Jello Reviews - The Return of the Obra Dinn (Patreon)
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A review of Lucas Pope's very interesting ditherpunk mystery puzzle game where you play an East India Company insurance auditor trying to figure out how every single character on this strange boat met their fate.
THE SEXY BRUTALE - 8.5/10
If you like...
- Papers, Please
- The Sexy Brutale
- Sudoku
- Process-of-elimination puzzles
- Nostalgic old computer graphics
- Sea monsters
- Insurance auditors
...then you might like this game!
EDIT: Since recording this I actually replayed the game (on stream)! While this game is not really meant to be replayed, doing so absolutely made me remember all its little mechanical issues, especially RE: popping in and out of the diorama memories and how long it takes. The book UI/UX is really well-developed, but I think once the player had zipped through all the memories once they should've been able to fast travel between them because the rest of the game is looking at things you've already seen and having to walk between them backwards and figure out how they connect is honestly pretty frustrating and I think I'd probably knock the game down to like an 8/10 or an 8.5/10 instead of the 9/10 I gave it.