This conveniently unexplained occurrence provides you with a suitably messy setup in each of the game's stages, and it's up to you to sift through all the clutter and find certain items. Wherever they go - be it their home, car or a luxury passenger liner - it always looks like a grenade has gone off and scattered their belongings all over the place.

It would seem that for generations, members of Eva's family have suffered from some undiagnosed condition that makes them all terribly untidy people. However, this doesn't make the game any more exciting to play through, nor does it live up to divulging any new secrets about the Titanic, as the title suggest.Īt its core, Secrets of the Titanic 1912 - 2012 is a hidden-object game, and its gameplay ties in very loosely with the subject matter. She even has a bit of an episode and relives moments of her great grandmother's journey on the ship through the power of daydream. This sends the mother, Eva, into a panic, and she constantly references the disaster throughout the curating of their trip.

The story follows a modern family who stupidly decide to visit a Titanic exhibition a week before setting off on their own holiday cruise. GSP's Secrets of the Titanic 1912 - 2012 comes a year late to the 3DS, and while it takes a somewhat educational look at the tragedy, it sadly doesn't go into much depth, nor does it present it in an interesting way.

Around the time of its sinking, it was naively believed that the ship was invincible, so much so that it only came equipped with enough lifeboats to save about half of those on board something that seems utterly baffling given our modern obsession with health and safety policy virtually everywhere you go. People sadly die as a result of tragic accidents every day, but the reason why the Titanic has such a poignant legacy is perhaps because it was the result of human arrogance - not to mention there was a rather popular 1997 film. 2012 marked the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, a maritime disaster that saw around 1500 people lose their lives.

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