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Days in Journal
2 days
Last played
November 4, 2022
First played
October 24, 2022
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Originally a 1985 monochrome adventure game for the Apple Mac, Deja Vu received an attractive NES port by Japanese company Kemco.
It's still quite playable today thanks to how grounded and plausible everything is—there aren't any "cat hair moustache puzzles".
There are a few (more than a few) cheap deaths, but thankfully there's a continue option so you don't lose any progress. There are also a few logical inconsistencies, like how some doors can only be opened with the right key, while other doors have no key and can be opened simply by shooting out the lock.
But overall, it's a solid, classic adventure game delivering a tidy hardboiled mystery that wraps up nicely in the end. The final puzzle is particularly challenging, but also very cool: you realize that you're being framed for murder, so you have to permanently dispose of any evidence that could incriminate you, while also obtaining the three key pieces of evidence that will incriminate your enemies when shown to the police.
It's still quite playable today thanks to how grounded and plausible everything is—there aren't any "cat hair moustache puzzles".
There are a few (more than a few) cheap deaths, but thankfully there's a continue option so you don't lose any progress. There are also a few logical inconsistencies, like how some doors can only be opened with the right key, while other doors have no key and can be opened simply by shooting out the lock.
But overall, it's a solid, classic adventure game delivering a tidy hardboiled mystery that wraps up nicely in the end. The final puzzle is particularly challenging, but also very cool: you realize that you're being framed for murder, so you have to permanently dispose of any evidence that could incriminate you, while also obtaining the three key pieces of evidence that will incriminate your enemies when shown to the police.