Mystery Trackers 19: Voices

Normally in this series you play from the perspective of Agent Brown. However in this instance, you play from the three separate perspectives (as in Detectives United) of rookie agents, all named fittingly after colors (Black, Slate, and Ginger.) In addition, you were able to use time-travel as you would do in Grim Tales. So features from the different detective series were combined. The graphics were better than usual, and the gameplay was a decent length. It wasn’t as short as some people thought; when you enjoy a game it moves more quickly. I found the gameplay addictive as usual, with plenty to accomplish at each location. Collectibles included gadgets for the rookie agents, as well as puzzle pieces. There were no morphing objects. This time the secret room was the ability to replay HO scenes and mini-games, so no searching for tiny morphing objects. There was an interesting mix of both HO scenes and mini-games, and several were more unusual and challenging. I loved all the HO puzzles but the mini-games were not all my cup of tea. There was, however, a puzzle for everyone, from rotational types to games of skill, and a very interesting maze puzzle. My only issue was one of quality assurance. The text did not remain on the screen long enough to read it, so I found the storyline a bit confusing at times. Some of the puzzles were difficult to manipulate too. The gameplay interface needed a tad more touchscreen sensitivity. Still, this game was more unusual and I did enjoy it immensely. My rating will remain at 4 stars, due to less than stellar quality assurance and my dislike of several mini-games. I would have liked more codes and games of logic. Please stop complaining about pricing. We have little enough to play as it is, and these games take extensive time and work to create. If you keep on griping, Elephant won’t succeed. Now that Oleg has refused to give us EIPIX, we need more Elephant games! Happy gaming, everyone!

I really enjoy the mystery trackers series, but I think this is probably one of the least successful games in the series. The thing that bothered me the most was not being able to read all the pieces of paper when they pop up. They frequently contain information you need to continue on with the game or at least make it easier but they’re gone in like two seconds. And there’s nowhere to look them up like a journal or a notebook. I also thought it was a bit glitchy in places. Mystery trackers is a great series — I’d like to see you do better.

I’ve played ALOT of BigFish/Elephant games and have a very good frame of reference for knowing quality vs. the crap. This story was stupid, the video cut scenes were so low-res, almost unwatchable, and many of the mini-games made no sense and had zero info, that Skip was the only way to move forward! I had to use Hint far too much, and I’ve had extensive play-testing on games. There’s always a first time for everything, and this was the FIRST game that would quickly take away a found document before you had time to read it all, and then it would disappear. What’s the point of having a nice hand-drawn old-style parchment message if it comes up onscreen, and literally 2 seconds later, is taken away and never to be seen again!? Never have I seen any BF-style games do that, and it’s the worst example of low quality game here. I couldn’t finish this game fast enough, to move on. Better luck next time, Elephant…but whoever did this one for you, oughta be removed from the building! I cannot believe I paid for the full game! Kept thinking it would get better!