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Not every conversation you have inChicken Police: Into the Hivewill be an actual police interrogation, but when it’s time to crack down and get information out of one of your suspects, it’s best to know how to handle them. Every animal is different, after all.
Not every character responds to the same kind of police work, and not every character will tell you everything you need to know without pushing just the right buttons in their interrogation. With each interrogation scored out of five stars, it’s always best to keep your suspect’s demeanor in mind when interrogating them.
How To Successfully Interrogate Suspects
When Sonny is talking to a character in any given scene, they’re likely to give up someinformation about the current case, but if pressed far enough, you’ll need tointerrogate characters to gather more specific intel and find out their involvementin the events of the game. When it’s time to interrogate a suspect, not only will the game tell you the ability is unlocked in the top-left corner, but you’ll be able to use thepolice badge iconwhen clicking on a character to begin the interrogation.
Your veryfirst of many interrogationsin Chicken Police: Into the Hive! is with Millandra Mantodea, the desperate woman who comes to Sonny to kick off the entire chain of events in the game, only a few minutes after she arrives. If you played Paint it Red!, then you’ll remember thateach interrogation is scored out of five possible stars, with your final score depending onhow much information you gotfrom the conversation and thesuspect’s general response to your tone.
Before you start the interrogation,Sonny gives you an overview of each characterhe’s about to talk to on official police business, telling you a little bit abouthow that character acts and feelsgoing into the talk. He’ll offer hints atwhat kind of tone will work best with that characterbased on their personality as he knows them, as well as anybiases they may have towards Sonny, animals in general, or the Clawville policespecifically.
Each interrogation has several paths toward the same information, but you may find that not adjusting Sonny’s attitude to each character could leave them unwilling to give up what they know.Each response adds to or subtracts from that character’s opinion of Sonny, as well as providing a means to an end in getting information, and your interrogation is successful if youend the conversation with the relationship bar in either yellow zonethat conveys how they feel.
These meters get smaller as the game goes on, adding to the challenge each time you do a new interrogation. Falling anywhere in the middle of the bar will result in a failed interrogation, so choose the best responses for each character, and if you’re unhappy with your score or you didn’t get the information you needed, you can always try again before moving onto the next scene. This is your chance to try again, though, and once you move on, the score is locked.
You’ll begin the interrogation relatively neutral, and it’s then up to you to navigate through the questions to find the most important details of each interrogation. These are denoted byilluminated lightbulbson Sonny’s responses, which you’ll typically find after receiving some kind of breakthrough information. Getting to these is the goal of each interrogation, and they’re how you progress the investigation in Chicken Police: Into the Hive!
Choose Your Tone Based On The Suspect’s Demeanor To Earn The Most Points
Once you get into the interrogation itself, you’ll notice that Sonny’s possible questions and answers all boil down tothree general tones Sonny can take with suspects. Unlike regular conversations, you don’t get smiley faces on the replies here to tell you which response conveys which tone -that’s up to you to work out. The responses are reflected by the following labels according to old noir police tropes:
To do the best in each interrogation in Chicken Police, you’ll need tochoose responses based on what you know about a character’s personality. Sonny isn’t often outright about how you should proceed, but use his clues both before the interrogation and displayed on the right side of the screen to decide how best to proceed.
In general, characters who arescared or nervousin some way respond best toGood Copreplies, especially when it comes to the insects who are naturally skeptical of the Clawville police and animals in general. They do better with a softer touch and compassion in your questioning. Meanwhile, characters who are a bit morebrash, uncooperative, or crudetend to respond best toBad Copreplies, appreciating your forwardness in some way.
