The Hardy Boys - The Perfect Crime was produced by Trine Games Company. It is a hidden object game where you should help The Hardy Boys to trace and solve a series of crimes. Your mission will be tough because this criminal is really careful.

The game is divided in several chapters which put together an interesting story in the end. Between the levels you have to read a lot of dialogs, but most of them are boring and hard to read, because of the strange sort of English language used.

The gameplay consists mostly of finding hidden objects. Each level you have to find lots of useless stuff, and only one item which is relevant to the plot of the game. There are some mini-games in The Hardy Boys - The Perfect Crime, but they are annoying, and the problem is that you can’t skip them. There is a hint system but it works only during hidden object games so if you stuck in the middle of a mini-game, no one will save you.

The technical side of the game is awful. Poor graphics makes it impossible to find some items because they are blurry or even warped.

It seems like the developers made the game in half an hour. Isn’t it obvious that looking for a travel bag in the level full of bags leads to the mismatch? We guess it’s not, for some people. We don’t recommend this game unless you are a 100% fan of hidden object games or like torturing.

3, June 2009