Hi again.
I've wrote a better review about the game. Enjoy,
The Inquisitor is a point and click, or, menu driven audio based adventure game. The controls are described in the game, but I'll briefly go over those anyway, because I'll discuss some navigating issues which don't makes sense if you don't know the controls:
Single tab with one finger: Select next item.
Single tab with two fingers: Choose the selected item.
Swipe down with one finger: Inventory.
Swipe left with one finger: Notebook.
Swipe up with one finger: Map.
Swipe right with one finger: should tell you your mission, but that won't work for me.
Drawing a cross: Hints, but that won't work for me either. Well, I hope it's just me who are doing it wrong though.
First I wanna tell the bad things about the game, which I really hope will be fixed in an update:
I find the controls extremely clumsy and annoying. When going through the menus by tabbing once with one finger, the game chooses randomly in the menus. That means if you are counting the menu items, you'll find that the game choose a menu item which you didn't expected, and other times it randomly jumps over some of the menu items, and you have to keep pressing 15 or 20 times until you finally have found what you're looking for.
Especially in the inventory, I find the game to automatically pick an item which is done by pressing once with two fingers, when I only press with one finger to go through my inventory. that's bluddy annoying, especially when having more than 10 items in the inventory.
Pretty often, I find the game to crash randomly when going through the menus. It just closes, and I'm back on the home screen with VOiceover turned off, and I found myself opening random apps. Not a good thing.
Having all that said, I haven't tried to reinstall the game because I will then have to start from scratch, but I'll consider doing so if I'm the only one who have those issues.
Now, to the great stuff:
The game is really good, and it have a great story. There are many puzzles, and I find the difficulty level to be pretty high, because there are used many english words, which I find pretty difficult to understand because english isn't my default language. the game is full of cutseens, and some of them are very long. The audio could have been better, but the music is awesome. The voiceover of the main character is awesome, and sometimes pretty creepy.
The developers says that there's 6 to 8 hours of gameplay, but I think I've played it more than that, and as I'm writing this, I'm only half through the game.
All the areas are very well described, and there are many things which just fits nicely into the game, but you don't have to use. That makes it harder to solve the puzzles, because there are many combinations.
In some puzzles, the game kind of plays automatically which I have mixed feelings about. I'm not sure, but it seems as you can easily miss some important cutseens, because you might expect to do the puzzle manually, but then the game does that automatically, so you might end up pressing the screen, which might skip some cutseens. That means you sometimes have to wait a few seconds to see if the game is loading or if you have to do the puzzle on your own.
Conklution:
Is the game worth the price? Now I'm a gamer, so I'll say yes!
Thinking of how much narration the game offers, the full translation in three different languages, all those long cutseens, lots and lots of puzzles, minigames which I haven't seen yet and the upcomming graphical versions, I'll say the game is very much worth the price, especially when those issues are fixed. But if you're not into puzzle solving and clicking through a menu to play a game, it might not be for you.
I'm really enjoying the game, and I'm looking very much forward to see what the developers are going to release in the future.
Best regards SLJ.
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