Bad strikes too close for comfort whenever a long time enemy of the Mystery Trackers attacks the organization’s hallowed home base.

Mystery Trackers: Silent Hollow – Within my last Secret Trackers evaluation, I mentioned worrying that one-day the show would let me down. After all, one business may just turn out hits for so long; then again, if you are Elephant Games, the common principles might not apply. Having looked initially a knockoff of Huge Fish’s own Mystery Case Files, Mystery Trackers has officially eclipsed that business both with regards to game concepts and performance, as its newest title, Mystery Trackers: Silent Hollow definitely displays.

The Mystery Trackers sequence molds you as a realtor in a strong cabal of super-detectives that are equal elements James Bond and Miss Marple. In Quiet Hollow, you are unexpectedly summoned to Secret Trackers HQ that is devastated by a string of strikes. You appear to discover both the building as well as the town around it beset by unusual flying masks-weird components that appear to really have the power to control people’s thoughts. Not even your gifted fellow agents may resist the masks’ malevolent influence, and as the agents are beat, the centuries old Secret Trackers organization locates itself on the verge of collapse.

Fortunately, you look invulnerable to the floating masks’ parlor tips. Your dog sidekick Elf can be, hypnosis-resistant, and also the both of you form teams to capture the puppet master controlling the masks. Quiet Hollow lives around prior Mystery Trackers games in each respect: it truly is amazing, diverse, highly interactive, and packed with dynamic storytelling cutscenes. Each place provides you with several things to perform, and also the looking aspect is augmented by particular gadgets that let you see things you cannot see with the naked vision. The game’s concealed thing scenes are only as well composed as in previous titles, and continue to get constructed of things which make sense within the framework. These moments trigger in intriguing ways and contain interactivity that’s not only smart, but escalates the story as well.

Storytelling is the focus of Quiet Hollow, as well as besides cutscenes and hidden item scenes, it utilizes a range of other smart storytelling gimmicks. While you progress, a strange apparatus records pictures of individuals and devices and earnings data about these in the form of “secret files.” These become a guide of kinds that fulfills you in around the items that you strike, and provides you with lots of details regarding the Mystery Trackers. Likewise, through the game you’ll gather your other agents’ pets (you have Elf to help youother agents have talented moles, turtles, and hedgehogs) and these too become a particular wellspring of intelligence. On top of those, in and around the HQ, you find pictures, tapestries, and mechanical puppet shows that exemplify the history of the organization, together with its run-ins with outwardly immortal ubervillain, Morpheus.

While all Secret Trackers games tell a great story, what makes Silent Hollow different from the others is its Double-Oh-Sevenlike dependence on awesome gadgets. Secret Trackers agents are employed for their exceptional forces: some can teleport, some can attract super, and some have telekinesis. When they don’t have special powers, but, the agency can give some to them via unique shot. Here you get the capability to begin shoots, freeze issues, and un – hypnotize folks (and animals), and all three of those abilities often be convenient. It truly is like you’re a mutant amalgam of Sherlock Holmes and the X – Men, and who wouldn’t need that? Actually small Elf receives a trendy new bullet-proof jacket and their own walkie talkie.

The gizmos represent the revolutionary side of Silent Hollow; the questions represent the aspect that sways toward the tried – and – true. As in previous Secret Trackers games, the puzzles are frequently recognizable-being of the rotating color wheel or picture reassembly assortment-however, they may be rendered uniquely sufficient to generate that forgivable. As stated, the game’s images maintain the lustrous regular of the collection, as do the live-action characters. Sporadically, the dubbed English sounds clash quite seriously using the appearance of individual characters, nevertheless, the narrator, who you hear the most, is perfectly cast. The game’s audio, which features five new themes by musician Yuri Ginzburg, can also be perfect and effectively communicates the suspense and mystery of previous musical scores.

Once you and Elf have saved the day in the primary game, you uncover an additional hour of game play in Silent Hollow’s reward chapter. In it, brokers are evaporating and all proof points to a culprit with time traveling skills. Regrettably, although time travel notion is fascinating, this area is far less powerful because it will take no striving to clarify activities or even make them reasonable. Also less than fascinating is an additional named the “Secret Area.” The Secret Room offers you the sketchy chance to play through chunks of the game again to be able to assemble pictures of earth’s most illustrious detectives (none of whom are known by title and whose explanations could baffle some gamers). It is basically a rehash of points you’ve previously played, and though you get a special wallpaper for doing it, it smacks of content padding.

An improved additional is the store. Throughout the sport, you accumulate ducats which could subsequently be utilized to purchase interesting tiny things. Your good buddy Elf is currently a family man-er…dog, and you can acquire him and his furry brood a host of great toys and luxury items. You can even spend your ducats on menu customizations like symbols and skins for your own touch toad. The latter are entertaining and include particular skin-specific animations. Additional extras have a method guide, a dossier filled with secret files, an Accomplishments gallery, a glossary of Mystery Trackers animals, wallpapers, concept art, music tracks, and a really peculiar green screen video. (You’ll need to check it out yourself.)

Secret Trackers: Quiet Hollow is an impressive game. It includes the familiar with the revolutionary in just the most suitable measure, and concentrates most of its factors on helping the narrative. Even though the bonus chapter is actually a touch lackluster and also the Solution Room extra is pretty much unnecessary, the game’s entire top quality and other interesting extras make it worth the price.