The video games grown in the 90s remember with great affection the golden age of Adventures Punta and Clicka genre that in that period saw its maximum splendor, with dozens of titles released every year, including some still remembered today as authentic masterpieces, such as the saga of Monkey Island, Broken Sword, Day of the Tentacle o Grim Fandango.
The genre saw a great drop in popularity in the 2000s, so much so that it seemed to have disappeared and belonging to the past. Fortunately, in the world of video games nothing disappears forever and Even the adventures aim and click, especially with the advent of the Indies, have seen a rebirthwith some titles that have evolved much more on dialogues and narrative – such as those of Telltale – and others who instead wanted to remain faithful to the classic style of the golden age, such as the first Kathy Rainoriginally released in 2016 and then re -proposed in a Director’s cut in 2021.
The title, created by the Swedes of CliffTop Games, recently seen the arrival of a sequel entitled Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayeravailable currently only on PC. The first chapter had surprised many flagship fans and click for the excellent narrative and for a gameplay tied a lot to the past: we therefore go to find out what has changed in this new chapter.
Hunt for serial killer
Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer It is a direct sequel to the previous adventure: The story is set three years after the end of the first chapter And we find a wise and more mature Kathy, even if it keeps its tendency to hun into trouble easily.
After solving, in the first title, the case concerning his family closely, Kathy decided to commit himself to himself to become A private investigatoropening an office in the town of Kassidy. But things are not very good and the girl finds herself without a penny and with a lot of debts to pay.
The only opportunity to save his job comes from his mentor, which informs you of the reward of $ 200 thousand for Anyone can provide concrete information related to a serial killer, called precisely soothsayerwho has already killed several people in the city, last a rather famous local author. So Kathy decides to take the opportunity and start investigating this mysterious serial killer.
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Being a tip adventure and click investigative, Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer gives its best in its narrative plotwho will surprise the players with different twists and turns in the Tens of hours approximately that will serve to get to the credits.
Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer gives its best in its narrative plot.
As happened in the first chapter, here too we will begin to follow the convinced clues to be following the traces of a murderous maniac, and then see the story, instead, lead to slightly … different issues. The style is very reminiscent of the enigmatic and fascinating works of David Lynch With, a spray of cosmic horrors to season everything.
Said so it seems strange, but The narration overall worksalso because the story is linked, in a much stronger way than it seems, to the case of Conwell Springs of the first chapter. However, it is not necessary to have played the latter to understand the events of Soothsayeralso because at the beginning of the game there is a summary that will broadly explain what happened previously.
However, if you have the opportunity, we still advise you to start your adventure from the first title, both in order not to miss any reference and because it too was an excellent tip and click adventure.
In addition to the narrative full of surprises, we liked the various personages present in the game, starting with Kathy itself, which is always A very charismatic protagonist thanks to its hard and direct ways; But there are several very well -written supporting actors, starting with Kathy’s roommate, Eileen, already seen in the first game.
The dialogues between the various characters stand out above allvery well written and never too verbose or too long, and which are almost always straight to the point of the discussion without too many frills. To make them even better, a one thinks about it Excellent dubbing in English which helps to further characterize all the characters of the game.
From the narrative point of view Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer it is undoubtedly A tip -pointed adventure and click extremely interesting and well writtenwho surprised us for the quality of his writing despite not proposing anything new.
As in old days
From the point of view of gameplay Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer It is a tip adventure and click on very classic mold. The game interface seems to have come out directly from the 90s with a little more found in step with the times.
Basically what is done in the game is to speak with the various NPCs to get clues, go hunting for objects around the various areas and then use them to resolve the various puzzles that act as a main element of challenge to be able to continue in the adventure.
Nothing unpublished for an exponent of this kind, but in the end it is what he wants to be Kathy Rain 2: a more modern version of a classic tip and click. In this the game gives its best, demonstrating great knowledge by the developers of CliffTop Games of the rules that govern this type of games.
The interface, both for objects and for dialogues, is very clear and precisenever confusing, although sometimes it will be a little cumbersome – especially for the interactions between different objects. It will then be possible to highlight in each room all the objects with which it is possible to interact, to make the exploration phase more immediate.
A lot of care was then put in the dialogues with the NPCs which, in addition to answering a large amount of questions relating to the case followed by our detective, will also be able to give their opinion on the objects showneven if these are often little inherent in the main objective.
All this makes the conversations with the various more realistic and interesting characters, avoiding a constant repetition of the same four do as it happened instead in different tips and click of the past.
On some occasions there will also be some choices to be made and some will even be able to lead to the death of the protagonista bit like it happened in some classics like Broken Sword o Gabriel Knightbut in this case the consequences will not be too serious, as the game will automatically bring us back to the previous screen.
Even the enigmas scattered throughout the game we liked them a lot: these are always stimulating and never too complex or lack of logictherefore very rarely you will find yourself trying at random all the combinations of objects just to understand how to go on, since the intuition usually will allow you to overcome them.
Some are a little more elaborate and complex than others, but must be rewarded to propose different mechanics than the classic ones of the game. An example are the phases in which you will have to hack computers, very well made.
Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer it will play an exceptional pixel artwhich takes its cue from the classic graphic adventures of the 90s and the evolves, adapting them to modern times. The characters and environments are very rich in really surprising details and visual effects.
To complete everything, the soundtrack It integrates perfectly with the atmosphere of the game.
