Crime Stories: Days of Vengeance

Crime is something that has been around ever since people figured out that they can have a much easier life by stealing or hurting other people instead of working, and it seems like it’s here to stay. However, it’s one thing for someone to make a career out of mugging people, and it’s a whole different thing for them to create organized crime groups, because that way they can deal a lot more damage.

Crime Stories: Days of Vengeance is a match-three puzzle game with a pretty gritty story and classic gameplay mechanics, in which you have to catch bad guys and deal with colorful gems at the same time. It’s not the most inconspicuous combination of all times, but it’s certainly interesting, especially since one might be too bored with the regular fantasy stories that come along with the genre most of the time.

The story focuses on a detective by the name of John, who is having a pretty sweet life with not much to worry about. Since he is the perfect incarnation of a clean cop, he does not have anything to worry about in terms of law-breaking, but that only makes him a target for the criminals he puts away. Hence, a mob boss by the name of Costello decides to go after him and ruin his life.

The gameplay is nothing out of the ordinary, on the other hand, since all  you have to do is solve each level as quickly as possible, given the fact that there’s a time limit. The goal is to clear all the highlighted tiles by performing matches there, but there are other obstacles preventing you from doing this most of the time, such as boxes, or various other such things. The regular mode features a time limit as well, although you can disable this by selecting the easy mode.

Naturally, the stages get more complex later on, so it’s important to move quickly and perform the matches in a constructive way. It’s not always the best idea to do things randomly, especially when the time limit is on, so it’s definitely a challenge to pass some of the levels. As far as the graphics are concerned, they are nothing to write home about, but that’s not the purpose of a match-three game anyway.

Even if Crime Stories: Days of Vengeance fails to bring anything new to the table as far as the gameplay mechanics are concerned, the story keeps you intriguing, which helps with the monotony. The difficulty level is definitely up there, even if you are a veteran of the genre.

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