It’s charming and despite being simple, designs weren’t bland. It’s a bit of a paper doll like look, with the dot eyes. The artstyle on the otherhand does resemble one of a children’s book, and I enjoy that aspect.
All of the dialogue is voiced, rather well might I add and despite taking place in a children’s book, it doesn’t overtly feel like it with writing, especially with the dialogue occasionally having strong language. It flows naturally and doesn’t ever seem too forced of silly. The dialogue is very lacking in annoying quips and humor mostly comes from how matter of fact characters talk. You can change it up with the dialogue choices, but at the end of the day Jenny is a smartass little girl and it’s often funny how highly, while also poorly she thinks of herself.
Like most adventure games, you’ll be doing the same thing constantly, but I never was bored throughout the game due to one big thing. Everything is placed in Jenny’s journal, which can be customized with stickers you’ll find, like any child. This can be to find someone’s glasses, what they ate for breakfast, or even a tad later, how exactly someone died. To further explain, you’ll do most investigation by collecting clues, either off of a person or your surroundings. To very simply explain, you go around an area, investigate, solve the occasional puzzle, and move on to the next area. Jenny LeClue Detectivu is an adventure game is the way you’d probably very easily describe. To further shake it up, you the player decides how the story moves on, how Jenny responds to people, the environment, her actions regarding her findings it’s all tracked and showcases what kind of person to make Jenny.
On the inside, you have the work in progress, a story with the titular kid detective Jenny LeClue and her life getting spun around in an attempt to shake the status quo. On the outside, you have a struggling writer reluctantly trying to spice up his dried up book series. You see, Jenny LeClue Detectivu is two stories, one in the other. This is the story for the next installment of the Jenny LeClue book series, which has fallen on rather poor times lately, with complaints of falling into the bland the derivative, being too safe. This is however, until the death, alleged murder of an esteemed man of the town. While I would play a sequel if it were to come out, I have no idea if or when that will happen.Nothing ever happens in the small town of Arthurton. So, while this started out really positively, I was massively disappointed in the cliffhanger ending. The game was also not marketed as a "part 1" game, nor is there any clue as to whether a sequel is or will be in the works. That campaign met a stretch goal that should have included voice acting (something that would have added a *lot* to the game, similar to how the voice acting made Tangle Tower go from ok to amazing), but didn't meet a goal to include a 2nd part. I found out later how this game was formed through a Kickstarter campaign, but seemed to have several promised components left out. The color palette used, while impressive throughout the game, became increasingly colorless, the level designs felt like they increasingly kept making me backtrack to pad out the level length, and most importantly, the game ends on an out-of-nowhere cliffhanger that made me yell "What?" to my iPad. However, toward the end of this game, it increasingly gave me the impression that the developers were running out of money and needed to get something out the door. It even lampshades this in the form of a reluctant author who's being told to write darker, *less* kid-friendly stories. It felt like one of those games that was trying to keep up the appearance of being kid-friendly while underneath it was slowly losing it's childish innocence. I loved the visuals, the music, and the atmosphere and tone this game had. It felt like one of those games This game starts off with a bang.
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