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Items don’t just go to your inventory, they also invade the whole screen, making you want to swat them out of the way… You select and drag items as is expected, though there are no instances of item combinations or more than one item needed for a particular puzzle, with the exception of the Duel. Unlike other adventure games where depending on which button you click you either interact or observe, in ECC you only left-click, if it’s meant to be observed Petra will comment, otherwise she’ll interact with it. There’s a bar at the bottom with your inventory to the left, your current quest display in the center (with a quest-progress count included, pretty much letting you know how far you are from finishing the game) and your magic spells to the right. Thankfully, you can set the walking speed in the settings, and if you ever find yourself playing, this game, just set it to max.Īs for gameplay, the interface is extremely simple. Characters often take more time than they should in performing actions. Character animations, which you’d expect to be very fluid in a hand-drawn style, are instead extremely stiff. Visual style looks extremely on the cheap side, reminding me less of Wadjet Eye Games and more of an old Flash browser game, like those you can find on.
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You play as PI Petra, a deserter from the Ozian army in this post-war Oz.įor a while, as I played it, I thought, “this must have been one of their first games”, because of the glaringly bad design choices, but this is a 2009 game, a couple of years after their first Blackwell game, which I thoroughly enjoyed (and I’m waiting for the next episode in the series to release in the near future).
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It’s a noir-style detective story set in the Land of Oz.