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[h1]"Ship Out Of Luck"[/h1]
Depending on what you’re looking for in your digital entertainment, 1912 Titanic Mystery might prove to be a decent time. Just so long as what you’re looking for doesn’t strongly revolve around the strength of hidden object puzzles in a hidden object puzzle game. I mean, that’s a decently sized deterrent to any recommendation, but there’s no point in trying to paper over it; the bulk of the gameplay sees you thrown into a cluttered room and asked to pick out any number of random garbage. Keyword; random. Admittedly, my time within the genre is limited, but I’ve never seen so many public spaces awash with weaponry. “Find ten guns hidden around the barber’s shop”, asks the game. Why do hairdressers need such a ridiculous amount of firearms? Are they the first people attacked by passengers who go mad at sea?
I’m poking fun a little; a lot of the objects scattered around make zero contextual sense, but they’re not there to make sense – they’re there to be discovered. So, sure, there’s a cactus in the Turkish baths chilling next to a lizard and a metronome, right below the socket wrench and opposite the grinning human skull. I get it’s easier to plop reused assets in every room and then tell the player to get on with finding them. Only, that’s a bigger issue than it should be. Sometimes, this is down to poor resolution and image quality making certain objects blend in with the background, or being undefined enough to make recognition challenging. Sometimes it’s due to point blank awful decision making. There’s a laudable amount of environments to undertake your furious search within, but they can sometimes declare open war on your efforts.
For example, your adventure takes place on a boat. One section sees you chilling outside, next to a bunch of rigging. It’s a fine day, back-dropped to clear blue skies, calm waters and visual trolling. “Look for some rope”, says 1912 Titanic Mystery then hides the rope you’re supposed to find on top of the rigging rope that’s part of the background. “There’s ten animals hidden – can you find them all?” I can find more than bloody ten, because there’s sodding seagulls in the shot, meaning I spent ages clicking on the bastard things in the belief I was being punished by the game’s wonky click detection rather than its preposterous choices.
What helps dial it all in is how forgiving the game is. You can turn timers off so you’re never fighting a clock, and there’s an obligatory hint counter than you can always keep topped up by finding life preservers in each picture. Completing certain stages also leads you into mini puzzles games, which claw back some credibility by not having a sliding tile puzzle, but also for presenting the option of skipping over such a trial if you’ve been struggling with it for a while. It’s little touches like that that make 1912 Titanic Mystery’s fundamental flaws hurt so much, because it does so much right. For example, you’re not actually on the original Titanic, but are aboard the Titanic II, a modern day craft made to resemble the original without the crushing lack of lifeboats or Billy Zane hurling Irish children overboard to cull his bloodlust. As such, the new crew are always showing up to regale you with interesting facts on the original ship whether you like it or not.
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