#big the walkable map aspect is like . if i wanted that I'd play skyrim

[mwagneto]

welcome to post about franchise noone knows about but the fucking.... trajectory of the mystery files games is truly insane to me and this trailer for the newest game that absolutely feels like a parody but is 100% real made me think about them again, like with the first 4 you have an extremely simple "look at an image find the items" click and point which is the entire appeal of the game and then they upgrade to walkable maps for SOME REASON which somehow make my laptop lag even now so i can't imagine what they did to stuff 15 years ago but anyway not only do they lose the entire format they also for some reason attempt to connect all the games and introduce the detective while trying to keep them universally relatable so now by game 57 you're a sometimes-man sometimes-woman who's forcibly gay married to the villain from the third game walking through random empty maps with a rare badly voice acted npc every now and then and you don't understand anything and your computer is about to burn down trying to play all the bouncy room transition animations at the same time and all you wanted was get a list of 10 items and stare at a screenshot until you find all of them

#like dgmw dire grove and return to ravenhearst are easy favourites coz the plot is fun there's #nothing inherently wrong with walkable maps but either keep the format or make a new series #what's the point of desperately holding onto this flimsy plot with an iron grip. just make independent games #and again the Entire Point of the first few games was look at screenshot find item. sometimes things that are more complex are worse #this is why i think madame fate is the best mcf game. has puzzles but mostly keeps the screenshot format 10/10 #n again I'm inherently biased coz i spent my entire childhood playing these but like😐 i haaate how #big the walkable map aspect is like . if i wanted that I'd play skyrim #and like genuinely just the sheer amount of games. like we're almost at 30 now iirc or something around that #30 games and only like 6 or 7 where it's mainly finding items? like the entire concept and point of the original games? yknow? #I've yet to try the newer one that uses the original format i just have thoughts. anyway #mystery case files #mcf