The Mermaid Mask

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Hours played at review time, across 1.5K reviews with recorded playtime.

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

WOW! This game was soooo GOOD! The Grimoire games keep getting better and better with every new game. A lot of the things I liked less about Tangle Tower got improved in this one: A more believable story of the murder and better reasoning of the culprit, a more elaborate ending + a brief look to the future of the remaining characters (after the events) + the time it takes to finish the game went up quite a lot (basically doubled) which was fun! I'm very happy the developers went in a slightly different direction with the story this time as the last two games both had the 'searching for mystids/cryptids' storyline which felt a little too similiar. This time they went with an object rather than an animal/creature as the main thing, which felt refreshing! The artstyle, location- and character design were truly GORGEOUS, as to be expected from this incredible team! + The voice acting was so GOOD as well, they truly made the characters come to life! This game and its story felt the most complete and real out of all the Grimoire games so far! I also prefer how this game had very subtle mentions of characters from the earlier games, the ending was so sweet as well! As mentioned earlier the Secrets of the swamp and Tangle tower were a LOT of FUN, but they did feel a little too similiar. This game felt very refreshing! I also really liked the new characters and prefer the characters not all having the same 3 last names haha (Fellow etc.). My only complaint would be that the talking to the characters went on a little too long at times. Asking them about all the suspects, clues and asking the questions was fun, but seemed to take just a bit too long as I felt my attention slither away every now and then and found myself clicking through some of the dialogue to get through everything. I prefer puzzles and looking around the locations for clues over dialogue, so this felt just a bit unbalanced. It would have been even more fun with a few extra clues or puzzles and a little less lenghty dialogue parts here and there. Still I am incredibly excited to see more!!! I'll be patiently waiting for the next game, whatever it may be!