Alicia Griffith – Lakeside Murder

[h1]For a 2016 game I'm unimpressed.[/h1] This one came across as pretty bland and wooden for me. The art didn't do anything for me, the animated scenes were atrocious, and the characters were just laughable. Pretty soon after starting the game, I realised there were no hidden object mess scenes at all in the game. Typically these types of games come with them to add depth and fun to the gameplay, but ultimately the game just boils down to: find objects, join things together occasionally in your inventory, use objects, solve mini-puzzles. That's it. And to be honest, the puzzles are pretty tame. Even with getting stuck a few times and having to do a 2nd play for a missing achieve, you can see it still only took 4 hours for me to complete. You get the usual suspects - sliding blocks around to clear a trapdoor, untangling wires, rotating wheels to form an image, getting a deputy's hat and putting it on his head, drugging a poor old dude's mint tea with centuries old sleeping pills... any seasoned hidden object gamer would have no trouble here, but perhaps it's just a little TOO basic. There are some typo errors too. Nothing a good proofread can't fix. Storywise, it's solid enough. Slow and unresponsive mouse clicks however, can make it frustrating when you're in the zone and speeding through at a nice pace. Frequent cutscenes are slow to cancel as well. Even though the achieves are pretty easy, I still can't in good conscience recommend this game. Good stories need good gameplay as well, and while it's a good attempt, it needs to do a bit better.

A good and entertaining game overall. Not much to argue.

It is a 6/10 game to be honest. Nice story, nice voices, bad characters graphics when they communicate, easy straightforward, quite short too (Most of the time i was afk).

Great puzzle/detective game. Story was interesting, graphics were good, sound was good. This isn't a hidden object game, which it was marketed as when I bought it. That said, I didn't even realise while playing because I was enjoying it so much. The puzzles are good, not too hard & not too easy. Had me using the hint button a few times, but luckily that doesn't count towards your achievements. Only 2 things to mention in the cons list, the voice acting was a touch awkward at times & the game isn't very long. Other than that, I really enjoyed it.

Entretenido, combina varios acciones en el juego investigar y hacer puzzles.

c'est un très bon jeu,aux énigmes parfois tordues,mais réalisables,un bon moment de détente

This is similar to HOG games but without the HOS (thank god). It's a great point and click game with quite a good story, nice music (meaning it doesn't make you crazy) decent voice acting and terrific graphics. The puzzles were challenging without making you run for a walkthrough and the achievements actually require a bit of "exploring" to get them all. My only con is that sometimes the translation doesn't get normal everyday English quite right, but it'll only bother you if you're a teacher or are OCD about language. There is a hint of a sequel and I would love to play it!

Solid B-Rated point and click adventure game. There's a casual option that allows hints to recharge faster if the player just wants to get through the game quickly. Be aware that some of the achievements can be missed once you leave an area, so click on EVERYTHING that appears clickable.

I thought it was ok, I wouldn't call it great but I also wouldn't call it horrible. If you have some time to spend and it's on sale maybe get it

Alicia Griffith – Lakeside Murder nous propose de mener une enquête fantastique assez bien ficelée. Même si tout cela n'est ni sérieux ni crédible, ça n'en est pas moins construit. Et s'il y a très peu de personnages et que ceux-ci sont de personnalités caricaturales, ils n'en sont pas moins présentés et exploités un minimum. Sans scènes spécifiques d'objets cachés ou de manipulations, ce jeu se traverse comme un point&click casual : on explore, on ramasse, on dialogue (trop peu), on assemble, on résoud des mini-jeux plus ou moins complexes. Pas très immersif, mais distrayant.