Sinking Island

Whilst this is far from a perfect game, I feel that the mixed rating it currently has is a bit unfair. Yes, it has problems, but it is on the whole still a decent point and click detective game. Things i lik - The actual detective work has [in my opinion] the right amount of guidance. You do have to present appropriate statements and evidence to support the right answers, but the answers are broken down well so no single step is too big or complex, and the people's statements only contain isolated phrases of potential importance rather than literally everything they have said, so even by the end of the game you typically have no more than 15 statements per person. - The mystery itself is well done. Plenty of intrigue and twists but nothing you couldn't see coming or at least claim it doesn't make sense in hindsight. - The characters are pretty deep, nobody is one-dimensional. - For its time, the visuals are surprisingly good, and the sound design is excellent. - Game tells you where you can find everyone at any given time so you don't have to play hide and seek on what can be a very big map. Things I disliked - Map too big, especially at the start. I understand why, but it is annoying that the game map is largest at the start of the game and then gets steadily smaller as it progresses. Many of the scenes are completely pointless as well. As an example, at the start of the game you need to walk to the hotel. Across about 10 different transitions. All but 3 of these serve no purpose but to drag out the walk; a walk you'll need to repeat at least twice as you need to return to the start area at least once later. - Pixel hunts for items. Classic elderly point and click game problem. You find a drawer with an obvious false bottom, what can you use to pry it open? The screwdriver you have on you? No. You need knife! Where is [apparently] the only knife in the entire hotel and grounds? In a single, tiny kitchen drawer that is only visible in a single scene and has no indication that, unlike every other kitchen drawer, this one is interactable with. They could've at least made it a knife block or something. - No way to skip between scenes. You can double click to run but it still can take a good 10-20 seconds to move across a scene. - No widescreen support. The game only comes in one resolution that can be slightly adapted to better fit a 16:9 or 16:10 monitor. That's it. Overall I'd give this game a 7/10 and if I'd played it when it first came out probably an 8/10.

dedektiflik oyunu eski bir yapım pointclick hikaye ama çok yavaş ilerliyor sıkıyor hemen konuşmalar boş diyaloglar bitmiyor bi türlü

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Strange and bad but I do love what it's trying to do, and I love the decaying art deco in paradise aesthetic. I just wish anything about the story or gameplay stood out!

Great point & click game.

A great game

I actually really liked this game. It had been sitting in my library for a very long time and I finally got around to playing it. The Mandate puzzles were a lot of fun. That said however, there are a lot of frustrating things I hated about the game. for one, the running around for long stretches to get from one place to another, around the island and in the hotel (needless, just give me a teleport), and the really stupid fact that you had to take two different elevators to get to different places in the hotel, like why on earth was that a good idea? It would have been easier to just use one elevator to reach every floor! also, the fact that if you miss one little very missable, minor clue, you will not progress till it is found. I have to confess, at one point , I had to resort to a walkthrough. I overlooked the fact that the character's mouths did not move while speaking, and the fact that they would go on and on and on, when asked questions, get to the point already! Yah, other than that, I did enjoy the game. So I do recommend it, if you can hang in there.

Amazing!