Ben Jordan Case 2 Deluxe

Iliya · Wed 31/03/2010 12:05:24

3rd screenshot - very good!

Shadow1000 · Thu 01/04/2010 17:00:42

Ok, I finished with 82 points!

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I just realized that you have to give the bowl back BEFORE you go back to the prospector; right after creating the moonshine. My first time around, I actually used the bowl in the Sea for the silver component

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Other than my earlier small points, I give the game five stars!

InCreator · Sun 04/04/2010 00:28:36

Why is there no text during speech? It annoys the hell out of me. Sure, I can understand spoken English, but I always prefer captions also! I'm sure it's so with many non-native English speakers here. Deciphering accent and trying to understand also what's being said and what that even means is exhausting.

What an awful, awful design choice! And how about hearing impaired people out there? Screw the full-speech, I'd rather play with text-only than with speech and no text.

Will not play

Ali · Sun 04/04/2010 01:29:40

*Checks to make sure April Fools is over - concludes InCreator is serious*

Press Ctrl-T to bring up text!

I think this deluxe edition is a worthy improvement, and the desert screenshot is one of the best backgrounds in the Jordon opus.

The only thing that niggles me is that the medicine man doesn't quite sound Scottish, except when he says "Take care of yourself, laddie". Otherwise the voice acting is some of the most enjoyable in AGS games.

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Sun 04/04/2010 03:53:54

I found that odd as well, Ali, especially since I've HEARD Francisco do Connery on tokbox and he's quite good at the voice normally! I can only conclude that he was trying for an understated performance to make it sound less like a parody and be taken more seriously. Also, I was a bit surprised by the lack of text next to the portraits as well, especially since half the time I will read the text more quickly than the voice and want to skip to the next line (bypassing filler) so the lack of text with speech was a bit odd but not bothersome.

Buckethead · Sun 04/04/2010 14:48:12

it actually says that you need to use CTRL+T to switch through the speech modes when you click on the help in game.

InCreator · Mon 05/04/2010 00:33:31

Bjyman · Sat 17/04/2010 02:41:00

With the exception of the barista puzzle I like the original one better. One character just makes me want to throw up.

paolo · Sun 18/04/2010 10:32:00

I've just finished this. Congratulations, Grundislav - the remastering was really worth it, and the gameplay is now much more solid.

One question:

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I see Mama was voiced by a man. I thought she was a man in drag the first time I saw her portrait... Was this intentional, I wonder?

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...and one quibble wrapped up in a compliment:

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I liked the song-writing puzzle because it was original and you had to let it develop before you could solve it, but they are similes, not metaphors.

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