Mountain Trap 2: Under the Cloak of Fear

Bad people can get away with a lot of bad things in small towns, especially if the authorities refuse to ask for outside help. In fact, the authorities themselves might cover up crimes sometimes, or even participate in them. Granted, these are extremely rare cases, but one could wonder whether that’s only because we don’t know about the others.

Mountain Trap 2: Under the Cloak of Fear is a hidden object adventure game in which you play the role of a private detective trying to investigate a weird case, after being called by the local authorities to assist. In short, everything about the game is as classic as it can get for the genre, which means that you’ll mostly look for useful items and keep them in your inventory until they come in handy.

The story is not overly complex either, since anyone can follow the plot and kind of figure out where it all leads in the end. As such, it starts with the private investigator making her way to the town of Wilshere, where a couple of women went missing under strange circumstances. Your task is to find out what happened to them and make sure it doesn’t happen to other girls.

The gameplay revolves around closely examining every scene for useful objects, and it’s a lot easier if you choose the casual difficulty level from the settings menu, because interactive areas are highlighted. However, there are also the puzzles that need to be solved, which although may not be very complicated, they can be pretty time consuming if you don’t think of the solution quickly enough.

As always, the graphics are quite impressive, especially when it comes to how much detail is included in every scene. Granted, everything is hand-placed and even hand-drawn sometimes, which means that there are no polygon restrictions like in most 3D games out there. On the other hand, this also means that you can only look at static pictures, since exploration is out of the picture.

In the end, Mountain Trap 2: Under the Cloak of Fear is certainly not a revolutionary adventure game, but it has all the right elements to make you feel relaxed. There are also plenty of challenging mysteries and riddles for you to solve. NOTE: This is a downloader for the game. Once run, the application will automatically download and install the game on your computer.

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