Falco - Lighting strike in town festival

[Giacomo]

German transaltion officialy released! Thanks @The Last To Know for the translation!

[The Last To Know]

In case you missed it: A few days ago the German translation was released. So, if you know German, please try it and give us your opinion. 

[Giacomo]

I don't know how but my game ended up to be published on province's newspaper,
and AGS site also was mentioned!

https://www.ilgiornaledivicenza.it/territorio-vicentino/bassano/laureato-in-storia-fa-l-operaio-e-inventa-un-videogame-su-marostica-1.12553612

[Creamy]

That's the start of glory!

[heltenjon]

I finally got around to playing this. It's a good game, and for a first outing with AGS, I must say it's very impressive.

My first impression came immediately. Commissioner Falco? Can that really be the correct police rank? Perhaps something has been lost in translation here? He doesn't strike me as chief of police.

So, Falco is a famous detective, but this time his task is trivial - he has to make some partygoers end their party. This turns out to be easier said than done, and soon this task splits into lots and lots of subtasks and puzzles that has to be solved. With only four locations, there is a lot to do! The puzzles are well worked out and quite varied. There is a fair bit of reading required in order to get the information needed for some of the puzzles, but then you should be expecting that when playing a sort of investigation game. I liked the variety and how the seemingly easy mission turns more complicated at every turn. The graphics are beautifully done in gray tones, which I suppose is a choice because of the tongue-in-cheek homage to the noir genre. (Although Columbo can hardly be called noir, and Falco clearly is a comedic version of that character.)

Personally, I would have preferred colours.

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Especially after seeing every scene in colours during the end of the game.

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There are a few pixel hunts that would have been easier with colours. But the one thing that had me stuck for a while, was not a puzzle at all, but how to

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enter the phone booth.

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I think that was not supposed to stop the player. And if I am going to nitpick, I also several times found a solution before I found the problem it was meant to solve.

Despite these small drawbacks, I had a good time playing the game, and would definitely play more games starring Falco

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which the ending kind of promises

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. Thanks for the game!