Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allen Poe Conspiracy comments and reviews

Poodlebear wrote:Ok, super quicky review as we are actually doing something outside the house tomorrow (NO! ) and I gotta get to bed.

Initial impression after playing a little over an hour I'd guess is this is a good one. Excellent (if a bit dark) graphics, super cool story (love Edger Allen Poe and this is based on the real theories that he was murdered), good music. Obviously dark in tone as about a murder, or rather murders. Not gory tho.

Now about the Timer... not sure if there is one...? The game screens themselves have no timer but supposedly you are supposed to solve the mystery in 24 hours and as you exit there is a watch with time counting down. Someone who has time to play longer than I do atm can hopefully explore this more.

It is a junk pile Hidden Object, but things pretty easy to find and *mostly* make sense. (Um, microphone in Poe's time? Don't think so.) Puzzles are fun but so far very easy. Inventory puzzles are cursor change based but also logical. You've found a key so you look for something with a lock, yeah? Pretty easy but fun. Find ravens for extra hints, click on list names to see silohouette of object. Click too often and a creepy cat (the one eyed cat from The Black Cat! How cool is that!?) scares away your hints for a few seconds, no biggie.

I was concerned this was going to be super short as the opening chapters went very fast (based on walk-thru scan for length) BUT it seems now that I'm in the meat of the game as it were it's slowing considerably. First Poe story I'm investigating not done yet and I spent abt 40 minutes on it so far. There are 3 stories you "travel" to. Not gonna be super long but I imagine I'll make my 3+ hour happy place.

Ok, not so quickie after all... Anyway, a cautious (not played far enough and concerned about possible over all timer) Poodlebear Approved!