Murders on the Yangtze River
Main game
3.57 average rating based on 7 ratings
- Developers
- Publishers
- NPC Entertainment
- Platforms
- Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Genres
- Adventure, Indie, Role-playing (RPG)
- Themes
- Historical, Mystery
- Steam
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Good game, but disliked ideology
Ace Attorney style game. I liked the story, characters, visual design, game style, music, views. It was also interesting to enjoy the game in this period of Chinese history, it is not often depicted in video games. I took one star off because the ending of the game was a bit ruined for me by the strong ideology. Where in interesting detective game too much politics was added, the blame was on the evil Europeans in relation to the good locals. I am not trying to justify this period of history, as well as the entire European policy towards opium, but it was bit too much for my taste.
If your game starts with the Chinese language version, like mine, here a quick guide to change back to English. Helped me a lot: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3469763697
Solved the second case and I am having a lot of fun. The game makes me feel intelligent (hard task 😅) and still manages to twist the outcome of the cases enough to make them interesting, at least so far.
It definitely draws a bit from Ace Attorney, but has its unique setting, art and solving methods. I like the history bits especially the ones that are about law and order in China's past.
I hope it stays interesting to the end, I definitely see already why it has mostly positive ratings.