Overall, this is a great game. Love the storyline aspect and all the tiny details are awesome. At first, the characters voices are like the computer ones so I was surprised, but then you get used to it. If you want to speed up the scene playing, you can tap so it goes faster. At first I had no ads, now I have it often. But it doesn’t bother me as much for some reason. The word puzzles are much better than other similar games. (Besides I use a website that tells you all the possible word combos when it gets too hard lol) And if you need more teapots to play the word puzzles, you have plenty of opportunities. Every 2 days, you can watch ads to get more helpful things like teapots and hints. While playing the word puzzle, you can click to watch an add to spin for a hint, coins, teapots. You can use your coins for teapots. And every time you finish a game, you get 30 mins of unlimited teapots. Overall, the pros of the game are worth the cons! I’m on the 5th out of the 6th case, and am enjoying it! Update: I finished the 6th case, which means I’m caught up with the game. Lowkey sad I don’t get to see the stalker situation figured out… Wonder how long it’ll take to get an update on that.

I'm enjoying this game. I have a few complaints but they're minor. I do wish some of the puzzles weren't so easy (only 3 words to come up with for 10 energy?) I also wish when you go up a level that your energy would be refilled (5 gold for going up seems excessively cheap), however the energy does fill up fairly quickly which means I can play throughout the day. I find the mysteries entertaining and the graphics and language are good. All in all a good game I'm enjoying playing.Update: I'm deducting 1 star because when you finish a case you're given 30 minutes of free play time which is awesome except you have to watch a 30 ad between each board which really cuts into that 30 minute freebie. I don't find this happening during regular board play that you use energy for. I frequently will go to the app store to look at games that put up ads but I'm not going to take the time to do this during a timed event so what's the point? I can only assume it's pettiness on the part of the developers.

The game itself is fun when it lets me play. The word games played to earn points is basic. There are enough challenges to help keep my brain engaged. The murder story reminds me of another game with the same overall concept including the same irrational points such as using a point to get one sentence of information or to “record” what we just spent points to learn..so double charged for the same information. Now to the real problem. It can take several minutes to open the game. It can take several minutes to change screens within the game. And it frequently kicks me out of the game with “sorry - lost internet connection”. The good thing is that it saves my game when it does that but that charges me points to access it…back to double charging for the same thing.I done with this game. I gave it a second chance and it worked fine for half a day and then right back to constant crashes. It keeps charging me energy points to get back into a game that it kicked me out of. And now appears to have charged me for something without confirming the purchase. And given the constant problems, I would never purchase anything for this game.Sorry, you had two chances and there is not a third one coming.

Update: I have just deducted a star for deceptive practices. I have been playing several days now and am about to delete. The ads are now intrusive and several of them are guaranteed to freeze or crash my iPad. One of these I encounter regularly on another app and it does not happen there. However when it happens and I go back into the game I have to give up another 10 teapots to resume the puzzle I had already been working on. However the last straw is deceptive practices. There is a button to watch ads for rewards. It says FREE. It also appears when you run out of the teapots. It appears that there are 16 FREE opportunities over 3 days. HOWEVER after you do 6 you have to PAY to get any more. PAY DOES NOT EQUAL FREE. I wouldn’t have a problem if you gave a certain amount free (after watching ads) then offered a separate option to buy more. But to label them as FREE is dishonest. It was fun but I will not support this developer even at the free level. (Original rating) Very slow to start and load. So far ads are not obtrusive but puzzles are very simple and you need to solve a puzzle for each sentence. Not sure if I will keep. Pros: beautiful graphics Con: slow slow slow with occasional freezes requiring restarts.