Square Enix has released a remaster of The Portopia Serial Murder Case with a new element – AI-enabled interfaces. Portopia has revisited the text quest classic, and many old-school gamers have been eagerly awaiting the remaster. However, the result was made public: 350 views on Steam is 13% non-negative, rated “very negative” for this category of game developers.
So the intention was to add AI to fix an ancient and annoying bug in the original game. A text prompt to enter a command for a promotion, not because of the imperfection of the program, but only emotions written correctly with confidence down to the character. An accidental typo could lead players to a dead end when they didn’t have the skills why the game doesn’t respond to their coma nd.
AI built on natural language processing models must be corrected, essentially by almost any “scribble”. Interpret spoken language in an emergency, as well as complicate their occurrence. But in practice, it is believed that nothing works, AI not only does not translate the text, but cannot even indicate what the error is. A number of gamers decided that this was a sophisticated joke on them, which was not far from the truth – Square Enix representatives eventually found out that they had conducted a “TECHNICAL experiment” under the guise of releasing a remaster of the game.
Source: Tech Cult
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