It's too bad that most of the crashes and glitches happened in the beginning. I can see where you'd not want to buy this. But I love the Final Cut series, mainly because of the beautiful Art Deco scenery, so I took a chance. I'm glad I did.First mini-game glitch was with the cue ball game. Ball #1 disappeared and I could not finish it. Just pushed SKIP. The second mini-game glitch came in the train station evidence board. Connect the top 3 pictures first, before connecting the rest. If you wait and connect the top one last, the game cannot finish. If that happens, just push SKIP. (This glitch was repeatable at the end where you can choose to play the mini-games again).After that, the game played flawlessly all the way to the end. The bonus play is long and excellent. There is a souvenir room where you can look for more objects, and you can replay the HOPs and puzzles again.There were several crashes during the game, but just close it out (double-click HOME button and swipe up), then reopen the game. Your progress will not be lost.I look forward to the next installment of Final Cut and hope that they test it better than they tested this one.

I read all of the posted reviews, and almost did not even download this game. But I had SO enjoyed the previous offerings in this series I decided to give the trial a chance. However, I ran out of time to buy the game at its introductory price, so I had a dilemma: buy it, and most likely end up with a lemon as the reviews overwhelmingly stated, or pass. Well, I bought it. I have an iPad Air, with iOS 8.1. And no, I don't have any connection with Big Fish! Believe it or not, I had NOT OBEY problem with this game!! It never kicked me out, the diary had no problems with overlapped wording, it was smooth as glass! It was a great game, and I enjoyed it immensely. I don't know why so many had problems? Maybe an older iPad? Maybe not enough memory? Maybe an older iOS? Maybe some other settings that made it crash? I don't know, but I was totally surprised that I had no problems, and I loved the game! I will certainly buy the next installment, which I hope comes out, because with all of the negative reviews it may not sell enough to warrant another chapter? For me, and I have had my share of games that did not work, it was as smooth and trouble-free as any HO game I have ever played!

*** My review below was fixed after completely restarting my iPad. I never have to do this with games anymore, but I should've tried it first before writing a bad review complaining of a bug.Nevertheless, I'm only raising my review by 1 star from 2 to 3, because even though I finished and somewhat enjoyed the game, the mystery was obvious from the start and the puzzles were so easy, probably the easiest I've seen, and were no fun because of that.When opening the diary to read the clues, there are sentences superimposed over the new clue. So every page has multiple paragraphs laying on top of each other, making it impossible to read each new clue! And now a new photo is laying on the bottom half of the new clue and won't go away or move to the side like the first two photos did. (This all started when you get to the pirate scene trying to help Frank the gardener). Please Big Fish, do your QUALITY CONTROL before releasing these ports over to iPad. We know they originated as PC games, but just because they worked great on PC, doesn't mean you shouldn't have testers go through the new iPad port before you release it. I've paid for this already and can't play it.

New Review: I am still having a lot of issues for this game. I love the actual plot of the game & really want to finish it considering I already bought it. I'm now having problems in the train. When I go to play the game there is one of the disk things missing & the skip & hint buttons still won't work. The game acts like the disk is still there & still tries to get me to play the game but when I get everything in the correct spot it still won't let me win cause the one on the very left is missing. Please fix these bugs, please. I really want to finish this game. Thank you.First Review: I'm having a problem with this game. I cannot figure out the projector disk game & it will not let me skip it. No buttons will work on the bottom right side of my iPad when I hit them, not just the skip button but also when I got out of the disk game to see if there was anything else I could do or if I'm just stuck at this point, it would not let me hit the hint or the direction button either. So I'm stuck at this point. If you could please fix the bug in this game I would surely appreciate it!