Nettes Wimmelbildspiel. Größer als ich dachte. Rätsel nicht zu schwer und eine nette Story.

"Mountain Crime: Requital" ist ein kleines Wimmelbildspiel.

Als Arzt, der zu einem Notfall in ein Berghotel namens White Wolf gerufen wurde, finden wir einen Toten. Anscheinend war es Mord. Wir müssen die Vorgänge des Mordes rekonstruieren, nach Hinweisen suchen, mit den wenigen Gästen reden. Zurück können wir erstmal nicht mehr, denn die Brücke zum Hotel ist durch einen Erdrutsch eingestürzt.

Die Story ist - wie alles - Klischee pur, die Figuren Abziehbilder, die Rätsel abstrus. Und doch: das Game funktioniert und bahauptet zudem nicht, mehr zu sein als es ist.

In den Wimmelbildsequenzen werden keine Objektnamen angezeigt, sondern schwarz-weiß Abbilder der zu findenden Teile. Das macht das Ganze noch einfacher als üblich, aber auch angenehm flüssig. Auch die aus allen Kategorien stammenden Rätsel sind nicht wirklich schwer.

Die Grafik ist nett und für das Genre durchaus liebevoll gemacht. Größte Schwäche sind die lächerlichen Personenanimationen, von denen es aber gottseidank nicht allzu viele gibt.

Die englische Vertonung bleibt dem Klischeebrei treu, ist aber dennoch solide.

"Mountain Crime: Requital" ist entspannend und unterhaltsam. Wirklich reflektieren über die absonderlichen Inhalte oder fehlende Logik sollte man zwar nicht, zum aktiven Hirnausschalten ist es aber allemal zu gebrauchen.

6/10 Atmosphäre
4/10 Story
7/10 Grafik
6/10 Sound
7/10 Spielmechanik
7/10 Balancing
7/10 Spielspass

Kleines solides und unterhaltsames Krimi-Wimmelabenteuer.

Alawar is known for their amazingly made HOGs, one of the best developers out there for this genre. This game is one of their best, aside from some of the minor flaws I'm going to mention in this review. The story is about a doctor who received a phone call from a patient who currently resides in a hotel. Once he arrived at the luxury hotel, he found it completely empty and to his surprise, the phone was ringing in his patient room, and when he answered it, someone told him 'The game has begun' After that call, the doctor heard a scream outside. He has to discover the mystery of this hotel.

The artwork and details of the scenes are amazing, but once again, nothing is completely perfect as the characters design and their animation are pretty on the low-quality side. This game has lots of puzzles to solve, they vary in difficulty. You also get to choose what to answer the characters.
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The hidden objects scenes are not like the usually listed ones You'll start the scene and they'll show you an object that you need to collect other items for it to be completed. For example, if the doctor wanted to take his bag, he needs to fill it up with the items he is going to use. They'll show you the items you need to find in the scene. And if you need to fix the water tap you need to collect those objects which will help you to fix it.
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I liked the journal a lot, it gives lots of information and the design is really beautiful. Sadly there is no fast traveling map, and you'll have to backtrack a little, fortunately, that this game is designed in sections, once you finish a section you'll move to the other one and there is no need to go back to the first place you arrived to.
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Pros:
+Beautiful detailed artwork and locations.
+Interesting story.
+Good music.
+Good journal, keeping track of the story.
+Multiple hidden objects scenes
+Variety of puzzles (Some of them are difficult)

Cons:
-No steam achievements.
-Bad voice-overs.
-Bad characters animation and design.
-No fast traveling map.

Voice overs are very weak in this game along with the character's animation. You can disable the voices it in the options but you can't do anything regarding the animations. The game is playable and enjoyable for Hidden Objects lovers.

𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑐𝘩𝑒𝑐𝑘 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑎'𝑠 𝐶𝘩𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒

One of your patients is having an heavy health problem and you have to go to the White Wolf Hotel in order to save him. However, he's not here but the clients, all invited for the inauguration, are attacked one by one and killed. Everyone seems to be tied to an old fire that killed two children when the building was still a house for kids.... So why are you there?

I must admit that I played the game in the Hidden Objects Bundle 5 in 1, that lazy as I am, I've not reviewed. Activating this game was part of making a better review of it as an stand-alone than a quick one for the bundle, because of the character limit. The trading cards are a bonus added later and so I replayed the game for them.

Now, with memory refreshed, I remembered why I liked it, though the core gameplay isn't my favorite. Indeed, at first sight, you think that it's about two different stories: the death of Bill Wilton, a benefactor for the hospice, and the death of two children years later. In reality, everything is tied and everyone reunited, save for you as you had no influence in that fateful day, played a part directly or indirectly. The ending however is a huge twist.

The core gameplay is a scene with an object to rebuild and with the parts to find in it. It's not my favorite though, as some objects are hidden by the hud itself and that others are sometimes not in the same position as shown. You have also to solve puzzles to advance. While the map is useful to see where to go, it can't be used to travel, which is sad.

The backgrounds are good too, though you may ask yourself why there is a ski resort behind an old child hospice. It's making sense in the story. You'll also see that the hotel is renovated in only the parts used by the guest, the rest is left like that after the failure of the resort.

The soundtrack is good too though it's not too much present.

Anyway, Mountain Crime: Requital is a nice game, I wish that I could see more of the story but hey, it has enough suspens for a sequel too. Maybe it's existing out there.

Hello, hello! We are together for a review of another HOG again! How marvelously different and interesting, is it? No, of course it isn't. This is our millionth HOG, and after a while they all end up resembling one another. Still, Mountain Crime: Requital is one of the better ones out there, with an interesting enough scenario to establish a sense of curiosity.

We here have Dr. Philip White, who receives an urgent phone call in the middle of the night, which asks him to attend a patient at the White Wolf Mountain Resort, in a really bad storm. As any self-confident wise guy with no common sense spared, he travels to middle of nowhere to attend said patient, only to find a murder-mystery. All communication and transportation is cut off, hotel guests are dropping like flies and there is a sick bastard on the loose who treats all this chaos as an elaborate game. It seems that everything is connected to a bigger crime buried in the past. "But what crime?" asks Dr. Philip White, and starts his investigation like any Scooby Doo wannabe.

Cute, huh? Don't be deceived by my mockery. Our protagonist is a naive sod, but the story itself and the connection between hotel guests are a mystery worthy of uncovering. As for the game itself, graphics are pretty good. Background design is interesting and there are many, many lockboxes, automatons and hidden doors around. If I'd visit this hotel in real life - without a murder-mystery present, of course - I know I'd love to spare a week or two there. Character animations look pretty until they start talking. Then with the tongue-tied voice acting and clumsy lip synch, the atmosphere crumbles. It's like a really fine looking lady with no smarts. You'd love to look her all day, as long as she doesn't talk.

Puzzles, I hear? Oh, they are good. There is a balanced combination of ordinary ones, and 'just annoying enough to stall you off until you were about to give up' ones. HOG scenes are very neat, with open and distinguishable items, with more than only one item of the kind lying around. Each HOG is designed to gather pieces for a machine of sort that you're trying to fix, so you can reach another item of use. This way, items laid around kinda make sense, which is rare in this genre.

All in all, this is a fine HOG, but I'll attach a warning. This game is included in a Hidden Object Bundle 5 in 1 in Steam, so if you have the bundle already, there is no actual need for you to buy this game. You already have the game within the bundle. If you don't have it and are even mildly curious, go ahead. Gonna end up with 3-4 hours of decent HOG fun. With this said, my work here is done! Good gaming!

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Mountain Crime’s repetitive nature and terrible voice acting hides a good idea of a murder mystery. If there were more puzzles and if the hidden object scenes would last more than 30 seconds, it could have been a really memorable hidden object game.

In a secluded resort, the seemingly colourful cast of visitors slowly get killed one by one. But as our investigating protagonist gets to the bottom of the crimes, he learns that these victims are actually connected by a very old, heinous crime.
Or, in other words, Mountain Crime: Requital is essentially a hidden object reimagination of Agatha Christie’s famous novel, ‘Ten Little ♥♥♥gers’ (nowadays usually called ‘And Then There Were None’), only with horrible voice acting and a rather half-hearted and lazy ending.

Still, for the most part, the game is somewhat enjoyable. The puzzles are really fun and even the silhouette-based hidden object scenes are decent. But they are few and far in-between, as most of the time is spent by endless backtracking—which, without a quick travel feature, makes the game boring way too fast.

Mountain Crime: Requital is the first 'hidden objects game' I played. I'm very familiar with the 'point & click adventure' genre but the idea of hidden objects never appealed to me because it sounds like a pixel hunt.

I have to say Mountain Crime: Requital mostly plays like a point & click adventure game: you collect items and use those on items in the game world to advance the story. Occasionally, you'll get a 'hidden object' screen in which you need to find some items but they're always hidden in plain sight, so there's no pixel hunting involved. Even then, there is a hint button. If you really can't spot that last object on the screen, it'll point it out for you.

The story is a basic detective story. You're a doctor who's called to a hotel to examine a patient but when you get there, it's clear a murderer is on the loose. So you start an investigation by examining the hotel, its residents and its surroundings.

I liked the setting, the mystery and the way the problem-solving needed to be tackled. The solution to advance the plot is always logical if you think about it. There are some puzzles to be solved, too. At first these are very easy, but in the second half of the game they can be pretty challenging.

You're never stuck in this game: if you don't know where to go or what to do next, you can click the hint button. If you can't solve a puzzle, you can just skip it. In both cases, there is a time restraint: after clicking the hint button, it needs to 'recharge' before it can be used again, and it takes some time before you can skip a puzzle, so in both cases the game does encourage you to try before giving up.

Without using spoilers, the story turns out to be a pretty basic detective story but it's interesting enough to want to discover what's going on. On the other hand, the 'personal story' of the main character turned out to be very cliché and became pretty predictable towards the end.

All in all, Mountain Crime: Requital was a positive experience of about 4 to 5 hours. It certainly isn't a mind-blowing, life-changing experience but it is worth its price. If it's on sale, I think you shouldn't even doubt and buy the game if you're into 'point & click adventure' games. I'm not sure if it's a good 'hidden objects' game because the hidden objects scenes were quite easy and because I can't compare it to other hidden objects games.

Not a bad game. Graphics are outdated and the mini game controls are a bit wonky. But for the price of $5 it's a good game to get. I remember playing this game a long time ago actually. There is a map that shows you where you have stuff still to do but no fast travel.

I don't know if they ever did a follow up to this game as it leaves you hanging a bit at the end wanting to know what happened next.

A murder mystery written like an early Agatha Christie novel, presented like an Alfred Hitchcock movie, with the solvability (and continuity) of an Ellery Queen mystery. Engaging, intriguing, heart pounding. Keeps the gamer enthralled and guessing until the end. I felt like I had read a thrilling murder mystery without actually any reading involved. Excellent pacing with just enough time to almost catch your breath.

Storyline: Dr. Philip White (one dark and dangerously stormy night) is called to the newly renovated White Wolf Hotel to examine and attend to a Mr. Grey. When he arrives, the bridge washes out leaving him stranded. He discovers there is no Mr. Grey and a hotel filled with other guests also invited to this grand opening by Mr. Grey. (And Then There Were None ~ Agatha Christie, anyone? And no that is not a spoiler.) The mystery begins when the body count begins. Who is Mr Grey? Does he even exist? Why are these people here, unknown to each other yet have a connection? What is that connection? And why this requital? As the body count rises, the answers are revealed.

Gameplay: Hidden Object puzzler with point and click elements. The hidden object scenes instead of being find lists, are picture finds (somewhat like a silhouette). The HO scene opens and small pictures form a circle of the things or pieces needed to be found. Not as easy as it sounds since the objects needed to be found blend into the surrounding objects (which are appropriate for where the scene is). For example looking for desk items, on a desk covered with items typically found on a desk. Also there are generally several of the same item and like a matching game the gamer needs to pick the correct one.

Puzzles: Sliders and logic, or maybe better stated: logic sliders. For example the typical moving of X number of one color object to the opposite side of a board/grid while the x number on that side are moved to where the other color is. Typically found on locks. Also there is the finding of keys, which are usually found behind some type of logic slider puzzle.

The Point and Click element is just as important to the story and in true point and click fashion there are plenty of puzzling obstacles to overcome. However this element is so intermixed with the Hidden Object aspect it is hard to tell the two apart.

Note: No map (not needed), no penalties for game hints or puzzle skips. No achievements but trading cards for those who care about those things.

Conclusion: Enthralling and believable murder mystery, and like all excellent murder mysteries when the pieces start to fall into place, it is an avalanche. Definitely worth full price.