The Mystery of Happyville

3/10 I was first drawn to this game by the premise and by the interesting graphical style. I like a good mystery, and I wanted to see what sort of twisted shenanigans transpired in Happyville. Unfortunately, the game does not control well, at least with keyboard and mouse. The controlled panning with the flashlight that you see in the game's trailer would be difficult to recreate. To make matters worse, many of the game environments are extremely dark, compounding the flashlight issue. Navigation is made worse through the clumsy camera angles you are presented with. Amusingly, the developer seems to understand how awkward the camera angles can be and refrained from placing enemies in obscured locations. In the game, you can attack with your fists, with an axe, or with a pistol. However, pistols only have 6 shots a piece, and you're given no indication of ammo count. Therefore, you may find yourself (as I did) repeatedly picking up empty pistols in certain areas, clicking blankly at ...

An amusing, admittedly short romp through a horror-esque adventure. I found some fun to be had with this one though really there is no detective work or investigating to do. its more so you have to go from A to B to trigger the next stage with enemies coming at you that you will have to eliminate. The game had its moments though so I will give it a pass for sure. Pro-Tip: [spoiler]The axe is your best friend till you get to the office then you will find more use for the gun![/spoiler]

Short, bad controls, useless flashlight.. i mean the idea of being a detective is nice but you are not doing any detective work! FML