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This is a gameplay review of the demo for Whodunit Sudoku.
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00:00 Intro
01:42 Sudoku boards
03:08 Character letters
04:17 More info
05:07 Tutorials
06:10 Couldn't progress
06:51 Multiple tools
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0:00
Hello everyone. My name is Kay and this
0:03
is a pros and cons of the demo for the
0:05
game Who Done It Sudoku.
0:08
This was on the
0:11
Steam Next Fest that was going on.
0:14
I did
0:15
over played over 20 demos.
0:19
Mainly between
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Saturday and Sunday and I started to get
0:23
so burnt out.
0:24
Like there's so many different style of
0:27
games.
0:30
And I'm not good at Sudoku.
0:33
Um
0:34
I've never never liked playing it all
0:36
that much.
0:38
Uh brain power is not my forte.
0:41
It's why I don't play a lot of detective
0:42
games.
0:44
Cuz I'm so bad at them. But I thought,
0:46
you know what? This is
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since it's got kind of like
0:51
a story line type of game play going on,
0:53
maybe it wouldn't be so bad.
0:56
And it's been a really long time since I
0:58
even tried Sudoku, so maybe
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it was just the fact that I was younger
1:03
when I tried it and I didn't like it.
1:05
I don't know.
1:07
So I went ahead and grabbed this demo to
1:08
play.
1:10
Now unfortunately, I did not get far in
1:12
this demo because I don't know if I did
1:15
something wrong or if it's the game
1:17
itself, but I couldn't progress.
1:20
But I got the gist of what the game is
1:24
about and how it works. [snorts]
1:28
So I feel like since this is a demo,
1:31
I'll let that slide a little bit.
1:34
Hopefully they can work that out in the
1:37
full release or if it's a me problem.
1:41
Well, shame on me, right?
1:43
When you start the game, there are
1:45
different tabs up at the top, 5 by 5, 6
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by 6 and so on.
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So I only did the 5 by 5 section and
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only one of them, which is the locked
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room murder. I didn't try any other ones
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cuz
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that one was giving me a whole lot of
2:02
grief and I didn't want to continue on
2:04
with it if they were all going to be
2:06
like that. I might have tried two
2:07
actually. I might have tried barren land
2:10
as well. So, locked room murder and
2:12
barren land.
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I assume as far as a demo goes, you can
2:16
only do the 5 by 5s maybe, but I don't
2:19
know for sure.
2:21
We've got a little fox detective here.
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There are clues on each suspect. Please
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place the suspects in the corresponding
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positions. The one who was alone in a
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room with the victim is the murderer.
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According to the rules of Sudoku, each
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row and each column can only have only
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one suspect. So, this is a lot easier
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for me cuz I can kind of
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distinguish who goes where a lot easier.
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Rather than isn't Sudoku where you have
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to add up a specific amount of numbers?
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Me and numbers
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don't do well with one another.
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Math was not my forte.
3:02
It's still not.
3:04
And then after we select a character, we
3:05
can long press the grid to place it.
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And it's not actually going to put the
3:11
like character icon into the area. It's
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just going to put the letter. So, letter
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A is for fox, B is for cat, C
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is for cat as well. D is for dog, E is
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for tiger. That kind of thing.
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Each icon for the characters have a
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single sentence denoting
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the main information about them. So, A
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was alone in the kitchen, B was the only
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animal sitting in a chair, C was beside
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a table, D was beside a sofa, E was
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alone with the murderer.
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And these sections are blocked off by
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darker, thicker border lines.
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So, the balcony is on the far left.
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Living room is within the light brown
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flooring.
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Toilet upper right.
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Kitchen lower right. I think I was
4:02
trying to grab the character icon and
4:05
like pull it over to where they needed
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to be. I don't think you need to do
4:08
that. You just need to click.
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Click the character icon and then click
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where they need to be and it will place
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the letter there.
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And I believe if you hover over the
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Either you hover over them or you click
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on them, but it'll say alone. Like this
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is an empty square besides oneself,
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there's no one else.
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So, it kind of gives you information on
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a a bit more to help you out.
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So, A was alone in the kitchen. There
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are three
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slots available to put them in the
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kitchen.
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B was the only animal sitting in a
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chair.
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And so, since A is already in the X4 and
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Y2 column and row,
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that means the only chair available is
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in the toilet.
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Ironically, it's not a toilet. It is an
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actual chair.
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On the lower right, there's a lot of
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different symbols.
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There's a erase mode.
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You can kind of doodle on the board if
5:05
you're unsure. The question mark gives
5:08
you tutorials.
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So, there's operations.
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There's the game rules.
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And then there's the keywords.
5:19
I didn't really tinker around with all
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that all that much.
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I don't feel like I needed to
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kind of suggest to myself where things
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need to be. I did put things in the
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wrong
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positions
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cuz I was just kind of tinkering around.
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And I probably forgot the rules of
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Sudoku. Let's be honest.
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So, C was beside a table.
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And if A and B are correct, that means C
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cannot be in where I have it now.
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it has to be an X1Y3.
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D was beside a sofa, and the only place
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I could place it was X3Y1,
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which means tiger
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would have to be X2Y4.
6:05
Now, this is where the game stopped
6:07
working for me, technically.
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Cuz I hit the enter sign on the bottom
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right, which I suppose would progress,
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and it says, "Place all roles before
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submitting." The problem is all the
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roles have been placed.
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Now, I did find out that you can go
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through these tiles and mark off X's
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like you don't want the characters to
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be.
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And I was like, "Okay, well, maybe I
6:35
need to mark off all of these so the
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game knows that, for some reason,
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the uh characters are locked in where I
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want them to be."
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But no, this is not the case. I think
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this is more to help you out while
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you're trying to figure stuff out, which
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I do like how the game gives you a
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variety of ways to kind of help
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yourself,
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like with the drawing on the tiles and
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erasing the stuff, as well as marking
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them off with the big X's.
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If you know for sure someone's not going
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to be there.
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So, I couldn't figure this out for a
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while, and I clicked the light bulb,
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which is
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the hints.
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It says, "B is the only one sitting on a
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chair. One chair is in the toilet and in
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the kitchen, while A is alone in the
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kitchen. So, B is on the chair in the
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toilet."
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And this just goes through where the
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characters need to go.
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And as I went through them, I placed
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them all in the correct positions,
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and it still says, "Place all roles
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before submitting."
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I I didn't know what else I was supposed
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to do here.
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So, I went ahead and exited the current
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level.
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I went back in, tried it again, and now
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it didn't want me to do it. So, I was
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like, "Well, maybe it's that one
7:52
specifically." So, I went ahead and went
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into the barren lands,
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which now we have A was in the swamp, B
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was northeast of A, C was in a corner of
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the entire map, D was sitting in a
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chair, and E was alone with the
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murderer.
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And I did all this, placed all the
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characters on the board,
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and what do you know?
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Place all roles before submitting.
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I don't know
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if I needed to do something else,
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which I don't see why I would need to do
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anything else.
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To confirm, that's where I want
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everything to be.
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So, I'm going to assume
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the demo is a bit
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bugged as far as
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submitting all the roles
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that should be on the board.
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Unless I did something wrong, and I just
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I have no idea what I did wrong.
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But, yeah.
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Aside from that
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part of the demo,
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I actually like this game.
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It's really interesting me. It's a lot
8:56
more fun than normal Sudoku,
8:59
to be perfectly honest. Plus, we get
9:01
pretty graphics to look at, so that's a
9:03
plus.
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There's kind of kind of a storyline.
9:09
I mean, there's
9:11
clearly a murderer in each one of these,
9:14
and the game board does grow bigger as
9:17
you go along the different
9:20
uh tabs toward which one you want to
9:22
find. So, I'm sure it gets more complex
9:26
the more you play. I thought there was
9:28
something on the ceiling. I swear I see
9:30
things that aren't there. I've only
9:32
played like three horror games in this
9:34
whole demo situation, so
9:36
I shouldn't be that jumpy.
9:39
Yeah.
9:40
Uh once
9:42
it gets the kinks worked out,
9:44
Who Done It Sudoku is It's really
9:46
interesting. I like it.
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Something you can casually play while
9:52
using your brain to figure out where
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things go
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without it being too complex, I don't
9:57
think.
9:58
At least not in the beginner stage of
10:00
the demo.
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