Midnight Mysteries: Devil on the Mississippi
Midnight Mysteries Game Review
Midnight Mysteries: Devil on the Mississippi
Down by the deep and muddy Mississippi, something’s not right. A ghostly riverboat brings to light a new conspiracy for players to unravel in this all-new Midnight Mystery.
Mark Twain’s ghost has come to you seeking help from an evil that has been stalking him in the afterlife. Trace the steps in Twain’s past that led to a lifetime of anguish. Twain’s passion for literary history reignites a controversial debate about the true identity of Shakespeare; the age-old question resurrects a series of malevolent characters. After waking an unexpected evil, Twain sets about to rid his time of the darkness, but the plot only thickens. With Twain’s help, you have to unravel the connections to try and set history straight while dangerous forces loom.
Who wrote the works of Shakespeare? And just how did Mark Twain get caught up in a strange Elizabethan rivalry all those years later? Find out in this Midnight Mystery!
Complete all-new adventure missions by searching through hidden objects for tools, collecting additional tools to solve brain-teasing puzzles and interviewing apparitions from the past Figure out the connection between humorist Twain and the Elizabethan Shakespeare Detailed hint system to help you at any step along the way
Midnight Mysteries: Games Download
- Download size: 426.0 MB
Midnight Mysteries System Requirements
- Minimum Specifications: OS: Win 7, Vista and XP
- Processor: 1.6 GHz
- RAM: 512 MB
- Hard Drive: 560 MB
- Video Card: 128 MB Video Card
- Additional Info: DirectX: 9.0c
Midnight Mysteries – Player Review 1
Midnight Mysteries: Devil on the Mississippi is the third in a series of games involving a famous dead author, in this case Mark Twain.
There’s a lot going on in this game. The hints are in the form of ravens that are hidden in and out of the hidden object scenes. There are also hidden clovers; the goal is to collect 70 of them over the course of the game. In addition, pieces of objects that need to be combined to add tools to your inventory are scattered about. The hidden object scenes are not straightforward either as you have to poke around in a drawer or trunk within the scene to find some things, and some of the objects are not named but described in riddle form.
In the previous two Midnight Mysteries I thought the mini-games were a little too easy, but they have definitely stepped it up with Devil. This is the first game I’ve encountered in awhile where some of the games were not only challenging, but I had to figure out how to play them in the first place. The games I especially enjoyed was one with a maze that took place over three floors of a theater, and one where you play a game of pool. The most unique was one that was a take-off on the game Battleship where you have to figure out where hidden ships are located in a port.
The artwork in this game is superior, and the ghosts are especially convincing. Some of the scenes are spectacular including one that is a birds-eye view looking down into a dismal pauper’s cemetery that is overrun with rats. A journey through an underground catacomb is very creepy. The only area where I thought they fell down on was the depiction of the Devil himself.
So now for the crazy, and that is the telling of the story. All three MM games are based on(at least mostly)facts in each author’s life. This game is crammed with a bunch of facts and (mostly tragic)events in Mark Twain’s life. The main two plotlines seem to be Twain’s guilt over the death of his brother, and his failing fortunes after he theorized that Shakespeare did not author his own work. The action goes back and forth between Mark Twain’s day and the England of Shakespeare’s time with a cast of thousands including Tom Sawyer, Macbeth’s witches, Nikola Tesla(!), Christopher Marlowe, and of course, the Devil. It’s pretty interesting, but sometimes becomes so convoluted that you’re not sure what’s going on, and more importantly where to go next.
You do get a journal and even a task list to help out, though.
Having said all that, I think anyone can still appreciate the effort and imagination that the game developers put into this and the other MM games. I wrote reviews of the other two games in which I was somewhat dismissive of the elaborate plots, but now from the perspective of playing dozens of games with lame storylines I have a new appreciation of what is in front of me here.
Mark Twain is a fascinating character and I enjoyed learning more about him. Maybe a woman author the next time? How about Virginia Woolf?
Midnight Mysteries – Player Review 2
I have become addicted to this “casual adventure’ games, and this is one of the best. It is a good mixture of story, puzzles and hidden objects. I found the puzzles challenging, but not so challenging that I skipped them, though that is an option after a certain amount of time. It can be a little scary. I have an 11 year old that likes to play with me, but she thought this one was too scary. There are areas where a ghost, or a creepy devil face pops. There are also a lot of creepy ghost.
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