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The Slaughter: Act One Hacked

Updated: Mar 18, 2020





















































About This Game A serial killer is terrorizing the streets of Victorian London, and private investigator Sydney Emerson has hit a new low between finding lost dogs and receiving alleyway beatings. A turn of events sees Sydney forgoing his selfish nature and thrusting himself into perilous and increasingly surreal situations, treading a fine line between dreams and reality. Explore the foggy streets of Victorian London in all its decadence and depravity, searching the slums, taverns, brothels and even Sydney’s abstract dreamscapes for clues, while meeting a host of interesting, insane and eccentrically British characters along the way.Features•A noir adventure laced with adult themes and dark humour.•A faithful recreation of Victorian London, from decadence to depravity.•Classic point and click gameplay in the vein of the LucasArts games of yore.•Explore Sydney’s surreal dream-world for clues.•Follow the trail of a killer, or drink until you vomit at the pub.•Original soundtrack blends film noir and traditional Victorian instruments. 7aa9394dea Title: The Slaughter: Act OneGenre: Adventure, IndieDeveloper:BrainchildPublisher:BrainchildRelease Date: 28 Jan, 2016 The Slaughter: Act One Hacked Really gets your mind thinking about ways to enter homes, places, or other areas.. The puzzles and the story are not fun..... The mini-game is a bit pointless and annoying, but overall one of the better indie adventures. Looking forward to act two.. This game sat in my Library as I waited for its continuation... which leads me to my negative review. Although I enjoyed what I played, I really can\u2019t recommend this game until \u201cAct 2\u201d comes along. There were a lot of positives, including the atmosphere, humorous dialogue, a good story with fairly good characters, cool surreal dream sequences, and the Shove Ha'Penny mini-game that (I guess since it was tweaked) was a lot of fun. The negatives though outweighed all those for me. The control was very fiddly and picky, so you had to repeat a lot of actions\/dialogue because you didn\u2019t click the precise pixel. Also the timing of the arm wrestling was really irritating, much more than the ha\u2019penny game. I could overlook all that but not the frustration of being left hanging without any resolution of the plot - especially since it\u2019s a murder mystery! So as interesting as it was, it became just a pointless time-waster.. This is a mixed bag. The story is well told, but not that original (there might be more orginality hidden behind the dream stuff, but this remains to be unveiled yet).The game itself it quite short (I've idled ingame), and the puzzles aren't really fun: some pixel hunting, some fetch-quests and some obtuse random stuff. The game feels unresponsive and clunky: the character walks quite slowly and has some pathfinding issues. Since he persists to walk to a hotspot when ever I want to try to apply an item there (just to tell me it won't work once he's arrived), solving puzzles feels sluggish and annoying sometimes.The graphics are okay but not really a joy to watch, especially not the mainchars moonwalking. They serve their purpose nevertheless.But, as said before, the narration is well done. For 8 € I'd expect more than a trailer ending with a cliffhanger, but nevertheless this game has much potential. Slightly recommanded in hope for a more polished second part.. While not overly difficult puzzle-wise (which I found refreshing coming off some much more obtuse adventure games), the story and characters are engaging and I'm very cutious to see where the next act goes.. Liked the graphic style and the game overall. The few times the "thoughts" of the main character show up gave him a bit of depth. Loved the music. The only thing that put me off a bit is the price, but it depends on how much the next acts will be priced.Puzzles pretty much absent. What an amazing game. I loved the story and can't wait for the next ones!Full video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2EF61gaapo. Games got a nice retro feel and a good story. It has some adult content so if you played broken sword, discworld and monkey island as a kid but are now grown up you'll like this.

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