Dead Reckoning: The Crescent Case Collector's Edition Reviews

interesting challenges and sufficient help guides when really stuck

9/10: As allways, nice artwork, music and storytelling. Really new kind of riddles, *me like*. Would be perfect, if achievements were also on steam.

The rest of the game is pretty enjoyable, or at least a fairly standard point and click puzzle game. There is however one puzzle (Tarot cards) which is fundamentally flawed wherein the solution requires one card which is at a diagonal to be constituted 'next to', if that same logic is applied to the rest of the cards then they are 'next to' cards which they're not permitted to be by the rules of the game. Basically the puzzle is broken and unsolvable without guessing, skipping or googling the correct answer, its extremely frustrating. Maybe i'm being a bit pedantic but solving puzzles is literally the point of the game. some of the evidence board allows you to make connections and comment on things that you haven't actually discovered yet which has moments of confusion and spoilers but this is a very minor deal as you soon find out. Now that i'm done complaining the visuals and music are very good and the story is mildly entertaining, you appear to be training up a partner in the beginning but he doesn't stick around for any of the plot and the villan's pop up out of nowhere, but like I said, i'm mostly in it for the puzzles so that was a disappointment. Like the previous game in this title so will probably try the next and hope there's no furthur issue in the series