Detective Hayseed - Hollywood

Další dobrodružství detektiva Pankráce, jak titul napovídá .. tentokrát v Hollywoodu .. Super dabing Luďka Soboty, pěkný art, slušný příběh .. jen to finále trochu nuda .. chtělo to nějaký pořádný zvrat na konec .. ale hádám že takový kotletky na hrášku dnes už nic nepřekoná .. Mínus snad jenom za tu pí.. Pazderkovou .. Nuff said ..

After years of only watching playthroughs I finally got to play the full game and absolutely loved it. 100% achievements took so many tries but no matter what I loved going through it more than once despite it being a story game. All the references made my day. Vitonka THE QUEEN!!

Comedy point-and-click adventure made by a Czech studio. It's the sixth entry in the Polda series (popular in that country), but is stand-alone except for a few minor references I didn't get. 3d characters are "disguised" as 2d or made more cartoony by textures while the backgrounds are hand drawn by airbrush (not sure what that means). The mix worked well enough, and I liked the clunky slapstick animations. Lots of thinly veiled parodies of celebrities from the 80s and 90s. Likenesses were good enough and were part of the game's appeal. Good interface, but I bemoan the one-click interactions without different icons removing challenge and almost playing the game automatically. I very much liked having the objectives listed and updated. The English verbs and nouns used were sometimes wrong in an otherwise good translation that showed effort. All traditional inventory puzzles, no out-of-context Myst puzzles except maybe one. I liked them. No optional interactions or comments if an item was not the proper one to use, and I missed that. I thought moon-logic puzzles would be an issue at first, an example being the rope on the kid but they were very rare or I didn't notice them. The computer puzzle relying on luck with limited tries and a time limit was a bad design, but you can brute force your way through it quickly enough. No item descriptions and no combining items straight in the inventory. You have to deposit them on a flat surface first; that was a small negative. No English solution at the time I write this, but there's kind of a "cheat" where you can hit spacebar in the inventory screen and see what items can be used on the current screen . More of a game for adults due to risque references. Overall, I liked this enough to wishlist the few other English-translated entries in the series.