The Adventure Company does a good job of
bringing over games from Europe for those of us in Canada and the US to
enjoy; it's not surprising that many of their titles are imports, since the
whole adventure genre is much more alive and well across the sea, but it
does make for the occasional interesting translation.
And, of course, there's always the
possibility that they just acquire a lemon. Tragically, Crime Stories
seems to be a tart lemon - a game that a few gamers might enjoy, but that
all but the very hard-core adventure gamers who absolutely, positively must
play every game in the genre would do best leaving alone for better titles.
What went wrong? Translations that don't
work or feel out of place, a graphical system that's sub-par (to be
generous), and just a game that feels like it never comes together, which
Adventure Company had the misfortune to pick up and try to bring over.
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