#DARK NIGHTS WITH POE AND MUNRO REVIEW FULL#
There’s always the lingering feeling that he’s one step away from going full on psycho, which really speaks volumes to Koehring’s mastery of the character. The expressions and phrases used by Poe are dark and melancholic, egotistical and self-centered, which helps establish him as a sinister and unnerving character. He definitely earns the alias thanks to Klemens Koehring’s delivery of each of his well-written lines. Poe’s real name is John Pope, but he goes as Poe as a tribute to Edgar Allan Poe. Their on-screen chemistry is pure magic to say the least. Instead, you’ll be tagging along with Poe and Munro on their eerie adventures. There aren’t any murder cases to solve here or weirdos to psychoanalyze. The therapy setting utilized here made for interesting narratives and was far and away my favorite and most genuine aspect of the game as a whole.Make Sure To Check Out Our Video Review As Well What is Dark Nights with Poe and Munro?ĭark Nights with Poe and Munro is an episodic FMV game that’s set in the same universe as The Shapeshifting Detective and The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker. So many interesting layers were pulled back and from these layers sprung enticing dialogue segments.
This entire segment was super interesting as it had Munro essentially talking directly to the player and the game simultaneously. Chapter four is based around Munro being in a trance and talking to a therapist. This chapter was like a fish out of water as it was unlike anything the other chapters attempted to do. My absolute favorite chapter and aspect of the game came in chapter four. Which may or may not be what got that character killed. Now, since these choices have real consequences within the narrative, you should be able to differentiate whether a choice is a single press or multiple like I mentioned above. A specific choice I made actually killed a character so I would say that counts as a consequence. The choices you make do have genuine consequences. This setting option in particular supports my relaxed play feel even more. It is worth mentioning that you can change the choices in the settings allowing you to have infinite time to make said choices. Some choices are merely a single press, while others are tapping enough within the time limit given. The only time you are playing per say, is when you press a button to select a choice. The limited amount of gameplay Dark Nights with Poe and Munro does have always invoked a relaxed feel. He conveyed little to no emotion at all about his son’s murder, and it wasn’t a scene where he’s emotionally distant from trauma. For example, there is a scene where a father is being confronted about the brutality of his son’s murder and it appears as if he is merely reading off a script and nothing more. Patchy enough to take me out of the experience at times as they seemed distant from the scene in every emotional way. While the main two stars acted fairly, practically everyone else’s acting was pretty patchy. That being said, I think they did well with these sets making the most of what they had. I think I saw a total of under ten different rooms. These FMV episodes consisted of very few locations with small sets. In fact replaying them made it worse for continuity sake.Įach and every episode of Poe and Munro’s FMV adventures opens with a super cool eye catching cinematic coupled with a ballad or jam. This plot point aside, however, I felt myself getting more and more confused as I progressed and even replaying episodes differently didn’t help. This plot point assisted with the sexual overtones that were sprinkled in since the beginning and the overall relationship between Poe and Munro.
I eventually caught on to a plot point that was actually pretty well done and I enjoyed very much, between the two of them that helped explain some awkwardness on screen that came before. For example, Munro goes from being downright terrified in one episode to being borderline heroic in the next without any real inspiration to get her there. They share little to no through lines between chapters, leaving them hard to pin down as the characters. Narrative twists also feel disjointed as some don't feel earned or share little to no consequence in the next chapter.īoth Poe and Munro also feel disjointed. Themes like, werewolves, murder in cold blood, magic paintings, therapy, pysches, and much more. These themes are so tonally scattered and executed poorly that it leaves an overall feeling of being disjointed. Unfortunately, the intrigue only carries you so far.
These supernatural themes, cheesy or not, aren’t really that original, but they do attempt to portray them in unique ways.
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