Mystery Game Reviews

It took Dad and me like two months to do this puzzle, working on it everyday. And my Dad and I do alot of puzzles. So if you're looking for a really hard puzzle, try this one. It's the hardest puzzle I've ever tried to do.

My only complaints: the pieces are way too flimsy and several of them bent easily, and the five extra pieces were way too obvious.

But it's still a wonderful(and difficult) puzzle.

This was the hardest puzzle I've ever seen. I got this puzzle for my mother -- she started it in April and finished after the Fourth of July! It really is a challenge, since you will be working with various pieces of all the tees, with very little to go on, except for various pieces of grass! Definitely a great puzzle for someone who is looking for a serious challenge....

I had a great time putting the puzzle together. The puzzle was enjoyable and kept my attention. I couldn't wait to finish the puzzle and "solve" the mystery. I own other mystery jigsaw puzzles like this, and the Titanic puzzle is top on my list.

I put this puzzle together with my best friend when she bought it.We had hours of fun trying to figure it out,along with it's story.It gave us good quality time,and many happy memories.Great for all ages!Adults and children alike.I highly recommend this as a family activity.

We love this game! It is full of short mysteries that keep kids attention. The mysteries are very cute and get the kids thinking creatively. To find out the answer, they use a magnifying glass with a red film in it. The film decodes the answer so they can read it. The only problem we have is that some of the mysteries are too hard for our younger child, so sometimes we give her extra hints. Our kids love playing it! We think you should try it!!

This is a neat jigsaw puzzle. There is some degree of repitition in the picture to make it tricky. And then they go and take away the edge pieces, so you just have to pick a random place to start. Makes it much more interesting. And in case that is not enough, there are five extra pieces, that do an excellent job of blending in and looking real. I had no idea which pieces I wouldn't use until I was completely done. If you like jigsaw puzzles, you'll like this.

This is a great idea. It was given to me as a gift because my friends know how much I love a good mystery. I'm also known for tackling a jigsaw now and then, so this was a great combo for me. It was a challenge putting the puzzle together after reading the mystery,but fun. A unique twist to an old concept.

I have gotten both "Barbecue with the Vampire" and "Roswell that ends well" for my 14th and 15th birthday parties. I must admit that both are exalent and have the guests talking about it for years (yes that's right years!) but Roswell that Ends Well has a much better story line.

My friend bought this and set it up for a party on haloween. I was Robin O'Positive (actually her evil twin, Robin O'Negative) and I thought it was the coolest thing ever! I was scared weeks after and everyone there had a blast! This is the best thing you could ever do for a party! Words can not explain how cool it is to play! We're thinking about buying the Alien one for a Luau party on the last day of school. I loved playing this mystery!

Although the age range starts at 12, my daughter's 10th birthday was a huge success with this game. It is very complex, but all eight of the kids really got into the finest details. None of them solved it before the solution was revealed, but had a great time playing the characters and anlyzing the information anyway. From start to finish, including playing through dinner, they needed 4 1/2 hours, and even then I was pushing them along a bit. Be sure to allow enough time for the guests to discuss the mystery as much as they'd like. The downside was that they got into it so much that two of the kids had nightmares about vampires afterward! We did the decorations along with the theme, and I (Mom) dressed as a vampire to add to the atmosphere. With take-out barbeque served, this was the EASIEST, most fun birthday party I have ever done - and my daughter says that it was her favorite party ever. She wants to do the other one, and it's so easy that we'll do it this spring without the excuse of a birthday. Perfect for kids who are into mysteries - this group also loves fantasy such as Harry Ptter.

I adore cinematic adventure games with real people to talk to instead of polygon models and real locations to explore, and that's exactly what Black Dahlia was. It was a real hoot to play with some great puzzles and interesting people to meet.

Although there was a certain level of gore involved, Black Dahlia takes place in a unique time period and has some interesting twists that I'd not seen in other adventure games. You start out, innocently enough, exploring a potential Nazi originization and soon fond your case growing larger and larger as you delve deeper and deeper into it.

The game has a certain atmosphere to it that was really neat to wade through. At one moment I might be hobnobbing in a secret nightclub and rubbing elbows with Elliot Ness and another moment I could be dodging traps in an ancient germanic crypt with poison dart traps and treasures to discover. Although the game was very linear (I could not progress until I had done a certain thing in a certain order)it still held my attention.

But halfway through the game the mystery aspect was lost and it became more of a horror movie. I won't give away the ending, but when It was all over I felt frustrated and somewhat betrayed by the fact that a lot of the 'evil' things that happen in the game I was relatively helpless to stop. The people who were predetermined to die I could not save. By the end of everything it seemed as though I was the only person left, and all my friends were gone. Even my satisfaction of thwarting the evil baddie was taken from me as the 'hero' left in shame.

But not everyone demands a perfectly happy ending, and some folks like their grit. I still will not deny that this was a very well done game even if it wasn't up to my tastes.

This was a fantastic computer game! I'd been bored for quite a while, and this was exactly what I needed to pick me up. "Black Dahlia" was an amazing mystery thriller with fantastic graphics. The actors were actually quite good, a rarity in most computer games. I was so addicted to this game that I spent my whole day on it instead of an essay I should have been working on! Some of the puzzles are difficult (I'll confess to using the cheat sheet on most of it), but it was all so beautifully done that I really didn't mind. You must try this game, it's incredible!

I first played this game back in 1998, and recently dug it out and played it again. It is still one of the best of this type, if not the best. I could say a lot more but, just buy it. you will be glad you did. This game i believe will be timeless i think people will still be playing this as long as there are machines to run it.

Chris

We have three of the Scooby Doo Case File Games.
My four year old loves these games. He will play it for a long time. There is problem solving and mazes and other activities in each game.

My problem with this game (and the other Scooby Games) is that there is no variability. Once your child solves the game and plays it again, the puzzles are essentially the same. The clues might change and the villian might be different, but the puzzles are the same and the clues are in the same places.

This is not a problem for my kids though. They both enjoy the game and play it for many hours.

Enjoy.

I would rate this a middle of the road four or at the very least a high three.

First the positive- the scooby gang are in a museum and a green glowing bug man has messed up the displays. They have to put the displays back together in order to earn clues. The clues point to a villian. Each of the 'games' or displays involves a different part of the brain- in one scooby has to jump on a conveyer belt to earn scooby snacks and collect bones, another is a puzzle, another is a matching game and so on. There are three different levels so you can have it fairly easy to fairly difficult. My five year old was able to play the easy with no help and the medium level with only a little bit of help.

The Negatives- The games are the same. The villians change but the games are the same- you are always doing a puzzle in the dinosaur room and it's always the same puzzle. The placement of the boxes in the puzzle might change but the idea is the same. I would have also liked to have seen the ability to change the levels of the puzzle as individual games, not the whole game.

However, it's a fun game.
I would also suggest the Freddy Fish games if your child likes to solve mysteries.

Enjoy.

If any of you have expierienced past Scooby Doo games of this style, then you will understand this. In comparison, the voice acting in this is sub-par. The vocal animations are so generic that every word they speak looks just like the last. The load times between screens is a lot longer in this one than in past games. However, the puzzles are clever, and the background animations and layouts are very colorful and creative. Dropping you in many foreign locales. A good representation, and learning tool, of different cultures. My 5 year old enjoys this. But, myself, as a Scooby Doo fan, did not think that much of it. It was a bit shorter than previous games as well. Good game. Just not great. Hope the next volume shows more promise.

We invited 3 of our couple friends to be the guests for the evening. We played Italian music in the background-- the theme from The Godfather was perfect! All of our guests took time to dress up; one of our guests (in his vinter role) even brought his own wine glass and stained his fingers a purplish color! We had each couple bring a pizza and a bottle of wine; we served appetizers and dessert! What a blast. Took photos and mugshots (a line up of all the suspects against the wall). It DID take a lot more work to host and play a role, but it was a delight for everyone! We spent hours playing the game, but it was a lot of laughs and the ending was a great surprise! Just relax and invite friends who love to let their hair down!

My friends and I had such a blast playing this game. We all were in costume/character all evening and had a wonderful 5 course meal. We did lots of decorating as well. One of the funnisest was, The "victim" is the twin brother of one of the characters so we enlarged a photo of the guy coming as the twin and hung it on the wall. We surrounded it with candles as sort of a vigil to the dearly departed. The hostess had a T-shirt made that said "I Killed Pepi Roni" to give as a gift to the "murderer". They had a chalk outline on the sidewalk in front of their house with yellow "caution" tape wrapped around it. Since we stayed in character, ate our meal between scenes, and just had fun in general, it took us several hours to complete. A very fun evening.

This was the 1st mystery dinner we had ever tried - and we've been having them on a regular basis ever since then. This game is easy to prepare for, easy to participate in and FUN! A great night - without a doubt.

This was the first game I have bought of Host a Murder. I threw it as a halloween party. It worked out great. There were 8 adults. My partner agreed to handle dinner and the dishes while 8 of us played the game. This worked out really well. It was arkward to play the game while eating though. I would play a round, serve dinner, then pick it pick it back up. Between the third and fourth round, we served dessert. Allow atleast 4 hours to play the game. I also received a cd instead of a cassette for the game. This was a lot of fun.

This was the first mystery game that I ever hosted. We had so much fun with it that I really was looking forward to doing another. This was an evening of laughter and everyone just cut loose. We enjoyed the period and the characters. I would not recomend this to younger people because of the sexual suggestive
language but if you can over look that and just set out to have a good time this is a great way to spend the evening.

What a great evening! I highly recommend this particular murder mystery if you're just starting out. Almost everybody can play the roles, costuming is fairly easy, and you generally won't get many complaints about either the dinner menu or background music you might want to play. (When my husband and I hosted, we even set up a small dance floor and we all jitterbugged the night away once we'd finished the game!) If you're going to try a dinner party murder-mystery game, try this one first.