Oh no. The victim wrote our defendant’s name in the sand with his finger before he died. I’m sure that unlike the last two times that was the case, this time it means that she’s the true culprit. That has to be the only reasonable explanation.
Out of curiosity, I tried to look up real world examples where a suspect was convicted on the basis that the victim wrote their name down somewhere in the crime scene, and I couldn’t find anything. That can either speak to my growing inability to use a search engine, or the lack of real life cases where it happened. Either way, if you can find something then by all means let me know.
Having said that, I’ve completely talked myself out of the idea that this is bad. In retrospect, it’s a good thing because evidence so easy to refute that it gives new players an on-boarding ramp so that they can grow comfortable with the game’s flow and mechanics before they’re called in later cases to do a bit more thinking. The game never truly gets difficult, but all the same the design team probably wanted to ease players in.
And this accomplishes exact that. So as terrible as it is as far as evidence is concerned, that’s exactly the point.
Leave a Reply