You play as a prosecutor in the mid 50s West Germany, tasked with prosecuting Nazi Crimes. The cases are real, as is the head prosecutor Fritz Bauer.
As far as detective games go, I really liked this one. They don’t railroad you - it’s totally possible to miss evidence and subsequently lose in court. It also seems you can solve things in various different ways.
But I most liked how it portraits the work of these prosecutors, and how much they were hated by the population. It’s 10 years after the war, and most people just want to forget. I didn’t know about Fritz Bauer before but the dude is an absolute hero.
“Nothing belongs to the past, everything is still present and can become the future again.” – Fritz Bauer
Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Damn this does sound pretty interesting. It sounds to me like kind of a mix of Phoenix Wright and Shadows of Doubt, but I’m sure it plays a bit differently.
truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 1 week ago
You interview witnesses and go “into” their memories in first person. Interacting with objects is asking that person a question.
Then, you reconstruct the crime using a blueprint on a timeline, and support everything with three collaborating pieces of evidence.