Unfortunately, there is no freedom of movement, with everything merely flowing from scene-to-scene and puzzle-to-puzzle automatically after completion of whatever task is currently at hand. Sounds like a disaster, right? Well, not exactly as the content of the story is moderately interesting and ties together the fifty or so scenes depicting the luxurious liner, both inside and out, quite nicely. In fact, most of the time the actual 3D light turns off completely, even during cut-scenes, making this basically the Nintendo DS game in disguise, merely playing at the correct ratio on the 3DS screens and costing an extra £5 for the privilege.

Thus begins the latest Hidden Object title to arrive on the Nintendo scene, this time complete with…well, no real 3D at all, to be honest, other than the main title and two small icons on the upper screen. A gruesome murder has taken place deep in the bowels of the mighty vessel and at Captain Smith's behest Larsson is enlisted to solve the conundrum of who could possibly commit such a heinous crime. However, despite it indeed turning out to be one for the books, it is for all the wrong reasons. Players take on the role of an assistant to globetrotter Professor Jacob Larsson, boarding what is meant to be a memorable voyage upon the venerable cruiser to New York.

Yes, just a few years back then, obviously! To mark the 100th anniversary of the infamous Titanic journey, Inspector Magnusson's Murder on the Titanic has been ported across to both Nintendo DS and its 3D-enabled sibling except without Inspector Magnusson featuring in the title and a whole host of elements that made the PC game supremely enjoyable sadly missing from this portable edition. Rewind to 1912, long before everyone owned a Nintendo 3DS and many a year prior to the craze of Hidden Object puzzle titles.

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