3 Days: Zoo Mystery
Hidden Object Games, Puzzle Games May 4th, 2009
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
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So much can happen in a day, especially when you are investigating a mystery. What’s more if solving it must only take you three days? Well, that’s the theme of 3 Days: Zoo Mystery, a hidden object game developed by Realore Studios about a girl, her love for animals, and her quest to save them from a mysterious animal-napper. And with its familiar-but-somehow-unique gameplay, let’s see how it fares against other games of its type.
The story of the game puts you in control of a girl named Anna. Anna is part of a family that owns a zoo of their own, managed by her Uncle Ben. One unfortunate night, five rare animals from the zoo were taken, including Anna’s favorite elephant. With Uncle Ben out on a vacation at China and the federal inspectors going to visit the zoo within three days, it is now up to Anna to investigate what happened that night as she contends with lazy police and other characters that contribute into running her of her precious time.
3 Days: Zoo Mystery follows a traditional hidden object gameplay but instead of finding objects depicted on listed words, you are given picture of objects as clues. Yes, it’s not a silhouette, but rather the appearance of the same object you’ll need to find in the scene. Of course, sometimes clues are just representations of the actual items, but I guess this is just an offset of the relative ease of the game.
All items you’ll need to find will go into the inventory after finding them. This is another feature that took me by surprise since most hidden object games will only have you take selected items as inventory. Inventory items will either be used to interact with the scene, or be used in playing puzzle mini-games in-between tasks.
Another unique feature of 3 Days: Zoo Mystery is how you can also drag movable objects in order to reveal blocked items from view. Looking for these objects is easy since your cursor will change into a hand if you come across movable objects. Later on the levels, you will also given the ability to use the Plazmatron, a gadget available from the interface which is powerful enough to temporarily discard unmovable objects to reveal hidden items.
Aside from the story, the greatest feature of 3 Days: Zoo Mystery is the number of mini-games you get to play during the actual game or through the Puzzle section at the main menu. I counted about 54 mini-games available in the Puzzle section but it really seemed many more during the actual hidden object game. Many of these mini-games are also very unique and challenging enough to delay your accumulated playtime for hours.
The storyline is also fun to follow and I loved the 3-day time pressure presented by the story even though it is not actually a basis during the actual hidden object game. It just gives me the feeling that I should get the next installment to the story as soon as possible, which is a good sign of a great storyline influencing my interest about the game.
As a matter of fact, I also loved how the story develops through the actual hidden object gameplay. Since most of the scenes also show an in-game character, speech between them and Anna will soon appear if there’s a chance to develop the story. All in all, peaking your interest to keep going with the game until the main problem is resolved.
I really can’t find negatives about 3 Days: Zoo Mystery other than how lazy all the other characters in the game are, but that’s something given on all hidden object games anyway since their function is to give you tasks to fulfill. And with that, I say 3 Days: Zoo Mystery is definitely one of the tops when it comes to the hidden object genre. It’s an enjoyable game filled with creativity and I loved playing it very much.
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