PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch; Bithell Games
This visual novel spins a passable yarn in a noirish atmosphere, but would benefit from more space to explore it
Tron: Identity jacks players in with an alluring premise, a noirish detective adventure set inside the neon-soaked sprawl of Disney’s retro-futurist vision of cyberspace. Assuming the role of a detective program named Query, you investigate an apparent break-in at a structure known as the Repository, a vast and secretive datacentre at the heart of a Grid long abandoned by the Users who created it. The ensuing mystery is lightly intriguing, but as a slice of interactive detective fiction, Identity struggles to give its idea the breathing space it needs.
The story is divided into around 20 interactive scenes, through which Query interrogates the Repository’s various inhabitants while the player makes decisions based on their responses. Although the solution to the central mystery is fixed, Query’s relationships with the game’s suspects, witnesses, and victims are anything but. Within the three to four hour running time, your decisions can make you lifelong friends, sworn enemies, and quite possibly result in the “derezzing” (Tron’s equivalent of death) of just about every character in the story. Continue reading...
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