Alternate Jake Hunter: Daedalus - The Awakening of Golden Jazz

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  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 3 out of 5
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  1. jcboyer515
    Oct 17, 2020
    5
    An interesting concept, with some decent UI elements. I imagine the Switch & PC versions play the best with the 360 degree investigation bits. For the Switch version, it's completely playable without the need for controllers. While it's nice to be able to use the touchscreen controls, this game has very poor accessibility. The audio (for the built in speakers, headphones not tested) asAn interesting concept, with some decent UI elements. I imagine the Switch & PC versions play the best with the 360 degree investigation bits. For the Switch version, it's completely playable without the need for controllers. While it's nice to be able to use the touchscreen controls, this game has very poor accessibility. The audio (for the built in speakers, headphones not tested) as well as many other settings, needed immediate adjustments. Frankly, I can't get the widely used in visual novels "auto-scroll" feature to cooperate whatsoever. This is a point & click visual novel with some interesting art in my opinion. I'm quite unfamiliar with the Jake Hunter games, but I was under the impression that this was a prequel to the long-running series. I'm still very early in the game, which I try not to write reviews of things without getting at least halfway through it. But without criticizing the plot structure, I did want to put the localization under some scrutiny. I know it can't be a simple process, but it seems very subpar. I don't know if the game is supposed to be fully voice acted, but what's spoken as opposed to what's written (in English) seems to be very different. It's also very strange that there are several parts that are supposedly being spoken in English, because of New York being the setting. I've gotta say, it's very weird & unnatural to be introduced to an African American elderly man named Richard voiced in Japanese, & the line I'm supposed to believe he utters after they meet is "Oh, please, you'll make me blush." I do not need to know anything about this character to know that an older, dark-skinned American guy would never say this, especially to a foreign young man. Also when this Richard character first meets Saburo, the main character, he uses his "excellent deduction skills" to gather that Richard apparently has excellent posture yet he seems like a drunk. It also appears like Richard uses a walking stick to get around. These assumptions our protagonist made have no visual or contextual basis. I will continue playing this game & I will update my review if necessary, but the localization comes across as extremely inexperienced. It is very difficult to take the plot seriously with these inconsistencies. Perhaps if more of these games leave the shores of Japan, they'll consider putting more effort into making the lines more sensible. Or at least they'll make an auto-scroll that doesn't cut off the voice actors. I just hope there will be a satisfying payoff for getting to the end of this game.… Expand

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  1. Pure Nintendo
    Jun 28, 2019
    60
    While the mystery in Alternate Jake Hunter: DAEDALUS The Awakening of Golden Jazz is entertaining, the rhythm felt off with multiple lulls and heavy dialogue that hampered the experience of the story overall.
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  2. Digitally Downloaded
    Jun 4, 2019
    90
    There aren't many visual novels that are presented as well as Alternate Jake Hunter Daedalus: The Awakening of Golden Jazz. It's stylish, slick production that borrows from the classical masters of the crime fiction genre, while adding some genuinely creative approaches to the visual novel that help to make it both feel fresh and hard to put down.
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