A silly point and click game where you’re a gritty noir-ish hard-boiled detective? And you’re a duck? Sold.
Aside from being a duck, you’re every cliche known to the character. Your apartment is your office, you have no money, you’re going through a divorce, you seem to have a drinking problem – a full house.
Desperate for work, you take on a job for an anonymous person who wants you to investigate a lunch theft from the staff kitchen in the offices of a bus company. By making deducktions (no, really) where you link characters and evidence to fill in gaps in sentences, based on the information you’ve found or gotten out of the workers. It soon becomes clear that there’s a bit more going on than someone nicking food from the fridge, when there’s evidence of smuggling and even a kidnapping.
Good things about the game include the comedy style (and duck puns) and how the character you think might be the suspect keeps changing, as everyone seems to have some sort of grudge or problem with at least one other person involved. On the down side, it’s an incredibly short game. I was expecting several cases to solve, whereas there’s really only one (well, three crimes, but they’re all the same case and you solve them together). There’s also a puzzle I just didn’t get, involving a safe combination, which I brute forced in the end but even after looking up a solution later it still doesn’t make sense.
Still, if I see the sequel (beakquel?) cheap, I’ll probably buy it.
