The Cadet Files : Scene Unseen Reviews

This game describes itself as a hidden object, mystery solving problem game, but it doesn't say anywhere that there will be first person shooter levels. The first level requires you to survive robots/soldiers shooting at you...which in my case was impossible. There may be many better gamers than me who will enjoy this but I like exploration games where there is a mystery to be solved......... I hope there are good mysteries but I am totally out considering I die withing a minute each time I try the first episode.

I launched the game and realised the settings menu for changing graphics was completely missing. I then started with the first mission (apparently, there are 4 but only the first one is available) where I quickly got shot down by some sort of special soldier unit or perhaps robots. I'm not sure. This first mission takes place in a small apartment only with a couple of rooms and you only have 5 hearts before you die which means failing the mission as a cadet. I found a key that opened a drawer after eliminating the first two enemies. Then another key then another. Is this what the store page refers to as finding "hidden objects"? For all this you have 6 or so minutes. If the countdown reaches zero you get the same message on failure. Now, I found a safe and a piece of note in a separate drawer which was needed to find out what the right safe combination was. Once this was done i was able to open the last drawer that contained agent equipment such as a revolver and a badge. Only the badge can be picked up - if you hover over the rest your character just interacts with the drawer and closes it again. I didn't understand what my task was so once again the countdown reached zero and I failed. F1 brings up the tutorial and you also have a table whose first screen has some exam questions. Not sure if the contents of the drawer are meant to represent the answers but you can do some guesswork 5 times. This whole scenario made no sense to me. In addition to this the enemies you shoot down have corpses that can easily block you. Hitting ESC in-game brings us to the graphics options but while "high" settings is easy to find there is no vsync option. Everything is bad here. The sound effects, the gameplay, the FPS value you get during mission... your tablet has other functions but I found no use of them. Not sure what "mysteries" are to be "unravelled" here or "challenges" to "master". And the whole noir approach of the trailer is completely misleading. I recommend that you avoid this one.