Dexter: Hidden Darkness - Simultaneously bland and unpalatably garish
Confession time - I've never seen an episode of Dexter, Showtime's beloved serial killer drama.
As such, my impressions of it are entirely shaped by secondary sources. If BlooBuzz Studios's latest spin-off game is anything to go by, I won't be indulging in a Dexter boxset binge-a-thon any time soon.
Dexter: Hidden Darkness is essentially the most gruesome hidden object game you've ever played. Instead of the genre's usual jam-packed static scenes set in living rooms and beaches, here you're scouring luridly spattered murder scenes.
Where's that darned sea shell? Ah, there it is, right between the deck of cards and the corpse of a man who's had his head replaced with a crocodile's.
In between these sections you'll get insultingly easy investigation sections that normally amount to tapping the screen in some simplistic way, as well as a bland story sections that are in bad need of an English-speaking proofreader.
Even the world's biggest Dexter fan will have their optimism butchered by Hidden Darkness.
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Dexter: Hidden Darkness - Simultaneously bland and unpalatably garish
A dull hidden object game that's somehow simultaneously bland and unpalatably garish
Jon Mundy
Jon is a consummate expert in adventure, action, and sports games. Which is just as well, as in real life he's timid, lazy, and unfit. It's amazing how these things even themselves out.