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The Darkside Detective

Moby ID: 93467

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Windows screenshots

thumbnail — Case selection with all cases unlocked.

thumbnail — Title Screen

thumbnail — The first case is quite short and rather serves as an introduction.

thumbnail — The other side of the portal

thumbnail — The game has a lot of "corrupt politicians" nods.

thumbnail — The first library ghost appears.

thumbnail — Another little political joke.

thumbnail — The ghosts of Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft are fighting over who writes scarier stories.

thumbnail — On the roof of the library building - to shut off power flowing to the occult book and get rid of the purple vortex...

thumbnail — ...you need to complete this minigame.

thumbnail — The Darkside also has its police officers investigating troubles with the Brightside. ;)

thumbnail — Darkside costume shop with nods to classic games. I just love "inter-game references".

thumbnail — A disgruntled employee is the reason for all the trouble with trains switching places through an interdimensional portal...

thumbnail — The game has some obvious references to popcultural classics such as "Twin Peaks", "The X Files"...

thumbnail — Detective McKing always gets more recognition... could it be because he's the Mayor's husband? No way, it can't be - he has denied it himself!

thumbnail — The gremlin-infested police station ;)

thumbnail — The scout camp

thumbnail — Tracing the signal - another minigame.

thumbnail — These guys want to see the Twin Lakes monster!

thumbnail — Some items in the magic shop have come alive and are threatening their owner.

thumbnail — Front of the mafioso's mansion.

thumbnail — Why are museums in games almost always so "multibranch"? Almost the same in "The Wardrobe" - a dinosaur here, an Egyptian exhibit there...

thumbnail — The sixth case has a map for longer-distance travel.

thumbnail — Moving the dumpster opens up two paths at once. Dooley and McQueen split paths - Dooley goes through the sewers...

thumbnail — And McQueen enters the graveyard over the wall.

thumbnail — Inside the church. Chief Ghouley of the Darkside's Brightside Division has been wounded by his own men.

thumbnail — The epitaphs can be read, but are not as interesting as, for example, in "King's Quest 4" or "Heroine's Quest".

thumbnail — Saying goodbye for now to the Darksiders.

thumbnail — The first bonus case - just a tiny cutscene, but it's interesting to see the camp in a different season.

thumbnail — Bonus case 1 is the Christmas case - here we have Santa's grotto (which looks more like a fairytale candy house).

thumbnail — Uh oh... the evil Krampus has replaced real Santa Claus and turned children into gnomes...

thumbnail — You can actually play "Pac-Man" in the shopping mall arcade.

thumbnail — A <moby gamegroup="Space Invaders">Space Invaders</moby> variant from the first bonus case

thumbnail — I once wanted to write a doctoral thesis on "Psychoactive substances in children's literature". There are loads of such motifs!

thumbnail — Santa Claus has received a traffic ticket. ;)

thumbnail — The squad car can be used instead of Santa's reindeer. ;)

thumbnail — The second bonus case is very short.

thumbnail — The third bonus case. I really like interesting neon lights and their depictions in games...

thumbnail — ...generally, "Darkside Detective" has some very interesting light effects on top of its pseudo-low-res graphics.

thumbnail — We discover that the genie will be the source of unintended trouble in this case.

thumbnail — And here's the real genie, telling Dooley and McQueen how to go on a vision quest...

thumbnail — ...I'd just guess people use... peyote, for example, for such purposes, and not some stupid energy drinks...

thumbnail — Anyway, this mysterious temple has appeared in McQueen's vision and now we enter it...

thumbnail — The plot turns more towards comedy once more - it's some temple to physical fitness and we have to help the desert wolves repair their barbell - a minigame harder than it looks.

thumbnail — Floating above Earth, our heroes see some advertisement for cosmic stamps... And that's the end, because the final screenshot is more of a spoiler.

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