Where is Kris Kringle?

 

Where is Kris Kringle? -- Cold Case Investigation Unit's Advent Calendar for 2023

Here's a thing about this -- the intention for this product was you get a box of 24 envelopes and open one each day in December, gradually revealing more pieces of information about the Disappearance of Kris Kringle "in real time". To encourage people to play one day at a time, they stated they would release video clues/news reports/etc on a dated basis....so if you wanted the news report for 16th December, you had to wait until 16th December to view it.

But....no longer.

All of them are now online.

Looking around for clues as to why, I found this piece of text on their website:

"this is because we have received abuse from people who want it all at once rather than waiting. We simply cannot win here so my suggestion is – you are adults, play as it is intended or however you like, its your pleasure but hopefully you will enjoy however you choose to do it"

Having said all that, how was it?

Not much fun.  Did this last year one day at a time in December, and it was very slight.  Evidence eeked out a day at a time, not in a very logical fashion, actually one day at a time was not going to work for this because there was no puzzling to do -- when the key piece of information came, it wasn't hidden in a morass of other information, it was the highlight of the day.   The other days were just boring -- and too much punning on Christmas names just detracts from the whole experience as a "serious" police procedural.

Bad enough then that I didn't even consider buying the 2024 follow-up.