Jennifer Wilde: Unlikely Revolutionaries sees you trying to figure out how your father died. Thankfully, you can get help from dead Irish poets.
Jennifer’s father has met an untimely end in 1920’s Paris. You don’t think it’s an accident, though. Seeing as the authorities don’t want to be all that helpful, you call upon your childhood ability to talk to ghosts. I mean, surely the dead have some solid answers on someone who’s newly dead. Your actions end up calling up Oscar Wilde. Apparently, he and your father had a secret affair, and now the poet and playwright is here to help you out with the case. And, I mean, you can’t really ask for a more entertaining and charming sidekick on a murder mystery, can you?
Aside from his writing skills, Oscar Wilde is a ghost. He can move through walls, sneak around places you can’t enter, and do all kinds of handy phantom things. Jennifer’s pretty crafty as well, and will use her skills as an artist to put this puzzle together in her sketchbook. This should help you put the clues together so you know what to confront people with when you’re interrogating them. You’re literally putting the clues together, too, as they appear as comic book panels that you need to put in order to get to your answers. It’s a cool mechanic that ties in well with the art style (which is already gorgeous).
Jennifer Wilde: Unlikely Revolutionaries is a sharp adventure game with some neat means of solving mysteries. I loved sneaking around as a ghost and having to put clues together, but most touching was the look at how the secret lives of our loved ones can come out once they’re gone. It’s touching to walk through Jennifer’s discoveries about her father (wild as some of those may be), and was a wonderful touch in an already-delightful adventure.
Jennifer Wilde: Unlikely Revolutionaries is available now on Steam.
