Reviews for Welcome to Winkletown

[FuryOfFirestorm]

I like the concept and the art design, but the limited amount of times you can question anyone is what hampers this game. Since when is a detective only allowed to question 2 out of several witnesses and suspects? Once you use them up, then you're basically left with vague clues and have to resort to guessing. Even worse, after I completed the first case, my next case had almost a dozen people to question, and only one AP to question a single person!

I'd recommend either giving the player more AP from the start, or just doing away with them in the first place and let the challenge of the game come from using logic and reason to sort out the clues and find the culprit.

Chaz responds:

They'd be no point in having unlimited questioning. It would be laid out in front of you and takes the detective element out of it. You have to be frugal with the questioning and really pay attention to the clues. Once you start understanding what some of the descriptions entail, you can go through the cases using barely any AP.

[SamohtGnir]

Fun game, but the hints are way to vague, and you can't even tell what to look for. Like "Has some chest muscles". Ok, so he works out.. does that mean his arms are flexing? "Football shaped head", I can't even tell what shaped head they have with a big ass hat on and a beard...

If you added some examine notes for each person it would help. Like "This person has a round head." "This person looks fit." or "This guys head is rather tubular".

[Kaiweezy]

Would be a fun game but once you get to level 2 you have no AP, definitely need to get more than 1 AP per level

[tadame]

Initially, I thought it'd be an interesting detective game. However, the description of the suspect was rather vague and it's hard to make a correct judgement with only four APs. After trialing seven or eight cases, I had only successfully found one guilty person. This is disappointing, I know...

Sound effect of the typewriter is somewhat annoying.

Graphics are good.

[hiimquinn]

What? This makes no sense. The eye witness info is often borderline useless, with most of it being nonsensical, the clues rarely reveal anything important considering how unreliable they are at first go, with so many being investigate you'd have to get lucky choosing the first person in order to save up enough to stand any chance of making it in the latter levels...

Seriously, how the hell am I supposed to investigate 10 people with 2 action points? What?

And the "coward" trophy. That's cute, but I really don't appreciate being taunted, especially in such a game where a single misuse of an action point could be the difference between maintaining or losing your streak.