Blue Toad Murder Files™: The Mysteries of Little Riddle

I recommend this for anyone who loves puzzles, mysteries and a good dose of humor. The puzzles are surprisingly varied and test not only your memory and deduction skills but also math skills and the size of your English vocabulary, amongst other skills. While not probably worth the full price, get it when it's on sale and you'll get your money's worth of fun times.

Fun for the whole family. This game presents a classic British Whodunit. The setting, the investigators, the impeccable slightly over the top British narrator and the characters straight out of any Agatha Christie mystery (if slightly exaggerated) make this a pleasure to watch: this game has got it pinned down perfectly. Sure, you'll be solving casual puzzles (you can pass the controller around round-robin fashion for up to 4 players, the rest'll just have to spectate), but it's the Britishness, the Whodunit-ness, the mayor, the constable, the butcher, the librarian, the doctor, the miller, Lady Snobbish, the gossipy old ladies, the colonel and everyone else who bring this home. In short, the game is 6 episodes of ~45 minutes each (that somehow add up to 6.9 hours on the account we played it on, but presumably that includes getting everyone settled on the couch etc.). If the trailer appeals to you, the game delivers exactly that in spades, at a bargain price.

It's not a bad "solve this" game. Just a little symplistic and slow pased. Not a bad game for kids though. The english cosy setting has a nice apeal.

An easier, more entertaining version of Professor Layton games. With some of the funniest characters I have seen in a long time. Also no one seems to use their arms. 10/10

Most of the mystery games I've played are 80% find the hidden items and a few memory puzzles or recycled logic problems. Not Blue Toad, however. Although at first glance it seems like a kids game, the puzzles are a lot more advanced (sometimes frustrating). There are good mixes of logic and word problems, a few math puzzles and more as well as deductive reasoning and recall tests. The only downside was that some of the rules were poorly explained. I was eventually able to figure most of them out. Great game - looks nice, good variety of puzzles, and fun characters. Worth a play!

I am barely into episode 1 part 1 and already I find it tedious. Another review already mentioned that this game is confusing to categorize - who is this game aimed at? The puzzles are simplistic and yet would not be appropriate for children, yet as an adult playing the game, I found that the narrator is condescending to the point of irritation. In addition, the pacing is irritating. Two lines of dialogue followed by another puzzle would be frustrating enough, but each puzzle is prefaced by a short piece of dramatic music (the same every time) and a bland and completely unnecessary title screen. You're then given the instructions, then the puzzle, and then more time is taken up with a screen portraying a nondescript part of the village while three ducks, for reasons unexplained, fly past while the narrator drags out the 'suspense' by narrating "let's see if you got it right" or whatever and more 'dramatic' music plays and you realize that the dramatic music is the perfect backgrou...

This is a great game, combining the dry, dead-pan humor of the UK with some great animation and (most importantly) a well-designed puzzle game. I highly recommend it.

This -could- be so much fun without the pointless delays and with some options. As it is, no way to turn the music off, which means I have to mute it in windoze Volume Mixer, and in turn I only have the chopped up subtitles for the dialogue, hard to follow when you only get one line of it at a time, sentences broken up at nonsensical points (when I'm not forced to un-mute it because some riddle demands to listen to some person rambling on). There's no way to skip the dialogue, clicking actually REPEATS it. Would it be so much to ask to give me the info in a journal and let me skip those ugly animated figures? I really can't stand it when games let me wait instead of letting me PLAY the freaking game. Animations in the background are ok when they don't hold me up. Anything I have to watch through before I can actually do something is bad. If I want to just watch, I turn on the TV. Which is actually recommended with this game. Find something else to do while the game slogs through th...

An interesting if a bit repetitive puzzle game filled with quirky and lovable characters, thanks to the efforts of Tom Dussek who is the voice actor of all characters and the narrator to boot.

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