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It's almost Halloween, and all the other game and hobby Examiners get to cover their spooky and grisly games. What I have is even better: Mystery Case Files.
MCF is a series of games in which you find various hidden objects in cluttered pictures. The spookiest entry so far is Ravenhearst, where you must reconstruct the diary of a young woman, Emma Ravenhearst, who runs into trouble in 1895 England. You find a specified number of objects -- eyeball, butterfly, maracas -- to move on to the next room. After you clear a few rooms, you run into the game's version of the boss board. These puzzles involve pushing and rearranging objects to set up a chain reaction that produces a key to unlock a box of jigsaw pieces that you reassemble into a journal entry. It sounds complicated, and it kind of is, but it's a lot of fun, too.
The music is appropriately eerie, and the gameplay is absorbing. I stopped playing Ravenhearst for a while because I was stuck on a boss-board puzzle, but then I discovered you could click on the telephone to skip past it. Now I'm tearing along toward the end.
Once I get through this game, I will start in on the sequel, Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhearst. It looks even creepier...
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