Dead Reckoning: Silvermoon Isle HD - A Hidden Objects Detective Game 9+

Played a while ago but it kept deleting my review. This game had a great Art Deco feel, with beautiful graphics and interesting cut-scenes. As a detective you get to question suspects and have an evidence board instead of a diary. Objectives are regularly updated. You collect stars, and morphing objects are only in the HO scenes. The HO scenes were varied, and there was an excellent mix of puzzles. Inventory was labeled and there was a teleport map marked with tasks and objectives. The game was lengthy and had a bonus adventure. There were no RATS!
This should have been a 5 star game, but there were some issues. The touch sensitivity was terrible. You had to tap really hard in the HO scenes to pick up inventory. Also it was very hard to navigate unless you used the map. The inventory "hovered", and sometimes when you picked up an item, it hit the back tap area and moved you to the prior location. Also in order to access evidence and the map, you had to exit the game and go into the menu. I would have preferred a regular inventory bar, a journal for the evidence and a map tab, so you wouldn't have to exit the game! However the game was very interactive and if not for these issues was a great game! EIPIX, definitely a sequel with these issues resolved! Well done!

I have to applaud the designers for one gorgeous scene after another. I also appreciated the story--nothing satanic or demonic, having to do with the occult, etc. The voice overs were also top notch!

In one way, the game has been taken to another level by way of "interviewing" the suspects with the lying and truth words everywhere-clever!

However, in another way this is a bit repetitive just like so many others. You find something you can't open, like a weird-shaped lock, and then later you find it. You go back and open it and get something. That happens over and over...weird lock, find the shape, insert shape.

If you want to take it to an even higher level, I recommend Grim Legends 2--sort of like a cross between Drawn and Awakening.

Anyway, thanks for a good game! It was obvious a lot of effort went into it!

I play a lot of these HOP games, and this is the best I've played in a long time. The story has to be engaging for me to buy it, and it was. The actual gameplay was nearly flawless. There are new tools in the game, like an evidence board instead of a diary. I particularly liked the ability to question suspects. The HOPs were interesting and varied, and they put effort into thinking up new mini games, not rehashing the same ones we've seen before. The morphing objects were inside the HOPs, which was a nice surprise. If you miss a morphing object or a star, you can go back and get it without having to replay the whole game. The Art Deco artwork was beautiful. For me to buy a game, it must have a combo of engaging story, beautiful art, and solid gameplay. This one scores high on all 3. The only very slight criticism I have is that when hovering over something in your inventory to check its name, sometimes that will trigger you to go back to the previous screen. But this is a very minor nitpick of an almost perfect game. I'll look for Eipix titles in the future.