Mosaic of the Strange

It's okay, I'd give it a neutral score if that was an option. One of the weakest of these mosaic games imo, so I'd definitely recommend checking out the other ones first. Some are even free! This game does have something new: a story. A pair of detectives solving a strange case! The problem is that the story is very... slight. You don't so much advance the plot as you unlock dialogue that muses on possibilities for the case in question. You meet new characters but they don't have much to say. The dialogue is okay, nothing particularly noteworthy, but more importantly the mystery doesn't feel like something that's coming together really, it's only expanding the possible options. I haven't seen how it all wraps up yet (these games are pretty long) but I HIGHLY doubt my opinion will change after seeing how it concludes. What DOES bother me quite a bit is the information snippets you get when you've solved a puzzle. This isn't new to these games, and in fact has been a nifty lil bonus in the other games for me. I've enjoyed learning small bits about theme-appropriate subjects. And this one sounded interesting too! Occult stuff, cryptids, strange paranormal things. The problem is that this game is not careful enough with how it writes these. Quite often I've seen things written as if there is conclusive evidence of these things, simply due to poor word choices or lack of clarification. These things aren't facts like what previous games dealt with, so the information conveyed has to reflect this difference. For example, there isn't photographic evidence of ghosts, there's photos CLAIMING to be evidence of ghosts. This conflation of what we know and what people say happens all over the place, in both overt and subtle ways, and it's a problem.

藏独夹带私货编造中藏边境线（china-tibet border），必须差评了

Don't get me wrong, these games are great, but this is one of the weaker ones so thumbs down cause I recommend the others more. While I understand wanting to mix it up, adding a story and navigation to puzzle games just works against it.

I'm a big fan of these game, however I feel this misses the core appeal of the series, which is solving one big puzzle. I get trying something new with adding a story, but it just didn't work for me, just felt like it slowed down the game and solving induvial puzzles to further the plot, instead of one big puzzle just didn't scratch the same itch. I recommend playing the other Mosaic games over this one.

このシリーズの大ファンでこの作品以外はすべてクリアしてきましたが 初めてバッド評価をしたいと思います。 背景と色塗りに使う色２種類が非常に近い色なので快適にプレイできません。 悩ますのはパズルの内容であるべきなのに、見えにくさで頭をいたくさせるのはもってのほかです。 開発陣が色を変えるまではおすすめできません。

if it's got strange I'm in

autistic approved

I've loved the other games, with Proverbs being my favourite. But this one has a lot of additions that make it much less engaging. It's cool to see the dev try something new, but the new stuff doesn't work for me. I just want to do the puzzles, I don't want to have to navigate a map, sit through cut scenes or read case files about a thing I have no interest in in the first place. I miss working on the giant puzzle and seeing the interesting little pieces be revealed. I'll still finish it, but it's a shame that I'm going to skip through a lot of things that the dev must have worked so hard on.