Product Description

A series of unsolvable crimes, nicknamed "The Vanishing Files", have bewildered the police and paralysed Arcadia city. Cate West - a mystery novelist haunted by strange dreams - has psychic visions that might just hold the key to solving the crimes. Step into the role of Cate and find clues, compile evidence, bring criminals to justice and discover the link between "The Vanishing Files" and the mystery in her past. Featuring beautiful locations, an engrossing storyline and addictive gameplay, this game is an original whodunit that is sure to delight mystery fans of all ages!

• 15 Mysterious Chapters - Over 1,000 clues in 57 unique scenes lead to an exciting mystery with shocking twists and turns.
• 5 Investigation Types - Find clues at the crime-scene, track-down evidence and search criminal hideouts. Use your findings to identify and arrest the right criminal
  then recreate the crime in court to convict them!
• Quick Play Mode - Replay your favourite crime scenes and see if you can improve your detection skills!
• Zoom in on search scenes to help find clues. Use the D-Pad to scroll your view, or zoom out to view the entire scene.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #868 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Oxygen Interactive
• Released on: 2009-10-09
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Format: Unknown format

Manufacturer's Description
A series of unsolvable crimes, nicknamed “The Vanishing Files”, have bewildered the police and paralyzed Arcadia city. Cate West -a mystery novelist haunted by strange dreams -has psychic visions that might just hold the key to solving the crimes.

Step into the role of Cate and find clues, compile evidence, bring criminals to justice and discover the link between “The Vanishing Files” and the mystery in her past. Featuring beautiful locations, an engrossing storyline and addictive gameplay, this game is an original whodunit that is sure to delight mystery fans of all ages!

Customer Reviews

Cate West - Vanishing Files
Cate captivating West! Compuslive to the end and like a tube of pringles - once you pop you can't stop!

Repeatative and slightly tedious
After recently completing Secret Files 1 and 2, Prof Layton, Hotel Dusk and more recently Broken Sword I was looking forward to another search and find game which would challenge my brain in some way but I was very disappointed. There are 15 chapters to the game and every chapter is exactly the same, spot the difference, search and find, spot the criminal!! I persevered in completing the game hoping as every chapter passed it would be different to the next but again massively disappointed as every chapter was the same. If this is the first discover and find game you have tried you might not feel the same but if you have tried any other of the above brilliant games I also mentioned then give this one a miss!!

Need an extra magnifying glass...
After playing an online trial, I was really looking forward to this as a more adult, more involved version of titles like millionheir. Sadly I was disappointed.
The game was really designed for PC and does not transfer to the Nintendo DS platform well. No real use is made of the top screen and the bottom screen is too small to be split for the 'spot the difference' sections. The scenes are attractively drawn, but the objects to be found are indistinct and ridiculously small. Sometimes even once the object is found it's hard to tell what it is.
The other disappointing aspect was the plot. Characters were introduced but not expanded on or followed up (one apparently key character just disappears). The clues hidden in the crime scenes had no relation to the crime or the story line. What could have been a very satisfying game felt like a wasted opportunity.
Don't expect too much of it.