Guilty

aka: Guilty (CD-ROM Edition), Innocent 2 - Into the Corruption, Innocent Until Caught 2, Innocent Until Caught 2: Presumed Guilty
Moby ID: 2091
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Guilty is a graphic adventure game with an icon-based point-and-click interface. It is the sequel to Innocent Until Caught.

Jack T. Ladd, notorious thief and would-be nightmare of the galaxy, has suddenly got female company. Rather involuntary, that is. Ysanne Andropath is not only a stunning red-head, but also a cop. So she throws Jack into a cell on her spaceship and heads off for stellar jail, when disaster strikes. The problem isn't that first thing Jack does, is escaping his cell. The problem isn't even that second thing Jack does, is dumping the ships hyperdrive out into space. But now, Ysanne is forced to work together with Mr. Trouble. THAT's what she calls disaster.

Using the familiar, slightly overhauled interface, you set off for another adventure to save the galaxy. You can play the game alternatively as the incorrigible macho Jack or the tough feminist Ysanne. In either role you'll be visiting the same places, but solve entirely different puzzles. For example, on the same planet, Ysanne has to stop an advancing army, whilst Jack tries to steal back the spaceships lost navigational device. On rare occasions, the two even have to engage in teamwork.

Guilty, like its predecessor, uses rendered flight scenes for the spacecraft landing and taking off. The CD version of the game adds English full speech for the two protagonists and animated cutscenes.

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  • אשם - Hebrew spelling

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  • Shout Ltd.
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  • Alpha Translations
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Critics

Average score: 68% (based on 14 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.5 out of 5 (based on 25 ratings with 4 reviews)

The hilarious sequel to Innocent Until Caught

The Good
The fact that you can play the game either as Ysanne or Jack T. Ladd gives the game some replayability value. Anyone who plays this game through as one character -must- play it through as the other, because of the subtle differences in gameplay. Jack is, after all, a master thief, so the puzzles that he goes through are quite different from those that Ysanne, law-abiding bounty hunter, goes through. In both cases, the dialogue options were full of wit and humor, especially when both characters interact with one another.

The Bad
A lot of the solutions to the puzzle were just plain outlandish. When playing, some of the problems just don't seem to make any sense, and neither do their solutions. They usually involve going out of your way in order to accomplish a simple task. Additionally, the characters walk pretty slowly, so when you're backtracking through various areas that you've already explored, you tend to lost interest rather quickly. Personally, I thought the ending rather lame: it seemed kinda rushed: it just happens, and then that's it! Nothing else. I thought it was a fairly disappointing ending.

The Bottom Line
Overall, this game was good. It's interface is exactly the same as that of Innocent Until Caught, and there is really nothing new to be found here. The game doesn't require that the first part be played, although it includes occaisional and subtle inferences to the previous part.

DOS · by willyum (1020) · 2001

A not at all satisfying sequel to innocent until caught

The Good
The best asset of the game is its humor. Pretty clever sometimes near the edges. I love drawn graphics instead of 3d or polygonal graphics, and this title has some really good draws. Most of the actors (when it comes to the cd version of the game) are pretty convincing. Especially the 2 protagonists voices are perfect choices for the characters they play.

The Bad
The plot is almost awful. The whole game looks like series of non-continuing episodes. The had some good ideas... but the just couldn't fit them together and make a robust story. Riddles. I wonder why is it so difficult for adventure game makers to make logical riddles. But 20% of the riddles in the games are logic... but 80% is a heavy problem. There are problems where you can think the obvious solutions but it will not work...because the games requires to act a series of silly things prior to the obvious. Really annoying. Gameplay. Really bad. The operate option and the pick/drop are annoying. There should be one single use option to do both.

The Bottom Line
Although every classic adventure gamer should play it... its a real disappointment. Especially if you played and enjoyed innocent until caught.

DOS · by Dimitris Ballas (2) · 2007

Not a close to compete with LucasArts, but fun to try nevertheless.

The Good
I'm not keen on repeating games, so therefore, same game can never have repeating value high enough for me. However, in certain games, like this one, or games such as Blade Runner, where the whole story is different, the character you play with, or the ending, there's a thing that make me finish them on more then just one way. When the intro to this game started, I thought I'll acquire the role of that thief, but all of a sudden I was given a choice to choose weather to play as Ysanne Andropath, the arresting officer, or as Jack T. Ladd, the jack of all trades ;)) Well, after playing in both ways, I must say they pretty nicely combined both stories, even though they are not exactly the same and only through the different point of view (like it's a case with Half-Life and Opposing Force).

I have a CD version, and I usually prefer voice version of the same games (like I have Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis CD version, Dune CD version, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers CD version, Lands of Lore: The Throne of Chaos CD version), so I figured I'll have privilege of enjoying the speech as well. Heck, I couldn't accomplish that at all... what's even worse, I couldn't accomplish to play sounds neither. All I was accompanied throughout the game was midi music which suddenly brought me feeling like playing some Amiga old game with C64 music. That ruined my game atmosphere for at least 60% :( Still, this wasn't just a bad attempt to copy so famous LucasArts' SCUMM adventure type of games. Heck, you can play with a beautiful redhaired chick ;)) But still, I wouldn't say that's just enough.

One thing in the game was reeealy amazing, and that would be animation sequences. Animation sequences consist only of animations with the Federation ship you're flying and the planets around, but are really nice for 8-bit color mode. They're even nicely intersected with static 2D backgrounds, even though it's obviously seen you're ship is 3D animated.

The Bad
Story does have a certain potential, but it's not that well developed. It lacks on many points, and holds some illogical and silly puzzles. Also, as much as it's obvious that development team wanted to add a certain touch of humor, but instead they made a big whoop in humbug. Also, dialogues are on the level as if some base school kid wrote them. And just to read the dialogues between your two main characters, it's not hilarious, but plain dumb. Throughout the game they show no feelings whatsoever, and then at the end they go all like mushy and yet not, yeah right! The ingame text sucks, and that's the fact.

Interface is somewhat annoying, and the usage of items is more then just that. You never know weather you must pick the certain item and place it to use it, or just click on 'use' button and then on it, or in which order, etc.. Also, with dialogues, on many places sentences you've used are left there so you can ask again, but to get exactly the same answer. I hate that with games. If they don't know how to make the response vary, then they should just remove the same sentence.

As for the music, there are some okay tunes, but mostly they're high midi tones that drives you crazy. I doubt they would sound much better if wave or mod format, though.

The Bottom Line
This is 2D point-and-click adventure game with some addings of 3D animations, but not the one that could be a competitor to any of the LucasArts' games of such genre, nor Westwood's Kyrandia Legends. Still, it's interesting to compare and observe how different companies and countries make different games of a same genre, and I'm glad to have it in my collection. If you can find it for a cheap price, and you like such adventure genre, it shouldn't be a NO-NO to buy. You just hope you'll have more luck in setting speech and sound if you get a CD version of a game ;)

DOS · by MAT (240759) · 2012

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Amiga version of the game was announced but never really materialized.

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Game added by -Chris.

Additional contributors: MAT, tarmo888, Martin Smith, Parf, mailmanppa, brother34.

Game added August 1, 2000. Last modified October 16, 2023.