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It wouldn't be such a problem if combat in The Sinking City was rare, but the opposite is true.

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Later in the game, you get some better guns, like a shotgun or rifle, but they just upgrade the combat from 'bad' to 'acceptable.' Your only weapon is a pistol and it takes far too many shots to drop even basic enemies, and often the aiming felt clunky and off. At the start of the game, the combat doesn't feel even vaguely good. Sadly, there's one part of The Sinking City that's always dragging it below the depths, and that's the combat. This should make the investigation easier for people who may be newer to the genre. Thankfully there's an optional setting that will alert you when there are no more important clues in an area. Occasionally this meant having to do a bit more pixel hunting than I wanted, but it was never as bad as some adventure games can get. There's a real treat to finding some little detail you didn't notice the first time and tying it to a bigger clue. Investigating crime scenes is a constant joy. Shooting The Sinking City's Monsters More like The Shooting Suburb

Sometimes you'll have to hit up locations like libraries or police stations to search their archives for more clues, other times you may have to take a step back and rework all the clues in your head. No matter how you find the clues, they spell out a story of each area, giving you a glimpse into an event and ideas on where to go next.

Sometimes this will help lead to clues, other times it could point out fake illusion walls that can be removed. As you find certain objects, Reed can look into the past and see brief glimpses at events that happened involving those objects. Reed has notable supernatural abilities that can help him with either task.

Usually, this means talking to people and finding clues. As an unashamed fan of map markers, this felt like the perfect compromise between the two systems.Īs you get to each location you'll have to do some investigation work. However, I did have to put in a bit of work to find where I needed to go. I never felt stuck wandering around and waiting to stumble across a location. You'll get jobs telling you to visit places, usually giving you instructions to find locations with only the district and nearby streets to help.

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See an area full of monsters? Then you better open up the map screen and mark it as such. As you advance you'll have to do your own work to mark the map. It has designations for a few of the most important places, but that's it. At the start of the game, you get a mostly empty map of Oakmont. To learn more about these characters, and Oakmont in general, Reed need to put his private eye skills to use and do some investigations. Investigating The Sinking City More like The Drowned Downtown The whole city just oozes mystery, and while there's no way to uncover all of it, it kept me thinking about it long after I stopped playing. It's easily what I was most excited about. Wanting to learn more about each of these characters is probably one of the biggest draws to keep playing. From friendly cult members that may be performing torture behind your back to quiet professors that think up absurd revenge plots, to a librarian who has her mouth sewn shut to stop her from spreading gossip. It helps that some truly interesting characters populate Oakmont. Reed's tale is full of twists and weird moments that threw me off my game and kept me guessing. The story is by far the most interesting part of The Sinking City. Reed needs to enter this mess, figure out the causes of the nightmares, and possibly save the world in the process. Cults are starting, people are doing weird things, and there are monsters roaming the streets. Furthermore, Oakmont has recently suffered from a terrible flood, drowning half the city. He manages to trace them to the city of Oakmont, where he finds others suffering from the same nighttime affliction. You play as Charles Reed, a World War 1 veteran and private investigator who finds himself haunted by weird nightmares he doesn't understand. So is it worth joining Oakmont on its trip to the depths, or should you go for the high ground? After spending around 25 hours exploring the flood, fighting monsters, solving murders, and more, I finally left the city behind. So, I kept my eyes on The Sinking City, hoping that its Lovecraft-inspired cosmic horror would win me over. While I got what I wanted with Call of Cthulhu last Fall, it certainly felt like there was missing something.

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