Royal Detective: Queen of Shadows Collector's Edition

This game is the sequel to Royal Detective: Lord of Shadows. Took me 5 hours to play both main game and bonus chapter. Quality of the graphics is good, so is the music and voice acting. The characters that you, the detective, meet are quirky and likeable. The nasties are suitably nasty. The story is light and fairly predictable. Puzzles were on the more difficult side so the old brain gets a workout. I had to...

11 found this helpful, 2019-07-04

Another lovely and creative game in the Royal Detective series. This is the second in the series (at least on Steam), and is the sequel to RD: Lord of Statues, in terms of story. In the first game, we had to save a town whose statues had come to life; in this game, we are helping the girl from the first game (Princess) to save her mother and learn more about her origins. This game isn't quite as good as the first...

4 found this helpful, 2020-07-16

Short version: 87% The story of Queen of Shadows is somewhat short and bland, but it is strong enough in almost every other aspect to create an engaging hidden object game. Long version: Although it lacks any investigation, Royal Detective 2: Queen of Shadows is a remarkable example of a high-quality hidden object game that only has only a handful of flaws. One of those is, interestingly, the premise; there seems...

9 found this helpful, 2019-05-23