We recommend playing the game as intended for your first playthrough and then enabling the freeze time for subsequent playthrough if you want to explore other branches. These hotspots are timed, so you really need to react fast sometimes, but there is also an option to freeze time during these scenes for players who want a more laid-back experience. In this game, the FMV scenes play out until certain hotspots appear on the screen to indicate a choice that players can make.
Even David Homb, who starred in 1995’s Phantasmagoria appears in one of the episodes, which was really cool to see.Įach of the previous titles by D’Avekki Studios featured different gameplay styles, so it’s no surprise that they changed things up again for DNWPaM. The scenes with her and Munro are brilliant and it’s a pity that she only makes an appearance in one episode. Of course, each episode also features a selection of guest stars with our favorite being Aislinn De’Ath who returns as Violet, the character she played in The Shapeshifting Detective. While it may sound like the game is all doom and gloom there’s a surprising amount of humor as well, which is mostly thanks to the banter between Poe and Munro. Every scene with the two of them is a delight to watch as they really pull out all stops when it comes to their characters. The moody lighting and good use of camera angles keep things suspenseful and credit should also go to Klemens Koehring and Leah Cunard for the marvelous job they do with their characters. Instead, most of the action takes place at the Radio August studio or around town. It’s even more impressive considering the game doesn’t make use of over the top special effects or elaborate backdrops. The developers have shown that they have a knack making even the most ordinary scenes look extra creepy with their previous titles, which is something that they pull off again here as well. Dekker, in particular, will love the episode that involves Munro volunteering to experience a past life live on radio.Īs DNWPaM is an FMV title the visuals are unsurprisingly very good. We can’t elaborate much more on the stories as they are the heart and soul of the game, but we enjoyed every single one of them. The stories range from a possible stalker in the first episode all the way to paranormal threats such as vengeful ghosts, and even a dash of science fiction in the form of time travel. This Is pretty neat as it gives the game a lot of replay value, which is something that the FMV genre is not exactly known for.
The game is a bit more linear than TSD in terms of how the stories play out, but numerous branches within each story can lead to different events and even different endings. Instead of one big story, Dark Nights with Poe and Munro is split up into six, standalone episodic “adventures” for the two radio hosts. Dark Nights with Poe and Munro is no exception and proves that D’Avekki Studios knows their stuff when it comes to creating interesting characters and even more interesting scenarios. Fortunately, D’Avekki Studios have managed what a lot of companies back then couldn’t and actually made games that are not just FMV, but also entertaining and engrossing. For anyone around during the genre’s heyday during the ’90s, this might not sound like a good thing.
Dekker as well as The Shapeshifting Detective as they are both brilliant games and well worth your time.įans of D’Avekki Studios should already know what to expect, but for those who don’t know them, they are one of the developers responsible for bringing back FMV games. Having said that, we definitely recommend playing both The Infectious Madness of Dr. For one, it’s set before the events of The Shapeshifting Detective, and it also features very different gameplay. It would appear that they are not just talented at running what sounds like the weirdest show on radio, but also getting caught up in more paranormal happenings than even Mulder and Scully from the X-Files.Īlthough fans of The Shapeshifting Detective will relish a return to August there is no need to have played any prior D’Avekki Studios titles before digging into Dark Nights with Poe and Munro. However, in Dark Nights with Poe and Munro, the titular duo gets their own chance to shine in six unique mysteries of their own. Their show provided some spooky background noise for uncovering the mysteries of August and the two even became embroiled in your investigation at some point. Poe and Munro, the local radio hosts in the small town of August, should be familiar to everyone who played The Shapeshifting Detective by D’Avekki Studios.
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