Spoilers if you haven't finished the first case.
So I picked this game up yesterday as I promised myself I would give new types of game a try this generation. And boy, I don't regret it. Besides the game being just the right type of difficulty for what I was looking for (at least for now), it's got a great atmosphere and the game looks really good at times. But, the first case, it bothers me.
So as I was eating breakfast today i was contemplating if the game is revealing the "right" choice by not giving you an option to declare someone innocent. So in the first case there are three suspects with various reasons for why they might be guilty. Two of them can have the evidence be used to both say they're innocent and guilty (or guilty together). One man though can either be unconnected or guilty. I figured today that it might the game subtly telling me the old when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. But I didn't see it at the time because one of the major evidence against him is, to me, circumstantial.
I'm talking about the tobacco pouch. In your deductions it can say "proof of visit" and "proof of guilt". But the fact that his tobacco pouch is there isn't a proof of guilt. So I can't pick that with a clear conscience. But I know now that the game consider him the guilty one and I just don't see enough evidence of that fact compared to the other options. Even if you include that he's a harpooner, it's not enough and it sort of lacks real motive.
I really ike the game, but I am not sure letting people see if they are right or not at the end of the case (as opposed to the end of the game) is a good idea. Sure, it does say "may ruin experience" and that's definitely something I should have considered more carefully. But I was too cocky that my deduction was sound. I think for the rest of the cases, I'll just go with whatever one I feel is right and not look it up.
So question for anyone that has played more of it, are all the cases this gray-zone evidence wise? In a way, it's fun because it's really hard to sit there and be the judge over someone based on evidence you collected. Picking a final conclusion might be one of the harder things I've done in recent memory gaming wise.
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