Murdered: Soul Suspect was on my wishlist basically since the first day I saw information on it in PC Format I believe. It then released but got rather poor reviews. And yet, it's one of those games where the critics and players see things differently. It's got a Metacritic score of 59 and yet the Steam user score is very positive. In fact, the user score at Metacritic is sitting at 7.5.
I don't know why the critics didn't like it because I enjoyed it a lot. I just wish it was a bit longer. It's got great atmosphere, a good mystery and I love how the game is played. I did play with a gamepad though since it felt much more natural than with a keyboard and mouse.
Basically you play as a detective who was killed and can't move on until he finds his killer. This sets the scene for a good murder mystery, especially since you play as a ghost which gives you powers that the living don't have. However it also means that you can't do things that normal humans can.
In my opinion they could have left out the demons though. Demons are beings that can kill you in the game. You have to kill them with a sort of quick time event and it doesn't really fit with the rest of the game. Also I would have liked a bigger variation in thoughts of the people that you possess. Plus a world that's a bit more alive.
Oh and there are these um things that you can collect. A certain amount for each area and when you collect them all you can listen to a story. I tried my damn hardest to collect all of them but in some areas I found all except one. Which is pretty annoying since I spent hours looking for them. Overall the game is quite a bit shorter than the time I spent on in.
It's definitely worth playing for people who love point and click adventures though since this is basically a new take on the old genre and I really hope we get more games that are similar to this.
