" experience. Of course it has the potential to be better. Grab it when you chance upon a discount.

On my laptop and then my pc the game has frozen up after about 18% completion

I'm recommending this because I've had a decent time with this game, but I don't think it's worth the full price, so try and get it on a sale. The story is intriguing at some parts of it and the addition of another detective is refreshing, but this game definitley has some flaws: - The voice acting is mediocre and the accents are atrocious - and most of the characters speak with foreign accents. It's not a problem in itself, of course, but it's excecuted horribly. - The graphics, animations and character designs are below par for a game that came out so recently. - Poirot in different adaptions is insufferable, but here he's so arrogant and full of himself that I wanted to punch him in the face half of the time, especially when he says "I'm right again. That happens to me a lot". And trust me, he really says that a lot too. - The writing is poor in some scenes. Sometimes the criminals do stupid things and sometimes the detectives act in ways that seem incoherent with real detective work procedures. But hey, now I've finished the game and I know who'd done it.