Silver Creek Falls: Chapter 2

After playing this game-either to completion or as long as possible-my review of it is positive. (This review is short and intended only as a vote for the overall rating of this game with no intention of being informative)

Excellent RPG Maker adventure game. Really enjoyed it, good dialogue writing 7/10

Avec ce deuxième chapitre, [i][b]Silver Creek Fall[/b][/i] poursuit son petit bonhomme de chemin. Le rythme y est certes plus lent, mais le contenu en contrepartie plus conséquent. La tension augmente crescendo, au fil des mystères et des révélations (ou, du moins, des éléments de réponse) qu'apporte cet épisode. Au passage, la trame du scénario s'étoffe encore, au point que les ramifications de cette sombre histoire semblent tentaculaires... S'ajoutent à cela une bande son toujours aussi captivante, un puzzle ici ou là et, afin de conclure le chapitre en beauté, le cliffhanger qui va bien. En bref, la qualité est au rendez-vous ! [h1]Verdict : 4,5/5 - Excellent, à acheter les yeux fermés ![/h1]

v good

Fun story!

I know reviews are a little mixed for Chapter 2 but I still recommend it. At times, it gets a little off track and some evidence that is found don't seem to make all that much sense or fit into the story, but I PROMISE, it all adds up at the end. I'm reviewing this after having played Chapter 3 so I'll keep it short to avoid spoilers. It was short but worth it in my opinion.

The intrigue continues in Chapter 2 with a little more delving into the murders. A week has passed since you, Detective Sara Fitzgerald, initially arrived a Silver Creek Falls to investigate 3 strange cases and your partner has left. Instead, things get a little more sinister as you team up with an FBI agent, whose boss was expertly assassinated in the Silver Creek Falls hotel room you were previously staying in, and all your seized evidence has now mysteriously vanished. Together you are setting off to investigate the car crash and uncover more about what is going on surrounding the incidents at Sliver Creek Falls. The plot for this chapter gets a convoluted and it feels like this is the closing of Act 1 of a story. It changes Chapter 1 into more of a prologue and it certainly doesn't deliver the story well, since this is meant to be the second act. It The game play does get hampered a little by the dialogue exposition dumps you receive, I think a few more clues or puzzles to uncover information would help this feel more of an investigative crime/ mystery game. The puzzles are more complex compared to the previous instalment, and the way the cypher puzzle is presented to you in a convoluted manner does not help. I suspect there is a typo on the first puzzle, which means the clue to help decode it become false, and you are then confused at what the 2 separate pieces of information are telling you. Once you ignore that, it become easy to solve and I do appreciate the option of buying clues or buying a skip if you go get a bit frustrated with the puzzle. As the game is a little longer, you can see more locations and different times of day. It is nice to see more scope of RPGMaker here and how it fleshes out these new places to give a bit more character; you can feel some different between the bigger cities and the tiny towns. I like that the voice acting was brought back into the game to flesh out the mystery some more, my issue is this was done after the ending credits of the game, it would be easy to miss out on this if you didn't stay to the end of the credits. It would have been served better to add this into the game, though the cliffhanger it ended on was well executed. Overall, I have to give it a negative review as the story feels a bit rushed and there is too many elements shoved in to create twists and turns which would organically happen in a longer game. It might be something you are interested in picking up during a sale if you fancy spending an hour on it.