You’ve had to arrest the chief, who was guilty of murder himself, only to have him commit suicide right in front of you. You’ve unmasked a secretive hacker who turns out to be the police chief’s granddaughter– and who falls for your resident tech expert, Alex. You’ve seen your partner, David Jones, get poisoned by a perp and have a close brush with death. You’ve rescued an abused puppy and seen it grow up healthy and happy with your kind-hearted forensics tech, Grace. Not only have you taken down Grimsborough’s mob bosses, corrupt CEOs, and serial killers with your eagle eye for clues and savvy with puzzles, but have come through lots of purely expository situations that, while not essential to gameplay, make it a far more immersive and enjoyable experience. (SPOILER ALERT– do NOT read on if you don’t want to know how things pan out.)īy this point in the game, you’ve been pretty much through the mill.
56 cases into the game, however, everything changes. Your team is a set of fully-realized characters that you get to know better the more you play, almost as if you were reading a really crackling mystery novel. (Fluffy despises build mode, and it’s put me off a good many HOGs, including some otherwise very well-executed ones like Pearl’s Peril sure, you can buy more costuming items for your avatar in CC, but you never even have to change clothes once you’ve started playing, because it’s not tied to whether or not you can move to the next level.) With all that going for it, I think the game’s greatest pro is its focus on story, and especially characters. It has a lot of strengths, from the variety of scenes involved to the artwork itself and the complete lack of a “build” mode– you hidden-object gamers know of which I speak, the need to decorate a garden or an island or something in order to unlock more stages. When I reviewed it a while back in one of my Facebook roundups, I was pretty much a newbie, and had only completed two or three cases, but since then I’ve spent a LOT of time with this game, and can honestly say that it is not only one of the smoothest-running games on Facebook– server downtime is an extreme rarity, free-energy offers almost always work (and if they don’t are swiftly corrected), and I’ve yet to see a glitch– but also one of the most engaging games out there (if not the most). That includes all genres of games, not just hidden-object ones. I’ve written the odd post here and there about the games I’ve encountered, and whether or not I’d recommend them, and I have to say that Pretty Simple’s hidden-object game Criminal Case has been the best experience I’ve had on the platform.
Fluffy is an avid player of so-called “casual” games on Facebook– I have no clue why they’re called “casual”, since I generally play them in deadly earnest.
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