Sure, their relationship seems cute, infidelity aside, but the more you follow the pair through their episodic FMV adventures the more unsettling they become. Dark Nights with Poe and Munro may not be perfect but it’s a fun way to pass an evening with its, roughly, thirty minutes an episode being bite-sized enough to either smash straight on through or replay multiple times in one sitting.Dark Nights with Poe and Munro is bringing radio’s oddest couple to the Nintendo Switch.įictional radio, that is, there’s no danger of Ellis Munro and John “Poe” Pope turning up at your house but they’re off-putting enough that their FMV adventure is likely to give you the shivers. Whilst this genre may not be to everyone’s liking, those of a certain vintage will no doubt enjoy the silliness and outlandish plots with episode five’s Werewolf hunt in “Many Happy Returns” and a soul-eating painting in episode six’s “It Started with a Wish” being good enough to warrant the real Mulder and Scully to intervene. There’s a decent amount of replayability here and whilst some episodes don’t allow you to answer all the questions they pose, some of the different branches range from the amusing to the slightly terrifying. Should you decide to go back through episodes to change your choices – which we highly suggest you do – you can turn on the option to skip through scenes using ‘B’ in the options.
Not a huge issue given that you can always replay episodes but it would have been useful to know ahead of time as getting it wrong means you miss out on that particular narrative tree. It caught us out a few times to begin with until we figured it out. Whilst selecting choices is simple enough, move to your choice to select it and hit ‘A’, there was absolutely no mention of quicktime events or any indication that the option you want may need you to tap ‘A’ rapidly. Strangely, one big issue we had with Dark Nights with Poe and Munro was its controls. Depending on how it plays out for you one could come to the conclusion that both games are very much linked.įrom a film-making perspective, Dark Nights is really well shot In an attempt to regress her memories and discover a past life, you find yourself in a one-sided conversation in a therapy session. The focus is mostly on Munro as she volunteers to be the subject of hypnotist Madame Baratsky (Lara Lemon). Those who have played The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker will recognise the set in use and it’s one of the series’ more script-heavy episodes as well. Of the six episodes on offer, the fourth instalment “Everybody Changes” stands out for us. It would have been nice to see some decisions having a greater impact on successive episodes, perhaps influencing the conversation options and thus, the outcome. Despite the linear progression through each episode, only the thread of Poe and Munro’s relationship and a handful of plot points are carried through. The outcome of all them will change, to varying degrees, depending on what you chose but only a few episodes will really hook you in and make you care.
Some episodes are more involved than others with some offering very few chances to influence proceedings. This could be a case for Muld… sorry Poe (right) and Munro (left)įollowing the adventures, of sorts, of two radio hosts in a nondescript town called August, you’re tasked with picking from occasional choices that direct the narrative. Released last year on PC, Dark Nights with Poe and Munro is D’Avekki’s latest entry into its FMV portfolio. To put that into context, that’s roughly the combined run-time of the first two extended versions of The Lord of the Rings movies and puts the Snyder Cut of Justice League to shame. FMV titles were always a bit niche but at least now their visual quality is much better as they’re not hampered by extreme compression so as to fit on Nineties media formats.ĭ’Avekki Studios have put out several FMV titles including the Guinness world record holding The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker which has a frankly staggering 7 hours, 11 minutes and 58 seconds of full-motion video. The genre never really went away but has seen a resurgence of sorts over the last decade or so with releases such as Telling Lies, Her Story and Late Shift.
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Back in the 1990’s full FMV games like Night Trap, Black Dahlia and The 7th Guest were pretty common and the ill-fated CD-i from Philips often springs to mind when this type of game is mentioned. I suppose, like fashion, gaming is not exempt from phases.
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