In the same scene, there is another similarity to Day of the Tentacle: you can control multiple characters and switch between them. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Here, the prison guard’s necessarily infinite patience in this affair, while having their time repeatedly wasted by their own prisoner, is hilarious. There’s something inherently amusing about learning the patterns of characters’ behaviour, then treating them as cogs in a puzzle machine, making them repeat their actions endlessly until you’ve cracked it. We were reminded of discovering and manipulating the quirks of the Edison house and its inhabitants, just on a smaller scale. One puzzle sequence that takes place in a holding cell feels almost Day of the Tentacle-esque. However, this does improve as the game gets going. Some of the objects in the game – like a remote control that works on cameras, or a device that detects “good intents” – feel so contrived that they might as well be called things like “Solution to puzzle number 14” or “Opener for that particular door”. ![]() ![]() The early puzzles are fairly shallow, to say the least. Kicking off – like so many a good gumshoe yarn – with a mysterious phone call, Brok takes on a case that leads to the unravelling of something much bigger. Graff is navigating his teens and the school exams that might earn him the status of “drumer”. Tormented by guilt after a traumatic event, Brok is trying to get his life on track while raising Graff. It takes place in a dystopian future, where “slumers” are second-class citizens, banished to live in the run-down wreckage of old cities, while “drumers” are the privileged few, living in a pristine bubble run and guarded by robots. The game tells the story of its PI alligator protagonist, his teenage cat stepson Graff, and various other animal associates. Based in a small town in the south of France, the company is a one-person operation, making this second game under their belt all the more impressive. The first was Demetrios, another point-and-click adventure, first released six years earlier in 2016, which arrived on Switch in 2018. But does it have an ace up its sleeve?īrok is the second game to be developed and self-published by indie shop Cowcat Games. So Cowcat Games’ cards go straight onto the table: Brok the InvestiGator is a point-and-click, but sometimes you just punch stuff to smithereens. With a good bit of Double Dragon-style – or should we say Double Crocodile-style! – button mashing, the door puzzle is “solved”. ![]() This leads to another puzzle: Alligator PI Brok urgently exclaims, “I need to get past that door!” Before your grey matter cogs can even get a-whirring, a dialogue box tells you to press 'X' to activate Action Mode. You naturally start pointing and clicking to solve a simple puzzle. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)īROK the InvestiGator gets right to the point: you begin the game in a burning room.
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