Longes
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After fourty years, Square has graciously bestowed upon us an English release, a remake even, of the renowned and influential "The Portopia Serial Murder Case". It even features cutting edge AI tech to parse your inputs and avoid getting stuck trying to figure out what exact command will let you get ye flask.
And it's free!
Only there's one problem. It's shit. The game is completely and utterly broken. On the basic level, there are numerous bugs - the game will crash if your OS language isn't English, the game will randomly not accept valid inputs, the game will set the parser recognition threshold to 8800% so nothing will ever be accepted. And in my case - the game will lock down and stop accepting inputs completely. But also, the AI parser that they wanted to showcase just doesn't work. You still need to figure out the exact precise commands that the game wants, and it's case-sensitive too. Going by their old presentations, the game was originally supposed to feature a generative AI as well, so my personal theory is that Square execs got spooked by the idea that Yasu might have strong opinions about black people, and badly gutted the game resulting in the buggy, broken mess that we've got.
But you know, at least it's free.
Here's me spending 16 minutes trying to get past the first screen, before the game breaks.
