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Not every conversation you have in Chicken Police: Into the Hive will 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.
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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 some information about the current case, but if pressed far enough, you’ll need to interrogate characters to gather more specific intel and find out their involvement in 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 the police badge icon when clicking on a character to begin the interrogation.
Your very first of many interrogations in 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 that each interrogation is scored out of five possible stars, with your final score depending on how much information you got from the conversation and the suspect’s general response to your tone.
Before you start the interrogation, Sonny gives you an overview of each character he’s about to talk to on official police business, telling you a little bit about how that character acts and feels going into the talk. He’ll offer hints at what kind of tone will work best with that character based on their personality as he knows them, as well as any biases they may have towards Sonny, animals in general, or the Clawville police specifically.
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 you end the conversation with the relationship bar in either yellow zone that 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 by illuminated lightbulbs on 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!
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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 to three 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:
- Good Cop responses show Sonny being compassionate toward the character he’s talking to, sympathizing with their position and trying to understand where they’re coming from as he gathers intel.
- Bad Cop responses, on the other hand, have Sonny being a bit harsher or blunter, getting straight to the point and pressing the suspect into giving him information.
- Neutral Cop responses fall pretty evenly in the middle of the road, not too nice but not too mean.
To do the best in each interrogation in Chicken Police, you’ll need to choose 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 are scared or nervous in some way respond best to Good Cop replies, 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 more brash, uncooperative, or crude tend to respond best to Bad Cop replies, appreciating your forwardness in some way.
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