In 2004, MDNA games released its first entry to the Carol Reed Mysteries franchise it currently has 16 games, with the latest release in 2021. nothing’s going to jump out and startle you, but it’s going to make you inexplicably sad. Noire a game so in contrast with Nancy Drew, to something that is more akin to the point-and-click adventure you might have expected to find on the list. it’s a bit like it’s alive and watching and waiting. snowed in and empty, but these noises that give it a bit of its own life help too. it’s a trope in a lot of genres, i think, though i’m most familiar with it in gothic fiction, the way a haunted house takes on its own personality and more or less counts as its own invisible character.Īnd the castle in TRT is slightly creepy.
there’s something about all these noises happening throughout the castle that do make it feel alive in a way that other locations in other games don’t. even the eerie atmosphere in the elevator shaft and the vents.
there’s something about how the castle seems to make its own noise (bear with me here) and have its own presence in a way–the hissing radiator, the typing in the hallway, the banging noises at the bottom of the stairwell. The more i think about it, TRT does a great job with having the setting (castle/house) being its own character.
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