The main storyline of the game is divided in multiple chapters, each one of the dealing with a new crime with resolution is reached at the end of the chapter. At the same time, a bigger story arc develope in the background and as we reach the end of the game it will slowly take more importance until finally reaching an exciting climax. Each crime themselves are very interesting, full of twists and even some action sequences here and there, but focusing mainly on the dialogue between the characters. There are also a great number of sidestories wich are very short, but fun and help to take a breath and change the pace once in a while.
And one of the strong points is the dialogue which is not only well written, but it also is the core of the gameplay. The main objective of the game is to find the right solution of the crime and for that there are two main course of actions: finding evidences and interrogating. The last is the most important and is a masterful combination of graphics, story writting and gameplay. Thanks to an impressive game engine and state of the art facial motion capture technology, the characters of the game have an oustanding range of realistics emotions, full of little tics and subtle gestures and it will be the player duty to find out if someone is lying by examining the way the suspects act and the inconsistencies of their declaration. All of this leads to a very inmersive expirence, where the player has to actually solve the mistery by himself and as a side effect grab his attention to the plot.
While the story itself is very good, full of interesting characters and a intricate plot, it is not without is flaws. There are some dramatic actions taken by the protagonist that may come out of the blue and feel inconsistent, created by the lack of exposition by the writers. The climax feels a little bit rushed and the number of action sequences increment suddenly, letting the main atraction to the game, the mistery solving, a little more in the background at the end. The ending itself, while surprising, may leave the spectator unsatisfied and feels a little too sudden.
There are also some problems with the integration of the plot in the gameplay. While we have control over the investigation of the individual crimes and change some of the sequences, in the end the consequences for failing is a scold from our superior and lower points, while the plot overall is unaffected by this, although not learning the truth may be incentive enough for the player to try their best.
All of this shows that there is a clear tendency on imitating and recreating a movie or tv series and make them interactive. Although this per se is not bad, it do not take advantage of the unique capacities of videogames to tell a story, limiting greatly the range of choices the player can make and decreasing the significance of the choices he make.
Despite all of that, I really recommend this game. Not only is easy to play because it does not requires great skill of experience with a controller, Is also, by itself, a very interesting and unique noir story and videogame. The characters are well written and feel genuine, but with little nods to the classic characters archetype of classic noir. It may be a little short but completing all the side stories and getting the best result in each case help prolonging the life of the game. Sadly, by the nature of the game, it does not offer to much replayability value, atleast not more than a good thriller film may offer.
Storytelling punctuation: 6.75 out of 10. A very good and interesting plot, but the integration with the gameplay could have been better, lack of consequences in our decisions.
Overall punctuation: 8 out of 10. The gameplay is good and easy, the graphics outstanding and the plot really interesting.
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