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Masters Of Mystery Demo Impressions

By John Walker on January 9th, 2009.

This is how real police work works.

I’m a complete sucker for Hidden Object games. The likes of Mystery PI engross me far more than a respectable gun-toting, army-controlling, murder-solving games player should admit, but there’s something cathartic about scanning a cluttered screen for the improbably placed list of objects. Especially for those moments when you finally find the umbrella hidden in the scene at the park, when you realise it’s the size of a building. Big Blue Bubble’s Masters of Mystery: Crime of Fashion takes the casual game’s themes, but does something slightly different.

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