The clues are presented in short poems, which are writtenĪt the bottom of the screen and read aloud by Skeleton. All of the rooms are well illustrated, and some of the puzzles are made more difficult by the addition of darkness or the need for a magnifying glass (both provided automatically).
The mansion has eleven rooms to explore, and each room contains a handful of puzzles (thirty-nine puzzles in all).
Most of the games involve finding hidden objects or words in a certain location. You escape from the mansion by solving puzzles that have been scattered throughout the house by Skeleton, the unoriginally named (but obvious to child players) protagonist/narrator. Not the most original plot, granted, but it's one that I definitely went for as a kid (my favorite Choose Your Own Adventure was always The Mystery of Chimney Rock by Edward Packard) and I'm sure the idea still raises the hair on the back of kids' necks in 2006. The game is set in a spooky mansion with a fairly simple premise: you enter this mansion on a dare, the door shuts behind you, and you need to find another way out. Make I Spy one of the better games in the genre. Which then appeared in various places throughout the game.Īttention to detail and personal touches like this are what "ISQUIESQUE" is the name I entered at the first prompt, I Spy Spooky Mansion Deluxe is a Scholastic TM game based on the book I Spy Spooky Night by Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick.
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In particular, I recommend the Mystery Case Files series ( Huntsville and Prime Suspects, both great games - you can download free trials of them here).īut tonight I finished my favorite thus far of the genre, and, surprisingly enough, it's a kid's game. I should write reviews on these, because a few of them are quite good and well-worth checking out. I've been playing quite a few "find the hidden objects" games as of late - games reminiscient of Scrutineyes, a rather elegant boardgame from the early nineties that featured the camouflage art of Mike Wilkes (a game, which, incidentally, was so good that it's now out of print and impossible to find, so if you want to play, invite me over for a game night at your house and I'll happily bring my copy).īig Fish Studios has been releasing a few of these lately. Video Game Review: I Spy Spooky Mansion First posted in November, 2006 Video Game Review | I Spy Spooky Mansion
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