Death at a Hotel
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It has been quite a while since I last encountered a title from Jet Dogs Studio. Usually title from this source would involve members from the Walker family who resided in Animalville and be firmly entrenched in the Clutter category of gaming action. However this next latest offering from Jet Dogs Studio breaks this sequence. With a complete switch of location but less so with regards to the style of game play, the game is entitled Mirrors of Deception - The Silver Peaks Secrets and involves a murder.
The game casts you in the role of Agatha Peaks who, along with other residents, finds herself trapped in the snowbound resort of Silver Peaks. Compounding the snowbound aspect, matters is not help when it was discovered that one of the other hotel quests was found murdered in his room. While the resort had its own security officer (an ex-police officer) who tries to take control of matters with regards to an investigation, you feel that you can do a much better job of carrying out an investigation and set out to discover the truth and uncover the killer.
In order to carry out the various tasks of your investigation, you will need to work your way through 20 levels of game play. These levels need to be tackled in order. Each level will feature eight episode which, as with the levels, need to be tackled in order. The first seven episodes in each level will present you with a Clutter challenge. As usual with clutter game play, you will be presented with a mixture of items that could be arranged in various ways such as one or two piles, in one packed area, arranged in a circle or generally scattered around. Mixed in with the general clutter will be stars that can be used to power a Hint function.
Providing the necessary information regarding how to proceed with finding the correct items in the clutter, you will be supplied with the necessary pointers you will need to follow. You could be asked to find items of a ,particular type such as keys, rings, hats or candles. In some case you will also be required to find pairs of items. Further rules could be applied as you might need to look for items of the same or different sizes and/or colour the colour of different items.
Bringing each level to a conclusion will be the eighth episode which will switch its style of play and present a mini game puzzle. Offering no Hint feature, you could be asked to recreate a scene from the resort that had been split into segments, You might need to rotate the segments or swap adjacent segments, shift a row or colour. Another requirement might require segments to be moved diagonally. When not rearranging scenes, you could be required to find matching pairs with face-down cards.
The completion of a mini game puzzle brings the reward of a piece of evidence. Thus clue could be in the form of a candle, torn note, passport, figurine, newspaper or plaid material amongst others, You will also get a static cut-scene with printed dialogue that advances the story line.
Fans of Clutter clearance, and the solving of a murder case, can download this title from Gamehouse.com where it is priced at $9.99. You can also download the game from Big Fish Games priced at £7.44. The game requires a 1.0 GHz processor with 512MB of RAM with 330MB of hard disk space running Windows 7 and later.
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