Amazing game! Beautiful art and animations, impeccable character design, and balanced puzzles to solve! The plot is also very engaging and made me theorise a bunch as I play. My only critique is that the pacing at the end is a little quick. I wished there was more foreshadowing on the motive, but nevertheless, highly recommend this game!

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The rest of this is just me yapping bc I want to show some appreciation to the team behind the game. I feel like I grew up on Detective Grimoire in those early flash game era, so I was excited for this game. It ended up beyond my expectations.

• Absolutely STUNNING art and character designs. I love the different silhouettes explored for each of the character. Their rooms also aptly reflect each of their personality. Speaking of rooms, the use of light and foreground/background in them are *chef's kiss*. And the animations!! My favs are Flora's hair and Penny's wing arms.
  
• The voice acting are superb! Combined with the writing, they add SO MUCH to the characters. It was such a joy to hear them speak every time.
  
• The music also encapsulates the vibe of the characters and rooms so well! My fav has to be Penny's music. I could definitely tell what type of person she was just from the music haha
  
• Thank you for including the art gallery, I loved combing through every single one of them and seeing how the designs progressed!
  
• I loved how the story unfolds as well. Nothing like a mystery game in a mansion full of intriguing characters! I was hoping for a bit more clues dropped to point to the who and why. I know there were a lot of crumbs left in the lab and study, but it still felt a little like an info dump by Penelope at the end.

Yap over! Now the biggest mystery of Tangle Tower: where is their kitchen?? What do they eat on this isolated island full of inedible fruit and shimmering water??? I suppose some secrets are better left unknown.

BACKGROUND:

For a game that's about 7 years old now, this game was so ahead of its time and I honestly wish it was a longer because I wasn't ready to put it down.

I don't know what made me pick up this game. I hadn't heard about it and I wasn't familiar with its Devs too. So naturally when it popped up as a recommendation and whilst it was on sale, I decided to give it a shot, and I was thoroughly blown away.

APPEALS:

Tangle Tower (TT) is a visual novel style game with voiceovers. The artwork is bright, colourful and absolutely gorgeous, the background music is so lovely and fun (you wouldn't mind hearing it on repeat), and the voice acting is incredible.

I find it important to stress how good the voice actors are. The dialogue is so creative and witty, but the delivery brings it to a whole new level. I find that the game was significantly more enjoyable and engaging because of the voice over delivery. Dialogue is also displayed on screen for accessibility.

While the game mechanics are simple and easy to understand, the game utilizes different mechanics to ensure that the game is sufficiently challenging without being suffocating or frustrating, including providing hints when you fail a few times but I assure you that the ending isn't as obvious as you might think. Undoubtedly, these things are very important as TT is a detective/investigation type of game.

The characters are well written and they don't feel like generic NPCs. They have their own lore, quirks, and stories much like you do as the main detective.

Gameplay is also seamless - I haven't come across a freeze, stutter, bug or crash.

The game auto-saves frequently so there is no manual save function (you won't need it anyway). Achievements are also easy to obtain in a single playthrough.

CONCERNS ABOUT THE GAME:

Honestly, I haven't come across a single issue with TT.

CONCLUSION:

TT is such a fun game. I haven't seen such fun and witty dialogue in a long time. You should definitely grab it.

If this review has convinced you to give this game a try, I also recommend you try Detective Grimoire (an earlier game in this series). You don't have to play it in any particular order, but if you try Detective Grimoire first, you get a lore advantage when moving onto TT.

Excited for the next one (The Mermaid Mask) Devs!

this is a very cute and amazing game i do recommend it. Ending was a little dissatisfactory but not by much very good overall game loved it !