Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
I agree with you on the atmosphere of the series, but when I was a kid I always found it a little too creepy and esoteric to enjoy properly - Daymare was more approachable. But the Scene of the Crime series was right up my alley. I really wish he’d worked more on those, and especially on the corkboard system, I always looked at that thinking, “Man, if this was just a little bit more fleshed out, it’d make for probably one of the best detective games of all time.”