Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders Reviews
Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders, which recreates the book "The ABC Murders" , is a click and point in an investigation fills with puzzles and interrogations. In general it has a simple premise, but it works. It follows a pattern that makes us feel like a detective, although on more than one occasion it becomes too simple. At an audiovisual level, the game does not stand out much, but what it shows, it does so very willingly, especially the sound pieces. An entertaining game with its pros and cons, which can be enjoyed without much emphasis for approximately 7-8 hours.
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Ultimately, Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders is a perfectly competent point-and-click detective game, competently ported to Nintendo Switch. It's more difficult to deliver a "great detective" story in a way that feels appropriate to the character and the players than most people would think, but the developers have done an admirable job here overall. Just do yourself a favour and resist looking up a guide. Not all the puzzles are perfectly executed, but for this game to have the right impact on you, you really do want to be solving each puzzle without assistance, even if that does mean that you feel like your Poirot's IQ has dropped a couple hundred points.
I’m sure like myself you have either see a TV adaptation of the Agatha Christie-ABC Murders or one of the many film adaptation of the novel. Or you could have read the novel like I have. While the game does not follow the novel to the letter, it does follow the events closely, to the point where those familiar with the source material will not find many surprises here. Agatha Christie-ABC Murders makes for lighthearted detective fare, where you can give your little grey cells a bit of a workout!
A different kind of point-and-click adventure, Agatha Christie – The ABC Murders has both highs and lows on the Nintendo Switch. But it's the quantity and quality of speech that pushes it over the edge for me, despite the inexplicable lack of handheld play.