My love for mysteries can be traced directly to my childhood collectio🏅n of Usborne Puzzle Adventure books. Each elaborately illustrated title set up a mystery and fed you clues to help you piece the evidence together. You looked at the scene of the crime, verified alibis, identified opportunities, and worked out motives based on what suspects said and did. Supplemented by Agatha Christie books, I figured myself an amateur sleuth – as long as I had access to all the facts, I could figure anything out.
Graduating to point-and-click games was a natural progression, because so many of them are built around solving puzzles and collecting the right items, scratching t🥃hat same logical itch. It began with Cartoon Network branded games like The Envelopes, Please! This led me to modern iterations of the genre, like Thimbleweed Park, which begins with you actually trying to solve a murder, and , which was critically lauded and which I personally adored. I love point-and-clicks because, when made well, they function very similarly to a typical mystery. There is an internal logic, and investigating enough within it will lead you to a logical conclusion. It’s all a matter of looking at things from the right angle.
Though there are plenty of great puzzle games being made – , and all came out in 2023 – you don’t see that many games built entirely on solving mysteries anymore. It’s not often I get to put on my little detective hat and pretend that I’m competent enough to solve a crime, so I was delighted when Baldur&r🐬squo;s Gate 3 let me do just that. Spoilers ahead, oಌbviously.
As I began the game’s third act and wove my way towards the eponymous city, I came across a group of tieflings begging to be let into the Open Hand Temple. Because I’m nosy (and I also want to find as many side quests in the game as ওpossible), I strolled right in to see what was happening. After asking around a little, I discovered that the temple’s leader Father Lorgan, who was by all accounts a kind and respected man, had been 🦂murdered by a tiefling refugee that he’d been sheltering! At least, that’s what the investigator had concluded after a relatively perfunctory look around, and not everybody believed this was the truth.
Tಞhe investigator happens to be a Hollyphant (a small, flying, elephant-like creature) who promptly went to the nearest brothel to celebrate. This game really does have some colourful characters.
One member of the temple, Sister Yannis, asks you to find evidence that the investigator was wrong and suggests there’s more than meets the eye with this case. It’s at this point that I started buzzing, because I had no idea there was going to be a crimeཧ-solving side quest in Baldur’s Gate 3, and having magic at my disposal only unlocked more ways to investigate. I only got more excited as I cast Speak With Dead and talked to Father Lorgan, then his alleged murderer (who was also dead), and followed trails of blood to the real crime scene, where I found their actual killers. I was practically floating when I found that the killing was linked to a series of ritual murders be🐬ing carried out in the city, all part of a Bhaalist plot to kill specific targets and pin the deaths on tiefling refugees.
It’s one thing when a game of this scope has a cheeky detective side story – at least one Yakuza game has sidetracked me for a brief brain teaser in which I had to figure out who stole something – but it’s an entirely different thing when what appears to be a temporary diversion turns out to be a much bigger part of the story. Then again, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur’s Gate 3 is great at surprꦺising me, so maybe I should have expected that my nosiness would lead me ไto a conspiracy.
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