The biggest mysteries to be solved in this game, however, are the technical problems. As great as it is to have beautiful graphics and realistic noises and other great miracles of technology, they are taxing on computers, and mine isn’t even three years old. Everything but the main menu moved at an almost excruciatingly slow pace, the cursor inching along and making it hard to click on things (especially since the interaction bar disappears after a few seconds if you don’t use it). Goren often gets “stuck” in his position, like a CD skipping, and it takes awhile for him to orient himself and get to wherever you’re clicking. All of the characters have a strange habit of jumping up and doing calisthenics every once in awhile; they’ll put their arms straight out and then relax again. Others, if you look in the background of some scenes, walk in slow-motion, which looks rather funny. The bottom line is that if you have an old computer – old here meaning more than 2 years – you’ll experience a lot of difficulties with this game. They won’t make you quit – or maybe they will, but I didn’t persevere just because of this review, you know! – but they’ll be awfully annoying at first and you’ll get used to them after the first case or so.

In all, this is a game particularly for mystery fans (and perhaps those who haven’t had enough eye candy recently!), and it won’t disappoint if you look past the grave technical turmoil and poor character graphics. I am looking forward to another outing with the Major Case Squad, but there is plenty of room for improvement.