Everybody Hates Square Enix's AI Tech Preview Murder Mystery Game
thegamer.comSquare Enix wants to be at the forefront of technology when it comes to video games. While that would be admirable and even exciting for gamers, it's unfortunately the technology that no one asked for. First it was NFT-based games that former CEO Yosuke Matsuda couldn't stop talking about, and now the company is dipping its toes into Natural Language Processing AI.
Only yesterday, Square dropped The Portopia Serial Murder Case on Steam. It's an NLP AI driven game that was initially published in 1983 and was created by Yuji Horii. However, in an attempt to test out how advanced AI technology has become since then, they reworked the game with current-gen tech and launched it as a free tech preview. However, it doesn't seem to be working as intended.
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Out of the 164 Steam reviews at the time of writing, only 15 are positive, with the overall review currently at Very Negative. And there aren't just bad reviews for the sake of review bombing, like some people have done for Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores. It seems the Natural Language Processing doesn't really work like it's meant to.
The complaints are primarily about how the AI forces you in the direction the game wants you to go, rather than react naturally to what you type in. It keeps telling players to "focus on the task at hand" if they aren't doing exactly what the game wants, and at other times it just gives up, saying, "I'm not sure what to say about that."
The reviews complain about how the NLP tech is essentially not AI, as it barely responds in the manner that something like ChatGPT would.
"AI? Bro this is at best a linear game where the options are fixed and we have to guess what are the
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