The Darkside Detective

Both the gameplay and writing start lukewarm, but get better with each mission; makes me wonder if the mission order is also the order of development. A fun game overall, just too easy.

Man, this does not put its best foot forward, with writing initially composed of droll-but-not-funny banter that reaches its nadir with a 'Twilight' joke that was already dated in 2017 and has become worse each year since. After that, the game does settle into an amiable and even sometimes charming groove, carried along by amusing and well-structured puzzles, especially in the bonus cases (which sadly are a little less well copy-edited than the main game).