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Backbone

aka: Tails Noir

Moby ID: 166033

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Windows screenshots

thumbnail — Main menu

thumbnail — Howard's apartment with a photo corner - apart from being a detective, he also has professional training in photography.

thumbnail — Inside The Bite club. You first see Renee here, without yet knowing that she would be important to the plot development.

thumbnail — Title screen

thumbnail — Bar inside The Bite. Howard will be asked to leave anyway, Clarissa is good at recognising unwanted guests. (I anyway believe that customer selection should be illegal.)

thumbnail — There are two ways to get back inside the club: through the back door...

thumbnail — ...or up on the roof. The first route is more interesting...

thumbnail — ...(it includes a very clever puzzle with figuring out a password based on today's headlines)...

thumbnail — ...however, only the rooftop route allows you to go through this amazing room, the back door route bypasses it completely.

thumbnail — A puma celebrity with a tail... just wrong. It looks like it would either grow somewhere near her ankles, or be over as long as herself, to drop down from under her skirt and still loop like this.

thumbnail — Corridor on the upper floor of the club. This part is not about jazz and alcohol, it's much worse.

thumbnail — Anyway, the light effects are beautiful and the pictures on the wall are redrawings of real known artworks with animals instead of human women. ;)

thumbnail — Another redrawing of a known nude picture. ;) More to the point, some objects in the room match description of Jeremy Greene's clothing - he must have been here!

thumbnail — Notice the refrigerator. Traditionally carnivorous species in this animal society have restricted themselves to eating fish, at least some birds (geese) have been trained as couriers...

thumbnail — ...and consumption of mammal meat is strongly taboo - after all, "People don't eat people!".

thumbnail — Move everything on this locker door to figure out a code. An interesting and quite tricky puzzle.

thumbnail — You are discovered in the park by Renee.

thumbnail — A stylish cut-scene

thumbnail — Notice an interesting little uncorrected mistake: some of the trams... are mirrored, including this one.

thumbnail — Strict gender division is something I'm embarassed about, but I can't help wondering about the gender of these two lions... That said, both maneless males and maned females exist.

thumbnail — Start of the second act

thumbnail — This lady is clearly flirting with Howard... A nice fact: Howard is "canonically" bisexual, we'll learn that a male raccoon he meets is his ex.

thumbnail — A new location is introduced.

thumbnail — Inside the ape apartment. The conspiracy will get yet more complicated now...

thumbnail — The game is interspersed with cutscenes in mostly black, blue and yellow.

thumbnail — The working class district. Anyway, the amount of detail in these sceneries is breathtaking...

thumbnail — ...We can see that everywhere in the game world people are living their lives, with their own stories hidden from our view...

thumbnail — This screenshot was openly inspired by Russian staircases and corridors. The game is set in Vancouver, but - having a mostly Russian team - draws a fair bit from Russia as well.

thumbnail — We have met this rabbit before, in the alley behind The Bite. Now Howard has found her at the factory and she invited him, wanting to know what could have happened to her daughter.

thumbnail — Looking up files on a computer terminal.

thumbnail — Rosie's room. Beautiful, but a little cramped, I guess I'll have to replay the game in higher resolution.

thumbnail — Renee has her own investigation map as well and it gets updated when Howard discovers new things.

thumbnail — Howard takes a guided tour through Science City, hoping to be able to sneak inside real laboratories...

thumbnail — ...The bathroom break presents a good opportunity.

thumbnail — Many residents of Science City are decent people... but completely unaware of life of the lower classes.

thumbnail — Yes - Howard manages to find the scientist working on the secret project...

thumbnail — ...And now I'm unsure what to do: omit so many beautiful screenshots? Continue, despite entering spoiler territory?

thumbnail — <i>Something</i> (spoiler censorship) is causing Howard to hallucinate. I like such scenes due to my interest in psychedelic drugs...

thumbnail — ...but I have to say that I don't like the direction the game takes at this point. Just plain sad... and too weakly tied to the conspiracy which Howard discovers.

thumbnail — Social outcasts have formed their own community here...

thumbnail — Talking to one of the members of the outcast community.

thumbnail — The game is infused with "fantastic racism". The rabbit is ruthless to Howard... but she's also one of very few lower-class animals who have had a chance at a career in science.

thumbnail — Conversations have multiple paths through dialogue choices.

thumbnail — There is a Detective mode where you can keep track of objectives.

thumbnail — In the epilogue, the final chapter, you get to control Clarissa Bloodworth briefly for another perspective.

thumbnail — There are fail states, but none of them are permanent with unlimited number of retries.

thumbnail — Harold walking beyond the wall, alone.

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