Introduction:
Some of us have are really imaginative and can create worlds in their heads, people to fill those worlds, almost like your own private world, where everything is about you and all of the problems are concerning you. Now talking like this further, that is writing, would probably mean that I’m a bit ku ku, and who wouldn’t think of it so, but there is one fact that is certainly true: The line between a genius and a crazy man is very thin… this is proven trough many examples in history, but does everything has to be so black and white??? What if, somewhere in the world there is the grey section where everything that you thought of being impossible is happening every day.
Gameplay:
One person discovered that grey section, and thanks to that he is now able to write such novels that no one in the world has written a better novel then his. Edgar Lee is the man responsible for all of those master pieces that are being so popular all around the world, but no one has ever known the true source of his inspiration until you have been summoned to the castle of Edgar Lee where he creates his novels and lives. You will be playing the role of a bit less famous detective that has come to help the great novelist, but what he really finds out right away will amaze you from the beginning. When entering his chambers you will discover a path to another dimension, where elves live and where Edgar has been getting material for his story. As Inspector Doubleleaf you will start researching the source of Lee’s problem. His problem lies in the fact that his novels are stolen, and the pages that were stolen are hidden in the Enlightenus side of the mansion. However, this isn’t an ordinary search, as you must leave all the facts and open your views for the magical and unexplainable. This will have you searching for the pages in different rooms in the mansion, where after you have found one, it will provide you with a HOG (reverse) scene for you to solve. This means you won’t be searching for items, as you will have all of the items in your inventory. The point of this game is to find the rightful place for the items in your inventory and to do that you are getting instructions all the time. However this doesn’t mean you can just put items as you please and where you want to, as there is a schedule of items at certain points in the game that needs to be respected in order if you are planning in putting the items to where they belong. Because the authority goes mostly to children, the content of the game has been adapted to behave non-violent in any way, making the usually bloody scenes and scenes full of violence become children’s toys. Putting objects in their place is much more of a brain trick than you might think. Your only clues are the names of inventory items and short labels found around the scene. However the progress through the game will certainly become difficult for many players as there will be multiple times where you simply don’t know what to do next… Have you forgotten some item to use in another scene or some puzzle has been left unsolved; the number of questions could just easily be overwhelming making retracing your steps impossible and resetting the level. There is of course a perfectly easy solution to this, and that is a walkthrough, but depending on what type of player you are you either use it or you don’t, depending on your principles… Personally if I start losing to much time around one thing that I need and simply can’t get to it no matter what the game it is, the walkthrough is the first option I will use. Like any game on the market glitches, bugs or simply non-fitting things are always a part of a game, and for this game one of the things that simply annoys after some time, is the hidden object scenes. The scenes themselves are cool, nothing to be worry about, but when you get to revisit the same location again, after you have cleared it already, the game makes you finish the old task again, together with the new task. Now for some this may represent some sort of memory challenge, but for me it just a big oversight during the time the game was programed. There are mini-games in the game that are made in the game’s theme adapted to it, and the level of difficulty is reduced to very low standard, when it comes to them.
Graphics and audio:
The graphics of the game looks pretty common for the graphical standard of nowadays, but there are some scenes where the graphic team of the game has worked much harder than the rest of the game, to point out the lovely scenes and the details that give them a lovely texture. The same goes for the voice-acting in the game, which is more than satisfying and there will be no disappointment in this part of the game.
