I KNEW IT!
DOMINIC PETRENKO, right!? Or however you spell it?
Wow and I thought I was seeing/hearing things? XD!!!
I'm so glad you brought that up, I wanted to ask but forgot to (:
Ohhh yeah the tutorial in that game drove me absolutely nuts haha...Wish I'd played them in order like you had, that's the way to go ): I must say, I love the one on Hard Evidence! I went outta my way to play it (just on a whim) and discovered that it was actually rather entertaining!! I love how Brass is like, a warrant over a donut? But since this is a tutorial I'll give it to you...So yeah I liked that bit.
With the tools, I suppose they just did that depending on what case the particular game has. Like, the sniffer and infra red detector wouldn't do you much good in the later games. But I agree with you, that would've been cool to see them return later.
Thanks (:
And you're right, Leda's Swan Song was the most challenging. I liked it a lot actually! Second favorite to Garvey's Beat of course. (Even though I never can remember its name haha)
I'm sure you understand this, but I totally missed out on something in case 5. So, as you say, they are all connected. And Leda killed Karen. But, why was it that she did? I mean she was her pharmacist and all, but was it just to see if she could get away with it or...? I totally blanked out there and missed the reasoning behind that. Of all the cases on that game (Garvey's included) I think that case 5 had the most wasted potential. That plot was just fabulous, it is such a pity that it couldn't have gone on further. I must say, that case had me so involved and the concept of having to find Grissom was quite brilliant IMO. I really did enjoy it. You know, it's kinda funny I saw the money and chips in the mouths and I thought they were just recycling something
I should've caught on...oh well...
Ahh Garvey's Beat was just so fabulous...true that about the plot holes. If he recreated the scene and all, why use pig's blood? I know you can never exactly duplicate it but wouldn't the head wound have still bled in a similar pattern? That kinda threw me, as did the issues you raised. You know, I can't decide now whether I think he knowingly had two sides to him or not. When I played it, I thought he had multiple personality disorder because when Nick called him the Professor he suddenly snapped out of his delusional talking. I felt like there were two sides to him. Although now that I think about it, I might just be remembering it like I "want to" because that's how I wrote it off as being. If that makes any amount of sense whatsoever.
Ah yes. I have since gotten to case 4 on Miami (LOVESPEED!!!) Erm, aside from the fact that it has Tim Speedle in it, this game is my least favorite.
You're totally right! You said something was missing from it and you were spot on...I don't care for it much. It is so similar to Dark Motives, and yet, so different. It definitely falls short, but I just can't put my finger on the reason for why it does...Case 3 was so weird, and the hinting at that guy being into necrophilia? Yikes. I did like how you went to an underwater site there though, that's pretty cool. It would've been even cooler if it was like the PS2 version of TDoM and you could swim around. Took me forever to figure out I needed a flashlight for something that was clearly visible. I must say, the only thing I really like about that game is that you can use the flashlight when YOU want to, anytime anywhere. Case 4 seems interesting so far, dead guy and his dog...Not too far into it though. Can't wait to see what you're talking about in case 5; I bet H puts on his charm for it though (: Gotta love David Caruso and his sunglasses...
Oh, more questions for you (sorry, hope you don't mind!)
Case 5 on Dark Motives (Dragon and Dropping I think?) how does it tie the other cases together? I never caught that when I played it through years ago and recently I stopped at Miss Direction so I didn't replay the last case yet.
Also, in case 5 on Three Dimensions of Murder I remember it had Ackerman from Photographs at an Execution, and it had Carrie's boyfriend from case 3. Did it have stuff from 2 and 4? Or was it like the first CSI game where it was case 1 and 4 that led to 5? Am I missing stuff here? *confused*
I am also at case 3 in Hard Evidence.
That one is alright so far...the first case was pretty good. I also thought it was kinda interesting how the "victim" was kind of a "perp" at the same time, with the harassing and stuff. Just shows how regardless of who dies you have to get to the bottom of it. So I liked that aspect of the case. "Double Down" was a repeat of "Rich Mom, Poor Mom" for me so that was slightly boring since I played that case only 2 weeks ago or so. But, I will say this about it: I now can completely understand the difference between the PS2 and PC versions of these cases. In the PS2 version it was impossible for me to see the photograph on the furniture, and very hard to see the bullet hole in the wall. On the PC version? Not a problem. Very easy. It really makes an enormous difference. Case 3, no idea how it'll end at this point...interesting method of murder haha...Can't wait for case 4 though, working with Greg and all. Plus the description of that case sounds awesome.
Wow I have managed to ramble on AGAIN...
Sorry~