Strange Cases: The Lighthouse Mystery

 FBI Agent Claire Ellery’s latest strange case has become personal. Tom, her former partner, has died under bizarre circumstances. As Agent Ellery delves deeper into the mystery of his death, she finds that Tom himself has laid a trail of clues for her—a trail that leads her into a sinister web of corporate betrayal and the arcane. Follow the cards to solve this Strange Case and vindicate your partner’s untimely demise in Strange Cases: The Lighthouse Mystery. 

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You are playing Claire Ellery, an FBI agent. Your partner, Tom, has died and you’ve taken the case to find out why. I did not play the first one, Strange Cases: The Tarot Card Mystery, but it is mentioned inside the game a few times.  The story did a decent job of pacing itself and was pretty nice to go through.

There are plenty of places to go through and search. The hidden object scenes are done in three different ways, either as silhouettes of the item, a list, or pieces of an item you have to find. Your hidden object scenes pop up when you find tarot cards. You know what color and how many cards are left in a room because the left side of your screen tells you. You must have the card with the item you’re trying to click open, or the game will not count it.

I did like that there was voice acting in the game. It always makes a game better, in my opinion, especially if they have cut scenes, which a number of them do have. While there was a lot of dialogue, the cut scenes had to go by from mouse clicks, which I was not very fond of when playing. The voice acting is also okay, they weren’t very great or full of emotion, which was kind of a letdown.

I did think that the game was very well drawn and pretty to look at.

The hidden object scenes were okay, and there were many tiny puzzles in each scene that seemed to go with the game and where they were. I thought a lot of them were very well done. The hint button, in casual mode, came back pretty fast, maybe within a minute’s time to it, so you don’t have to worry too much about running out of hints.

In the Collector’s edition, there’s an extra Storyline that follows Tom and explains how he got killed and what he went through.

Overall, the story line was decent, the art was great, the voice acting and music were okay, and the game play kind of went by a lot faster than I expected it to. The game was very short.

Fun:          3
Sound:      3
------Music: 3
------Vocals: 3
Visual:       4
Challenge: 3
Story:        3
Length:      4

Hint: Very fast

Overall, the game got a 3.3 out of 5, from me.