They certainly will take you by surprise though. There are also choices that act like QTEs that pop up, which isn’t that often. Like when you go back to The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker where you’re choosing what you’re saying by clicking symbols rather than worded choices. For the most part, this does work well and it’s easy to get used to it in terms of knowing what it’s most likely expecting, but there are situations where it’s vague. Each choice gives you time to decide what you want to do before it’ll just pick the default choice. Considering that you’re making choices for what’s going to happen, rather than what you’ll say, you make choices by clicking a circle hotspot that’s hovering over the video. Although, I recommend playing through all six episodes first so you can unlock the skip function. Each episode is short, as they all are short stories, which is great if you’re aiming to see all the possible routes you can take or if an episode isn’t just hitting it for you. Without spoiling anything, Poe and Munro’s adventures will take you to deal with a stalker in the first episode doing a special 24-hour show to raise money for their radio broadcast in the next investigating why children are going missing in episode three episode four brings in a hypnotist to put Munro in a trance to relive a past life, as well as giving us a huge The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker reference episode five starts with a call hinting about a werewolf sighting which Poe and Munro, of course, have to see if it’s true and lastly a wish gone wrong.
These six adventures are self-contained and don’t link together other than a few references that can be spotted as well as containing supernatural elements.
This time around, instead of investigating a murder you follow August’s very own favorite radio co-hosts, Poe and Munro in six of their adventures. Taking place before the events of The Shapeshifting Detective, we return to the small town of August. In Dark Nights with Poe and Munro we return at a familiar setting with some familiar characters. Their newest game has made the biggest leap yet by moving past that interview-like style. Even then, you can tell the improvements made between games. While other FMVs focus on action, these were more like interviews and focused more on having the characters drive the story. Their two previous games, The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker and The Shapeshifting Detective, was structured to their advantage. If you have been following D’Avekki Studios, the one thing you can tell is that they’re passionate about what they do and strive to improve however they can. Since then, I have played a handful of other FMVs and I have to say FMV games coming from D’Avekki Studios are definitely at the top of my favorites list. The studio has since closed, and you can’t buy the game anymore, but it was really promising and it’s a shame that only one episode was released. This is very true for me as my first dive into FMV games was MISSING: An Interactive Thriller.
And when a really good FMV game releases, you just crave more. Sure, there’s a high chance that it ends up being really cheesy, but that’s the charm. My game genre guilty pleasure has to be FMV games.
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