Detective grimoire

Detective Grimoire is a mystery game created by SFB game and published by Armour games. I’m not talking about the new Detective Grimoire game (I read that a new one is going to be out soon in steam and humble bundle). I am talking about the free online version Detective Grimoire.

This game is actually the usual point and click adventure game. You click on the area to interact or to move around the map. The graphics is quite decent and there is no voice over. There is definitely some music that changes occasionally. Most of the time all you could hear from the characters are “Ahem” or “Hmmm.” I am pretty sure there are no other noises from the character itself.

Besides all of that, I like the storyline behind this game. It’s simple yet a little in dept. The player has to play as the main character known as Detective Grimoire. One of the characters has died in the game and the detective has to find out who killed the victim.

There are six characters in the game. They are; Two Mascots whom have problems with each other, One repair technician who handles the whole park technical problems, a student who looks after a game stall (also the technician’s niece) a cleaner who is young and has a crush on the student that manages the game stall and the manager who is a little ignorant about the job he does.

Player has to explore the place and talk to each suspect to find out on who is the right killer. Player has to read the lines, look at the clue list and profile. Occasionally they need to find for the clue in the NPC’s area.

With those clues they could use it on the suspects and try to find out the clue. Once the Detective feels suspicious, he uses the “stare” to get out the truth. While the suspect is talking, there will be a white flash. Once it flashes, player has to move the cursor to the right quickly. If you miss the timing, then the suspect will not get a shock and will tell a lie.

I would say that this game is suitable for those who want to play a game for a short while or those who simply love story based game. You could finish the game in less than one hour and its does requires a lot of detective skills like scanning for thumbprint. It's all about the story.

I have included a short video of the gameplay (Just the first five minutes of the game) Please feel free to view it or to play the game: http://armorgames.com/play/200/detective-grimoire . It’s worth a shot. 

To watch the video: http://youtu.be/fcIA58g9DD8

Sega Game - Crazy Taxi

Crazzzzzzy Taxi

The first time I ever played Crazy Taxi was at the arcade. It was this machine that has a brake paddle and a steering wheel. There is no chair attached to the machine. This game got me excited then and I was like "Man. I wish I can play this every day."

Crazy Taxi machine

If I am not wrong, this game used to be a massive hit. Everyone knew this game. It’s a racing game but you could drive around recklessly. When the player starts the game, he/she is given an option to choose between four characters.

Basically the player is the taxi driver and he has to pick up passengers and drive them to their location before the time is up. Once they reached the location the driver have to stop at the marked area. If he stops outside the marked area, then the passenger will not get down.

That allows the driver to earn the money. 

The amount is dependent on the performance of the driver in a journey. Also if the driver does not drop off the passenger within the given time frame, the passenger will jump off the taxi.

There is original version and arcade version in this game.  In both there is an 3 minutes, five minutes and 10 minutes mode game (and play by arcade rules).  In arcade rules, the driver is given a specific time frame but can be increased if the driver picks up and deliver the passenger before the initial time runs out.

There are also mini games in Crazy taxi. It is known as Crazy box. Each box has a specific challenge that requires the player to complete.  For an example, driving down a steep road to jump over and land at a specific spot (counted by distance of jumping)

What makes it fun is you could drive around recklessly, crashing other cars and not going through any damage. If you manage to dodge the other cars that would allow you to earn money or carrying out stunts also increases the money.

Driving around the town in high speed

 You could also drive around the big world around aimless without picking up any customers but they would cause you to go through loss for that round.

The only problem with this game is that it is not very high in repetitiveness. It’s fun for a while but after an hour later, it’s no longer fun. It gets a little boring. Maybe it could be improved by adding more challenges to It. Different types of mission instead having different time mode.

Maybe have a mission like you have to pick up passengers who are wearing black tops. Or have a mission where you have to drive without hitting anything or can also have mini game while driving around the passenger such as collecting something to earn more coins.

Besides that, it’s a game worth keeping in my game library but not something that I would recommend to play for a reason. This game is more suitable to pass your time thus making it a very suitable arcade game (It was an arcade game initially) but never a console game.