HOW badly did THAT game suck?

-- edit, since, yes, this was truly a lousy post originally. --

i picked it up hoping for something similar to hotel dusk: room 215, which i played last summer and absolutely adored. hotel dusk featured innovative puzzles, an interesting storyline, killer graphics and diverse characters; it kept me hooked for a good ten to twelve hours or so. i wouldn't say it has too much replay value, but i certainly have fond memories of it.

i had hopes that jake hunter would be a similar hard-boiled noir detective romp. it's divided into three cases, so i began the first one. however, while the first five minutes showed promise that it would be an intelligent adventure game, with subjects to interrogate, clues to unravel, logic-bases puzzles to solve... i found that i'd already beaten the first case in under an hour. wait, what? i'd barely even become engaged in the storyline. there was hardly any sleuthing to be done, jake hunter would occasionally ask you to review the aspects of the case in an easy multiple choice question review, but aside from that, the game held your hand, not letting you even leave a room until you were "done" (which in some cases, simply involved repeating a question to one of the characters), all but telling you which inventory item to use in whichever instance, and... just... grah. so i thought, okay, maybe it's just the first case that's like this, maybe it's an introduction, or a tutorial. but no, the next two chapters proved to be equally irritating. the first obvious suspect would generally prove to be the actual perp, there was little to no character development for anyone, let alone jake hunter, who would randomly tell us, for instance, that he had connections to japanese gangs... with no background or reason for us to understand it.

agh. i'm going to stop now, because the reason for this post WAS just wanting to hear from others if they had a better gaming experience with it than i did. but yes, sorry for the original abruptness of the post, guys.

I loved Jake Hunter. Screw you, TC.

Wow this is worse than my topics O_o

apologies for the awful topic, the original post has been edited with actual content!

Much better post!

Would this game be a good recommendation for someone who has never played a detective game before? I could, I don't know, try this and then move on to the "bigger and better" ones like Phoenix Wright or something.

hmmm. that's a good question, actually. i would perhaps recommend hotel dusk instead. jake hunter just didn't have enough content to leave you interested in the detective game genre; it left you feeling empty, while hotel dusk was satisfying and memorable, while still not being a difficult game. the reason it took me as long as it did was because of the development of the plot, the twists and turns, and the investigation you had to do due to this. i don't remember having any difficulties with the level of the puzzles, but maybe that's because i'm an experienced adventure gamer.

in fact, if i had to recommend a game as an entry into the world of detective games, it would actually be the famicom detective club, part II, for the SNES. at this point, it's abandonware, so you can legally find it here, in english: http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=5053

i would have suggested he go straight for phoenix wright as well, except that he mentioned that he's somewhat new to the genre, so i thought some of the trials might be a little bit difficult. however, yes, completely agreed, the ace attorney series surpasses all the games i mentioned by far.

Coincidentally, my avatar is one of the characters from Apollo Justice.  Also, some of the trials in the PW games might be tough, but they're not impossible.

yeah, i was going to say, i love your av. ema was adorable in apollo justice.

If you don't like reading then you will not enjoy this game.  Jake Hunter: Detective Chronicles is nothing more than an interactive novel.  However, I found the game to be pretty fun, even though there wasn't much interactivity.  UPRC I would suggest just going straight to Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and giving this game a pass unless you're a die-hard detective game/book fan.

Basically, all I wanted to say was in this post.

EDIT: Also, Famicom Tantei Kuraba 2 was my favorite game back when I was a newbie to visual novels! Disregard the 'screw you' I said earlier.