The doubles are a dead review

They say that the detective work is primarily about sitting in front of the computer, and if so, I have a desktop for you. Armed with OS 1.1, PC cashew offers quick net surfing and right database search – all without flatulence of a contemporary computer with Windows system or a ponderous computer of a real computer from the behind schedule 90s. This is the main tool in your arsenal in your arsenal in your arsenal in The doubles are deadA game about filling a huge, tangled genealogical tree.

After a recent tragedy, which consumed the lives of the current president Candy Company, his wife and their three daughters, you were employed by a mysterious client to mark the Rootree dynasty in abnormal black and white. This means combining fictitious websites, library books and magazines to obtain facts required for their great conspiracy board.

Sure, it is straightforward to discover the names of the three sisters that died in the disaster – they are now they they are on the Internet – plus their competition and photo to “block them”. But what about their parents? And the parents of their parents’ parents? You have 90 years of these things to dig, so look.

Each time you find a clue – even if you noticed it, because you can cleverly bury them ⁠ – you have many possibilities of turning (on a rotary chair). There is evidence in your desk (maybe I should get an evidence): appropriate photos and documents to which you return to up-to-date information. But your main connection port is World Wide Web, Information SuperHighway, which – as in the real 1998 – exactly three significant places.

The fictitious spider search engine is useful to look for more notable doubles or noteworthy incidents, while any discovered books can be available in the central library database. Magazines for digging lasts needed to complete the entry are also useful. I lost tracking how many times I used the marriage, not the maiden names of the spouses.

Blood lines

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Technically, you only need to fill the direct descendants on the family tree (the founder of the Elias Rootree company was a bit obsessed with the blood line), but when every name or profession or discovered photo seems like a sifted gold, you will hit them on the Cork board.

After a few successful entries, the game disappears to pat you on the back, confirming your work, closing these entries on the spot. The game is essentially one giant puzzle ⁠-proportionate discouraging when you enlarge a sea of ​​questions and I have no idea what to start-so it’s best to make notes, whether in real or with a notebook in the game.

Speaking of this notebook, this is one of the most contemporary notebooks ever arisen. Only one element of the interface that acts on socks to maintain immersion in a detection state. Did you find a clue on the website, in a book or in one of your evidence folders? Just emphasize him with a mouse to search for it on the internet or add to the notebook, it does not require writing. The doubles are not dead, they never feel troublesome, repetitive or time -consuming, and in a game about multiple transfer of information between the menu, this is a considerable feat.

I said the same when I reviewed the earlier, free version of the roots is dead, which is largely similar, but carefully overshadowed by this paid remake. Fortunately, the generated art of the original disappeared, beautifully replaced by hand -drawn photos, covers of magazines and promotional leaflets, while the action spread only from the desktop to the entire living room. The corners of the room are dominated by a computer, cork board, evidence and front door, in which your client appears from time to time to achieve a general history.

With such a huge staffing of the character and often cursory details about their lives, I felt that I knew a lot and very little about the collections. It was fascinating to solve their stories, secrets, follow the potential tips down the rabbits and felt like a real detective, but I rarely discovered something that made me care about the heroes.

They are still dead

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This is only one element that has improved in the extension, which is included in this remake and available after completing the main game. Roottreania deals with the explosive ending of the doubles, enriching the characters from the previous game, while introducing additional branches to the genealogical tree. Here you follow the routes of various infidelity – the area not affected in the previous game – and the illegal offspring, which now has a claim for fortune with the action.

In this more complex investigation I realized that some of the things I discovered was. Little details fully enlivened many of her heroes. The game generally sums up websites and documents, instead of providing them in bulk, and more compelling and influencing the details of their lives have been selected here.

This second part of the Rootree saga is also a better detective game, with more useless information to screen (creating real tips when you find them, the more satisfying) and a more complex method of entering information. In the first part you choose the names from a calmingly decreasing list, but here the pool of available names is much larger and does not run out, which means that you can be less guessing to fill the empty place.

In summary, you cannot ask for a better continuation of the subject of the sub -carboners, which in itself is a luxurious change in the free original. It is a game for serene hours at the desk, low lamp and coffee from afar, and one of the best games with improper detective work.