Place me in the Point and Click Mulylhionados camp, who fiercely believe that Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers from 1993 is one of the best adventure games that the computer has ever affected. First, in the thriller of the Secrets contained writing, which was a cut-out over-line tariff, puzzles that turned on the side of reasonable investigations, and not the logic of the moon and the glorious bastard of the hero Cajun.
Kathy Rain owes a lot to Gabriela Knight. Replace the author from the 90s from the 90s with a motorcyclist/a motorcycle student from the 90s, replace the cord of a voodoo conspiracy covering the death of his grandfather, and you have the first Kathy Rain, who was released in 2016 and boasted a general, but with a general slander: “Detective is born.” But despite receiving candid praise from John in those days, Kathy’s first trip had a gloomy conspiracy about the cultures, trauma, the disappearance of a petite town and older gods, which were understandable thanks to the cut -out of the director in 2021. Kathy Rain 2: Wootsayer, I am glad that I can report, I do not need such switching, does not require re -print, it is not related to the first game.
The continuation begins with the summary of the director’s cutting, formally canonizing him as the final version of Kathy’s past in the Conwell Springs. Three years after this incident, Kathy is older, smarter and lives in the mean invented city of Kassida. She fights to keep the lights in his Pi office, Rain Investigations, until her mentor informs her that the $ 200,000 prize is available for information about the serial killer called “Wootsayer”. After making the decision to hunt the killer, Kathy joins his Christian roommate Eileen (a couple is a charming, strange couple) and learns that the divination is associated with the events of Conwell Springs.
The plot is more confident in its presentation than Kathy Rain 1, who often seemed uncertain, what to do with his supernatural elements, and started on the territory of Twin Peaks in eleventh an hour after he mainly played straight. Here, the surrealism of David Lynch and a bit of horror Silent Hill are naturally woven into the narrative at the end of each day in the game, which usually ends with Kathy, who experiences the living nightmares, which contain Crimson One, Baldie, which speaks in puzzles. These scenes are connective tissue, which makes the search for a diviner more engaging and bypass all “huh, what’s going on?” Questions that the first game presented.
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers resemble the methods of your study, but with the minimum interface of Lucasarts from the slow 90s – for example a full throttle. (For those who wonder if it’s more Sierra or Lucasarts when it comes to death, know that you Power Die, but just disappears to white, sending you back to the place where you were.) Most of your actions are a standard point and click things – talk to people, collect items, operate elements to solve the puzzles to continue to grow. Whenever Kathy talks to NPC, a well -saved dialogue and a wide range of topics are very addictive, and on the spot you can ask about things about things in wrestling and objects in the immediate environment, which causes a huge variety of answers.
Roundabouts, excessively complicated puzzle sequences go hand in hand with adventure species, but most of Kathy’s challenges can be solved by clicking the appropriate hotspots or comprehensive inventory combinations. There are several sequences that turn towards the filler (i.e. by handing the NPC the appropriate series of tools that will facilitate them repair the car), but most of them are nicely inspired, like composing the right haiku to impress the owner of the poetry club. There are two particularly hard (and very 90) puzzles, which include hacking the computer and deciphering the pager codes, but are still easier than this moment in the sins of the fathers in which Gabriel had to decipher the voodoo-speak on the side of the tomb to find a secret cult place in Bayou.
Your journey is illustrated by one of the best pixel pieces I saw in the point of the point and click, as well as the effects of lighting, which leave Kathy when he goes under the neon signs of Kashida, make me feel like I lived on a parallel axis of time, in which Gabriel Knight still covered 2D for subsequent secrets instead of FMV and Cluky Early 3D. The voice of acting performs the task nicely (actors of Kathy and Eileen from the first game make him return), while the result of Daniel Kobylarz provides a half-metod, semi-aistmosferic atmosphere that I can listen to while writing this review, which is very appreciated. Check the Osto on YouTube, if you care – MAP MAP MADE It is a game when Kathy drives through the city on her pieper, it really does it.
All these aspects are combined so that Kathy Rain 2: Fight one of the most addictive adventures I have been playing for a long time. However, it is consisting in the extension of the narrative with its ancestor and, like the cutting director Kathy Rain 1, many of his more intriguing twists and turns exist to burn the abrasive stains of the plot from the first game. But continuations must not necessarily be fully independent experiences, and you Power Probably break through both Kathy Rain 1 and 2 on the long weekend. If it sounds positive, give Kathy. The detective was actually born, and as Knight Femme Gabriel wears a derivative of a niche species in good shape.
This review is based on the version of the game review provided by the programmer.
Revelation: I tested Beta at Kathy Rain 2 at the beginning of 2025.
