Parker & Lane: Criminal Justice Reviews

This is not the usual type of detective game one would imagine. The story begins with a rookie detective with the name of Lily Parker and a defense attorney, Victor Lane. A jogger passes by a murder at the harbor and finds a corpse under a freight. Lily Parker and Victor Lane are ordered by the Chief to investigate this crime scene together, which unfurls into a big mystery. There are two characters who are playable at this game: Lily and Stella. Stella works in the laboratory, assisting both of them with their case. Apart from the main story, Lily leads and assists the forensics investigating the crime scene and delivers them the items they need. At the police station, she orders the witnesses and police officers to their places interrogating or helping them. Stella on the other hand, helps the scientists in their research in the laboratory, delivering the right tools and chemicals required for the investigation. For the entire game, only the mouse is needed. On each main level, there is a hidden mouse whose name is Carl. To find him, you'll receive a diamond at the end of each level in exchange for purchasing evidence for the case file - it's like a collection. Diamonds can also be collected in challenge levels and daily challenges which have no significance to the main plot. The game itself has some flaws, particularly with certain levels and minigames that are impossible to beat. Also, the story is hard to enjoy because of the unrealistic way a character behaves. For example, Lily always gets upset most of the time and is very judgemental for no reason throughout the entire story. It agitates me every time. As for the end of the story, it ends pretty abruptly. It could have been further expanded. In the end, I wouldn't recommend this game for anyone expecting a thrilling detective story or engaging gameplay.

A very cool game even though the sounds are sometimes too much and sometimes not enough. The story and the characters are pretty good and the game itself was nice. There was one minigame that was just doabale on stage one for three stars which was pretty madening. The style of the cutscenes where very cool and the game play was fun. The trophies werent really well balanced due to one or to level problems and especially due to the need of playing many days in the row just to get enough diamonds for the file. But still a very nice game. I can really recommend it

I first played this game on an iPad but I've recently started playing on a laptop to see the differences. I have to say it's much easier on an iPad, at least for me. Some of the challenges are a little hard to do, and there's no difficulty setting. Other than that, the story is very gripping and cohesive.

Not good but not bad, this is the most weak of the gamehouse games i've played here on steam. Pros: Good gameplay Acceptable Story Cons: Most part of the levels are silent without music, just some at the police station works After you end a level that have music, it keeps playing at the star screen with the end of level music Repetitive Levels and Challenges Daily Challenge obligates you to play everyday

Hey Game House! What's with all the anti-medication stuff lately? First Amber's Airlines and now Parker and Lane? Abusing medicine is bad, yes. Implying that people who have to use medication to moderate their anxiety isn't good and makes me not want to keep buying your games if you're going to say that taking anxiety meds somehow makes me irresponsible or an addict or something. Not a happy customer.

Usually, I'm not a big fan of time management games. However, this one had a very nice and interesting storyline that made want to finish it. The gameplay wasn't too complicated and the minigames were a nice touch. At the same time even though the difficulty kept increasing it never went past the point of reason. Overall, I'd give it around an 8/10.

While I did play Parker and Lane all the way to the end, it was more to say I completed the game rather than because I was having fun. The minigames were not as fun as others in the GameHouse series and there were a few times that the graphics glitched out and made things difficult to play properly. More than anything, though, I did not like the story or the main characters. The case is hardly above an episode of every cop show ever and Parker is incredibly dislikeable as a person. The intended tension between her and Lane is over the top and tiresome. Police officers and lawyers are often at odds, yes, but her being this jaded as an officer on her first case is annoying. There is no background given to explain her level of toxicity for lawyers, thus she's a stereotype and frustrating to listen to. Lane is a cardboard cutout with a sprinkling of drama but not much substance past the cliché backstory. If you're a fan of the GameHouse series for the gameplay, you might like this one too but there are better titles in their roster.

Sigh. I dunno. I've been thinking about this for a while, but I think in the end, I'm actually disappointed? I don't think this game is as casual as a 'casual game' should be. There are... moments where it goes beyond challanging, and into frustrating. In one level, no matter how well I play repeatedly, I can't get beyond the 2 out of 3 stars needed to prefect it. The game crashed a lot too in the beginning, less so now but... And sometimes the backgrounds and assets didn't load. There's too many mini-games. By the end I felt like I was slogging through levels. It's just a bunch of little things like that, that made this tiresome to play in the end. Storywise... The end was a little abrupt, but that's fine honestly. The story's kind of ignorable. The pacing is simulateously too fast and too slow. Besically, don't buy it for the mystery. It's just- the main character (Lily Parker) is irrirating and overbearing... It's unfortuante. If I'd liked her, I'd probably find the story more tolerable, but the whole time she's just incredible self-righteous and condescending. Lane (the other half of the title) has his moments too, but he's also clearly meant to be a character that's [i]supposed[/i] to be a bit of an ass putting on a front- at least at first. And he's honestly pretty easy to grow on. Parker doesn't have that excuse. She's just plain unlikable. I wish I'd tried a more reliable 'Delicious' game for my first foray into actually playing these time-management games. At the moment I just need a break. It's been several days but I'm still tired and frustrated thinking about it.

Wow... so, I really do love the Delicious series a lot! They're fun, charming, great story and all around fun. I immediately recognized this game was the same style and artwork, so I bought it. I briefly read some reviews about the blatant sexism and terrible game mechanics and purchased it anyway. Why? Because I'm a beast at time management style games. This game, however, would not be worth the experience if it were free. The way the game referenced mental illness was awful, as if the game developers have not ever spoken to someone with anxiety. And the sexism, as one review put it, is just a lazy way to try to portray the main character's plight as the first female detective. It was executed in such a sloppy manner, that it turned me off. The actual mini games are unnecessarily clunky and disruptive. It was hard to get into the flow of the game or even really understand the plot compared to the Delicious series. It's seriously day and night and I highly recommend that you find another game to spend money and time on. I'm currently waiting on my refund, but I'll never get those 70 minutes back.

First of - the game itself is not bad. Not as good as Heart Hospital, which is more fun and involved, but not bad either. That being said - I gave a bad rating because the sexism of this game is so blatant, bad enough that it had me end the game at one point and fume. The main female character is hysterical, slightly dumb, keeps repeating unprofessional slurs against a colleague and shames him for "being a girl." She is sexually assaulted and does not officially report it (what the hell?), instead blames her partner. He in turn is being rude and sexually inappropriate towards her and a colleague in the workplace, who states "I don´t mind." I mean, who wrote this game? Let me guess, some dudes who thought it funny that a woman should be a professional police investigator? It is 2018, the #Metoo movement is strong and clearly the video gaming industry is a sexist as ever. Good job guys.