Right from the outset, the game shows it has personality and quality from its introductory video and song. They ended up being one of the things I looked forward to the most when booting up the game each time. I really enjoyed the soundtrack and the animation quality throughout the game. The writing was fun and the characters/dialogue were enjoyable. I play Picross games on my phone, and these were much more difficult, so if you enjoy these types of puzzles, I would also recommend it for that reason. I picked up a few new techniques for solving these types of puzzles while playing the game. Act 3 was the only frustrating part because there are a couple puzzles that are easy to miss (see the forums). The last thing I would say is if you're considering playing on the Steam Deck, it controls really well on the platform. I was able to speedily zip around each puzzle using the D-pad and it wasn't a laborious process at all, since I was concerned it might be better on mouse/keyboard before I started playing it for the first time.

This was a very fun, clearly lovingly-made game full of nonogram puzzles and a fun detective plot. I got stuck for a while on the Steam Deck because for some reason the "Present Evidence" button doesn't show up there when you talk to someone unless you tap the space under the dialogue options, but that was the only issue I ran into. Once I figured it out, it was smooth sailing. :) The art and character design were especially great.

i may or may not have gotten waaaayyy too into the puzzles. i can't get enough. so far i've played the first case and all of SCOUT's memory puzzles, and i'm really liking it! though for the record, detective cross was 100% justified in getting pissed.