Murder by Numbers upd.08.03.2020 (Collector Edition) - DARKSiDERS

Overview

Murder by Numbers strongly resembles the first Ace Attorney, in which lawyer Phoenix Wright tried by all possible means to obtain an acquittal for his clients. There are no lawyers here, and you don’t need to play half of the game in court, but the influence of Ace Attorney is still felt. There, the protagonist had the surname Wright, consonant with the English word «right», «fair», and here the heroine is called Onor — the name, obviously, translates as «honor».

But the main similarity is that the authors of the novelty invited to write music to Masakazu Sugimori, the composer of the debut Ace Attorney. Of the entire trilogy, reissued not so long ago on PCs and consoles, it was in the first part that I liked the music the most — it was eaten into memory, it was great for situations in which it sounded. All this happened somewhere in the sequel, where the arrangement was changed, and the tracks did not produce the proper effect.

In Murder by Numbers with sound design, everything is wonderful: the compositions are pleasant, the tunes continue to be hummed after several hours of passing, even effects like slaps and bells that convey the emotions of the characters in unreasoned dialogs make you recall Wright’s adventures. The conversations themselves, by the way, also cause nostalgia: you are transported between locations, almost everyone has the opportunity to chat with someone, choosing topics from the list, and sometimes the player is offered to draw conclusions and give three answers, two of which are comic and do not affect the plot.