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The Rise of the Golden Idol review – the best detective game since Obra Dinn makes a killer return

After playing as an eighteenth-century detective to solve 12 terrible murders in Color Gray Games’ sensational debut, The Case of the Golden Idol, the decision to suddenly jump the story forward 300 years for this near-contemporary sequel came as something of a surprise. Not only did there seem to be unfinished business ripe for further unravelling at the end of Case’s conspiracy caper, but its detailed pixel art and gurning cast of grotesques also felt so of a piece with its historical set dressing that I wondered whether its freeze-frame tableaus would have quite the same effect at such a far remove from their stylistic beginnings.

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Source: Eurogamer.net

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