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Does anyone know Perfil de Riesgo: Casos Federales (Risk Profile: Federal Cases)

It's an Argentine government commissioned point & click adventure game about taxes which may sound boring but if you take a look at it, it seems to be quite awesome. The art is wonderful. Has a kind of Broken Sword / Orion Burger-ish feel about it.

Here's a gameplay video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_b4qdJ7Jgw


Questions:

1.) Is this a commercial game, freeware or abandonware? (the game developer, Nucleosys Digital Studio, no longer exists)

2.) Where is this game available? (found a few links for downloading but those don't look legit)

3.) Since the game is in Spanish only which I can read but have trouble understanding when spoken, are there subtitles for the dialogues?


Any help highly appreciated, thank you for your time!


Here is a screenshot of the game in question:
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Hi!
I know that game, actually it's a freeware. it was used in schools to teach about taxes and such.
Actually it was in the official tax site from our government, but it was deleted for some reason.

The voice acting is not that bad but it has a very strong "Porteño" accent that can be annoying for some.
The game is only in Spanish and I don't believe a patch to change the language exist. But I'll keep looking.

And If I can a download link, I'll let you know.
At first glance, the art style looks a bit like Reversion from 3f interactive.
Post edited February 05, 2014 by DeMignon
That's Agustin Cordes' first game, whom You might know as the author of Scratches. Nucleosys was his first company.
I don't think there was ever a translation, at least not an "official" one; not sure about Spanish subtitles.

Agustin is now hard at work on with his new Senscape team, but he's always been very approachable, so You can try shooting him an email [url=http://www.senscape.net/contact/]there or on the blog (which is on hiatus for the time being, but he still answers the occasional comments).
Post edited February 05, 2014 by MoP
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medusa86: Hi!
I know that game, actually it's a freeware. it was used in schools to teach about taxes and such.
Actually it was in the official tax site from our government, but it was deleted for some reason.

The voice acting is not that bad but it has a very strong "Porteño" accent that can be annoying for some.
The game is only in Spanish and I don't believe a patch to change the language exist. But I'll keep looking.

And If I can a download link, I'll let you know.
That would be most awesome, thank you very much!
I forgot to mention that I'd be happy with Spanish subtitles, I already know there are no English subtitles.
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DeMignon: At first glance, the art style looks a bit like Reversion from 3f interactive.
Thanks for pointing out Reversion, I didn't know that game yet. Looks very much like something I'd enjoy, in fact this looks exactly like something I'd enjoy.
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MoP: That's Agustin Cordes' first game, whom You might know as the author of Scratches. Nucleosys was his first company.
I don't think there was ever a translation, at least not an "official" one; not sure about Spanish subtitles.

Agustin is now hard at work on with his new Senscape team, but he's always been very approachable, so You can try shooting him an email [url=http://www.senscape.net/contact/]there or on the (which is on hiatus for the time being, but he still answers the occasional comments). <a href="http://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/argentine_adventure_game_about_taxes_perfil_de_riesgo_casos_federales/post4" class="link_arrow"></a></div> Thanks for the info &amp; link, I had already found out about Agustin Cordes from an interview on another page: [url=http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/23362/page2]http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/23362/page2
And this is what he had to say about the legal status of the game: "I’m not even sure of the current situation with the legal rights of the game. The taxation office switched directors and they kind of disowned the game, so it got embroiled in disgusting political schemes. It’s truly a shame but there’s not much any of us can do about it right now."

edit: there appears to be some strange wide spacing between the words in the last paragraph, tried editing but it still looks weird, maybe just my browser.

Post edited February 05, 2014 by awalterj
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DeMignon: At first glance, the art style looks a bit like Reversion from 3f interactive.
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awalterj: Thanks for pointing out Reversion, I didn't know that game yet. Looks very much like something I'd enjoy, in fact this looks exactly like something I'd enjoy.
There are three episodes, with the third still to come. Episode 1 is free on Desura and the bundle of episode 1+2 is on sale at [url=https://indiegamestand.com/deal/ ]IndieGamestand[/url] right now.
This reminds me that there was a time when point-and-click adventures were so popular, that at least here in Germany each and every business company, institution or association would pay someone to create such a game in order to promote their ideas, services and products. Of course there were "adgames" in every genre, but I think adventures were predominant (just look at the number of German adgame adventures in this German blog, and these ones here). (Not that they were very good, I completely forgot about their existence. :D)

Was this mostly a German thing, or did you have a lot of these adware adventures in your countries, too?
Post edited February 05, 2014 by Leroux
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DeMignon: There are three episodes, with the third still to come. Episode 1 is free on Desura and the bundle of episode 1+2 is on sale at [url=https://indiegamestand.com/deal/ ]IndieGamestand[/url] right now.
Thanks again, looks like I'm gonna have to pick this one up even though I'm already way over my head in adventure games as it is. I'm currently playing a dozen of them at the same time so I can switch whenever getting stuck. Doesn't really help that much though, when I go back to where I was stuck I'm still hopelessly stuck.
I love P & C adventures but wish they weren't so aggravating when you get stuck and the gameplay (and fun) temporarily sinks to zero. But if the game is too easy (Blackwell series), one doesn't quite get that satisfying kinda feeling out of it...so I'm always on the search for adventure games that hit the right kind of balance. They are rare. I find Resonance surprisingly good in that regard.

Anyway, whenever I find out about a game like Perfil de Riesgo: Casos Federales I suddenly become aware that there are so many promising adventure games out there that most people will never hear about, the genre is truly experiencing a massive revival.