There is no pixel hunting that can add to your frustration. The advantage of linear gameplay is that it is easier to finish, as you cannot get lost and your perception cannot diminish through aberration or confusion.Īll the objects in this game are relatively easy to find. Causal gamers may find this to be acceptable, but adventure gamers will likely find it to be overly restrictive. The game is totally linear, meaning that every task has to be done in correct sequence to finish the current quest before starting another. Whenever you click on an object or a person, a text box appears telling you what you are looking at or who you are talking to. The game is a classic third-person, point-and-click adventure game. Be sure to exhaust all the dialog to obtain all the clues necessary to complete your quest! There are over 6,000 lines of spoken dialog in the game. Communication with them is done via a dropdown dialog box. You will also meet (or interrogate) some 35 interesting characters. In the game, you will explore over 50 set scenes and detailed environments. At the end of the game, these buttons can be redeemed, from within the game's main menu, for medals that will then enable you to access extra goodies (such as concept art) from the publisher PlayFirst online. As you proceed through the game, you can also pick up colored buttons that are hidden throughout the various locations. At the completion of every quest, a jewel is added to a counter at the bottom of the screen. The game divides itself into 50 individual quests or episodes. The game begins with as a tutorial that teaches you the basic controls of the interface. You, as Petra, decide to interrogate anyone and everyone to discover a web of deceit, betrayal and treason that is corrupting the land of Oz. Moreover, she finds out that there is a connection between her client's lost boyfriend and the disappearance of her brother. As Petra goes through her course of investigation with the help of knowledge pills, she discovers the seedy life of the inhabitants of Emerald City and beyond. On a dark and gloomy night, a woman named Dee approaches Petra to help track down her boyfriend, Anzel, who has disappeared under somewhat mysterious circumstances. As a detective, she now has the means and resources to maybe find her brother again. Petra, a completely new character to Oz, is once a former army officer in the first war, some 20 years ago, who has quitted her post in the hope of someday finding her long lost brother, William. Always with an attitude and a dark sense of humor, she manages to find where the sun does not shine from people. In classic film noir style, the game tells the story of a hardnosed, terse, and abrupt female detective named Petra. The Phanfasms have regrouped and are again plotting war on Emerald City and Oz. It is a troubled time in Oz, with its seedy characters, smugglers, extortionists, evil witches, and the like. Featuring the same characters from the original novel-including Dorothy (Dee) Gale, Toto, Tinman, Lion, Scarecrow, Queen Ozma, and Jack Pumpkinhead-the story continues from where Baum has left off, though the original characters have all been recast in slightly different roles and some new characters have been added.Įmerald City Confidential is set in 1940, some 20 years or so after the war described in Glinda of Oz. In Baum's last novel, war was imminent in Gillikin Country, north of Emerald City, distinguishable by the color purple.Įmerald City Confidential is an extremely clever but loose adaptation of Baum's magnum opus, masterminded by indie game developer David Gilbert of Wadjet Eye Games. During this period, many new characters were introduced and many new adventures were told. Since then, Baum had written 13 sequels to his original novel, culminating with Glinda of Oz in 1920. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was a popular children's novel about the fictitious fantasy world of Oz and its eccentric inhabitants.
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