In other words, I found the game to be sparse in terms of what there is to explore in the various countries of Oz. I was very disappointed there weren’t any areas I could explore on my own, other than the designated buildings gone into to advance the plot. Maneuverability is just as easy with the Gump taxi service carrying Petra to and from various locales. There were no problems with any lagging response. Luckily, they don’t happen often enough to be overly annoying.īeing a point and click game, Emerald City Confidential controls perfectly. The sound effects are louder than the background music and are a bit cheesy. It wasn’t really loud enough to be offensive, which was a good thing. Maybe the developers did this to encourage the gamer to keep playing? The background music did not bother me at all. As Quadling and Winkie country is being explored, the tone of the music changes to more of a rousing, lilting persuasion. In-game music is dark and foreboding in the Emerald City. This may have been an intentional annoyance, as it is true to the patchwork girl’s nature in Baum’s books, but if you ask me, she was needlessly shrill. In opposition, Scraps/ patchwork-girl/ shop owner’s voice was the worst in terms of annoying me to the point of quickly clicking the mouse to skip any unnecessary conversation with her. It was enjoyable to have a hand in picking her vocal inflections as she reacted to certain situations. As an investigator and main character, she does a lot of talking and really came across as an intelligent, get to the bottom of things, don’t take no for an answer kind of gal. For the most part, the voice acting does a stand-up job at matching the characters being portrayed. To make the characters come to life, the game relies mainly on voice acting. Clever character designs like this make the game more tolerable. I loved the fact that “Dee” or Dorothy Gale was wearing a short baby blue frock, fishnets, pouty ruby red lipstick, and ruby stilettos. Character designs are fabulously rendered in the noir style. Emerald City came to life as the designers wisely used glowing tints and shades of green. The colors used are vibrant and bold, just as an Oz palette should be. The graphics are simplistic and straightforward, as they should be in an adventure game. The game doesn’t go all out for flashy or realistic, but it would be trying too hard if it did. Even the puns were accurate, lending deserved chuckles and rolls of one’s eyes.ĮCC uses classic 2-D, cel animation style graphics. A gamer not reading Baum’s work would be able to pick up the historical tidbits in Emerald City’s famous University through use of the pill machine, if desired. I was pleased with the historical attention that was compiled directly from the books. The characters became more complex as mysteries were both brought to light and resolved. To me, the developing story was initially boring, but did get better as the game progressed.
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Our heroine, investigator Petra, has her hands full dealing with missing persons, lost artifacts, liars, and smugglers to name a few, while putting her own mysterious past on the back burner. Denying magical creatures the use of spells and potions becomes a problem as illegal possession runs rampant. Picking up where the books left off, Oz has become a gritty, crime infested land, with Queen Ozma feeling bitter toward the use of magic. Frank Baum’s Oz, highlighting many of his beloved characters, only with a noir twist. As an Ozzite, I was pleasantly surprised by the historical accuracies and equally thrilled to find a new spin on an old familiar classic.Įmerald City Confidential takes place in a seedy version of L. I really didn’t know what to expect from ECC. The last point and click game I have played was Neverhood. As I am only a casual gamer, I didn’t feel too intimidated by the point and click format. I was interested to see how true the game would be to the books, if at all, and how far into the original stories the game would get. Enjoy!īeing knowledgeable about the stories of Oz, I felt compelled to review Emerald City Confidential (ECC). That being said, I think she does a good job covering a pretty fun little game. She is a casual gamer who does not read any video game reviews or follow any gaming sites, even mine. As a reward for her months of reading, I called this game for her and let her review it. My wife, Heather, is a huge Oz geek and had recently finished reading most of the canon Oz books when this game came out. Warning: A non-numeric value encountered in /nfs/c12/h02/mnt/222827/domains//html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 64
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