Nearly finished Police Quest: Open Season, and have only encountered a couple of "adventure game bullshit" moments — one where I forgot to do some paperwork (this is a Police Quest game, after all) and one where I forgot to pick up a handful of pretzels from a bar. Both were essential in order to progress the story, of course.
As I noted yesterday, I've been enjoying this one a lot more than people had led me to believe. There's a nice cast of characters, some of whom don't take themselves too seriously, and there's a nice feeling of escalating stress on the part of the main character as the story progresses. On the whole, he's relatively flat and obviously intended to be a bit of a self-insert for the player, but there are the odd moments when you feel for him, which is good.
Mostly, though, it's a fun investigation game. Adventure games and crime stories go very well together, and Police Quest: Open Season is a great example of that. Yes, it goes a little harder on the realism than most — real police investigations are a matter of teamwork, not the result of one multi-talented badass cop taking care of everything — but that just means that there are some interesting and unconventional solutions to puzzles. Can't figure out what to do with that evidence you found? There's probably someone back at the Parker Centre who can help you out.
Not sure what score I'm going to end up with by the conclusion or what the maximum is — I suspect I've missed a fair few opportunities to use the notebook over the course of the game — but I think I'm closing in on the end, anyway. I've called it a night for now because Andie was enjoying watching and she's headed off to bed, so I'll leave the finale for tomorrow evening. Then I'll have something to write about for Retrounite this week! Winner.
Anyway, that was that for the weekend. Hope you all had a good one — mine was pretty uneventful, but I can't complain about that really. Enjoy your last moments of rest before another week begins — and kick some bottom this week or something. I don't know.
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