Dark Angels: Masquerade of Shadows

There's a lot to like about casual point-and-click adventure: diverse locales, exciting story, great graphics, and a few fun hidden-object scenes, as well as easy mini-games. There's even a cheesy "goth" theme song. Fans of the genre would enjoy this.

There are some stand-out elements. First of all, it's, like, the girliest of the girliest of themes. We already know these games target a female audience, but having you play as a stunning fashion designer is laying it on a bit thick... hope you enjoy arranging fashion collections and refusing to get dirty. And obviously all the women-warrior-heroes look like supermodels. There are also some nice ideas for mechanics involving combat and magic, which unfortunately are barely used.

There are two problems: one is that it's too short and easy. The other is that there's a major production blunder for the English voice acting. It's usually fine, but once in a while the protagonist's voice is replaced with this bizarre shrill other voice that I imagine was a placeholder during development. Either they forget to replace those audio clips, or they just didn't finish the production. It ends up being quite jarring, but also funny.