Help! I Can’t Find My Glasses!
Help! I Can’t Find My Glasses! is a cute, very short game in which the teen protagonist attempts to discover which of the other three members of their school’s Literature Club stole their glasses. I was intrigued by Jaime, the golden child with a secret wild side, and enjoyed their potentially-flirty interactions with the PC, but the other two suspects felt a bit thin by comparison.
I suspected after talking to the club president that no one had stolen my glasses, they had just been knocked somewhere weird when the other club members were horsing around and were probably still in the classroom. By the end of my first playthrough (which took about five minutes) I was certain this was the case, but how to get the PC to figure that out was a different question, and one whose answer was not obvious to me.
I stumbled on the answer by accident after a couple more playthroughs, when I realized that the characters are always in the same locations and I could just go straight there. The in-universe logical connection between PC action and consequence seems a little weak here, though, since it’s actually another character’s actions that lead to the retrieval of the glasses in the end. Apparently if you don’t happen to walk in on the club president just after he finds them, he walks off with them without any effort to tell you he has them, which seems like odd behavior for a friend, especially since the game has established that all these kids have phones.
Nevertheless, the game has charm, and I would give an expanded version a shot if one is in the works. (I’m not sure whether this is meant as a sort of proof-of-concept or whether it’s meant to be complete as-is; the glasses incident seems very self-contained, but then there are all the questions it raises and doesn’t answer about Jaime, or the fact that the intro implies that Minh is a possible love interest but the game doesn’t actually seem to offer any flirty dialogue options with them.)