Grim Facade: The Red Cat

Private detectives in crime novels always seem to be one step ahead of the police, since they always figure things out when the entire police department and the FBI aren’t. On the other hand, maybe it’s because they have the freedom to investigate at their own pace, and they also have no other cases to attend to that might distract them.

Grim Facade: The Red Cat is a classic hidden object adventure game that puts you in the role of a mighty detective who is summoned by the police in order to assist with a particularly difficult case. In case you are a veteran of the genre, you can rest assured knowing that everything should be familiar to you, starting from the gameplay mechanics, all the way to the puzzles and the hidden object scenes.

The case you work on regards a serial killer in Venice who likes to paint a red cat on the doors of his victims before he strikes. Thankfully, he also leaves behind a lot of clues, and it’s your job to find them and put them together in order to pinpoint a culprit. There are a few interesting developments along the way, but don’t expect anything too dramatic.

Most of your time is spent analyzing every scene in order to find the objects required to move on to the next one, which is achieved by solving a puzzle with every item you collect from the said scene. Although this tends to get repetitive after a while, at least the puzzle mechanics change a little bit along the way, and you always have to collect different items.

The graphics are nothing out of the ordinary either, but the artwork is quite striking, and it’s obvious that the designers have put a bit of effort into the environments. Each scene is full of interesting objects, and the colors are great as well. There’s even voice acting and a soundtrack playing in the background, so the atmosphere is more or less complete.

In the end, Grim Facade: The Red Cat does not try anything new and it fails to provide the audience with something truly outstanding, but mediocre is not such a bad award anyway. Hence, the game can certainly keep you busy from start to finish.

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