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The Rise of the Golden Idol review - the best detective game since Obra Dinn makes a killer return
The Rise of the Golden Idols is a compelling modern mystery thriller that's bigger, better and more ambitious than its already brilliant predecessor.
Happily, the paranoia and political jostling of the 1970s couldn't be a more perfect backdrop for the nefarious deeds sitting at the heart at The Rise of the Golden Idol, whose conflicts and ideological power struggles are staged across an even wider variety of scenarios this time round, but always with the same keen eye for chaos and collusion that defined its brilliant predecessor. Watch on YouTube Indeed, while the number of actual deaths left me feeling a little short-changed to begin with, The Rise of the Golden Idol proves there's just as much drama and satisfying detective work to be found in getting to the bottom of petty squabbles, prison breaks, community picnics, and in one particularly memorable sequence, a completely violence-free dance routine, to name just a few of the scenarios you'll be pointing and clicking through over the course of its 12- to 13-hour runtime. The real detective work comes from sloshing all those facts around in your head, and if it's not keeping track of wallet and chequebook amounts when the lights go out during a two-part auction murder, then it's piecing together torn pages of a birdkeeper's manual or naming the residents of two, four-storey apartment complexes based on nothing but scraps of dialogue, personal effects and some good old-fashioned logic.
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