Mystery P.I. Portrait of a Thief
by PopCap Games
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Video Game Reviews of Mystery P.I. Portrait of a Thief
Customer Review: I'm now search and find game addict!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Ok, I've admitted I'm addicted to these type of games. I loved Amazing Adventures and Mystery Case Files MCF. If you've found yourself loving those, you'll like this one too. For those who haven't played those, you go into rooms and search for items that are totally out of place in the room that are on a list. This makes it harder to find them and to recognize them for what they are when you see them. It sounds so simple but there's just something abnout it that makes it so much fun. Just lots of fun and a highly recommended game for anyone of any age.Customer Review: Great game for Finding Items
Summary: 5 Stars
Had fun with this one. I have another Mystery PI on my computer and enjoy it also. Love hidden object games.Customer Review: Lacking quality
Summary: 2 Stars
Disappointed with this game. There wasn't enough clairty in the pictures. Sometimes I wasn't sure if I had clicked on the right item in the search. Could not tell what it was!! Having played the Millionaire game I thought this would be the same but no comparsion in quality. Customer Review: This game is addictive
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a seek and find game, and it's not so easy to decipher all the items you're looking for, so some become a challenge. If you get stuck, it does offer you hints. You move from building to building unlocking clues.
It became addicting to me and I had to relinquish it to my 10 year old who also likes playing it.
Customer Review: Search and Find (I-Spy) puzzles, not a mystery solving game
Summary: 3 Stars
Mystery PI: Portrait of a Thief is primarily a search-and-find game of the I-Spy variety. It is not a game where you collect clues to solve a mystery.
I found this game to be mildly entertaining, but nothing memorable. The repetition of search scenes and mini-games got tedious, and the lack of any kind of mystery-solving aspect was disappointing.
This game has 20 "chapters". Each chapter contains 4 or 5 search-and-find puzzles, a simple mini-game, and then some pages of a mystery-solving journal. I'll explain each of these components separately below.
SEARCH AND FIND PUZZLES
Each chapter contains 4 or 5 of the search-and-find puzzles. There is a list of items to find within the picture. The picture is larger than fits on the touch screen, so you must scroll around to find them. The graphics are decent, but not great. A few of the hidden items are almost impossible to see, but most are reasonable. This part of the game is timed, but you are given a very generous time allowance. There is also a hint button available.
The biggest drawback of this section is that the same scenes are used multiple times. The image is exactly the same each time the scene is re-used, but the list of items to find changes. But there is significant overlap. So on a given scene, you may be asked to find "3 blooms" four different times. You quickly memorize exactly where those 3 blooms are.
MINI-GAMES
Each of the 20 chapters concludes with a mini-game. These are very simple games, like memory matching, two varieties of jigsaw puzzle, a simplified mahjong, and a word search.
These games are somewhat entertaining. The picture-based games (the jigsaw puzzle varieties) lose their appeal due to repetition - you must solve the exact same jigsaw multiple times. Even in the "unlocked" mode, you only get to solve 3 jigsaw images - the same 3 that you've already solved multiple times during the main game play.
JOURNAL
As you finish each chapter, you are presented with a few paragraphs of an investigator's journal to read. This is the only section of the game that has anything to do with a solving a mystery, but it's not interactive in any way. You are simply reading a story, a little bit at a time. It's an okay story, given the constraints.