Just finished playing 'The Painscreek Killings' and absolutely loved it... until the end. The ending isn't bad but also so dumb. So the whole premise of the game is that you freely investigate an abandoned town to find evidence in relation to the murders. Loved doing it and loved the puzzle element to it but towards the end you find evidence that blatantly tell you things that you already cleverly worked out yourself with other little clues. It felt like, what's the point of trying to work things out if the game eventually tells you what went on. It wasn't too bad until the very end. After spending 10+ hours investigating the town and piecing everything together yourself, the game actually shows you who the murderer is
. The conclusion could of been handled so much better.
The game also has a few twists which were cool but doesn't really work with an Pi sim. Some of the evidence you find is purposefully done to mislead you into thinking a certain direction but because the game spends a lot of time doing this it has to tell you that you were mislead and then go on to tell you exactly what happened instead of you working it out yourself.
The game is brilliant with the investigation part and also really good and slowly unravelling the story and even in 3/4 of the game it's amazing as a detective sim but the fact it just eventually tells you everything at the end, kind of ruins the fun of working it out yourself.
One last thing that probably annoyed me the most, the game was brilliant and creating suspense by using creepy moments sparingly like
My issue is that
But it is a great game with good story and good puzzles but annoying if you expect to work things it out yourself.