Unsolved Case: Ash and Secrets

First of all, DO NOT attempt to use the strategy guide or you will have to reload the game to exit. I did not incur any other technical problems in the game, and other than having disjointed story lines,it was not too bad. Some of the mini games were original and it did have a maze(+). Due to the strategy guide problem I must rate a 3.

I don’t like to review in the middle of a game, but I have some warnings for you. The first two chapters have a one-hour sales timer clock. The first case was quite dull, and the second one seemed to have nothing to do with the first chapter. The second chapter was much more enjoyable. Then the 3rd chapter was related to the first one and the second chapter to the bonus adventure. The game did not flow and seemed disjointed. As usual, the lack of touchscreen sensitivity on the gameplay interface was annoying; you had to tap quite hard and some mini-games were impossible to manipulate. But the worst thing was a huge quality assurance issue with the strategy guide! Try, under every circumstance, not to use the guide. There is no way to exit the guide! Usually there is a close or “x” button, and that is not present, so you must close out your game and reload. I thought that Domini’s quality assurance couldn’t worsen, but they have proved me wrong. This is not the way to start out a new year, with a stupid glitch. However, the game possess some positive qualities. The HO scenes were varied, there were a ton of mini-games and puzzles (some were totally new and innovative) and there was some creative inventory usage. General gameplay was interesting, but I only really enjoyed chapter 2 and the bonus adventure. Two separate games could have been created. Due to the terrible QA, I cannot rate this game as highly as I would like, but I will rate it at 3.5 stars, and I am being very generous. I hope we have some great games in 2025. Domini has already released another new game (truthfully Oleg should slow down and repair all the glitches with this one first). Plus Elephant has released Mystery Trackers 20, which you must input on the search bar because the sort filter never works. Now here’s some interesting news. Friendly Fox, when they release the next Mad Head game, has allowed me to pick which series I wanted, as a favor to me for all the hard work I have done to keep this beloved genre alive, as well as incurring revenues for all of the developers. No, I’m not telling you now. You’ll have to wait and see, but it’s a good one, and we haven’t had one of these in a very long time. I believe we should get one of their own first, but I’m not sure. I’ll keep you updated. I want to send a special thank you to Drosietwo for keeping me sane, and putting in a ton of effort finding all of the quality assurance issues in every game! You are the best person on my wonderful Dream Team Elite review team. Thank you to my amazing Domini support liaison, who has managed to stop me from strangling Oleg, lol! I hope things run a lot smoother this year. Happy New Year to all my awesome iOS gamers. Let’s keep on going! Seven years later (post-BigFish, can you believe it?) and I have managed to keep our incredible genre alive! By the way, I also appreciate my fan base and those gamers who acknowledge how hard I work. I won’t give up, I promise.