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...Even though in the end it is entirely realistic and has no outside beings involved. When it came the time to choose a suspect I got it right on my first try, since I had a suspicion that she loved him more than just family-like. I had a difficult time getting there though, and this is my complaint about the game. (Of course, I have to be nitpicky, haven't I?*Sigh* ) Although you give enough evidence about who is the culprit (by the way, the amount of clues was just right, not too much and not too little) finding the path to the final decision is very difficult, and the choices don't make much sense until you've played through the game long enough, which can be quite frustrating... And there are many choices throughout the game, which is both good and bad, given the thing I just mentioned. But don't let that spoil the review. This was a great game and I really enjoyed the challange, even though I had to run in the dark for a while.

I had doubts when I was designing the game about the possibility of dead ens. At one hand, it's frustating for the player to know the solution ,but not get the "right end" of the game. At the other you have to take in consideration if you want to make a realistic game or not. In real life you can't talk with a person anytime you want and you can't ask her/him a hundred questions and she/he is going to be just there to patiently answer you. I mean that person has his own life, too . And if you want to go somewhere to find a clue,it's not probably going to be waiting there for you although you wait four or five days to go there. In real life when you make choices you also don't know what is going to happen next and if you are doing the right thing or not, it's not like in your mind it appears a game menu that says "Go to the park to meet the girl" "Stay at home where Mr.X is going to call me".

But I also know that a game is not real life, so people is used to change her/his way of thinking when playing a game. And that is more true in a mistery game where the player is supposed to be a "private eye", so he expects to have to use the logic to make the choices.

Like all things in life the virtue is in the right proportion, I suppose that a well designed game has to be realistic ( if it was designed to be realistic of course) and not frustating but challenging to the player. A player doesn't really care about replaying a game if he "lost", if the game is enough interesting for him. If not he probably would say something like "That's crap, I'm tired of replaying it again and again. How bad designed is this...". And he would probably be right.

So If you had that feeling that means I have to work a lot harder next time .