Разработчик: Cave Monsters
Описание
Lord Winklebottom Investigates — классический детективный квест в атмосфере 1920-х с жирафом-модником в главной роли!
Игра вдохновлена произведениями Агаты Кристи и книгами про Шерлока Холмса — классикой детективного жанра!
На дворе 1920-й год, и самый известный детектив в мире вот-вот отправится на свое самое сложное дело. Таинственное приглашение на отдаленный остров оборачивается жестоким убийством и поисками преступника. Как хорошо, что в этом мире, столь непохожем на наш, нет никого лучше для этого дела, чем сам великий сыщик, жираф и джентльмен лорд Уинклботтом.
Присоединитесь к лорду Уинклботтому и его бессменному напарнику доктору Фрамплу в расследовании убийства старого друга. Находите улики, допрашивайте подозреваемых и решайте загадки, чтобы раскрыть дело, поймать убийцу и открыть ужаснейшую темную тайну острова Грима!
- Полная английская озвучка.
- Оригинальный саундтрек в духе 1920-х, записанный живым оркестром.
- В главной роли жираф-джентльмен!
- Двухмерная графика в уникальном стиле, нарисованная вручную.
- Животные всех форм и размеров!
- Простой и понятный квестовый интерфейс.
- Множество странных персонажей для допроса!
- Десятки загадок, решите их все!
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, italian, german, spanish - spain, japanese, polish, russian, simplified chinese
Системные требования
Windows
- ОС *: Windows 7 or above
- Процессор: SSE2 instruction set support
- Оперативная память: 4 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities.
- DirectX: версии 10
- Место на диске: 4 GB
Mac
- ОС: macOS 10.11+
- Процессор: SSE2 instruction set support
- Оперативная память: 4 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: Graphics card with shader model 4.0 capabilities.
- Место на диске: 4 GB
Linux
- ОС: Ubuntu 12.04+
- Процессор: SSE2 instruction set support
- Оперативная память: 4 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: Graphics card with shader model 4.0 capabilities.
- Место на диске: 4 GB
Отзывы пользователей
Really fun gameplay, great voice acting and story. Hope to see a sequel!
Sweet game. Good mystery. Fairly easy although I did get stuck once or twice. Perhaps a younger brain than mine would do better. I wouldn't mind playing a part 2 if there were ever to be one.
nice game, delightfully British
I'm easy to please: put a cast of anthropomorphic animals into a classic point-and-click adventure game and make them solve a murder mystery. That's it. That's what I want. And that's what you want.
Make tea (the RIGHT way), question suspects, inspect scenes, solve puzzles, and use your logical mind (and a robust inventory of items) to bring your favorite detective giraffe to the story's brilliant conclusion.
Очень милая и добрая игра с простым геймплеем, в целом стоит своих денег абсолютно.
Практически всё в игре — одни плюсы: отличная атмосфера, приятные рисовка, музыка и озвучка, довольно таки интересная история — в конце мне было жаль, что игра кончилась, потому что хотелось узнать больше. Юмор тоже славный, во всяком случае, если играешь на английском языке.
Минусом я считаю только один момент: игра в паре мест требует не всегда очевидно логичные действия.
В остальном она прекрасная, если вы любите расследовательский лёгкий point & click — смело покупайте, вы не пожалеете.
Sights & Sounds
So British, it'll colonize colonise your PC
- I found myself enjoying the storybook artwork quite a lot. The backgrounds and settings are especially
colorfulcolourful, well-composed, full of character, and pleasing to the eye
- Most of the character designs are quite good as well, but some creatures do look a bit odd after the anthropomorphization process. I can forgive this though, as it sometimes adds to the
humorhumour
- This game is extremely British. Just look at the main character. He's a tophat-doffing, pipe-smoking, monocle-wearing aristocrat. He looks like he may plant a Union Jack in your
lawngarden and start extolling the virtues of mercantilism at any moment
- The game is fully voice-acted, which was greatly appreciated. The vast majority of the voicework is well-done, with one exception: Lord Winklebottom himself. His audio sounds weirdly muddy and tinny. Unsure if this had to do with the mic, the room, or some combination of both, because the other characters sound fine
- The soundtrack is an interesting mashup of classical and noire; check out the excellent theme track to see what I mean. The rest of the OST follows suit, sounding like a string quartet and a jazz ensemble bumped into each other on the street and started jamming
Story & Vibes
Appropriately cheeky
- If the word "Investigates" didn't clue you in, this is a game where you solve a mystery. Specifically, a murder mystery
- The game opens with the titular Lord Winklebottom, a giraffe, and Dr. Frumple, a hippopotamus, conversing in a stately office and evoking heavy overtones of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
- Winklebottom receives a missive from his old friend, Admiral Gilfrey, urging him to travel to his island manor to learn about an important scientific discovery he's made
- After a few introductory/tutorial antics, you make your way to the island. There's only one issue: Gilfrey is dead. He's passed on. He's no more. He's ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. If he weren't floating in his tube, he'd be pushing up the daisies. His metabolic processes are now history. He's off the twig, kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible. He's an ex-axolotl
- After interviewing everyone on the island and exploring the entirety of the manor, it doesn't take too much time to figure out how Gilfrey perished. What proves more elusive are "Who?" and "Why?"
- What follows is a surprisingly complex consipracy that delves into what Gilfrey was studying, what forces wanted to suppress his findings, and, interestingly, what became of all the humans
- This effort spent on world-building didn't go unnoticed. I very much appreciated the depth the conspiracy added to the game's world. It also suggests that a sequel may be in order, and I'd be pretty interested in that
- Despite the healthy dose of intrigue, Lord Winklebottom Investigates is, at its core, a very silly game. You are, after all, a giraffe who solves mysteries and walks on all fours while everyone else has converted to bipedalism (don't worry, the mystery of why he walks like that is solved as well)
- The writing is quite good, especially Dr. Frumple's running commentary of your actions ("You know, I can prescribe you medications if you want. You don't have to go around stealing drugs from dead people")
- For fellow non-Brits, be aware that there is some rhyming slang to decypher. For example, when Frumple accused Winklebottom of "half-inching" something, it took me a minute to
realizerealise that 1) rhyming slang exists, 2) "pinch" is a British term for "steal", and therefore 3) he's saying you stole something when you picked it up
Playability & Replayability
A standard offering
- Lord Winklebottom Investigates doesn't do anything to evolve investigation or point-and-click gameplay. In fact, the mechanics are very pared-down and simplistic. Click on characters to talk to them, click on dialogue choices to select them, click on objects in the environment to pick them up, and click/drag items from your inventory to where you want to use them
- Unlike many other point-and-clicks, the puzzles here aren't beholden to the ineffible "moon logic" emblematic of the genre. It's all a bit more straightforward here. Some puzzles do range a bit higher in difficulty, but there's usually dialogue hints present to nudge you into the solution
- Is it weird to say that I sort of missed the nonsensical thinking? Or is that just a Stockholm syndrome-adjacent sentiment from years of playing this genre? It just feels strange that a game that is otherwise so full of character would eschew a particularity like that. Others will probably appreciate the fact that everything mostly makes sense, though
- I 100%ed the achievements, so I don't have a desire to jump back in anytime soon
Overall Impressions & Performance
Is this an emerging sub-subgenre?
- In the past, I've solved mysteries as a falcon, two chickens, an alligator, a frog (thrice), and a dog with his
rabbitlagomorph sidekick. Now I've figured out a crime as a giraffe and hippo. I've got sleuthing games in my backlog with racoon, duck, and two different cat protagonists
- With the exception of the Sam & Max games and the Blacksad comics that preceded it, I blame Zootopia for doing this to me. And myself for buying all of these
[*] Not being a graphically intense game, you should have no issues running this on the PC of your choice. I certainly didn't notice any issues on the Steam Deck
Final Verdict
6/10. Of all the animal-solving-mystery games I've played, Lord Winklebottom Investigates ranks in at about 4th in silliness and 6th in quality. That hashes out to a soft recommendation, but a little firmer if you like British comedy and also can't stop playing games like this
A strangely unique mystery game.
Played it over the course of a day with my mum and had a good time for the most part.
Fun characters, interesting plot, giraffe detective.
WAIT FOR A SALE!
Sadly this game has a whopping ~$21 CAD price tag at seven hours to get all the achievements (2 playthroughs).
However, this game was a lot of fun, genuinely good time, and very worth the time spent playing it.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Cave Monsters |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 15.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 96% положительных (107) |