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Hey guys, I wish I could take part on this challenge since I love Cognition, but I can’t due to lack of time   I really really enjoyed Cognition despite its technical or graphics issues. There’s something about it that captivated me. but maybe is because I loved Still Life and this came at a time when I was craving something like that, or also because I don’t watch that much TV or crime stuff, so I wasn’t bothered by cliches or typical stuff. This would have been the perfect opportunity to revisit it but oh well… I’ll try to follow the discussion anyway…

Btw, did you guys read the prequel comic Provenance? I’m not sure if it comes with the game when you purchase it or not, but it gives a nice preview into the killer so that you don’t feel as lost at the beginning as some of you expressed. If not let me know if you want me to share it, if it’s not against the rules of course

All right, done with Episode 1. Took about 5 hours. It was fine, even though it lagged quite a bit in the middle. But the final parts were strong. Story and characters feel like off-brand SVU, but serviceable. The cognition and investigative puzzles were pretty good; all the filler stuff in-between not so much.

Best moment: Searching Longmore’s flat

Worst moment: Stealing flowers from a stranger’s grave to put them on your brother’s grave because you forgot to buy some. I thought causing a car crash in order to procure a lemon in SF: Tunguska was the lowest point of my life as an adventure gamer, but that was even worse. Who does that? Who in their right mind can think that this is a reasonable way to deal with a mild problem??? How many times do you have to have been dropped on your head as a baby to become an AG designer?

Best puzzle: Finding the details for the husband’s memories. Generally, the cognition powers show promise, and I thought that was the best bit, even if the execution was not always perfect.

Worst puzzle: All those contrived, joyless puzzles involving Terrence and Gallagher. I’m trying to catch a killer, not deal with your high school shit.

Worst trope: There were a lot of tired clichés, but the worst was without doubt Rose. Ugh.

Predictions for the next episodes (which I’ve never played):
Episode 2: Against her better judgement, Erica goes back to fucking Sully. An hour later, he either gets horribly murdered or turns out to be a killer. Possibly both!
Episode 3: Halfway through the episode, Erica finds Rose’s disembowelled corpse. Losing her spiritual counsellor sends her into a tailspin. But in the end she pulls through because she’s a strong modern woman. (Cue Scarlett Furies song.)
Episode 4: It was Cordelia all along! Gasp! Who might have thunk??? (This seems so obvious that I’m tempted to bet that the big twist is that she’s actually not the killer.)

How is everyone else doing? We’re a quarter of the way through the allotted time, so we should all have completed episode 1.

Still at the beginning. I would have started it if the game launched on the laptop! 
Don’t know if it’s a problem with the Mac version or my laptop, game doesn’t run… Will start the PC version tommorrow

diego - 28 January 2016 10:34 AM

Finished the prologue… I know, I’m crawling. I hope to play much more today and tomorrow. It does get better, though now I don’t agree with the notion that cognition powers are good “puzzle” as such - what’s the point if you have to use the powers on everything where it is possible to use, in order to progress?

That’s just the first power. She gets others that are more interesting.

And now I’ve got this stupid song stuck in my head. Thanks for nothing, Cognition episode 2.

I am somewhere in the middle of episode 1, and I don’t know, something just feels missing. I mean the backgrounds in the game are gorgeous to look at with everything being hand painted, and I loved the energetic start, but it just feels difficult to keep excited while playing the middle section of episode 1. I hate to say that it lacks “heart” because I am sure the developers poured their heart into it, but it just feels bland so far. I’m playing Danganronpa on the PS Vita in parallel with this one, and that’s an example of a game I can hardly put down.

I hope it gets better. I love the whole serial killer over arching theme, and some of my favorite games (like Heavy Rain), and movies like(Se7en, Silence of the Lambs etc…) involve investigating and hunting down a serial killer so hopefully it will pick up steam later on.

I played the prologue and a big chunk of the 1st episode. I said I played the 1st episode before but no, I only played the prologue.
The interface is bad, don’t know if its the problem of being a mobile game also but it’s quite cumbersome. I got used to the bad characters models and and weird animations but what it’s what’s more annoying is everything is so sloooooooooooooooow. You click on something and it takes forever to react and when it does is in a slow-motion animation.
But I so like the serial-killer story and some characters even if they are cliche sometimes.

The music in the prologue still sounds like In the House, In the Heartbeat