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Awards
Nominee, Best NPCs - 1998 XYZZY Awards
Ratings and Reviews
| Average Rating:    Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 1 |
In this mid-length game, you play a detective investigating the murder of a movies star.
Most of the game involves driving to various locations, getting out, looking around, and talking to people. It's generally pretty clear what to talk about for the first half. In the last half, you have to start solving puzzles, and it gets down into 'guess what the author is thinking' territory.
The NPCs have a variety of topics, and some can follow you, and they can lie, bluff, react to various things, etc.
Recommended for detective story fans.
1 Off-Site Review
SPAG
Guilty Bastards is a pleasant ride in which the goal is to solve the game, not connect on a personal level with the situations and characters. No special insight or puzzle-solving skills are needed to reach the solution, and some of the hints hold back just enough to at least let you make the final logical connection. The murder plot and the ending of the game are extremely Hollywood, but hey, that's what you signed on for.
-- Jason Compton
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Game Details
Current Version: 2.09
License: Freeware
Development System: Hugo
Baf's Guide ID: 414
IFID: HUGO-25-78-0B-02-09-00
TUID: g02gj35cieg77y62
Guilty Bastards on IFDB
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The following polls include votes for Guilty Bastards:Games featuring music by Karl Ove Hufthammer
I have always thought that music has a huge potential for enhancing IF, more so than graphics has. So what are the best examples of IF games that use music? Note that this poll does not include games with only sound effects; they have to...
Games with graphics and/or sound by eyesack
I couldn't find an easy way to search for this, so I figured I'd ask the hivemind: What games use graphics and/or sound to enhance the gameplay, similar to City of Secrets and Necrotic Drift?
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