Even though the questions are written in full, your delivery often belies intention, mainly because Sonny is so snarky. Dialogue often doesn't go the way you expect, on quite a regular basis. Your notepad and questions make up the bulk of the action. At the end of each questioning, you’re ranked out of five stars and presented with a summary of findings. A simple plus/minus detective meter keeps you on the straight and narrow by regularly informing you of your success. Here, you navigate through conversations in a multiple-choice format, based on what you know about their personality. The bulk of the action itself comes through character interactions, through which you get information before you launch into more formal interview situations, notepad in hand.
Sometimes, you’ll hear a snippet of exposition at other times, it’ll take you closer, open a drawer or door, or uncover something for your notebook. It’s in no way groundbreaking, but it’s the perfect style for a visual novel.Įach section of the game is set in a static area, which you interact with via a reticle. However, this weird hybridization is normalized by believable surroundings, which appear to be static at first, but are built up in layers that are emphasized by the natural sway of your character.
Given the social overtones, you soon find yourself wondering how interspecies relationships work–if at all–as well as the ways the uncivilized Wilderness works, where “the dog eats the chicken”–something that seems freakishly cannibalistic, given 95% of their bodies are human. Deborah breaks into Sonny’s office with a bizarre and ever-evolving case that needs to be solved only the Chicken Police are cut out for such work.įrom the first moments of the game, Chicken Police’s art style is immediately jarring, not least because each character has a regular human body with an animal’s head fused at the neck. These characters are soon brought back together after the lockpicking efforts of Deborah Ibanez, a shy goat who’s the personal assistant to a classic femme fatale.
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