In doing this, Renoir recollects his last living memories to search for clues that lead back to his murderer. The premise behind the puzzles is that Renoir has the ability to control other phantoms around him, and use them to solve environmental puzzles (such as avoiding sources of light and directing phantoms to operate platforms). I love engaging my brain to solve noodle scratchers as much as the next bloke but, boy, did I encounter some frustration in Renoir. It’s an odd pairing of genres, with the emphasis taken off the narrative and instead put on solving a bunch of increasingly complex platforming puzzles. But instead Renoir plays out as a 2.5D platformer. It’s an interesting hook with a lot of potential and one that hasn’t been completely done to death (pun intended).Īs you might expect, the story element of Renoir searching for his murderer is heavily emphasised so you’d be forgiven for thinking this would be a narrative heavy, adventure driven game. From a story perspective, Renoir runs in a similar vein to Murdered: Soul Suspect with police officer, James Renoir, investigating his own murder. Renoir is an interesting mash up of genres, which I’m still undecided whether it completely works. And, at times, that is a virtue I did not possess. Though I enjoyed my time with Renoir, it is one of those games where patience truly is a virtue. It’s a question I had to keep asking myself to see if I was willing to push through some frustrating mechanics and puzzles in the noir-inspired Renoir to unravel the case. How far would you be willing to go to solve your own murder? That’s not a rhetorical question.
An intriguing noir-inspired murder mystery riddled with difficult puzzles make this a hard case to solve.
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