Gameco Studies released “Mozart Requiem” on Sept. 6, 2022, on Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PC (Steam), stating over 30 hours of gameplay. A single player game and a murder-mystery insinuates a casual gameplay full of content and thrillers.
Despite such promising excitement, the studio and developers screwed up “Mozart Requiem” in too many ways, and the best parts are completely overshadowed. The first five minutes of the opening scene and grabbing my PS4 controller to move Mozart made me laugh so hard because of how awful it looked.
Let me say it again: the first five minutes.
The opening act sets the theme and city of Prague, Czech Republic in the 1780s, where classical music and sceneries of the playable locations are presented (also stated to be historically accurate). You play as Mozart, preparing the music score for “Don Giovanni” (a famous opera by the real Mozart) in the hotel room. As Mozart, we ran errands to the opera theater and the castle of the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, before visiting the Freemason’s headquarters. A consensus to accept the new musical apprentice needed to be made, but the prodigal boy plagiarized one of Mozart’s symphonies, resulting in a rejection. When the leader of the Freemason, Shultz, went to tell the fraud his rejection, the boy was found dead. Essentially, Mozart was framed, and the player needs clear his name and…
