Given some of its backstory and the people behind it, the episodic point-and-click adventure game Ar-k sounds pretty promising at first glance. With an ongoing story told through four individual installments, a successful Kickstarter campaign, plus recognizable writing and voice acting talent, it sounds like a surefire success on paper. Unfortunately, the final product isn’t exactly that, as good dialog and acting can’t save the game from lackluster visual presentation and near-nonsensical puzzle logic.
Players assume control of Alicia, a college student who is down on her luck due to an unfortunate incident during her past attempt to follow in her father’s footsteps as a successful cop. When the game starts up, Alicia wakes up from a one-night stand with a massive hangover and no memory of the man she hooked up with, and efforts to piece together the previous night end up dragging her into a...
Players assume control of Alicia, a college student who is down on her luck due to an unfortunate incident during her past attempt to follow in her father’s footsteps as a successful cop. When the game starts up, Alicia wakes up from a one-night stand with a massive hangover and no memory of the man she hooked up with, and efforts to piece together the previous night end up dragging her into a...
- 7/29/2014
- by John Fleury
- We Got This Covered
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