Mystery Masterpiece: The Moonstone
- Try And Catch A Jewel Thief.
- Cryptic Clues To Unravel.
- Music From Tchaikovsky Brings The Game Alive.
- Is The Diamond Cursed? Find Out.
Product Description
Who stole the Moonstone diamond? Is it cursed? It’s up to you to investigate and unravel the mystery! Investigate every person who was in the Victorian mansion at the time of the crime to locate the thief and try and find the ancient jewel in this hidden object adventure! Play the role of Detective Cuff, exploring every room to find valuable clues and hopefully return the enormous diamond to its rightful owner…. More >>
A fun hidden object game, the designers of this game certainly made the most of the Victorian-era setting. You play a detective charged with finding evidence and interviewing suspects in the theft of the Moonstone, a massive diamond stolen by British troops from a temple in India. The stone is said to be cursed and, indeed, when it’s inherited by Rachel Verinder her life gets quite complicated. Your mission: solve the crime by identifying the suspect.
As a prior reviewer noted, locating the hidden objects requires good eyesight and, I might add, plenty of patience. At times I found myself grumbling over a clue list that included things like “dusty bottle” in a room where there were four bottles, only one of which was the correct one. Fortunately, there’s no penalty for incorrect clicking in this game. That’s also a good thing considering that at times the game seemed annoyingly particular about exactly *where* you clicked on an item. Since there’s also no time limit, I figured that finickiness is tolerable.
While I can’t say this is the most fun HOG I’ve played, it’s certainly a good one. I don’t recommend it for newbies to the genre due to the game pickiness I mentioned earlier, but for those who like HOGs and want something relaxing to play this fits the bill.
Rating: 4 / 5
Based on Wilkie Collins’ 1868 classic “The Moonstone” which was the precursor and inspiration for English mystery fiction including the Sherlock Holmes stories, this is an excellent hidden object game. Atmospheric and authentically nineteenth century with Tchaikovsky to help you get immersed, you as Sergeant Cuff will try and nail the thief of the fabulously valuable Moonstone diamond which has been stolen from a house when there are nine guests present.
Each of the nine suspects has four different scenes devoted to him and you have to travel back and forth from one environment to the next to find the tools necessary to perform functions and unearth additional hidden objects. The graphics are extremely clear but the objects are often very hard to locate. However, there are no anachronisms- in other words, the objects are authentic to the nineteenth century and you won’t find a hotdog or a typewriter nestling on a haystack.
“Mystery Masterpiece:The Moonstone” is a great game for the hidden object buff but you’re going to have to have very sharp eyes to find everything!
Rating: 4 / 5