Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery

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Great game! Love the style!!! The fill-in-the-blanks part was a bit tedious though, wasn't the biggest fan... but everything else was very fire, would recommend!!! Also the old timer and the critic are cute together!!

Delightful cozy game with a lot of love and attention put into the small details - the artwork descriptions are somehow, almost *all* funny, and there's like 70 of them. The fill-in-the-blanks style was a little rocky for me, some of the semantics made me go UGH I GUESS and I would have been fully out of luck without the little pictures, but I got there eventually (with a little help). Overall, delightful, would play a frankly obscene number of games with my boy :3 Wish I could have arrested the actual villain but unfortunately life isn't fair :(

While I did enjoy the mystery in the game, I found the word puzzles painful and resorted to guides just to keep the story moving.

This game reminded me a lot of the Duck Detective games, but unfortunately missing the charming voice acting from those games. There were a couple of puzzles that we solved before the game "considered them solved", so we had to progress until the arbitrary triggers were fired and we were allowed to solve the puzzles, which felt too game-y and frustrating. Additionally, one of the fill in the blank sections towards the end felt needlessly annoying: We already had every needed word and knew were they went, we just needed to arbitrary sort them, which led to some frustration. Regardless, there are lots of good points: The humor landed for me, the overarching mystery keeps you on your toes, and the music was surprisingly great. If you enjoy unraveling a mystery, and particularly if you enjoy the Duck Detective games, then I recommend this. I enjoyed playing through this game, and it ran great on Linux!

This game has soul, a charming art style, and a compelling mystery. The characters are very easy to love. I'd be really excited to see more in the future from this developer. Overall, I recommend this game. I would like to point out an annoyance I had with this game, though. I was really excited to see another mystery game with a "fill-in-the-blanks" style system, similar to the Golden Idol, which is one of my favorites of all time. However, the execution could use a lot more polish. There are quite a few words with too similar meanings, and not enough information given in the sentences to know which word exactly that the game wants you to use. It leads to a lot of trial and error, and still feeling like you're no closer to the answer. There were a few times I was very disappointed to find that I was basically saying the exact same thing as what was expected but in different wording. [spoiler]Like asking that I specify the statue was on the nat. history balcony (not the nat. history exhibit), but not accepting balcony for where the painting is, only accepting courtyard. Or accepting "painting stashed in the air duct," but not "counterfeit painting in the air duct."[/spoiler] This was very annoying, it felt like I was wasting my time, and made it a lot less fun. I don't necessarily have a problem with the wording being so specific, but there needs to be more context to help the player understand what exact word or what type of word is expected. The Idol helps with this by color-coding different types of words. They could easily add symbols to correspond to each type of word so that you know if it's expecting a Person, Location, Action or Object word. That type of polish added would have made this game a 100% to me, but there were times that I was getting so frustrated that I felt if the story wasn't so interesting I wouldn't have kept playing.

This game is incredibly well-written, offering some wildly witty dialogue and intriguing relationships to explore from character to character. This game is also very well produced, boasting multiple different arts for each character (overworld and dialogue), excellent music that sets the ambience perfectly, and probably some of the most fun art puns you've heard in a WHILE! If you're a fan of games like the Loathing series (West of, Shadows over, etc) you'll ADORE Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery! Can't wait for the next entries in the series <3