It’s not required to have played the first game since they do a recap right at the beginning to get everyone refreshed and caught up but I suggest playing the first one so you get more of the references and also because it’s a great game! Detective Francis McQueen is on the hunt for his partner Officer Dooley, who is not the brightest crayon in the box but is loyal to McQueen and always by his side no matter the creepy events going on in the 34th most haunted place, Twin Lakes. The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark picks up the story right where the first title left off. Usually sequels try to improve on their original formula, sometimes for better and sometimes it doesn’t quite pay off. The original title was full of great pop culture references to franchises like Ghostbusters and Luigi’s Mansion so I’m excited to see what references await us in A Fumble in the Dark. The Darkside Detective by Spooky Doorway is back after its clever and super fun first installment released back in 2017. There is no voice-over to worry about, but instead there is some sublime use of a soundtrack from composer Thomas O’Boyle.// Reviews // 7th May 2021 - 2 years ago // By Alana Dunitz The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark Review There are lots of visuals gags that work in tandem with the writing and a number of smart little cutscenes and great use of colour. Just as first time around, A Fumble in the Dark is delivered through a pixelated design, embracing a low-budget feel that it manages to execute fantastically. Like the last game, certain answers to solutions are so obscure in A Fumble in the Dark, that I would have never found the answer required without some help. Occasionally you will, yet sometimes you will need to look for a guide. But there will be points when you will get stuck, there will be moments when you end up travelling around just frantically trying every possible combination of items, hoping to luck in. Obviously there are clues that point to what you are meant to be doing, both in terms of visual help shown in the levels and that of any dialogue you take in with various characters. The problem I sometimes have with games of this genre is that there is a lot of backtracking to do. But once you grab the ideas, it becomes second nature. This means that The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark follows on from the original game in that it can be tricky to get used to, and ideally you would have a mouse to use instead of a controller. You have an inventory of items that you collect on your travels and you can use these items with things that you find, or can combine them to make other items that progress the story forward. The gameplay is of the traditional point and click sort – you don’t move the player character around, but instead select several objects and characters to interact with. This calls for a new Darkside department of the local police force, run by Detective Francis McQueen and it is here where you are presented with six cases to investigate weird stuff that will take you to a wrestling match where you will have to contend with a huge demon wrestling fighter, a school reunion involving time travel and a terrible house band, an old people’s home that is controlled by the supernatural and a trip to Ireland to unblock the sun. The premise is a simple but great one: the city of Twin Lakes is a cursed one, whereby all manner of demons, monsters, and things that go bump in the night occupy all its structures. The story, concept, and writing are where the meat of the game lies, and in all aspects it’s very well-done. This left the series at a cliffhanger moment, yet it allows A Fumble in the Dark to pick up where it left off. At the end of the first game, Officer Dooley had been transported to another dimension. This follows on from the original The Darkside Detective– an enjoyable old-school point and click adventure, with a mass of content and funny narrative.
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