This game has potential, but stuck at the Patrick Raven case. Perhaps I will replay it and crack it. Perhaps I may watch yT replays (EDIT: I did and closed it).
SPOILER ALERT: I only played a demo, and I concede that this review is very harsh. But here goes.
One thing is certain: the way you interact with the evidence and arrange it to close a case is far from polished: you have to keep going back and forth between your casebook and the facts (viz, "Keywords") of the crime scene is a hassle. Especially if you have a bunch of keywords all over your casebook but you can't make sense of where you got them from.
The Patrick Raven case (mission 2) exemplifies just how annoying this can be. Many of these keywords are sometimes out of context. Or, how does a threat by the deceased to kill someone with a gun "shoot" inspire you to believe that the placement of roles in a production (a "shoot") had a bearing in the case? and why is it that I have to get the party invitation to get the keyword "role", but I can't get it from a letter taken from Keller's blasted out person, even though this is no less relevant than its place and context in the entire mission? this is an utter non sequitur.
On the strength of how there are no reminders of where you got your clues or keywords (cluewords????) whatsoever I would not recommend this game, not unless the devs paid you Robuxxx or $$$$$.
To Devs: Suggest (re)playing Phantom Doctrine to get a feel of how better to organise the user interface to better help people whose memory is bad, otherwise this is going to be little more than a point and click hassle. This game is NOT how most cops, detectives and spies do their sleuth work.
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I can feel your pain bub. HINT: the keyword you need to get it done is in one of the LEAST likeliest places. You will simply just have to search everything, even anything that isn't directly connected to it. Infuriating? yes. Illogical? definitely when you realise where you get this keyword from. But unfortunately that is how the cookie is crumbling, maybe I should just play This Is The Police or Phantom Doctrine instead.
I understand that this is just a "first version" but it is feeling more and more like a proto-pre-alpha version than what should be a public beta. If I were an investor I'd be having second thoughts about letting the devs play with my money.