Each puzzle and HOP is really quite short (usually, four minutes). But don't worry about that! For one thing, after the game tells you that the time has expired, it will ask you whether you want to try again. In other words, there is no easy or relaxed mode to help you avoid the time restrictions. The only thing that might make them somewhat difficult for some players is that each task is timed, and that is the only mode provided in this game. Occasionally (I think it was only once or twice), you might have to do some kind of a manual-dexterity game (trying to pick stones from the bottom of an aquarium) or a speed game (moving objects from one conveyor belt to another).Īll of the puzzles are quite simple actually. At yet other times, you may have to connect a circuit.
At other times, it will be a lights puzzle, where you have to turn on all the lights in a board. It might be a simple card-matching game, where you have to click on cards to turn them over, trying to find pairs of identical cards. The strict puzzles come in different forms as well. But you will often (perhaps always) get a "strict" puzzle, in addition to the find-the-differences puzzle. I say this because, usually, you get only one puzzle in the set of four tasks per journal entry. In this game, however, it seems to be offered more as a HOP than a strict puzzle. In most games, this type of puzzle is more of what I would call a strict puzzle than a HOP, since there is no list of objects of any kind given to help us find the differences. In addition to these three, more common types of HOPs, you will often get a find-the-differences puzzle - you know, where you have to click on the differences between two seemingly identical scenes, placed side-by-side in a split-screen. The most familiar is the usual HOP, where you are given a list of objects that you must then find in the scene. The easiest task is matching objects in the list to the blanks drawn in the shape of the required objects in the scene itself. The most tedious of these three is where you have to find *pieces* of three objects in the scene. Three of these tend to be different Hidden-Object Puzzles (HOPs). You will note that four tasks appear each time we meet or revisit a character. Your tasks appear, one by one, at the bottom of the right page. The top of the right page tells you something about Hollywood or films. The left page tells you something about the character. Every time she meets a character, a two-page, journal-type entry appears on the screen. Thus, as I said, she is perfectly dressed for these (housekeeping) tasks.Īs for the gameplay itself. Yet, instead of looking for any physical clues or establishing suspects, she basically goes around different locations, asking people whether *they* can tell her where the missing person/items might be, and what might have happened to them! In fact, she does not even look like a detective, appearing rather like a(n elegantly dressed) housekeeper! But then, she is dressed for the job in this game! Because, instead of just answering even her simplest questions (like where she might find so-and-so at this time), the people she talks to get her to do such menial jobs for them that even a person of their position (actor, director, producer, etc.) would never do in real life! Everything from dusting (no, not for fingerprints, but actual dusting - as in cleaning up!) to organizing to even fixing appliances. The heroine is charged with finding an actress, film, and some money. A Simple, Silly, Fun Game I should note at the outset that despite the title "Detective Stories," this is by no means a detective game, at least not what one would expect.
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