This is Picross with a story. If you don't like Picross, or do not think you will like Picross, then do not buy this game. There is no other activity outside of these puzzles and you are hard blocked until you complete them. The game starts off with relatively easy puzzles, but after finishing the game, I spent probably half the game solving 15x15 puzzles. The plot of the story centers around Honor Mizrahi, an actor in L.A., whom at the beginning of the story gets wrapped up in a murder mystery as she is the prime suspect of her friend and producer that recently fired her from the show they've been working together. Along with a newly met flying robot, she attempts to "find" evidence to prove her innocence. It's easy to be empathetic towards Honor at first, she's hurt from being betrayed and she's alone since she's recently divorced from her psychologically abusive husband but quickly she abandons any reason and dives head first into every murder scene. It would have been interesting if this was thrill-seeking behavior from not having many close friends, but you find out that's not true. She jumps from mystery-to-mystery and scene-to-scene to move the plot along. Not because the character has any reason to do so. The game is not expensive, if you do enjoy Picross, it is easy to get your money's worth. But just don't expect the same level of quality of games like the Ace Attorney games. This was made on a budget. The characters are not animated, their stills just slide left to right to infer movement. The portraits are flipped around to denote the direction they face, which is extremely distracting when certain things like a police badge worn on one side suddenly flips to be worn on the other side when they face another direction. Overall, the game started with much promise. I did have a good time throughout most of it. By the end however, I really wanted to be done with it. I've solved enough Picross puzzles for, at least, a year.
