Chicken police paint it red gameplay series#

While we're moaning, we found that some of the in-game text (on posters and the like, as well as in the UI) was basically unreadable in handheld mode, being that it was ludicrously small. Surely a Danganronpa-style text log would have been a more sensible option, here? Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) There's a replay feature if you miss a line or two, but it skips you to the beginning of the conversation rather than just the previous step. This is a little frustrating, especially if you are a fast reader, but we suspect this is to encourage the player to listen to the dialogue as we have described. Here, though, pressing A skips the currently displayed dialogue entirely, moving on to the next portion of the conversation or description. We wanted to listen to every word, and thankfully there's an autoplay option that lets you listen to the dialogue play out at its intended pace, but this leads to a pretty apparent gripe in most visual novel or text-heavy games with this kind of 'talking head' delivery, hitting the A (or equivalent 'advance text') button will skip to the end of the current dialogue and leave it on the screen for the player to read at their own speed.

It's all very familiar but delivered so well that you get caught up in the tapestry of it all, thanks to the aforementioned strong writing.Īnd it is strong, compelling fiction from the very start, enhanced by some genuinely superb voice acting. Taking nominal control of Santino 'Sonny' Featherland, it'd be spoiler territory to describe the kind of case you'll be solving, but rest assured you'll be encountering stubborn dames, a shaky relationship with a former partner, an obstructive chief of police and numerous sleazy dirtbag informants. (Important: Nintendo Life does not advocate putting your Switch through the dishwasher) It's a very impressive feat to realise a world like Clawville with only mostly-static and largely monochromatic imagery, voices and music, but the dirt, grime and scuzz has such verisimilitude that you'll want to put your Switch through the dishwasher after a Chicken Police session.

Chicken police paint it red gameplay series#

Taking place in a noir-infused world of human-sized animals (not entirely unlike the hit 'depressed horse' Netflix series Bojack Horseman), this is a brilliantly-written and joyously rich piece of narrative gaming, trafficking in hard-edged detective noir tropes but with a marvellous sense of humour, strong characters and a grand sense of place.

and have brought us the tremendously-named Chicken Police - Paint it RED!, a visual novel with adventure game elements that puts the noble gallus gallus at the very top of the pecking order. Thankfully, developers The Wild Gentlemen saw the potential of a poultry P.I. They'd be perfect detectives, if not for the small obstacle of their inability to communicate in any meaningful way.

They have that look in their eye, the slightly disdainful squint of someone who knows what you did and why you did it. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)Ĭhickens know things.