Innocent Until Caught

Innocent Until Caught is a quest or, to put it bluntly, point & click-adventure with a noticeable humorous touch, as you should have guessed. The game interface located below is represented by: a location map, which in scanning mode turns into a window with a piece of the screen being examined at the moment; six action icons and a button to go to the settings menu; an area reserved for inventory that only seems dimensionless. Everything is simple and intuitive here.

Which, however, cannot always be said about riddles. Although, if you persist in studying the world, you can find a considerable number of tips, but some puzzles will have to be solved independently. And sometimes you just need to be in a certain place after a certain sequence of actions. But the game, most likely, will not seem very difficult to experienced quest fans. Yes, and really tricky puzzles will be only in the first half of the action, and after a certain event, when Jack leaves the inhospitable planet Tayte, the bull will take the story by the horns, and the player will mostly have to retrain to the viewer or, rather, to the reader. And the story here is at a fairly high level, so you won’t be bored, especially since the above-mentioned humor is concentrated mainly in dialogues, which will be plentiful. Although it is worth adding that the jokes here are somewhat vulgar, and therefore the game will be closer to an adult audience.

Externally, Innocent Until Caught looks convincing. High detail images, beautifully traced backdrops and backgrounds. And what an indescribable beauty here are portraits of characters in dialogs! They are made in antiquity, slightly resembling hand-drawn American advertisements of the 40s-50s of the XX century. True, they do not fit into the general style a little. But this does not prevent to say that the game deserves to be called beautiful. Well, perhaps there are some problems with scaling sprites.

The musical component also attracts attention. True, things are somewhat strange here, because some melodies sound very decent, while others - very ... hmm ... not musical. And switching to another sound card will not always change the situation for the better. Music, however, can be turned off, which, although it will kill part of the atmosphere, but in this form the game can be run on 32-bit OS of the Windows system.

What to say in the end? Innocent Until Caught - high-quality and interesting quest. And there are simply no objective reasons against sitting down and playing it.

Let me introduce Jack T. Ladd, a drunkard, a womanizer, a liar and a thief, who prefers to flee over open confrontation, but an excess of alcohol in his blood can make him give up this rule. In general, a noble rogue. And such an far from positive character, the British studio Divide by Zero made the hero of her first game. Once our ward flew through the Tayte system ... Have you been to Tayte? Not? Are you fed well here? Well, okay ... Here, in the vast expanses of space, our dodger falls into the clutches of I.R.D.S. - Interstellar Revenue Decimation Service. Something like the Intergalactic Tax Collection Service. “Tax officials” - that’s how they are menacingly called throughout the Galaxy. “Nothing is above taxation!” Is their motto. And since our thief never filled out tax returns, it is not surprising that this formidable organization became interested in him. Alas, Jack has nothing to quench the greed of bureaucrats, and, having received a receipt with an astronomical sum in the “debt” column and a promise of brutal reprisal in case of non-payment, he goes in search of money.