A few years ago, adventure games were arguably well and dead. Telltale Games is helping to resuscitate the genre, and so are Japanese developers like Cing and Level-5. Anyone looking for a brain tease with a substantial story doesn’t have to look very far. Enter Lexis Numérique, a French company known for smaller downloadable titles. They hope to enter the adventure game market with Red Johnson’s Chronicles, coming to PSN later this month.
Red Johnson’s Chronicles wants to be the type of old school adventure game where you have to take notes to succeed. This is all well and good for a PC or console game, where you’re free to pick up a pen, but it proves to be a fundamental flaw for a mobile game.
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Zac Elawar from Capsule Computers wrote:
"Red Johnson's Chronicles is an investigative point and click adventure game by Microids, developers of the critically acclaimed Syberia series, as well as Still Life and Jules Verne's Return to Mysterious Island 2. Having made its way to the PSN in 2011, Chronicles has finally been released on the PC. Is this a simple open-shut case for Red? Or will some further investigation be required? Read on to find out."
Looks like a good game, but the score is making me think twice about getting this game.
