Reading the Dead

Looking forward to something cool on this hilarious day, we have to solve a great murder mystery. Instead of being involved into a romantic story or at least a story without any crimes, we are plunged into gloomy atmosphere of Reading the Dead. You proceed through the storyline with boring dialogues. Fortunately, all of these dialogues can be easily skipped during the play.

The artwork is very grainy in most of the scenes making hidden object puzzles extraordinarily hard to handle. The items are so tiny, we find ourselves clicking anywhere and everywhere hoping we spot something at the end. We can hardly ever find half of the objects without using hint system. There are only three hints, but thankfully there is no click penalty which is a great advantage with these small hidden items. The majority of the mini-games are the same we have played before but all of them have a skip button.

Reading the Dead is a combination of a very poor quality gameplay and mediocre graphics. Sorry for the developers who give us this annoying game. But our life is already overloaded with disappointments without their sad contribution. Rather than provide us with good hidden object experience this installment provides us with sharp eye pain.