![]() ![]() The more taxing puzzles can be skipped, so again, there’s no way to become truly stuck. Even a simple memory game isn’t completely straightforward, because the tiles actually rotate and move around every few moves instead of staying still until you’ve flipped them all up. The famous door puzzles are just as clever and inventive as they have been in past games. The hint meter takes a long time to reload, but it refills even as you’re walking around and doing other things, so if you’re stuck you can leave a puzzle completely and come back to it later. Unlike MCF: Madame Fate, there are unlimited hints so you can never truly get stuck. A complaint, though, is that some of the items are tiny to the point that it’s hard on the eyes – a primary example being having to search a tiny dollhouse for even tinier sewing machines and other furniture. This is how you find the majority of items for your inventory. Once you’ve found all the objects, the scene zooms back out and you’re left with one key item to keep. The hidden object portions of the game are realized as "scenes within a scene." In other words, you can click on certain parts of a location to open up a zoomed in view (like a bathtub from within the bathroom) that ask you to find a list of objects in the scene. You must find a way to free them and, hopefully, put a stop to Charles for good. ![]() What you discover is that there are more ghosts than just Emma’s who are bound to Ravenhearst. Now Charles’s vengeful spirit is on the loose, and as a detective you’re sent back to the desolate old manor to find more answers. The hallmark hidden object challenges and fiendish logic puzzles are still present and accounted for, but now you can also freely roam from room to room, use the mouse pointer to investigate sparkly objects of interest in a scene, pick up items to add to your inventory, and use them to solve puzzles and unlock new areas.Īs for the story, if you thought the case of Ravenhearst Manor was solved when you freed the soul of Emma Ravenhearst from her murderer Charles Dalimar, think again. In a nice show of symmetry, Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst, the fifth MCF game, is not only a return but also a second turning point that takes the series away from a hidden object focus and towards a full-fledged point-and-click adventure.ĭon’t worry all you hidden object fans, though, because the game hasn’t forgotten its roots. Mystery Case Files: Ravenhearst marked a turning point in the MCF series that saw its tone shift from light-hearted crimefighting romp to something decidedly deeper, darker and more supernatural. ![]()
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