![]() ![]() Attention span? What attention span? The game also tells you how much important information there is to find so you don’t waste time trawling for clues that aren’t there. The key information is always quite self-contained so I love that you don’t have to read the full articles if you don’t want to. When you click the ‘do research’ button the game will bring up a couple of important articles with the key information highlighted, which you can click on to add to the case file. You can start by doing some basic internet research on the suspects. Your client gives you the basic outline of the case, including what happened, where it happened and an idea of the key players. Here you are trying to untangle the complex web of a criminal conspiracy through every means available from your computer. The first of the two key phases of the game is the evidence-gathering phase. It’s such a tiny touch that only comes up a couple of times throughout the game but it shows how solidly the game is put together and reminds you there’s a ‘real’ character that you’re embodying here, not just a conduit for you to interact with your fancy Minority Report-style laptop.īut, enough on how you *don’t* interact with Song of Farca, time to talk about how you do. This immediately focuses your attention where it’s meant to be, on Izy, and prevents you from getting distracted on the computer playing minesweeper or writing 80085 on the calculator, whilst also adding a sense of realism. ![]() Here the game introduces you to a minor mechanic that shows how much thought and effort has been put into the development process: You can’t use the computer or interact with anything until Izy is sat at her computer. And this is where the game starts us off, with Izy sat in her apartment (pictured along the top third of the screen) waiting for a call to come into her computer, (the screen of which takes up the remaining two-thirds of the screen). Much like Q from the Bond films, Izy does most of her damage on her laptop, sitting in her pyjamas before her first cup of Earl Grey. Not easy when it can sometimes feel like the whole city is against you. With nemeses as wily as those Izy is locking horns with, evidence alone won’t be enough so it’ll be up to your keen wits and detective skills to draw conclusions from the data you find and use it to turn the tide of interrogations against those who deserve it. Being under house arrest for a crime she absolutely committed won’t stop Izy as she hacks into the technological infrastructure of the near-future city, using the internet, cameras, drones and her friendly AI companion Maurice to collect evidence and build a case against the nefarious wrong-uns who plague the city. Song of Farca is a morally grey detective game where you play as private investigator Isabella Song as she takes on a weird and wonderful range of cases that might not be as disparate as first appears. ![]()
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