NOCLIP Pocket E16 - Ghost Bucks - Detention

Let us meet again, in another podcast. Welcome to October! It’s
time to play some horror games, and boy are we starting off with a
bleak one. Detention is set in Taiwan during a period of marshal
law, and despite its supernatural elements, really wants its
lasting horror to be about the oppressiveness of life during this
time. The game itself is a point-and-click adventure game, with
puzzles to solve and diary entries to collect and uncover more of
the story, and taken together, all its elements are in an eerily
even balance. And that’s a good thing. The puzzles are not too
hard, but not brainless. Narratively, there is equal weight placed
on character-driven plot as well as the surrounding gloom of the
world they inhabit. The game is spooky for its imagery and
terrifying for the consequences its characters face. It all blends
together into a really worthwhile experience in a genre of game
that has seen its fair share of auteur works recently. We talk
about the mechanical implications of narrative themes, good
adventure game puzzle design, and ghosts that move just waaaaay to
slowly. Thanks for joining us again this episode! This is a game we
played sort of on a whim based on the coverage it got and
subsequently felt we had to put out an episode on it. We’re still
in the early stages of the spookiest month of the year, and have a
few more episodes queued up to talk about, but what have you guys
been playing? Anything really scarin’ your socks off? Am I too late
in the description now to be asking questions? No one’s reading?
…yep.