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Once you’ve finished your first objective, you’ll be directed to open Bonus Envelope A. This envelope contained the next objective, as well as a new piece of evidence. Once that objective is completed, you move on to Bonus Envelope B, and then finally Bonus Envelope C. Each envelope contains a new objective and some more evidence. The last envelope is a confirmation of you solving the case. When she’s not writing, you can usually find Sarah baking something delicious, hiking up a mountain, or playing video games. But working through the second and third objectives is what made Unsolved Case Files: Jamie Banks turn sour. We felt it was a major stretch to come up with the logic behind the answer to the second objective, and the third objective isn’t just silly, it’s broken. In general, Unsolved Case Files: Harmony Ashcroft was an above-average, by-the-numbers cold case game and I was glad I tried it.

Although I enjoyed Unsolved Case Files: Harmony Ashcroft, Unsolved Case Files: Jamie Banks left me in a place of doubt with this series. I’m leaning more towards the Cold Case games by ThinkFun as my true crime game series of choice because the cases are just stronger and more grounded in a logic puzzle. That said, I don't know how you could present an unsolved case that was more difficult to solve and more like a true cold case without it being too difficult to be enjoyable. The Harmony Ashcroft Case was also the first game from Unsolved Case Files, so it's entirely plausible that there's a wider range of cases now that vary in difficulty.I’ve enjoyed most of my experiences working through these escape room/true crime games but Unsolved Case Files: Jamie Banks was an outright failure. Sarah has an Associate of Arts from Collin College and a Bachelor of Arts in English with a Creative Writing concentration from Nicholls State University. In April 2020, she started writing for Android Authority, covering listicles, helpful how-to's for Android devices, and content on the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. I do appreciate being able to reset the game for friends to try or family to work through later. I like that the Unsolved Case Files series has a couple of family-friendly options, so families who want to get accustomed to this type of gameplay can do so without worrying about more adult themes and imagery such as bloody knives or suicide. This ethos is at the heart of the academy and contributes to the shared goal of ensuring that our children move on to the next stage of their education as confident, competent learners. We want the children to be happy and excited about coming to school to learn and to develop their knowledge, skills and understanding across a wide and varied curriculum.

Carroll and Wilson recognized the public's interest in true crime and cold cases, and started to create a product about serial killers. But along the way, they realized they didn't want to glorify serial killers, but rather the investigators who catch them instead. The idea to make replicas of real cold cases was thrown around, but ultimately, the pair decided to create their own cold cases from scratch. When it comes to games, we normally review digital games for console, PC, and mobile. However, there are plenty of board games that are a lot of fun and can help with that rising screen time we’re all seeing due to the pandemic. With the Cold Case games it just comes down to being smart about the details. You’ve got to be a real eagle eye to catch some of the stuff being thrown around in the Unsolved Case Files games and that doesn’t feel great as a player when you were paying attention to the details and instead, you should have caught something semi-random in one of the pieces of evidence. Another interesting aspect of the case presented is that the difficulty does ramp up throughout the case questions. The easiest aspects were questioned first and the further players dig into a case, the more elusive some answers might be. By the end of all questions, a true “story of the crime” unfolds. The writing for the interviews, newspaper clippings and coroner’s report was surprisingly bland and felt like it was ripped from every episode of low-budget police procedurals I have ever seen. That said, I sometimes love that stuff so it didn’t distract too much from the mission at hand. Better, more theme-appropriate writing, isn’t that big of an ask here.

My wife and I always do these types of games together, and even though there is often a struggle to get through some objectives in these cases, Unsolved Case Files: Jamie Banks was a miss from the beginning. I like that each box of Unsolved Case Files always has 3 objectives or problems to work through, and the first stage for this one was frankly beyond obvious. Like, within 5 minutes of opening the evidence, we both looked at each other and were like