Path of Sin: Greed

Path of Sin: Greed had a great story, and relatively easy achievements run of a 100% for a three-hour playthrough. Despite the available difficulty settings, no achievements required the player to play on Expert difficulty. Collectibles were fun to look for. The plot-twists are very soap-opera like and there is lots of drama involved in relation to greed. I believe the extra story highlighted more of that, and the delivery of voice lines were also—I must say, above average. This is something Artifex Mundi hasn't done much of the time, given this was a 2018 game. The puzzles were okay, a bit repetitive for some, but there were two specific ones I absolutely disliked doing. It was the gargoyle puzzle (it was quite confusing too, seeing three platforms, but you had to stack them up) and the aligning orbs one (I would definitely prefer if it was way smaller, not a bigger board) that came after. While it may be skill issue for some, this had a little impact on my review and experience as I only meant to play this game casually puzzle-wise. After calming the madness in my mind that spiraled into my head after doing those two specific puzzles, I would still recommend this game, with a no more and no less [u]8/10[/u] rating.

[b]Positive[/b] - Beautiful graphics - Interesting concept to take photos and evidence to piece together and solve the crime - Music is nice - Items in HO scenes are fairly placed and no pixel-hunting - Ability to skip puzzles - Map with instant transportation and marked locations - Voiceacting is good [b]Neutral[/b] - You backtrack too much. A lot of the time you pick up an item from one location, go to the new marked location, use the object, get a new object, go backtrack again to the only marked location. It would have been better to be able to pick up several objects at once to allow some exploration with the map.