Mystery Masterpiece: The Moonstone Reviews

challenging and good

Pretty good old fashioned hidden object game.

Very glitchy. Can't get past brushing for fingerprints on a bottle because it thinks I haven't brushed the whole finger print.

I play a lot of HOG's. This is one of the more interesting ones simply because the concept is different. It's not supernatural. It's not horror. It's an old fashioned mystery you get to solve by actually investigating the people in the mansion on the night the precious stone is stolen. As for positives, I felt the story was an interesting one with enough potential twists and turns to keep it fresh. Negatives: The artwork is awful. The HOG's can be really difficult to discern the individual items from the background. I never have enjoyed that type of thing. It's also got a slow hint refresh and no way to speed it up. There's a strategy guide, concept art, and music files, but you have to find them in the game files on your computer. In general, I would recommend this only for people who have a lot of patience with very small, difficult to find items in HOG's or for people who enjoy mysteries. Otherwise, nope. It's not going to be your thing.

I play mostly HOG & puzzle games. This HOG is OK-ish, mostly ho-hum. It is all HOG, one after another.

My recommendation is tentative. Some people will like the game; others will find it tedious. The way the game is organized by almost an infinitude of interviews of potential witnesses/perps leaves me cold. The idea behind a single interview is good; applying it across the board to a whole host of characters seems assured to make many find a reason to quit this game.

One of the hardest HOG's I've played, mainly because many of the items are very small and blended into the background, plus you have to click exactly on it or it just sits there. There isn't a zoom feature to help but there is a hint button and zero misclick penalties. That said, I really enjoyed this non-cookie cutter HO game! The scenes are intricate, finding the items are challenging and the music is beautiful. You are a detective investigating the theft of a stolen moonstone and you will be investigating everyone in the household. I have one investigation to go so I can't comment on the ending but the game is definitely engrossing! If you like HOG's you should like this one.

Very hard spotting little objects, when click hint make sure you find everything but main clue otherwise it will only show you that for hint and no other item and when clicking on a item you have to be exact or it says not there when it is, so after all that it makes it an annoying game instead of fun.