Emerald City Confidential

The Good
The game take place at Emerald City forty years after the events of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum. In that time Oz became a much darker place, it went through a war that almost destroyed the city and as a result all magic were forbidden by the city ruler and worst, the people are under constant surveillance from the city guard.

The main characters from the original novel also make an appearance, Dorothy is a bored honorary princess that look for excitement in life, the Lion is a high lawyer who use his legal skill to help rich criminals, the Tin-Man is the incompetent governor of Munchin Land who spend all his time drinking oil and the Scarecrow wander around the city's streets talking crazy.

This classic pint and click game is made in the style of a forties film noir. You play Petra, a detective that got hired by Dorothy to find her missing fiancée, true to the game concept all the characters you meet will act just like if they came out of a film noir. This is the game main strength as the dialogs are excellent and the plot development is interesting.

The game environment is compose of colorful drawing that look excellent and contribute to the game atmosphere.

The Bad
The main downside of this game is the ridiculously easy difficulty level, almost all the advancement made by talking with the other characters and solving the small parts where you need to use objects or spell is extremely easy.

The Bottom Line
A good game with very simply puzzles, if the creators would increase the difficulty level this could be a great adventure game.

Still if you most interested in the story and not the puzzles you should definitely give this game a chance.