Hidden Clues

While the detective theme has no substance, the nonograms will keep you busy for a while.
The game puts you in the shoes of a team of investigators. Your task is to solve ten cases by gathering clues and identifying the perpetrator. There is no story because investigators merely make brief comments about clues and don’t talk much.
Cases are handled by solving nonograms, a classic puzzle that’s very easy to learn. Each puzzle consists of an empty grid with numbers on the top and left side. Those numbers indicate how many squares in the grid need to be colored. If a row or column has two or more numbers, there must be at least one blank space between the groups of numbers.
The game has two difficulty levels: casual and advanced. The distinction is that hints recharge automatically in casual, whereas advanced only recharges hints with correctly colored squares. There is no reward for doing things on your own, so you can utilize hints as often as you like. Especially since you can only make four mistakes. If you fail, you must redo the puzzle.
Regardless of the difficulty, the game assists you by automatically filling in rows and columns with no numbers. After then, you simply move around and attempt to mark squares according to the rules. While traditional nonogram puzzles are black and white, this game allows you to select colors on the right side of the screen. Every color has its own grid and numbers. Once you've solved everything, you'll have a new clue to solve the murder.
The fun part is that every clue you "paint" in the grid is relevant to the crime. Each case contains 12 puzzles, and you will learn the victim's identity, the murder weapon, the motive, and various other clues. It's just the most basic information, so it’s not very interesting. There are 120 puzzles in the game. Another cool part is that puzzles vary in difficulty. You might get one that will take you ten minutes, and then follow with a one-minute puzzle.
It's a shame there are no achievements or bonuses because solving a case doesn’t feel as satisfying.

I wish there was a 'meh' option instead of just 'thumbs up' or 'thumbs down.' But since there's not, I'm going to give this a tentative 'thumbs up' for the puzzles themselves (but nothing else.) I like nonogram/picross puzzles. A lot. I found the puzzles in this game to be a fun challenge. I also liked the multi-coloring mechanic. I don't think I've played any other digital nonogram games that do that. So, for me, that made this game unique, and it's probably the reason I stuck with it until the end, despite its other faults.
Now for the things I didn't like:
There was an odd bug in the game where every time you quit and then came back in, you had to do the first puzzle from the first case before you could go back to working on whatever case you were on. The first puzzle is very easy, so it didn't take more than a few minutes, but it was still annoying.
The artwork honestly feels like it was pulled from several other games - basically SUPER inconsistent in style. For example, the detectives you're working with are all well-illustrated, but the faces of the suspects look like they were drawn in paint by a child. It's an odd juxtaposition that can pull you out of the immersion. Also - one of the detectives looks VERY Victorian, while the other two look more modern.
The images in the puzzles you solve don't always seem to have anything to do with the case you're working on. Example: the puzzle is bloody clothes, but the victim in the case was poisoned.
The music was forgettable, and the sound effects were just this side of annoying. Eventually, I decided to mute it all, and listened to my own music while playing.
So - if you're just looking for new puzzles, then you might enjoy this game despite it's other faults. If you need more than just the puzzles, this game will probably be a bit of a let down.