Best Adventure Game 2020: Paradise Killer
State your truth in Kaizen's stylish whodunnit.
Well deserved. Should be soundtrack of the year too
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Paradise Killer is PC Gamer's "Best Adventure Game of 2020"
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Well deserved. Should be soundtrack of the year too
It's an excellent detective game with a rather underwhelming climax that felt a bit hollow to me. The positives far outweigh the negatives, though and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes mysteries. The setting and world building are stellar.
Was interested in the game, but change my mind reading this. Will skip, and will warn others as well
I mean I did say myself that it's hardly a deal breaker but alright lol. To be clear, the ending of this game is not the reveal of the scheme and solving the mystery like in a typical detective story. You figure the scheme out and piece it all together yourself while playing. The detective is you, so the ending is basically a long sequence where you present all your evidence and lay out what happened for everyone else. There's not much left to discover at that point and it feels like it's going through the motions which is why I felt it was underwhelming. Solving the mystery is still a very good time.
this might be the best post ive ever seen on this god forsaken website
I'm intrigued by the gameplay but can't get passed the character designs. I'll keep it on my "maybe" list
My personal GOTY. A fantastic game that doesn't overstay its welcome. And yeah, the music is awesome, the story intriguing and the characters delightfully weird. But the real star is the island itself. It's so intricately but expertly designed that it's a joy to navigate. So much, that they've overlayed and excellent collectathon platformer on top of the detective game. Fantastic stuff.
Yeah it's a bit overwhelming at first and feels almost like they're just throwing a bunch of stuff at the wall to make everything as weird as possible but by the end it felt like a very believable and well-realized world. I was actually impressed how much sense it all made and how consistent the lore was when it came across as so utterly ridiculous early on lol. It's one of the most interesting universes I've ever seen in a game and I'd like to see them explore it further someday.
I'm about 4 hours in (just got into the council room). This is real good folks. It combines a lot of my favorite genres into one game: detective games, visual novels, and 3D collectathon platformers. Great music and ambiance.
For flaws, I wish the map was a bit more detailed and the world-building/design takes a second to click. I think I have my head partially wrapped around it at this point but it is making me feel a bit dense at times.
For flaws, I wish the map was a bit more detailed and the world-building/design takes a second to click. I think I have my head partially wrapped around it at this point but it is making me feel a bit dense at times.
Loved this game. Put about 12 hours into it on the PC version, and wanted more by the end of it.
Game is great, it also has one of the best OSTs for the year. Don't agree with the actual text of the article though, it's not really particularly impressive as a detective game, especially near the end of the game where you're wandering between characters to trigger dialogue options.
You just gave me a tattoo idea. Can't leave no person unlearned on this.
I liked the detective aspect a lot. There is very little hand-holding in it, other than that one point near the end.
Personally I would have preferred a more ambiguous ending, and think it would have gone along with theme of "take the facts and make your own truth" that the game was trying to push.
Wow. Stunned really. I have it on Switch and did enjoy what I played so far. Congrats to that dev team.
Must be difficult to play videogames without eyes.
As for underwhelming climax, it really doesn't, unless you need everything tied up in a neat little package. You get to decide how you feel and think about what you've discovered (or didn't) and ultimately that's one of the game's overarching themes; the ambiguity of "truth". Frankly they beat it into you a little too often.
If this doesn't place Top 3 in best soundtrack on this forum they should shut this place the fuck down.
It's probably about 12-14 hours if you only investigate the main mysteries.
Nice. I think this will probably be the last 2020 game I get a chance to play before GOTY voting ends. It doesn't sound like it's too long, which is exactly what I'm looking for right now, and hearing comparisons to the Ace Attorney games piqued my interest.
OMFG I'm so sorry, I just checked some gameplay but I didn't know it was for blind ppl...
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I really don't know what it is you think I meant, but if you think this game LOOKS boring I can't help you.
Then it's like Yuppie Psycho.I heard it has an underwhelming climax.
Thank you for the warning. I've warned two of my friends away from this game and have told them to warn two more each.
Damn, you guys should start a YouTube channel
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I can understand people finding the ending anti-climactic. If you are going into the trial expecting something with twists and turns a la Danganronpa or Ace Attorney, you will be disappointed. The investigation is really the climax of the game, not the trial. And depending on the order you find things, you may hit the high point of the investigation a long time before you actually go to trial, which throws off the pacing of the story.
I would have agreed with this up until
Like I said earlier, I would have preferred more ambiguity to fit the game's theme. For a while I was hoping that the game would be set up such that you could make a reasonable hypothesis for any of the characters being guilty.
I think the court case is still interesting because the player may be tempted to
That was the one area where I could see an argument for differentiating between facts and truths.
I would have agreed with this up until
you find Dainonigate. Not only does he confess, but you get incontrovertible evidence that he did it. That really eliminated all the ambiguity.
I think the court case is still interesting because the player may be tempted to
cover up Witness's conspiracy to protect the Daybreaks.
Yeah I think I'd consider anything I can finish in under 20 hours to be short these days.
Its a visual novel/adventure style game
If those are up your alley, I'd say it's worth a look.
I was glued to this game until I finished it.
I actually think the open world traversal is fun and I wish Cyberpunk had the movement options you get in this game
Finished it the other day and had a really good time. Completely fucked up world but hey, at least the island plays some total bangers.
Hard disagree on this, because the trial does actually tie everything up in a neat little package so long as you actually arrive at the truth, and if you did actually solve the case then that truth would've already been undeniable before the trial so it's just tying it up even tighter. The main theme about ambiguity of truth only really works if you fail to solve it and accuse people without conclusive evidence or if you just deliberately go for false convictions for the hell of it.
I guess my point was more that the game does not actually give you an explicit "Yes, that was correct" response to any of your assertions/accusations/presentations. The end goes the way it goes because, as far as you know, it could not be any other way, but leaves just enough possibility that more information was out there that you missed (even if you didn't) that could have changed things. It doesn't actually hard confirm a great detail of the information you find.
Loved the game, but I didn't like the collectibles and was underwhelmed by the fact that you know a crime isn't solved because it's still in your open cases.
Hiding that information and maybe preventing you from getting some clues based on your choices would have enhanced what they went for, that is you don't know the truth.
But with the system in place, and if you're a completionist, then the truth isnt ambiguous imo and it made the trial a little dull for me
The music, the design and the lore however are top notch. I'm still impressed that a game of this caliber has so much world building
Hiding that information and maybe preventing you from getting some clues based on your choices would have enhanced what they went for, that is you don't know the truth.
But with the system in place, and if you're a completionist, then the truth isnt ambiguous imo and it made the trial a little dull for me
The music, the design and the lore however are top notch. I'm still impressed that a game of this caliber has so much world building