The Mermaid Mask

I've been so excited for this game to come out and it has lived up to everything I wished for as a sequel for Tangle Tower. The story is amazing and the voice acting makes this game better. Highly recommended for anyone who loves puzzles and a story.

The Mermaid Mask is an absolutely fantastic game. If the demo or trailers are intriguing to you, do yourself the favor and pick up the full game. I loved playing the predecessor game Tangle Tower so much on Switch, I replayed it on Steam a while later. I did not expect The Mermaid Mask to be significantly different gameplay-wise, but I am happy to report that it is [i]even better.[/i] A few notes: - Incredible character animations, silly writing, and impeccable voice acting - Fun puzzles (some more engaging than others, but overall really enjoyable) - Compared to the 2D clues in Tangle Tower, clues are now 3D and contain more hidden info - Art Gallery with fun developer comments Small critique: It would be nice if this game had a chapter select or rewind type feature once the story is finished. Some achievements are missable once you start the final chapter, and it can take a bit of time replaying the game simply to choose a different dialogue option.

Another rousing smash in the Detective Grimoire series. It retains the same charming artstyle and music as Tangle Tower, while offering some great new characters (shout out to my boys Dirk and JD). Offers enough puzzles to be head-scratching but not unsolvable.

Great mystery game with memorable characters. Love this series.

The Mermaid Mask is a 8.5/10 game for me. The writing is great from the humour to the murder mystery itself. The game kept me guessing about multiple things all the way to the end. The voice acting, music, visuals, character designs and animation are all excellent. Compared to The first detective grimoire and tangle tower it's the largest in terms of scope, I clocked in 18 hours for a single exhaustive playthrough, where as tangle tower is roughly 8 hours long. The scale and depth of the story worked well for this however there were drops in the "action" for me during my playthrough. With so many characters to talk to, about so many items and suspects, I had about a 7 hour section where there were no puzzles or interactions, at one point I even believed I was somehow soft locked as I couldn't find how to advance despite exhausting all the dialogue,[spoiler] I eventually realised that I had failed to ask every character about each other [/spoiler] Eventually working it out the game was smooth sailing afterwards with a few more puzzles and a satisfying ending. That's pretty much my review, here's a rant about one thing I didn't like that I hope is fixed/updated. Completion percentage: The first 5 hours of the game had me reaching 35% completion but then my next 6 hours I only made it to 50% completion Using the completion percentage as a guide made me really believe I was encountering a bug, Interrogating each suspect only seemed to add 1% to the %'age despite being a major element in the game. I found that the final 3 hours of the game, I went from 70% completion to 100%, it's so off that it really gives you no indication of how long the game really is and in my case it tricked me into thinking I was completely stagnating when I wasn't. It just needs adjusted to reflect the players actual position in the story imo.

2 hours in. wonderful game building off tangle tower, seems to have a similar paranormal touch to it. Great art, writing, voice acting, everything.

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