Game Review - True Reporter. Hidden Mistwood / The Mystery of Mistwood

Game Review: True Reporter. Hidden Mistwood / The Mystery of Mistwood by GameXP.com
Score: FAIL

Six months have passed since the car accident that led to the mysterious disappearance of Charlie Goodman...
His fiancee Betty Hope, who was with him in the car, is gradually recovering and returning to the beloved work of a famous criminal journalist. Ahead of her is one of the main investigations of her whole life – the search for the groom who disappeared without a trace under mysterious circumstances. She has very few threads on her hands that lead to the solution of this crime (and Betty has no doubt about that), and she has to piece together the full picture and find Charles.
To figure out what is really going on in Mistwood, Betty will have to explore the whole dark side of the once quiet town, catch a lot of people in crimes and get closer to her main goal.
Find answers to all questions by solving all kinds of puzzles and collecting clues in the game "True Reporter. The mystery of Mistwood".

True Reporter: Hidden Mistwood is a hidden object game with microtransactions.

Unlike early hidden object games, you do not move through the story one scene at a time but instead you are sometimes required to re-do a scene several times. Each attempt drains "energy" which takes time to recover. If you are impatient however you can buy energy to keep playing, just like the millions of smartphone app games out there.

While it is between mediocre and decent, what immediately fails this game is actually the hidden object gameplay. The slides below are an example of an immediate fail.

In Slide 1, can you find the item indicated by the rhomboid silhouette? (We have added a red arrow pointing to the item clue).

In Slide 2, you can see various incorrect answers circled in red, as well as the "correct" answer circled in green.

Notice the correct answer does not even appear to have the proper shape. It appears to be more of a rectangular sheet of paper angled sideways whereas the silhouette suggests something more square.

So not only are there more than one valid answer, but the correct answer does not even appear valid.

Immediate fail as a hidden object game.

Aside from this, there are still severe bugs in the game even fairly early in the game, such as repeated dialogs.