Little Problems: A Cozy Detective Game

画得太萌了，生活气息相当不错的休闲氛围调剂小品。它的视听感受会让人从现实中抽离到一个轻松的状态里，这时候再去谈谜题设计水平其实是搞错重点了，显然从它的命名和宣传图来看就不是以往印象里的“侦探”游戏。

You play as Mary Grinsnow, college student with a penchant for cupcakes, cats, and mysteries. Balance school, friends, and family, going through several important events of her freshman year as a bunch of little problems arise. The game goes for a very cutesy anime style, which matches it low-stakes. Problems include things like your cat destroying you group project, figuring out family trees, finding your friends at a concert, ect. Combined with the art style, it feels very much like a slice of life anime than anything else. The investigation for the game mostly comes down to point-and-clicking around the scene, clicking on clues and dialogue, and going to a solve screen to fill in the blanks. The clues are pretty obvious, as they tend to either jitter around on the screen, are items in a characters inventory, or are highlighted words. If you still have trouble find them for some reason, there is also an option to highlight items even further by putting a big question mark on them, togglable in the options. You shouldn't have any trouble finding the clues. Piecing all the clues together is where the real meat of the game lies. There is usually one or two main boxes you need to complete before moving on to the next chapter, with a few sub-boxes if you want to complete everything. Though solving the sub-boxes usually helps with getting the big picture so I recommend doing that. If you fill in the blanks wrong, the game will also tell you if you are two or less incorrect answers away from solving the box you are one, which can be very helpful in narrowing down where you are going wrong. In many ways, this game reminds me of The Case of the Golden Idol, but where as that game felt overwhelming at times with the amount of information you needed to put together, this game really doesn't give that feeling. Maybe it's the sugary art style with the cute recorder going off in the back ground, the low stakes of trying to not fail your class, or maybe it's because the game doesn't feel as challenging. You certainly need to pay attention to a few context clues, maybe take a few notes, but overall the game isn't going to leave more people stumped for long. There are about 10 cases in the game, and I reckon most people can get through each one in about 20-30 min. Overall, Little Problems like The Case of the Golden Idol if it was a sugary girly slice of life anime that dealt with college student problems instead of, well, murder. Also at about half the price. If that sounds like something you would be into, I recommend it.

I really enjoyed the game. It's definitely a COZY mystery game, with nothing scary or adult about it. Which can be a nice change of pace when life gets stressful (unless it's the stresses of college maybe! LOL) I left the clues turned off to add to the challenge. And I absolutely loved the Notes feature to track all of my thoughts while working through each challenge. I hope they make more chapters!

I'm conflicted...it's definitely not bad and compared to many other detective games it definitely made me work for it. I'll be honest I struggled hard with some of the levels. I just felt like it was too unstructured, soooo much information cut into million pieces and spread all over the place, most of the things I had to solve was also so boring. I filled several pages on my notebook to even have a chance to keep up. Waaaay too many characters.

适合用来入门的温馨向甜品，笔记功能不是很方便

this was a cute mystery puzzle type game that's pretty short. completable in an evening.