Detectives United 7: Adventure

I came for the mystery. I stayed for the Invisible Man. This game understands an important truth: if you're going to give me a detective story, I want memorable companions. The plot may fade, but I will never forget the Invisible Man standing in an alley wearing a trench coat, turtleneck, hat, badge, and goggles while apparently possessing no visible head. How does he see? The game wisely refuses to answer. Meanwhile, everyone treats this as completely normal. "Let's gather all the criminals in one place." Excuse me, sir. There is a floating coat talking. The mystery itself was enjoyable, but the real stars were the little moments of delightful nonsense sprinkled throughout the adventure. That's what keeps me playing these games. Give me unusual sidekicks, strange companions, and characters who make me laugh. Not everything needs to be dark, grim, or horrifying. The Invisible Man has now joined the ranks of my favorite game companions alongside Wee Froggie on the HINT button, the bowing owl, the airborne blowfish, the snack-loving monkey, and the lemur who keeps popping out of bushes as if he owns the place. More of this, please. Five stars for courage alone. It takes confidence to put a sheriff's badge on empty air and expect us not to ask questions.

It is now 3 months later and I am writing an entirely new review. The storyline was a bit dull, but it had an unexpected ending, and inventory usage were quite creative, and general gameplay was enjoyable. I was elated that Richard, Anna’s sarcastic father, was back in his skull. It was interesting to play from the perspectives of the various detectives, although it would have helped to have a small picture so you could remember who you were and which powers you possessed. Although James Blackthorn was no longer one of the characters, he was replaced by Ewan, a young man whose otherworldly power was to stop the passage of time. The adventure was lengthy, inclusive of the bonus adventure. However, the negative aspects of the game outweighed the positive ones. Elephant is developing their games very cheaply. The graphics lacked visual acuity. The inventory bar was black and the tools were so tiny that you couldn’t tell what they were. The lack of touchscreen sensitivity was horrible, and it affected playing certain mini-games. For example, and this is 3 months later and Elephant has NOT repaired it, you couldn’t rotate picture pieces in one of the puzzles, as the rotation button did not function at all! In addition, you could no longer enlarge the screen during the HO scenes. Elephant also kept putting map marks on the map when there were no available actions, just future objectives to be accomplished. They needed to fix their issues and they failed to do so. This is one of my favorite series because I love the sub-genre of paranormal abilities/detective mysteries. So I was very disappointed with the quality of the game. For the aforementioned reasons, I sadly must rate this game at 3 stars, for merely average. Had the quality assurance been better, I would have added a star. Considering all of the glitches and the poor graphics, I think I was quite generous with my rating. Happy holidays, everyone!

I very much enjoyed this game, I had no issues whatsoever with screen size playing on my iPad and I also encountered no problems in purchasing. It was great to have Richard back, and the humor sprinkled in was fun as well. I’m a big fan of this series.