Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery

A cute game with a fun little mystery, if a bit fiddly. Sometimes it was very tricky to properly examine pieces of evidence even when I knew what part was important, because I couldn't quite get the "eye" symbol needed to officially record it to pop up. For a couple I resorted to watching someone's playthrough on YouTube to figure out exactly which angle to turn the evidence to so that the eye would appear, before realizing the game has a built-in system to handle that. I also struggled with some of the fill-in-the-blanks, when I had what I believe were perfectly valid alternate solutions that were not recognized by the game. However, the game does include a simple hint/auto-fill system that is easy to turn on and off (and doesn't impact achievements) so you don't have to get stuck when your brain doesn't work quite the same way as the developer's. Also, the developer has stated they are continuing to add alternate solutions so who knows, maybe at some point the game would actually recognize my solutions! All in all, a decent way to spend a few hours.

Dans la veine d'un Golden Idol ou d'un Duck Detective, petit jeu très réussi. Visuellement, ça claque, la DA est cool et c'est très joli. Le jeu est bien écrit, au point que l'anglais peut parfois être pas évident à comprendre. Le seul bémol, si on pinaille, c'est que les phrases à trous peuvent parfois être un peu générique et semblent pouvoir avoir plusieurs solutions cohérentes, et trouver la bonne peut parfois ressembler à de la devinette. Mais j'ai aussi l'impression qu'il existe des solutions alternatives. Et le jeu intègre un système d'indice activable qui permet d'aider sans donner la solution. Franchement une réussite pour une bonne petite journée d'enquête !

A fun little detective game, where you solve mysteries by filling in the missing words of various scenarios to explain the events of the night, in a manner similar to Duck Detective or the Golden Idol games. On top of that, you need to find discrepancies between different character's testimonies, and there's some light exploration of the museum that the game takes place in. The game's greatest strength is the dialogue from the colourful cast of characters. Everyone has a motive for the theft at the museum, and everyone's got at least a few secrets to hide from the detective. The detective himself is a funny lil' guy, and generally has something witty to say at every turn. The 'fill in the blanks' puzzles aren't as fun as the ones in the similar titles mentioned above. Some of the templates are awfully vague, although there's a few hints among them in the shape of some little doodles on the notebook pages. The possible words that can be entered are separated into categories (people, locations etc) and you have to keep flipping between different pages to see them. This makes it harder to organise your thoughts than if every possible word was visible at once. The game has no mouse support, only controller or keyboard. Entering 30-odd words to complete a notebook page was something of a chore. I also came across situations where two very similar words could be entered but only one was correct. The dev is aware of this and looking to change it though. (EDIT - Alternate solutions are now in the game.) The soundtrack gets a thumb up - it's your standard 'noir-detective jazz' fare, but I didn't get tired of it over the four hours or so that the game took to complete. All in all, it's a fun game, and I'm looking forward to solving more mysteries with the detective in the future.

This game is incredibly well-written, offering some wildly witty dialogue and intriguing relationships to explore from character to character. This game is also very well produced, boasting multiple different arts for each character (overworld and dialogue), excellent music that sets the ambience perfectly, and probably some of the most fun art puns you've heard in a WHILE! If you're a fan of games like the Loathing series (West of, Shadows over, etc) you'll ADORE Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery! Can't wait for the next entries in the series <3

Great game! Love the style!!! The fill-in-the-blanks part was a bit tedious though, wasn't the biggest fan... but everything else was very fire, would recommend!!! Also the old timer and the critic are cute together!!

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