If there’s a request for future Ghost Files games, it’s that more is done with Limbo. You rarely get more than three rooms at a time to explore, so it’s on the easy side, but we glided through Ghost Files: The Face of Guilt and barely touched the sides. Aside from the annoyance that the swabs, UV light and fingerprint spray are perpetually clogging up your inventory, but only get used once in the whole game (inexplicably, Ghost Files: The Face of Guilt gets bored of its forensic kit after the first act), the point-and-click stuff is well done. That just leaves the graphic adventure stuff where you’re manipulating objects in your inventory to solve puzzles. They stand out like a sore thumb, but they’re fun thumbs that we had a great time thumb-wrestling with. There’s no real explanation to why we’re in these places or how they connect up to the overriding case, but that’s part of their appeal. The resulting combinations can be used to fire lava at ice spiders and freeze over lakes.
You’re given an Elemental Forge, a kind of pyramidal alchemist’s box, and you can stuff fire, water, earth and other elements into it. These little sojourns into the afterlife are actually pretty great, as all the by-the-books detective work is suddenly rug-pulled by some metaphysical barminess. On occasion (and we won’t spoil why), you get hoicked off to Limbo.
We apply an asterisk to that statement because Ghost Files: The Face of Guilt does something really well.
They all echo each other, and Ghost Files: The Face of Guilt does its fair share of echoing. It doesn’t leave much room for Ghost Files to find its own little space, but these hidden object games rarely feel original anyway. The result is a bit of a mix between the supernatural sleuthing of the Demon Hunter series and the procedural crime stuff in Family Mysteries.
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