Mystery Castle: The Mirror's Secret

[b]Pros[/b] +Unique puzzles +HO scenes are pretty good +Navigating via paintings is a fun idea for a HOG +Voice acting isn’t terrible [b]Cons[/b] +Very linear (can’t even go back) +Game ends abruptly. Clear the ending was rushed +Trophy issues +No achievements / cards Mystery Castle had a little potential with some unique puzzles and interesting way of getting around via paintings. However, all together it falls apart and leaves a lot to be desired. The classic, super thin plot of a daughter taken by an evil entity that you have to rescue is here. This is an EXTREMELY linear game. You can’t go back after you move from one screen to another via the paintings. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced that level of linear gameplay before. The HO scenes are decent, with an average difficulty. The puzzles are easy but some are unique and they actually have good instructions which is lacking in some other games. Each room has the same formula. Talk to a ghost, complete their task, get a mirror shard, do another task to clean the painting, move to the next scene. It gets a bit dull after a few screens. Looking at my mirror shard progress I thought I’d at least have a lot of paintings to go through but that’s not true. It’s pretty clear the ending was rushed or they ran out of ideas as you are suddenly thrust into the last boss screen where you pick up a bunch of mirror shards just lying there. There is hardly an ending. You don’t get one single piece of dialog from the villain on the final screen. I had some issues with the trophies (the in-game only achievements). The biggest one was the difficulty trophies don’t stack. There’s one trophy for beating the game on each difficulty. Normally when you choose the hard difficulty it will also unlock the easy and medium trophies as well. Not here. I beat the game in “hardcore” mode and it JUST unlocked the hardcore trophy. It may be a petty complaint but still. I also didn’t get the Castle Master Trophy which is when you defeat the final boss. The morphs are the in-game collectibles and supposedly there are 50 of them. The trophy for this must be bugged as I only got around 30 or so and still got the trophy for getting them all. The morphs themselves are almost impossible to find and I found many just clicking around and STILL not knowing what it was even after the game said I collected one. Fans of the genre can check this out to mark it off their list but otherwise there are much better HOG’s to try out [b]3/10[/b] Poor

Ciekawa rozgrywka, dużo trofeów do złapania ;) możliwość grania na kilku poziomach trudności; jedyny minus: gra ma bug'a na końcu rozgrywki;

Schönes Spiel für zwischendurch. Leider keine Steam-Errungenschaften. Wäre sehr einfach einzuführen gewesen

best game

Fun if you like mystery games

Un juego super repetitivo en el que luego de jugar unos 10 minutos ya sabes que esperar el resto de la experiencia. Los puzzles no ofrecen gran dificultad, la historia es bien cliché, no tiene nada para ofrecer. La verdad no lo recomiendo, hay juegos de este género muchísimo mejores con niveles interesantes y que no te repiten el patrón de pasar de una sala a la otra sin más.

Got the game on sale. I thought it gave both cute and creepy vibes which I found very enjoyable. I had no issue finishing the game like others mentioned and I was happy to have completed it. ^_^

best puzzle game

Recomendaria mas tive que vender meus filhos para jogar este jogo do demonio de dificil

https://youtu.be/k7qPnU30_98 Moving from from one disconnected room to anouther puts far too much pressure on the narrative connections that are not up the challenge of pulling together a cohesive story.