Journals of the Unknown vs Linda Brown: Interactive Story
Journals of the Unknown
Journals of the Unknown is a hidden objects adventure game where you'll get to play an up-and-coming, investigative journalist who specializes in covering mysterious and deadly events from a witch hunt in Salem to the serial killings in the Wolf’s Labyrinth. Find and collect useful items in various hidden object scenes and locations, and get them analyzed to obtain clues. Interview or communicate with key characters in the story to uncover new revelations about the story at hand. Are you good enough to get to the bottom of the mystery and score that front-page spot on the magazine? Play Journals of the Unknown to find out!Linda Brown: Interactive Story
Linda Brown: Interactive Story is The Other Guys' forey into the interactive storytelling business after their pretty good sucess with the Sherlock-themed hidden objects game, Sherlock Holmes: Lost Detective. Similar to the latter, this game features an intriguing and immersive, romance-and-mystery-filled story where you'll be playing as Linda Brown herself. Meet a host of interesting characters (and you can even date some of them), travel to various locations as you follow the trail of clues, and make important decisions that will change the path of your narrative.However, unlike games like Episode or Choices, Linda Brown: Interactive Story has a gameplay that is a lot similar to any of the games Telltale Games produced. This means that characters in the game will remember your reactions or responses and act accordingly the next time you meet.
The only major downside in this game is that, like Episodes and Choices, there are special "premium decisions" that you can make to further deepen the storyline, but the diamonds needed to buy these special decisions can be pretty costly - $3 per premium decision. Due to this, it might be great to have the option of earning diamonds by watching video ads.
Overall though, Linda Brown: Interactive Story is still a very well-written interactive story that doesn't only have romantic elements but also an intriguing mystery that rivals most hidden objects games. If you enjoy a good mystery with a dash of romance, this is the game you should play.