Crime Secrets: Crimson Lily, the real crime is the Heavy Rain origami killer references.
I haven’t played a good hidden object game in a gosh darn long time so I decided to install this one, since I bought it who knows when and never got to playing it. It’s not a very memorable game–well, it’s memorable, but not for its own storyline, but rather a shadow reference of another game.
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Pros:
- Beginner friendly
- Fairly short
Cons:
- Bootleg Heavy Rain story
- Expert mode too easy
- Weird names
- Wrong hidden object names
Explanation to Negative Feedback
Bootleg Heavy Rain story
I had to laugh on this one, because the only real reference to Heavy Rain is the fact that this guy leaves behind origami papers and he’s been killing people. And since origami figurines are collectibles you can find in different areas, it raises an eyebrow.
If only David were named Jason, and we’d been yelling that name instead.
Expert mode too easy
Okay, with everything mostly disabled and a click penalty on hidden object scenes, expert mode should’ve have some challenge to it, but with everything being so straight-forward (unlike with a lot of other HOGs), I don’t think there’s even a need for any different difficulties.
It just doesn’t make sense when a game has actual logic to its items.
Weird names
Weird fantasy names for a fantasy themed game, fine, but come on. We’ve got normal people names and then there’s Weekly and Grief. Who the hell names their kid GRIEF of all things, unless they were depressed they had the baby in the first place. Just…seeing their names had me thinking there had to be a pun in there somewhere.
Wrong hidden object names
Oh, this one had me annoyed.
There’s a scene where you’re looking for a glasses case, and the object is a pair of glasses, not a case at all. And then in the same scene you need to find a bowl, except it’s a spelling mistake and you actually have to find a bow.
I had to carefully click through the entire scene in order to find these items that weren’t clearly labeled since there’s a spam click prevention on the scenes.
It didn’t happen too often, but this came up in a couple scenes.
Explanation to Positive Feedback
Beginner friendly
This has to be one of the easiest hidden object games I’ve ever played so far, and I’ve played several of them. I even started out on expert difficulty and got through the game with only a few hiccups on my end from not figuring out what to use where.
The puzzles don’t require any thought and you don’t have to worry about back-tracking everywhere.
Fairly short
Along with being beginner friendly, it doesn’t take that long to complete. On expert difficulty as a first time playthrough, it only took me 3 hours to get from start to finish.
