Loco Motive

A very nice point n click about a band of anti-heroes who try to solve the murder they are accused of and lots of dark humor that is elevated by great graphics and amazing voice acting. The story feels grounded. The conspiracies are twisted enough, to keep the story interesting for most of the game and the characters are mostly silly and entertaining. While the writing and humor work on their own, they are greatly elevated by the designs and voice actors. I kept being disappoined by some jokes, but in hindsight this was because I was hoping for the unhinged absurdism of the likes of Sam & Max, but Loco Motive is, despite its name, simply more grounded. The puzzles mostly felt fair and logical to me, yet there were instances where I needed the ingame-support-hotline and thought "I would have never deducted this" after hearing the solution. Still, my greatest criticism of the puzzles is the tendency to backtrack and this is somewhat eliviated by the relatively small world size.

This game is NOT a nostalgic trip to old times. The Devs doesn't respect the player and their intelligence in the slightest! I stumbled through a solution for a puzzle without knowing it! How you ask? That's how: I talked to the artist, checked every option and stumbled upon the commission choice. I then proceeded to check everything, including the curtain at the casino, failed the handshake because i didn't know, it was important to get into, I then proceeded to exchange my casino chips for money, again without knowing for what i might need it. I then talked to the Doctor, again, going through all the options until the Secret Society came up. I got very suspicious and went straight to the Artist and gave him the money. And it worked. I got the frickn solution without even trying or thinking about the problem, because i didn't think, it was a problem! Then, when it came to the actual handshake, NOT A SINGLE WRONG CHOICE WAS AVAILABLE! You simply picked the fitting rhyme and its over, no chance to fail this at all. That is pretty much the gist of the gameplay in this game, the Devs think, that the player is an idiot. But that is not all. This game reeks of modern 2022 political correctness, that brings the usual racism and sexism seen in other modern games. The background characters are either the white rich folks or black women. Black men are reduced to the waiter figure and one Bouncer, there is no other black man representation. Of course also does the game have an woman being the engineering genius, who created a Steam Turbine engine for the very Train, while her 2 white Sons are bickering buffoons about bridges and tunnels. The more you play, the more stereotypes and other stuff comes to shine like Girlbosses in the Industry. You are already getting greeted by Butch looking FEMALE Investigator. I don't mind a female Investigator, i do mind if the female Investigator looks like a man! Especially if the rest of the women in the game look like women! The Ending for the game is quite literal visible from the START! Yes, the Start already tells you, who will be the Heir to Lady Unterwald's Railway Empire. Its even visible here on the Steam Store page because it belongs to the start. Its bad. Before you write off my gameplay time, it was at this point, i realized, how little the Devs thinks of the player. So i looked up and no surprises on the ending. Its all weak sauce. Don't buy it, the only good thing is the art and pixel art, everything else is shallow.

超级可爱的像素小动画解密游戏！喜欢喜欢，人物灵活度和潜水员戴夫有的一拼，整个游戏相比悬疑更接近于解密，大部分时候需要思考道具A和道具B合成用在某一个地方这样点击类的玩法，整体流程不是很长遇到不会的地方可以打电话提示（以为彼休是个虚头八脑的人物没想到人家是真的有硬实力的人啊！！谢谢你彼休） 整个风格都带着满满的幽默感，我个人很喜欢这种很严肃的氛围下无厘头的表现方式（比如为什么解密游戏里主角身上哪能拿这么东西，游戏里用很夸张的手法展现出主角把自己的裤兜拉的非常大然后塞下一个大物件，真的很可爱）赫尔曼棒苏珊开嗓子讲绕口令也很厉害（配音人员辛苦了）里面的人物配音像是看戏剧一样抑扬顿挫很富有感情，在一些关键节点还会带一些人物自己的吐槽让整个以为很严肃的故事充满了诙谐的气氛。 人物CG我很喜欢，阿瑟肉肉的下巴每次给特写都能让我笑出来，而且阿瑟律师的梦想是穿着工服当文员在办公室处理上万的文档！（好反常人的梦想[spoiler] 甚至结局还实现里这个梦想！ [/spoiler]）可惜戴安娜的CG没有更多描述，为了可以出外勤而不想当文员正好和阿瑟相反wwww，虽然人物刻画并没有什么过于有特色的地方但是整体玩下来就是很搞笑很开心，甚至人物你一直对话会有不同回应直到对方烦了为止。 全成就党需要注意下记得多多节点保存，因为游戏内部过关后不能选择关卡可能会错过很多成就，一周目没完成就要开二周目了！成就难度倒是不难但是很容易忽视！ 如果想体验硬核推理那这个游戏还差点意思，剧情上并不是很复杂，但如果想体验解密用道具的快乐请务必尝试下！

Game is decent but is full of woke BS and propaganda.

和悬疑、推理、谋杀案都没什么关系的喜剧剧情游戏，玩法只有找东西再交付。 主角们解决问题的方式大都是“俺寻思能行”这般毫无逻辑，对奔着推理标签买的人简直是酷刑。

I was pleasantly surprised through the entire thing. Even though Ron Gilbert is still very much alive, I'm glad to see the spirit he had while making Monkey Island is present in the Riches Brothers. Thank you for keeping the goofy point and click adventure genre alive and well!

Yes, with an if. No, with a but. I suppose I'd recommend it IF this type of adventure is your cup of tea. The humor didn't really hit and the game was in general a bit boring. But it was well made and I can see others liking it, I just found it a bit meh.

This game was a 10/10, the characters really made it and the gameplay was good fun, especially solving the mystery. If you like murder mystery and click and point games you will enjoy this. I had so much fun playing it!