Crime Stories 2: In the Shadows
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In the second part of the thrilling Match3 game, police detective John Doyle gave up everything in pursuit of revenge after losing his family in a vicious criminal attack. Now his quest for vengeance has drawn him to New York City, where he hopes to bring down the hammer of justice upon the remaining men responsible.
Once there, however, he’s drawn into the city’s own struggles. Partnered with Officer Kate Hawthorne, he’s tasked with stopping the recent spree of gang violence.
– A heroic action story
– Enjoy challenging match-3 levels
– Follow John Doyle‘s cases across 5 chapters
– 15 exciting scenes
– Original relaxing jazz music
Game Discussion
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Plus
- Interesting, noir style mystery. 1930s Mickey Spillane type (youngsters can look that up). Match-3 plus hidden object with an ongoing story where you as a private detective and a fellow policewoman take down the mob.
- Has voices doing the dialog as well as text (dialogue is short; I think you can skip, but it's interesting to hear the plot.) Music and sound effects better than normal for this kind of game. I did finally turn off the music as it was getting repetitive. (However, I usually turn off or set to low any music straight away, so it's worth checking out.)
- Collect stars, cards (clues) and police badges to move to the next part of the story. Also buy and power-up tools to take out more cells. However, some tools take a long time to power up. I found the baseball bat (1 square), lug wrench (both 1 row and 1 column) the most useful. Dynamite pretty much takes out the whole board and is sometimes necessary, but takes so long to power up, you might find you're almost finished with the level.
- Annoyance about tools: You cannot save the power you collected for the next level, so you might as well use whatever tools you need.
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- Bug: Sometimes gives swap *hints* where one of the pieces is webbed. It will sort the pieces if there are no moves, but if it's signally a false move like this as the only choice, you will have to restart the level.
- Annoyance: Have to go to "Play" and start a new match-3 to get to the menu so you can quit. Will say you will lose your progress if you leave, but when you quit it will say your progress will be saved. Confusing. It does save the overall progress, just not the level that you started just to find the menu. You should be able to hit ESC to bring up the menu, but it won't do that until you're in a game vs. the town setting.
- Other: I noticed later in the settings that it has the tutorial checked on. I've played a ton of these, so I don't need instructions, but I never saw any tutorial popping up.