Murdered’s small sandbox, (truly the loosest use of that term), offers little variation in environment and restricts the player's natural instinct to explore it at every turn. Similarly, Salem, with its rich real-life history, feels wasted as a setting.
The supporting cast fails to make an impression too, save for Joy, a spirited young medium - terrifically voiced by Entourage actress Cassidy Lehrmam - who deserves more screen-time. An insistent yet irrelevant sub-plot involving Ronan’s wife, for example, evokes a particularly clunky romance novella, while the thoughts of possessed citizens that Ronan is able to hear are oddly mundane. It’s a powerful whodunnit set-up, which kept me invested - just - for the ten hours it took to reach the reveal, despite narrative shortcomings elsewhere. Yet the mystery lying at his feet is more unusual than most, as Ronan has a series of bulletholes in his chest and his ‘unfinished business’ is to discover the identity of his own killer. Our hero Ronan is a roughly sketched amalgam of every anti-authority, lone-wolf detective popularised in film during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s a gravel-voiced cliche under a fedora.
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