This game was fine. The art style is good, and the writing is funny. However, I wish the pacing was better, everything happens so incredibly quickly that it feels hard to feel invested in the characters or the plot. I was more interested in the backstory behind the world but none of that really gets expanded upon in the game and instead I'm stuck following along what feels like a guided tour through all of the important plot points. It's a remarkably short game which is part of the problem, I did like what I saw but I didn't see much.

No esperaba nada de él y me ha sorprendido porque me ha gustado un poquito.

El humor y los diálogos son muy buenos, y menos mal porque el diseño antropomórfico me ha sacado constantemente. Hay algunos personajes a los que les queda bien, pero en otros es horroroso.

Aventura cortita y al pie. Con ganas de ver que hacen en la continuación.

Um crime noir investigativo com animais antropomórficos? Eu irei aceitar, muito obrigado!

Fiquei interessado por esse aqui mais pelo fato de ser completamente esquisito. Um suspense policial onde o protagonista é um galo? Como não chamar atenção?

Chicken Police entrega uma história que, apesar de não fugir dos clichês do gênero noir, é bem competente e te prende. Com direito a plot twist e tudo. O game também tem uma gameplay muito simples, baseada completamente em diálogos e traz momentos de interrogatórios e investigações onde você aponta suspeitos, motivações. Bem clichê do quadro com as fotos e as cordas ligando elas. Os personagens, principalmente a dupla principal, são carismáticos, alguns são engraçados e tu acaba gostando deles. A dublagem é muito bem feita e contribui mais pra esse aspecto.

Por ser um visual novel ele é bem curto e, no máximo, em 3 horas tu já fecha ele. E é até bom que não seja extremamente longo, já que poderia se tornar cansativo. Não é um primor de jogo, daqueles que é obrigatório jogar, mas como tava de graça certamente valeu meu tempo. Achei divertido e aguardo uma sequência dele.

A very cool noir detective story. The game is a bit predictable and follows a lot of the noir detective tropes but by having animals as the main characters so much life is added to this world. Very good voice acting all around and a few interesting locations. The gameplay is not that hard and I would have liked more puzzles instead of mostly using dialogue to progress. The problem with the story is that it is a bit predictable and safe in the end. Would have liked more twists and turns. But overall, a very solid point-and-click game you can play in just a weekend.

The Film Noir art style tied with rough, detective chickens had me intrigued to play this before it left PlayStation Plus. I'm glad I did!

I loved the characters and their relationships, especially the main two. Their banter and personalities were written well. I wanted to learn more about them and see this journey to its end. Plus the voice acting is fantastic.

I enjoyed the interrogation sections and the fact you could retry RIGHT THERE, rather than completely start a new game if you angered someone.

The detective sections that have you connect people, places, and evidence was more obtuse. I don't think you could have got it wrong, but that was more guesswork for me.

My huge negative was painting another character as mentally ill and thus, dangerous. Why is this still a thing? Please if you want to make a wicked character, just do it. Don't add illness symptoms and diagnoses and say it's that reason.

I am looking forward to the next addition.

Pep's Detective Deep Dive - Game 10
If I had a nickel for every crime-based game featuring people with animal heads that I'd played for this season I'd have two nickels - but it's weird that this has happened twice.

A detective game that puts you in the shoes of hard-boiled detective Santino "Sonny" Featherland, the story of Chicken Police is pretty typical of film noire, if you know the conventions of the genre. There's murder, lies, betrayal and a femme fatale. It would all be incredibly generic would it not be for the fact that the game's world is inhabited entirely by anthropomorphic animals, complete with established world-building and lore. It's unexpectedly deep and there's a lot to learn if you're thorough with your detective skills.

What surprised me most about Chicken Police is just how well-made it is - I went into this expecting a fairly basic, VN-style game similar to Aviary Attorney. But this is in fact a fully-fleshed out adventure game, complete with interrogation and investigation sections to spice up the usual pointing and clicking. The game is also well-written with some very strong voice acting, backed up with stylish cutscenes and the occasional fun shootout to break things up. (Side note: I realised half-way through my playthrough that the character of Monica was voiced by Devora Wilde and I could NOT un-hear Lae'zel for the rest of the game.)

What's also similar to Aviary Attorney is the intricacies of each species and how that dictates their social position. Our feathered heroes are pretty middle of the pack, and the "predator" species are towards the top of the hierarchy, while insects are forced into a dangerous slum known as "The Hive". It's all very clever - and a depressing allegory for the real world.

Chicken Police's presentation and gameplay is so strong that it's a shame that the story itself is a bit of a letdown. As stated earlier, it follows noire conventions very closely. Sonny is a sad sack at the beginning of the game, and it's almost overwhelming just how unlikeable he is. However, as the story progresses and he re-teams with his "Chicken Police" partner Marty, you'll get to see him get his mojo back, uncover the mystery and solve the case. However, I feel that the latter half of the story is rushed and wraps up way too quickly, and the ending left me thinking "is that it?". However, it didn't spoil my opinion on the game too much since everything else in it is so strong.

Overall, I liked this - it's a smart, inventive, funny detective-adventure with a lot of charm. With sequel Into The Hive! on the way I'll be reuniting with the Chicken Police pretty soon...

P.S. I've never had a video game character leave me so sexually confused as Natasha Catzenko. Just... don't show her to Shane Dawson.

Sights & Sounds
- Primarily black-and-white noir stylings all around, with rare pops of color
- The character designs are unique, to say the least
- The music is pretty great. Given the noir veneer, you'll hear a lot of swingy jazz and the occasional bluesy track
- The most impressive part of the entire presentation is the voice acting, in my opinion. Sonny's VA is the clear stand-out, but all of the voices are really well done

Story & Vibes
- It's like Dragnet, but with animals
- The characters are all pretty great, even if they are just film noir parodies and archetypes
- The promotional content should have clued you in, but the game is quite funny
- The story is quite good, even if the twist is a little predictable. Still a good mystery

Playability & Replayability
- It's a point-and-click detective game, so you'll be skulking around town to find clues, track down leads, and interrogate animals of interest
- The interrogation scenes are pretty fun. I appreciate the ability to retry each one for a perfect score
- The "putting it together" minigame is a bit more confusing. The solutions make sense, but it feels like I was mostly just trying things until it worked
- There's other minigames and events to spice things up as well
- I don't think I'll be replaying, even though I wish I would have been thorough enough to 100% the game

Overall Impressions & Performance
- With the humor and good story, this is an easy game to like
- I played through the whole game on the Steam Deck, and it ran flawlessly

Final Verdict
- 7/10. The story and gameplay won't blow you away, but it's still a very enjoyable experience

First sniff I had of this game left me thinking I'd find nothing but the the rotting-corpse of a horse named Lucus Art but I was pleasantly surprised. It's a classic noir murder mystery within' a world of grim world of colorful animal characters. I was expecting something wacky or cringe like Rocketbird but the tone is in line with what you'd expect from the Fables comic series. It's dedication to not break character and take the world in a serious manner strengthens it's pulp and film noir charm. The great voice acting lends a lot of character to the eccentric personalities you come across and without it I'm not sure if it would be able to pull off the same vibe. Worth a look if you're down for a six or so hour long pulp novel.

"To my mom and dad who didn't freak out when I told them I was working on pin-up girls with animal heads and mad beavers: thanks!" - Chicken Police Developer.

Chicken Police: Paint it Red is a visual novel mixed with some point and click elements and bizarrely also the second anthropomorphic Film Noir game I've played in the last year. You play the role of Santino 'Sonny' Featherland. A suspended cop 121 days from retirement who on New Years Eve is dragged into a case with personal ties. It pretty much goes through every trope there is on the way, sexy femme fatale - check! Alcoholic cop - check! Jazz club - check! Angry police chief - check! Despite that though it's a pretty enjoyable ride for it's 4 - 5 hour playtime. This game is far better than I feel it has a right to be.

The game leaves a stylistic impression using photos of real people, animals and locations merged together. It's all cohesively mixed in an almost Sin City black and white colour scheme broken up extremely rarely with a splash of colour for effective results. Most of the characters actually look surprisingly good with this art style and lighting, it's just a shame the writing with it is a little more hit and miss. Some moments feel spot on with Sonny's voice acting especially in his role of the hardboiled suspended cop absolutely nailing every scene. Unfortunately not all characters manage to hit in the same way he does and the writing can veer with that from leaning into the film noir genre amusingly to pretty cringey fairly quickly. Having said all this though I did get invested in what was happening and the greater world around the city of Clawville this game is confined too as you speak to a lot of the bizarre characters and discover more lore about the wider universe the game is set in.

When not conversing there are some basic sleuth type puzzles matching evidence and interrogating people related to the case. The latter feels more like guesswork though as though it gives you hints as to the type of question to ask there isn't really any clear indication based on the choices presented as they are all kind of the same but it's a small quibble as it's hard to fail but that could have been tightened up.

Regardless of my small complaints about some of the writing and puzzles I actually did have a very enjoyable time with this. I really like the visuals, the jazz music, the characters, and world presented here and wouldn't mind a sequel expanding on Santino and Marty's adventures as the Chicken Police!

The production value of this game is pretty insane. All the dialogue is dubbed (even monologues), the artstyle is gorgeous, cutscenes are well-animated, and the soundtrack is very climatic. The game has many jokes, most of which I found to be very funny, and the whole premise of "noir but animals" is executed extremely well.
The story however isn't anything to write home about. It's pretty much exactly what you would expect from an average noir detective movie, including all the character types, clichés and dumb plot twists. But again, the animal aspect saves it a little bit.
On the gameplay end it's pretty much an average point and click, except it relies more on dialogue, interrogations and asking questinos, than on puzzles. Pretty much evey character and every piece of information on them or the case are accessible in your notebook, which is very well-thought. The way you gather it is not as good though. Oftentimes I wasn't sure where to go, or who to talk to, because once I stopped talking to somebody nothing happened, and I got lost for a short while. I also had some issue with choosing the right question to ask during interrogations, because many of them sounded pretty much the same.
Overall I would recommend this game if you're looking for something easy to realx to for ~two evenings. It's not bad, but it could've been better, or in other words, it does its job, but not much besides that.