[ti]Daisy[/ti]Detective Grimoire GPG

anyone playing this game?

Hmmm, what an odd game. The "game" (and I use that term very loosely) is mainly dialog exposition. There are a few puzzles, all very easy, with the exception of one that blatantly lies about its goal, refuses an obvious solution and then, when you chance on the one the developers intended, fails to show the result of your last move, leaving with the problem "solved" while still displaying an unsolved state, and another (lock-opening) puzzle that will leave you pondering (ie, merely thinking, with nothing else to do) till you suddenly recall where you saw the solution - and the "reward" for solving it really gives you nothing useful in the game anyhow. There are a few challenging "pick the right elements of a phrase" type puzzles. Game also involves the development of "notes" through conversations (all taken automatically when you cycle through the dialog) and the finding of "clues" (two of which came down to pixel-hunts for me when I ran out of stuff to do and was just desperate to continue). As far as the "mystery", it sort of solves itself, though there are 3 clue paths that oddly remain either unexplored or incomplete. There is also an activity that looks to be meaningful (involving assigning suspicious/not suspicious tags to the various note observations, but the selections actually appear totally irrelevant to the progress of the game and never results in a correct/incorrect conclusion, so I wound up totally confused as to what the purpose might have been. Be sure to watch through to the (real) end after the credits, since there is some dialog that sets up for the sequel (er, though I dont think I'll bother to pursue that).

The game wasnt totally a waste. The dialog is clever, and it did keep me up til the wee hours of the morning to complete it, so obviously it had some allure....or maybe it was just a nostalgic hark back to an experience I had ages ago - when I went off to college, the school gave us an "assignment" to complete before showing up to freshman orientation. We had to complete reading a book, called "Man's Search For Meaning". Ummm, perhaps that's what kept me up til the wee hours!