• ???? Spieldauer hatte ich ca.11 Stunden.
• ???? Einzigartige Charaktere.
• ???? Dialoge sind klasse
• ???? Orchesta, Saxophon und die singende Stimme, bewirken ein sehr cooles Feeling.Das Beginnt schon beim Hauptbildschirm
• ???? Entscheidungen im Spielverlauf wirken sich auf das Ende aus.
• ???? Habe es im Sale für unter €13.- geholt und finde den Preis angemessen, aber billiger geht immer.
• ???? Teilweise sehr Langatmig.
• ???? Keine Sammelkarten
• ???? Nur ein Speicherslot
• ???? Automatisches Speichern.
• ???? Hatte 3 mal einen schwarzen Bildschirm, weil ich bei den Dialogen irgend eine Taste gedrückt habe, was dem Spiel nicht gefallen hat.
???? POSITIV ????DURCHNITT ????SCHLECHT ???? nur ein Saxophon https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2274556805

Packende Story

Blacksad: Under the Bugs

• Blacksad moves INSANELY SLOW, and you have to navigate him as if he was a car.
• Badly adapted to keyboard and mouse. Use a controller or suffer!
• QTEs EVERYWHERE, literally EVERYWHERE, it's easier to count which conversations AREN'T timed. Literally a simple chat about buying a burger will have a timer.
• The biggest cardinal sin of any storytelling game: You can't skip dialogues or cutscenes. Which is made worse by the fact that this game has several paths and choices. Speaking of which, some of your (a few, not many) choices will feel like curveballs in the sense that its results are unpredictable.
• Loyalty to the comics to a fault: This will be a bit weird. This game can be played by people who haven't even heard of Blacksad, but the game features a TON of references, some that even grant achievements, some that won't make sense (for example, there are racial issues that use the character's fur color) without prior knowledge. Also the stylistic choice of drawing nearly all males like full animals and only half of the females as humanoid faces with some animal features will irk some folks who aren't familiar with the comics.
• Voice acting ranges from really good to bad.
• Shaky cam and sloppy combat scenes.
• A LOT, lot of bugs. Thankfully not so many game-breaking for when the game launched, but still a lot of bugs. For example, once Blacksad's model locked eyes with one of the female characters and didn't let go. To the point of doing a 180° with his neck. I mean I can relate wanting to gaze upon a beautiful woman but never to the point of going full exorcist. I reloaded, only for Blacksad's tie to disappear. Other problems are desynch with voice and lips, character models going off-rails (nothing as bad as Ubisoft) and game over screens... immediately after reloading from a game-over.

• A good credible mystery. The whole point of the case escalates to credible points and the stakes are credibly high and never try to over-reach its grasp.
• A good cast of characters: The great majority have distinct personalities, motivations and different stakes.
• A good pacing: Parts of the mystery are given bit by bit, not too much at once, allowing the case to escalate.
• And most importantly, and this is the hardest part to nail: The sense that you are a detective as well, the game giving you, the player, enough clues to piece things together before the characters, including Blacksad, can. This gives a nice feeling of 'I did it!' when your hunch is right. And in case you get lost or the hunch is wrong, the game's 'deduction system' helps you piece things together by chiming whenever you have enough clues.

A good game that is tainted by TERRIBLE gameplay and unskippable cutscenes

Despite some glitches Blacksad has a brilliant story...

• Good visuals
• Amazing voice actors
• Suitable music for the period that the game plays in
• Interesting story
• A lot of choices that will impact the story and future choices

• Bugs that influence the game experience (unfocused objects)
• No manual saving option (at least I couldn't found one)
• Animations from the characters sometimes look stiff

Blacksad: Under the Skin

The Good

• The story. I really liked Blacksad's story; I was intrigued and immersed in the mystery throughout the whole game. The plot was neither obvious nor horrifically convoluted, and for the most part the game prompts you towards figuring things out so you aren't left confused. There's a good balance between dramatic sequences and more personal sections, and there were a few developments that were particularly unexpected and impressed me. The only downside is that it's a bit slow to start and requires your patience as you figure out what's going on.
• The style and visuals. Blacksad is set in post-WWII New York, in which you work as a private detective. I thought that the team pulled this setting off very well. The visual style of the game is quite nice, and I especially like how the devs have done the character models. There is less of a comic book feel than in, for example, Telltale games, but the game suits its visuals and looks very good. The anthropomorphic characters also look far better than I expected them to; I particularly liked how Hitler was made a cat (lol). Where are their tails though?!
• Music and Soundtrack. The music wasn't incredibly memorable, but I think it suited the setting quite well. You'd have some light jazz playing most of the time, and there would be noticeable changes to let you know when you were getting close to something important. I only wish it had been a bit more exciting on certain dramatic sections. [spoiler] When O'Leary shoots Jimmy it felt really anti-climatic to me: I think having a more dramatic track playing (and more blood!) would have improved this scene a lot. [/spoiler]

The OK/Mediocre

• Exploration. I liked that you are allowed to roam freely to find clues at your own pace. However, some of the camera angles were... very frustrating. It was hard to get a good view of certain spaces and it seriously interfered with getting collectibles. I would also sometimes interact with an object that would basically force me to progress before I could fully explore everything I wanted to and there would be no option to go back except to load to an unclear checkpoint.
• Movement. This has been brought up in plenty of other reviews but controlling Blacksad just feels awkward and clunky. He also moves very slowly, which can get annoying.
• Voice-acting. The voice-acting in Blacksad was on the whole pretty good. There were only a few sections where something like grief didn't sound quite right and fell flat, but otherwise it wasn't bad. However, there were times when the audio files glitched out or something, and a line would just cut off in the middle. Now and then the subtitles would also not match with the actual speech but this was never bad enough to seriously confuse you. This wasn't game-breaking but it made the game feel kind of rough and unpolished. I do recommend turning on subtitles to make up for the cut-off lines.

The Bad

• No skipping?? This I found straight up ridiculous. How are you going to make a story-based game and not allow the player to skip dialogue or cutscenes?? When you load to a previous checkpoint you're often forced to sit through tediously long sections of speech and it really limits replayability of the game overall. PLEASE LET US SKIP WE ARE BEGGING YOU
• Collectibles. The game features collectibles in the form of trading cards of famous athletes. At first, I really liked this idea. The cards themselves look really nice, too. But there are 100 of them and their spawning locations are randomised, so there is no general guide to getting them. Microids have made a guide on all the possible spawn locations, but going through all 160 is really time-consuming and the whole thing just could have been done better. This only affects achievement hunters though, so don't worry about it if you aren't bothered about 100%ing.
• Loading. As you play through the game you can load back to previous scenes to redo your choices or find things you missed. I liked that this is done in a comic book format and you end up with the whole story drawn out in the end. Unfortunately, you can't load to any specific points and if you're in the middle of a scene and made a choice you didn't like, the last checkpoint will often be way too far back and if you load you'll be stuck sitting through a scene you just watched. The menu that lets you load to your last checkpoint also never makes it clear what you had last done so you're always taking a gamble when you choose to go back.

Conclusion

A Zootopia for adults?

Blacksad: Under the Skin

First Impressions

Story

Gameplay

Sound

Graphics

Performance

Conclusion