Mystic Diary: Lost Brother

The Good
The game installed on Windows 10 with no problems and ran flawlessly in full screen mode.

This is a pretty standard hidden object game. It has the usual sparkly areas to show the player where to look for a hidden object scene and a magic magnifying glass to locate puzzle solving objects in the wider scene. The game has a series of tutorial messages that appear in the beginning of the game, these cannot be toggled on/off nor can they be skipped, however they are not intrusive and they soon go away.

The artwork is good but not photorealistic. There are both sound effects and music, they worked well with the game but were neither outstanding nor memorable so I played the game while listening to the radio. There is no voice acting.

There is a decent range of puzzles, and all of them can be skipped.

The Bad
Another decent game that follows where many have gone before, that means it doesn't do anything new but it also means it doesn't do anything wrong either. What I've listed below are minor quibbles that I noted along the way.
The hidden object scenes come in two basic kinds, one which shows a silhouette of the object and another which names the object. Both work well but non US players should remember that an eggplant is not a plant - it's an aubergine, and a pickle is a gherkin.
There is a skip function for the puzzles but for the other scenes there is only a hint function which shows the player either where to look or where something needs to be done. This did confuse me once, easily done I know, because the hint button just told me what I already knew. Eventually I realised that having the object I needed wasn't enough, it had to be combined with something else. Until the penny dropped I was stuck and the game's help system was of no use.

The Bottom Line
The game was completed in just under three hours. I did use the hint button two times which possibly shortened the play time but I also went AFK for a bit so three hours is a pretty accurate game length.

It's a solid, OK game that I'll have forgotten in a couple of days.