Snatcher is a cyberpunk visual novel/adventure game set in the distant future, on an artificial island off the coast of Japan called Neo Kobe City. Hideo Kojima's name may be synonymous with Metal Gear, but it's his second game that's perhaps his best. If you're a fan of good, pulpy detective stories, picking this one up is elementary. It's a clever game full of unexpected twists, and the anthology-style presentation assures that each case stays interesting long enough then concludes before wearing out its welcome. It features many of the same hallmarks of previous entries - find clues, investigate witnesses, and put everything together to finger the culprit - only this time, each case has multiple outcomes based on how you piece together clues on an in-game 'deduction board'. It's presented as a series of small vignettes following the (other, capeless) World's Greatest Detective around London as he cracks a variety of cases - including a few based on actual short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The Sherlock Holmes series of adventure games by Frogwares is generally pretty solid, if a bit workmanlike in presentation and tone, but the best entry by far is Crimes and Punishments. Platform: Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, PC
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