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I just completed The Darkest Files by the Berlin developers @paintbucket and... I fucking love it, which sounds wierd for a game, about crimes commited by nazis during WW2.
The game has similar gut-punching capabilities as the previous game in the "series", Through The Darkest Of Times, where you suddenly read something and realise how real the story actually is.
Since spoiling a game, that lives on its story is a very dick move, I will just tell you about the premise of the game.
You play as a young prosecutor Esther Katz and for each case the task is: Find out, what really happend by gathering info, hearing out witnesses (with each wildly different recollections), forming a theory backed with that info and finally proving your case in court! Each case has nazis as the perpetrators. There is actually one thing I found a bit annoying when being in court. The game pretty much expects a list of exact pieces of evidence. As soon as you choose something else, that might make sense in your head, the game dismisses it, which I found somewhat annoying. Esspecially since the game does not react to that theory. Tho to be fair here, its a small indie dev studio and from what I heard the development budget was also just enough to get the game out of the door.
In the end, I was increably hooked. The interesting thing is for you as the player, each case was reality (with changed names). That makes the game so much more important to the world, telling the story of those, who can't anymore.
There is one more problem tho... only two cases? I WANT MORE. GIMME DLC!
#thedarkestfiles #paintbucketgames #games #review #gamereview
(Fun Fact: I actually tried to join the team, like 2 years ago... sadly, they didn't had the budget for an additional programmer)
The game has similar gut-punching capabilities as the previous game in the "series", Through The Darkest Of Times, where you suddenly read something and realise how real the story actually is.
Since spoiling a game, that lives on its story is a very dick move, I will just tell you about the premise of the game.
You play as a young prosecutor Esther Katz and for each case the task is: Find out, what really happend by gathering info, hearing out witnesses (with each wildly different recollections), forming a theory backed with that info and finally proving your case in court! Each case has nazis as the perpetrators. There is actually one thing I found a bit annoying when being in court. The game pretty much expects a list of exact pieces of evidence. As soon as you choose something else, that might make sense in your head, the game dismisses it, which I found somewhat annoying. Esspecially since the game does not react to that theory. Tho to be fair here, its a small indie dev studio and from what I heard the development budget was also just enough to get the game out of the door.
In the end, I was increably hooked. The interesting thing is for you as the player, each case was reality (with changed names). That makes the game so much more important to the world, telling the story of those, who can't anymore.
There is one more problem tho... only two cases? I WANT MORE. GIMME DLC!
#thedarkestfiles #paintbucketgames #games #review #gamereview
(Fun Fact: I actually tried to join the team, like 2 years ago... sadly, they didn't had the budget for an additional programmer)
