Comment on Game of the day - Return of the Obra Dinner - did you enjoy it?
FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I didn’t like it, myself. I played through to the end and found it incredibly tedious for what you got out of the story, which was basically just a tale about a macguffin in the ocean with sea monsters. The biggest complaint was how painful they made navigating the memory scenes. Every time you want to do anything, you first gotta backtrack all over the ship and you gotta wait through these intro and outro cutscenes and music, and it got old very fast for me. I also got tired of the entire gimmick about 25% in, as there is no variation to the puzzles in the game, they are all set up the same—try to identify people based on surroundings and descriptions, 60+ times. The art direction was really impressive at first, but quickly became dull to me around the time the gimmick started the wear thin.
Tl;dr: it’s admittedly a very creative take on a mystery game, but unfortunately playing through to the end is tedious and lacks needed QoL features.
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This was my experience. There’s a certain motivation missing in a lot of mystery games where the result is going to be something highly inconsequential.
In Ace Attorney, you reveal a mystery’s real killer, and get to crumple their ego. To me, that’s a hard high to beat. I got the early, “bad” ending in Obrah Dinn and didn’t even care to keep going for the rest. I was getting no satisfaction in filling in forms from deaths we already know every interesting detail about.