. Play Jenny LeClue like an animated movie with new auto-play dialogue options! You play as Jenny LeClue, an aspiring young detective and obsessive pursuer of the truth. A wiki about the indie adventure game, Jenny LeClue. Characters Jenny LeClue. Gameplay You play as Jenny LeClue, an aspiring young detective and obsessive pursuer of the truth. But nothing exciting ever happens in her small town, and she longs for a real adventure. Jenny gets more than she bargains for.
A guide to obtaining all the postcard pieces in Jenny LeClue.
The Perplexing Postcard Puzzle Achievement Guide
Hi all fellow adventure gamers! This guide will help you get all the postcard pieces in the game. The standard spoiler alert applies to all the images below.
All images are displayed in gameplay order. Some images don’t have the orange tag as these auto pick up the postcard piece without it. You should get a completed postcard after picking up pieces 6,13,23,30 and you should have completed all four postcards before you leave the extraction chamber.
And now, onwards with the guide!
The Puzzle Pieces
Piece 01: In the pile of trash where the knocked over bins are.
Piece 02: On the tree in the woods.
Piece 03: On the rocks by the river.
Piece 04: On the top bookshelf on the way up next to the door.
Piece 05: On the middle bookshelf on the way down next to the wall.
Piece 06: On the crystal to the right of Glatz Manor.
Piece 07: On the steps to the left of Glatz Manor.
Piece 08: In the small cove in the fishing area of Lake Nowere.
Piece 09: In the large cove at the top of Lake Nowere.
Piece 10: Underneath the rock crabs at Round Rock.
Piece 11: In the area at the bottom to the right of Bagel Bay.
Piece 12: In the closed off area at Bearclaw Bend.
Piece 13: On the lowest point when climbing down from the broken bridge.
Piece 14: Inside the first secret area.
Piece 15: On the top shelf in the basement.
Piece 16: On the ledge of Owlmoss Dunne Bridge.
Piece 17: In between the gravestones in the bottom right of the graveyard.
Piece 18: On the barrier near the broken steps to the left of the fallen angel.
Piece 19: Behind the rock at the top of the mountain graveyard.
Piece 20: On the barrier at the right of the mountain graveyard.
Piece 21: Inside the second secret area.
Piece 22: On the pile of boxes in the room with the vending machine.
Piece 23: Inside the sofa in the room with the vending machine.
Piece 24: In the mines on the barricade.
Piece 25: Inside the third secret area.
Piece 26: Next to the broken barrels all the way left after the elevator.
Piece 27: Inside the fourth secret area.
Piece 28: To the left of the sewers near the steps.
Piece 29: On the rocks where the elevator is after being lowered.
Piece 30: Inside the fifth secret area.
And that’s it! I hope this guide helped you get all the postcard pieces and the relevant achievements.
Jenny LeClue - Detectivu (Switch) Review
by Jordan Rudek - August 26, 2020, 12:00 pm EDT
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If it wasn’t for this meddling kid, I would have gotten away with it, too.
Adventure game Jenny LeClue - Detectivu was successfully Kickstarted in 2014 and then launched on mobile and PC last year. The Kickstarter featured stretch goals that marked the game as a trilogy, with three separate titles, and it’s the first entry that is now coming to Nintendo Switch. Impeccable writing, strong voice acting, and a compelling narrative immediately make it worth a look, but do the presentation and gameplay elements hold up over the course of a playthrough?
Protagonist Jenny LeClue is confident, plucky, and determined, and her charisma shines through the game’s six to eight hours. She is surrounded by likeable and endearing characters, like town skeptic CJ, who bears a striking resemblance in speech and manner to Christopher Lloyd’s Doc Brown. The plot of Jenny LeClue - Detectivu centers on the murder of Dean Straussberry, and Jenny’s mom ends up as the primary suspect. As a good detective is wont to do, Jenny refuses to rest on her laurels and instead begins working the case in earnest. The story keeps you hooked throughout, and the initial murder mystery ends up being much deeper and more intricate than it first appears. The town of Arthurton hides much more than a cursory glance would reveal.
Gameplay consists of moving from place to place while conducting investigations of people you meet and specific scenes of interest. On multiple occasions, Jenny will engage in a focused interrogation phase where you use a cursor to highlight key features of a scene to acquire more information and eventually make a deduction. A handful of segments involve pushing objects around to give Jenny access to ladders and ledges, while others task you with solving basic puzzles, like determining the correct sequence of buttons to push or rotating a stack of circles so that arrows on them all point in the same direction. Overall, the puzzles are fine but similar types are repeated multiple times with slightly more intricacy. More variety in this area would have been nice to see.
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On the presentation side, the art style is reminiscent of titles like Night in the Woods or Oxenfree, but leaning more on the cartoonish side. It works incredibly well with Jenny LeClue - Detectivu’s more light-hearted tone. The camera zooms in and out at different moments to emphasize the scale of certain environments, and the variety of color and amount of detail are quite impressive. Text is easy to read, even on the Switch Lite’s smaller screen, and basically all character dialogue is superbly voiced, including the charming narrator.
Arthur K Finklestein, the writer of the Jenny LeClue novels, appears at times to bookend certain moments in the narrative, and he himself is struggling with his own challenge: the looming threat of cancellation should he not make his novels more dangerous and dark. Half a dozen times or so, the game returns to Arthur in his study, wracking his brain about what to do with the novel given the pressure from his publisher. On occasions, there will be back and forth between Arthur and Jenny as he attempts to push the story forward while she hesitates against his direction, and the dichotomy of storyteller and character adds to the effectiveness of the adventure.
Throughout the game, Jenny jots down journal entries that can be accessed from the start menu. As well, you’ll find stickers in the environment that can be picked up and used to decorate the journal but also scraps of paper that form postcards. The stickers and scraps essentially function as collectibles, but they make it worthwhile to explore each area. The journal also keeps a record of your “Chooiness,” a representation of the choices you’ve made, and each actual choice itself. I encountered more than 65 different choices, and there are still a few left for me to find. A Scene Select option allows you to return to one of over 40 scenes in the game, and a New Game + option gives you the chance to restart from the beginning while keeping your collectibles and progress.
Jenny LeClue - Detectivu fits swimmingly on Switch. The adventure doesn’t overstay its welcome and even leaves a few stones unturned for the eventual sequel—that’s not to say that its story isn’t satisfying on its own. Exceptional presentation elements bolster excellent voice acting and writing, and the result is a mystery experience that is both accessible and hard to put down. The puzzle quality could be a little higher and the game did freeze a couple times (autosaves are frequent, fortunately), but the memorable characters will definitely stick with you after you close the book on this one. Like a good novel, Jenny’s (and Arthur’s) story is a real page-turner, and it’s well deserving of being added to your Switch library.
Summary
Pros
- Accessible gameplay
- Compelling story and characters
- Wonderful presentation
Cons
- Occasional freezes
- Puzzle variety could be better
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Jenny Leclue Switch
| Jenny LeClue: Detectivu | |
| Release | Aug 26, 2020 |
| Rating | Everyone 10+ |