![]() ![]() As his work is getting stale, he has to kill his darlings. He’s just had orders from his editor that he has to set a darker tone to his latest LeClue novel. ![]() It’s named after Arthur Finkelstein, a writer who pens books about a certain heroine named Jenny LeClue. Its varied nature keeps things fun and fresh, and not once did I let out the “adventure game groan” a grumble-like noise that unwittingly escapes as you encounter just another one of the same puzzles.ĭid you think Arthurton was a strange name for a town? That’s because it is. And there are environmental puzzles that ask you to move and rotate objects in the correct alignment so that you can open secret doors and access new areas. There are riddles that must be solved in order to find the right location which you must next visit. There are radio puzzles that require you to match the frequency and wavelength of an incoming signal exactly in order to listen to secret codes. There are electronic puzzles that require you to twist dials so that power can flow through the right wires in order to open locked objects. Solving puzzles is another main facet of Jenny LeClue: Detectivú. ![]() Moveable bookcases always mean something’s afoot. In our example case, this is “How do I know the victim didn’t slip?” Tie the correct clues together and the case is solved, usually with a cutscene that advances the story. This brings up another screen, full of the clues you just found, requiring you to link the correct clues together to answer the question you’re seeking to answer. ![]() Once you’ve collected the requisite number of clues - shown as a fraction the top of the screen - you move onto deduction. “The floor is wet and slippery,” in this example. Then you press A (on Switch) and Jenny thinks out loud, lending exposition to the clue you just found. You have to pan the camera around the area, and when your cursor hovers over something important it turns green. In this case, Jenny is lying on the floor at school, feigning death so that her fellow students can practice criminology. The case of the dead lab assistant, for example, is the first one, which also acts as a tutorial. Jenny loves being a detective, and it shows in how you approach puzzles and “cases.” These cases appear when anything happens in the world. But what about the actual gameplay? In short: it’s fun and varied. Needless to say, this is not a game that struggles with immersion. This makes it all the more obvious when other colours appear whizzing down the road on the back of a moped as the red hues of dawn appear on the horizon causes the colour to pop off the Switch’s IPS screen. Jenny LeClue: Detectivú has a papier-mache style to its graphics and an enchanting blue palette to its colours. Exploring the game’s world is accompanied by a glorious ’80s synthwave-esque soundtrack, which gives it a real Stranger Things vibe.Īnd the graphics really are beautifully crafted. From walking the golden brown campus of your school to boating on a dark lake to crawling through collapsed mining tunnels, Arthurton is full of interesting and beautifully crafted places to visit. Speaking of graveyards, Jenny LeClue: Detectivú has a vast array of locations and environments for you to sleuth through. Creeping through a misty graveyard to have Suzie’s voice bark through your radio, scaring both you and Jenny, is a fantastic experience. And the Switch version comes with the recently released Spoken Secrets update, which adds full voice acting to the game, and it’s top-notch. Suzie is prima facie an overly optimistic bimbo, but hides a dark secret of her own. CJ, the town conspiracy nut, oozes with comic eccentricity that is reminiscent of Doc from Back to the Future. The characters are what bring Arthurton to life: Jenny herself is witty and full of sass. If you’re fond of ’80s and ’90s style sci-fi like the X-Files, then you’re going to be right at home with the story here. Aliens, ghosts, conspiracies - these are all elements you must face on your journey. Her mother is a school teacher in small-town America Arthurton, and she is soon arrested for murder, propelling Jenny into a journey full of mystery and intrigue in an attempt to clear her mother’s name and find out what really happened. You control Jenny LeClue, a young, truth-obsessed detective wannabe. ![]()
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