I’ve been spoiled by Crimes and Punishments, which built in numerous red herring endings and allowed you to draw the wrong conclusions based on the evidence, accusing or even condemning an innocent person. This is also, sadly, the one aspect of the game I think could’ve used fleshing out. Poirot will exclaim something about “Using our brain cells” and then you’re brought to a fancied-up flowchart where you plug in clues and make deductions about the crime. Suffice it to say, it’s a bit of work.ĭoing so often means little aside from scoring a few points-and really, who cares about points in an adventure game nowadays?-but there are a few times I’m certain I missed clues because I either pushed too much or too little with Poirot’s questions, and other options only open up if Poirot’s discovered the necessary evidence.īringing all these disparate bits together is another mechanic I’m certain was cribbed (or which at the very least feels cribbed) from the Sherlock games. Need to get into that cabinet? Sure, just a matter of unscrewing two of the decorative fixtures, popping open a side panel, taking the hex key out, winding two gears on the top, and…well, I wouldn’t want to give the whole puzzle away. These sections actually take a page from The Room and its sequels, featuring furniture bedecked with all manner of overcomplicated locks, gears, and engineering marvels. Occasionally an object will require some further work on your part. It’s not overly difficult, given that anything worth examining turns your cursor into a bright red pair of spectacles. You spend most of your time as Poirot wandering around the gorgeous environments looking for clues-hidden in cabinets, tucked into desk drawers, hidden behind paintings. I continue to be amazed by the variety of aesthetics people have wrung from Unity and The ABC Murders is one of the best, barring a few issues with pathing and lip sync.Īnyway, it’s a mystery game. And then another letter arrives…įor the most part, The ABC Murders is your standard point-and-click adventure, albeit done in gorgeous pseudo-hand drawn style. a book that tells when trains leave from each station) cracked open to the Andover section. The most conspicuous part of the scene? An ABC Railway guide (a.k.a.
“What will happen” turns out to be a murder, and sure enough Poirot is called to Andover in the summer of 1935 to investigate the murder of one Alice Ascher, a shopkeep.
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