Diving back into the casual puzzle adventure subgenre, I’ll admit that at a few points in the past they’ve been a pretty relaxing way to burn some time and stimulate some brain cells. One issue has been the fact that most of the ones I’ve played on the Switch feel like they’re really just conversions from quite a few years ago, so the video segments pushing their story tend to look pretty awful. If you can get over that hump, you may still get some mileage out of them.

The City of Legends series, at least for being casual games, have a little more flair to them with some horror and suspense elements to add spice. In the case of Trapped in Mirror the focus is on the urban legend of Bloody Mary, and it doesn’t take long for you to run into an example of her work. With the gauntlet being thrown down, it’s up to you to try to solve puzzles and dig deeper into her mysteries.

While overall this plays out the same as many in the space, featuring a pretty wide array of puzzles that will challenge you in a variety of ways, I’d also say among some of its peers its general presentation also seems a little stronger. Sure, the video cut scenes still tend to be a bit of a blurry mess, but they do seem to have a better inherent quality to their production values, so watching them is at least less cringy than usual. I wouldn’t say that there are any qualities that clearly set this apart from many of the others out there in the eShop, but there’s also nothing much to complain about either.