Touch Detective Review

Gameplay
The player controls the titular detective Mackenzie as they solves mysteries in the tiny town of Osawari. Both the art style & the plot reflect a subtle fantasy mood for example, the first case is to track down a thief who is stealing someone's dreams. GameZone reviewer Steven Hopper notes that "the game features a distinctive aesthetic that feels like a Tim Burton version of a Jhonen Vasquez comic." Aside from the main plots, there is as well as a substantial number of tiny bonus mysteries that involve much simpler tasks. There is as well as a Touch Laptop computer containing a list of major items in the game the player has touched.

The game is entirely controlled by the touch screen. Tapping a location on the screen will talk to a character or examine an object. The player has an stock of items collected, & may use them on other items or objects in the environment. The player can also communicate with the characters along conversation trees or present stock items to them to learn new knowledge. Mackenzie's pet mushroom, Funghi, is used as an aid in some puzzles.


Character
Mackenzie
  The lead character of the game. As a young girl, they runs a detective agency.

Penelope
  of the girls that lives in the condominiums in town & mate of Mackenzie. Her parents are rich, & thus they enjoys a lavish lifestyle. However, they is air-headed, & has been known to disappear for a time, or even not talk to anyone (including herself, except for pantomime) for a whole week. They is the who will give Mackenzie all her cases in the work of the game & is of the main focuses of the first episodes.

Cromwell
  Butler for Mackenzie & and a genius inventor. Cromwell is either a 300+ year elderly zombie or a robot.

Chloe
  Another girl in town, & while mate of Mackenzie, tends to be her rival in trying to solve cases. Chloe usually takes actions before figuring out their consequences.

Funghi
  A living mushroom that is kept as a pet by Mackenzie & travels along with her as they moves about town.


Case
Episode one - Robbery. The reality of a fanciful dream
  Penelope comes to Mackenzie because he claims her dreams are being stolen. Mackenzie first acquires a special invention from Cromwell so that he can see in to Penelope's dreams and understands what happens: a unusual creature is seen fleeing from Penelope's before he wakes up. Mackenzie investigates further and finds a way to enter the Dream World, but finds no there that can help because the remainder of the town is not yet asleep. Finding a way to persuade everyone to nod off simultaneously that Penelope does, he is then able to cease the fleeing figure and reveal it to be the pastry chef in town. The chef admits to the crime, using the crystallized dreams as an ingredient in her Sweet Dream Cake dessert. Fortunately, Penelope and the chef agree that the chef will only take Penelope's dreams one time a week.

Episode two - Disappearance. The truth hidden in the cosmos
  Penelope goes missing, and on inquiry, it looks like her room was broken in to. However, it is revealed that Chloe, looking for Penelope before Mackenzie, broke in and tried to find proof. However, irrespective of Chloe's bumbling, Mackenzie is led to the planetarium and its unusual owner, as well as a small girl that seems to like playing with dolls. After catching the owner purchasing girls clothes in sizes huge for the girl, Mackenzie soon discovers that the planetarium owner lured Penelope and now is keeping her in a secret room under mind control in order for her to be the small girl's mate. Mackenzie can rescue Penelope, have the owner captured, and befriends the small girl so he won't be lonely again.




Episode three - Stranded. The miracle of an innocent heart
  Penelope claims that an ice fairy is stranded at the ice skating rink, the only chilled place in town, but Mackenzie cannot see it though he can sense it. The owner of the rink is worn out of living in the chilled and is looking to close the rink down, causing the temperature in the rink to rise and threaten the life of the fairy. Chloe comes up with near-disastrous ideas for saving the fairy, but Mackenzie realizes all they need to do is make it snow so the fairy can be get out from the ice rink and to a more comfortable location. Mackenzie helps Chloe in enchanting a spell that summons forth an "angel" (Penelope in an angel outfit) but manage to make snow appear, and thus successfully freeing the fairy.

Episode four - Assault. The tragedy of a past grudge
  Penelope claims that a murder happened at the circus in town, though it is only a flea circus. Apparently, the circus was one time a bigger attraction, but when it shutdown, lots of of the performers took up residence in town. Mackenzie investigates to find that something did assault the fleas, though initially suspecting a flea as the culprit. However, when a immense anvil very kills all the fleas, the trail leads elsewhere to Dover, of the ex-performers. His elderly circus act, animating tattoos on his back, was ruined due to a flea bite, and has been out of work since, and thus took revenge on the flea circus to try to get back in to stardom. However, Mackenzie can cease him and save the fleas. Or will he?