Decent murder mystery story, rather easy-to-find objects, quality graphics and pleasant theme music. Few innovations: the "connect multiple objects" in order to boost your Hint powerup was a fresh feature. The voice acting was pretty good (if stereotypical, but this IS a 20s-30s detective mystery during the Prohibition Era). Even though the game is played in "untimed mode" you ARE scored on time and for collecting batteries, not using hints, and for not skipping minigames. I just didn't get the point of "find the bells" (even though I found 99/100 of them). The repetitive word-based minigames were mildly challenging. The photograph focusing minigame was a bit challenging but not impossible with trial-and-error. Due to the mature themes (adultery, murder) probably NOT a game to play with younger children.
All-in-all a decent pastime and worth the price, but really "nothing to see here, folks... Move along" if you want innovation in a HOG. My favorite character was the Hot Dog Vendor. Give this Review a KudosReport as Inappropriate
zahnprod
Posted on Nov 6, 2009, 1:01pm
3 Stars
User Review by zahnprod
Decent murder mystery story, rather easy-to-find objects, quality graphics and pleasant theme music. Few innovations: the "connect multiple objects" in order to boost your Hint powerup was a fresh feature. The voice acting was pretty good (if stereotypical, but this IS a 20s-30s detective mystery during the Prohibition Era). Even though the game is played in "untimed mode" you ARE scored on time and for collecting batteries, not using hints, and for not skipping minigames. I just didn't get the point of "find the bells" (even though I found 99/100 of them). The repetitive word-based minigames were mildly challenging. The photograph focusing minigame was a bit challenging but not impossible with trial-and-error. Due to the mature themes (adultery, murder) probably NOT a game to play with younger children. All-in-all a decent pastime and worth the price, but really "nothing to see here, folks... Move along" if you want innovation in a HOG. My favorite character was the Hot Dog Vendor. Give this Review a Kudos Report as Inappropriate