History VideoGame / EagleEyeMysteries

* LetsPlay: A series of videos for the first game were created by Website/YouTube user Resulka.

* {{Feelies}}: The game came with a map of London and England. Your sidekick will occasionally ask you which direction they need to travel in order to reach their destination.

The mysteries are separated into "books," each containing roughly 25 mysteries. In ''EEM Original'', there are three books, Book 1, Book 2, and a "Challenge Book." The cases in Books 1 and 2 have the same names, but those in Book 2 are slightly harder, with different clues and different outcomes. The Challenge Book only contains six mysteries, each with [[UpToEleven significantly higher difficulty]].

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--> ''Hi, I'm Jake Eagle''...
--> ...''' ''and I'm Jennifer Eagle'' '''.

The premise: Pre-teen [[SiblingTeam twin siblings]] [[PrivateDetective Jake and]] [[KidDetective Jennifer]] [[AmateurSleuth Eagle]] are the founders of the Eagle Eye Detective Agency, which is based out of their hometown of [[EverytownAmerica Richview, USA]] [[GeographicFlexibility (it's never stated where exactly the town is situated)]]. In the first game, they solve mysteries that take place in and around Richview and that involve their friends, neighbors, and other close residents. In the sequel, the two go on vacation to visit their Aunt Miranda, Uncle Basil and cousin Nigel (also Eagles themselves) in London, England, hoping to take a break from sleuthing...only to find mysteries waiting for them in [[CityOfAdventure London and its environs]]. You, as the player, are a member of the Agency who can partner with either of the siblings to solve cases, collect clues and [[PoliceAreUseless help the police collar criminals]].

* DifficultySpike: Happens a bit differently between the two games.
** In ''EEM Original'', the mysteries in Book 1 are extremely easy and require that you pick five clues to solve each one. Then comes Book 2, whose cases are slightly more difficult and require that you pick ''four'' clues to solve them. And then comes the [[UpToEleven Challenge Book]], which for at least one of the cases will require you to take out actual pen and paper to keep track of the facts, and all of which require you to pick '''three''' clues before you can choose the guilty party.
** In ''EEM London,'' all the cases in Books 1 and 2 require you to choose five clues before choosing the right suspect. The cases in Book 2 are only a little bit more difficult than those in Book 1, with "Case of the Envelope Espionage" being one of the most noteworthy difficult ones.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: As expected for a bustling metropolis like London or even a small-town locale like Richview.

* ConvictionByCounterfactualClue: This also shows up occasionally, though it's often justified if the case is about proving whether a historical artifact is real or not. For example, in ''EEM London'', four artifacts related to SherlockHolmes have been donated to the official fan club, and one of them is a fraud; you need to prove which one is the fake.

* AdultsAreUseless: [[AvertedTrope Actually, no]], adults are ''very'' helpful when it comes to giving information. [[PoliceAreUseless The police's ability to solve cases without the Eagles' help, on the other hand...]]

** This also gets played with in [[the Challenge Book's version of "Case of the Attacking Aliens" in ''EEM1''. An alien challenges you to prove that it is real to the rest of the world. Nothing it says outright contradicts the facts and there are no obvious culprits, so the correct answer is to say that the alien is real!]] Naturally, [[spoiler:it ''isn't'' real, just an experiment by some local university professors to test peoples' acceptance of new and impossible ideas.]]

* CityOfAdventure: Richview in the first game, London and its surrounding environs in the sequel.

The mysteries are separated into "books," each containing roughly 25 mysteries. In ''EEM Original'', there are three books, Book 1, Book 2, and a "Challenge Book." The cases in Books 1 and 2 have the same names, but those in Book 2 are only slightly more difficult, have different clues and come with different outcomes. The Challenge Book contains only six mysteries, all having the same names as their namesake cases in Books 1 and 2, but with [[UpToEleven significantly higher difficulty]].

Its [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/EagleEyeMysteries character sheet]] is complete (for now). Also has several other sub-pages, listed at the top of the article.

* AlliterativeName: Most of the case-names in both games, although it's slightly subverted with ''EEM London''[='=]s "Case of the Sherlock Holmes Hoax" and "Case of the Robin Hood Hacker."

* ItsPersonal: "Case of the Pilfered Pop" starts with the gang's private soda stash having been stolen from its place at the bottom of their tree-house base, and "Case of the Runaway Reptile" centers on finding out who stole the Eagles' pet iguana Watson. In Books 1 and 2's versions of "Case of the Midnight Masquerade" from the same game, the case becomes this when Nancy Marx, one of the Agency's members, is made a suspect in the case's robbery mystery.

* {{Suburbia}}: Richview on a whole. At its north end is a farm area; northwest is the local Buccaneer Beach; downtown has two jewelry stores and a bank; and most of the map's lower half is residential.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Most of the kids in Richview, including Jake and Jennifer, appear to enjoy pizza. In one mystery, [[BigEater Mark and Dave polish off an extra-large "Pig Lovers' Pizza," which contains ham, sausage and Canadian bacon]].
* TreehouseOfFun: The Eagle's Nest.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: All we really know about Richview's location is that it's somewhere in the United States.

* BlackSheep: In "Case of the Vaporous Victorian," the kids investigate the supposed appearance of the ghost of a teenage tennis star's ancestor, who has been long ostracized by the family for defying the norms of Victorian-era England.

* CoversAlwaysLie: Unfortunately the case with ''EEM London''[='=]s box art, pictured above. Despite what the box art portrays, Jake and Jennifer are never shown in-game as using a flashlight in any of their investigations. And the mysterious man standing underneath the street lamp? He is only ever seen in-game during a transition cut-scene when you traverse London by bus, where he sits beside your partner reading a newspaper.

* LoveMakesYouDumb: [[spoiler:The motive behind "Case of the Pilfered Phone".]]

* PaperThinDisguise: Done in "Case of Blood's Bold Bauble." Aunt Miranda wants to get information from Ritz Hotel desk clerk David Herrick, but he won't co-operate. You and your partner volunteer to try and get the info from him instead...so your partner borrows Aunt Miranda's glasses and puts them on you, then pretends to Herrick that you're the star of a new TV show, "Kid Detective," and that he/she is your promoter/agent. Herrick's a bit suspicious, as he's never heard of "Kid Detective," but Jake/Jennifer tells him that's because it's not on the BBC--yet. Then you get the info you want.
* PutOnABus: Everyone in the first game who's not the player (you) or named Jake or Jennifer Eagle is put aside to make way for the new characters in the sequel. Justified in that at the start of ''EEM London'', the detectives are going on holiday to a place that is an ocean away from their home town. [[spoiler:[[TheBusCameBack Amy Jolanna does make a cameo in the sequel, though.]]]]
* RuleOfSymbolism: Cats play a frequent and crucial role in ''EEM London''.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The ruby in "Case of the Rajah's Ruby" is covertly bought by Macavity at the end of the case and never shows up again for the rest of the game--not even among the wealth left behind by Macavity at the end of the game.]]

* RoguesGallery: Consists mostly of one-shot criminals who are never mentioned again at the close of a case. Recurring antagonists between both games include Mark Moriarty, Dave Grant, Ned Bassett, and Macavity; of these four, though, only Macavity is an actual wanted criminal, with the rest being largely [[JerkAss jerks]] on the worst of days.

* FantasticRacism: A number of British-born characters in ''EEM London'' have a little of this toward Americans. On the other hand, in the same game's "Case of the Renegade Raven," French journalist and minor character Mademoiselle Le Chaton has nearly nothing good to say about the British.

* LoveMakesYouCrazy: [[spoiler:The motive behind "Case of the Pilfered Phone".]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The ruby in "Case of the Rajah's Ruby" is covertly bought by Macavity at the end of the case and never shows up again for the rest of the game - not even among the wealth left behind by Macavity at the end of the game.]]

* ActionPrologue

* AlliterativeName: Most of the case-names in both games, although it's {{subverted|Trope}} with ''EEM London''[='=]s "Case of the Sherlock Holmes Hoax" and "Case of the Robin Hood Hacker."

* CatchPhrase: "Cool!", "Aha!", "Hmmm...", "You got it!", "You figured it out!", "Excellent!", "Let's check the evidence!" (in the first game only), and "Let's go!" (at the partner select screen when you start the game).

* ConvictionByContradiction

* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat

* EdutainmentGame

* HiddenInPlainSight
* HintsAreForLosers: {{Subverted|Trope}}; in both games, at the screen where you can select clues from your TRAVIS to accuse the guilty party, you can click on Jake/Jennifer's head to get up to two hints as to the clues you need to pick.

* JustifiedTutorial: Both games have a practice mystery where the player can get a feel of how gameplay works. In ''EEM London'', when you begin playing for the very first time, you're immediately launched into the practice mystery, although you can quit it midway through and go straight to the main cases to be solved.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* MasqueradeBall
* MeaningfulName: Most characters across both games. For the protagonists, in the second game's "Case of Bronwyn's Bequest," Jake and Jennifer's cousin Nigel remarks that the family got its surname because their ancestor, Perceval Eagle, was a falconer who trained a great eagle for a monarch.

* PointAndClickMap: The two games provide maps of Richview (in the first game) and London (in the sequel). When you're at the map screen, the locations you need to visit are identified by flashing diamonds, with the scene of the crime marked by a flashing red diamond (and thus it being the first place you should go to). Once you've collected all the information at a given location, its diamond will stop flashing and turn solid blue (including the crime scene diamond); in EEM London, if new information is available at a previously-visited site, its diamond will flash again.

* RedHerring
* RememberTheNewGuy: Happens several times in both games, where characters are introduced who the player has never seen before but who Jake and Jennifer have apparently had prior offscreen acquaintances with.

** Noticeably averted in ''EEM London''[='=]s "Case of the Perilous Pixies." At the start of the mystery, Rae Maringh - who you've never met in any of the cases prior - phones the detectives at the Eagle family home and acknowledges that you and she have never met, but that she knows of your exploits through Nigel, who's a good friend of hers.

* RoguesGallery: Consists mostly of one-shot criminals who are never mentioned again at the close of a case. Recurring antagonists between both games include Mark Moriarty, Dave Grant, Ned Bassett, and Macavity.

* YouMeddlingKids

''Eagle Eye Mysteries'' is a two-part EdutainmentGame series developed by Stormfront Studios (now defunct as of 2008) and published by the Creative Wonders (EA*Kids) studio. It was released for the PC and AppleMacintosh computers and playable on DOS, as a first-person detective game involving reading, puzzle-solving, and much research on the part of the player. The series is for players aged 8 and up, which means adults can get in on the fun as well.

In-game, Jake and Jennifer use a hand-held electronic notebook called a [[MagicalComputer TRAVIS]] (short for Text Retrieval And Video Input System), which can store notes and photos of suspects or other pictures for easy reference later when going through clues to solve the mystery. [[AllThereInTheManual According to the game manual,]] they also adhere to a strict series of rules that govern mystery-solving, allowing them (and you) to better sift through clues, identify the ones that are most relevant to the case, and thus correctly identify the guilty party.

Each game begins with a [[JustifiedTutorial practice mystery]] that the player can access to get a feel of how gameplay works. In ''EEM London,'' when you start playing for the first time, you're immediately launched into the practice mystery, as it sets the pace for the game's underlying StoryArc, where the kids will have to match wits with an elusive criminal known only as [[TheChessmaster Macavity.]]

The mysteries are separated into "books," each containing roughly 25 mysteries. In ''EEM Original,'' there are three books, Book 1, Book 2, and a "Challenge Book." The cases in Books 1 and 2 have the same names, but those in Book 2 are only slightly more difficult, have different clues and come with different outcomes. The Challenge Book contains only six mysteries, all having the same names as their namesake cases in Books 1 and 2, but with [[UpToEleven significantly higher difficulty.]]

In ''EEM London,'' there are two books, with the cases in Book 1 being very different from those in Book 2 and with approximately the same level of difficulty across all the cases. (On a side note, both books in ''EEM London'' contain exactly 25 cases, which means you get to solve 50 mysteries in all - not counting the [[JustifiedTutorial introductory mystery]] that you get when you first start playing the game.)

* AdultsAreUseless: [[AvertedTrope Actually, no,]] adults are ''very'' helpful when it comes to giving information. [[PoliceAreUseless The police's ability to solve cases without the Eagles' help, on the other hand...]]

* AlliterativeName: Most of the case-names in both games, although it's [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with ''EEM London's'' "Case of the Sherlock Holmes Hoax" and "Case of the Robin Hood Hacker."

* BreakingTheFourthWall: A necessary part of both games' [[JustifiedTutorial practice mysteries.]] In-story, in ''EEM London's'' "Case of the Marlford Murder," Count von Coburg does it constantly, forgetting that he's supposed to be playing the murder victim and is therefore supposed to be playing dead.

** In ''EEM Original'', the mysteries in Book 1 are extremely easy and require that you pick five clues to solve each one. Then comes Book 2, whose cases are slightly more difficult and require that you pick ''four'' clues to solve them. And then comes the [[UpToEleven Challenge Book,]] which for at least one of the cases will require you to take out actual pen and paper to keep track of the facts, and all of which require you to pick '''three''' clues before you can choose the guilty party.

* EagleEyeDetection: TropeNamer.

** Pay keen attention to anything that is learned regarding [[spoiler:Mrs. Harper's family finances]] in ''EEM Original.'' It'll be important later on.
** In the same game, in Book 1's version of "Case of the Midnight Masquerade," there's a slight animation error that will later prove to be a vital clue in Book 2. [[spoiler:The tear in the gorilla costume]].

* HintsAreForLosers: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted;]] in both games, at the screen where you can select clues from your TRAVIS to accuse the guilty party, you can click on Jake/Jennifer's head to get up to two hints as to the clues you need to pick.

* IdiotBall: Handled often by people who you would expect ought to know better, especially when it comes to their [[InformedAbility field of expertise.]] Read: cops, scholars, and other people in authority.
* JustifiedTutorial: Both games have a practice mystery where the player can get a feel of how gameplay works. In ''EEM London,'' when you begin playing for the very first time, you're immediately launched into the practice mystery, although you can quit it midway through and go straight to the main cases to be solved.

* NotNowKid: Averted; despite the main characters being children, nobody ever brushes them off. This is justified, as by the time your character joins the Eagle Eyes at the start of the first game, they've already established themselves as competent detectives.

** Politician Sir Toby Uppingham has a very similar reaction in ''EEM London's'' "Case of the Envelope Espionage," when he realizes that the seal on a top-secret government envelope in his possession has been tampered with.

** Noticeably averted in ''EEM London's'' "Case of the Perilous Pixies." At the start of the mystery, Rae Maringh - who you've never met in any of the cases prior - phones the detectives at the Eagle family home and acknowledges that you and she have never met, but that she knows of your exploits through Nigel, who's a good friend of hers.

** In ''EEM Original's'' "Case of the Ghastly Ghost," it's revealed that the town of Richview has a legend about a woman named Niagara Tumbel, who supposedly fell off the balcony of the Egyptian Theater after fainting while watching a horror movie there in 1925. In reality, as the Eagle Eyes soon learn, Ms. Tumbel was an actress who pretended to faint while watching the movie, in order to attract publicity for the film.
** In ''EEM London's'' "Case of the Perilous Pixies," it's discovered that most of Dartmoor's residents believe very strongly in the existence of faeries, pixies, and the like. Plus, there are all the familiar stories about King Arthur and Camelot, which are the focus of "Case of the Crumbling Castle."

* [[EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry Everything's Sparkly With Jewelry]]: Amy Jolanna and Mrs. Harper are the two most noteworthy examples; in Amy's case, during Book 2's and the Challenge Book's versions of "Case of the Midnight Masquerade," she wears (respectively) a blue sapphire tiara and an emerald pendant, and in her avatar picture she wears a necklace and earrings. Nicola Hamble, a recurring character from the same game, is always seen wearing a necklace in her avatar picture, and a few other women in the town wear very noticeable earrings.

* [[ItsPersonal It's Personal]]: "Case of the Pilfered Pop" starts with the gang's private soda stash having been stolen from its place at the bottom of their tree-house base, and "Case of the Runaway Reptile" centers on finding out who stole the Eagles' pet iguana Watson. In Books 1 and 2's versions of "Case of the Midnight Masquerade" from the same game, the case becomes this when Nancy Marx, one of the Agency's members, is made a suspect in the case's robbery mystery.

* LetsPlay: A series of videos for the first game were created by YouTube user Resulka.

* SecretTest: [[spoiler:"Case of the Attacking Aliens" in the Challenge Book]].

* AntiVillain: The game's {{Big Bad}} Macavity never does much to actually harm anyone, and all of his/her actions are designed as protests against animal abuse.

* TheButlerDidIt: [[spoiler:In two murder-themed mysteries in ''EEM London''. Both times, the murders are part of an annual game with the "victim" either playing dead or being a very lifelike doll]].

* CoversAlwaysLie: Unfortunately the case with ''EEM London's'' box art, pictured above. Despite what the box art portrays, Jake and Jennifer are never shown in-game as using a flashlight in any of their investigations. And the mysterious man standing underneath the street lamp? He is only ever seen in-game during a transition cut-scene when you traverse London by bus, where he sits beside your partner reading a newspaper.

* LoveMakesYouCrazy: [[spoiler:The motive behind "Case of the Pilfered Phone"]].

* PutOnABus: Everyone in the first game who's not the player (you) or named Jake or Jennifer Eagle, is put aside to make way for the new characters in the sequel. Justified in that at the start of ''EEM London,'' the detectives are going on holiday to a place that is an ocean away from their home town. [[spoiler:[[TheBusCameBack Amy Jolanna does make a cameo in the sequel, though]]]].

* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened To The Mouse?]]: [[spoiler:The ruby in "Case of the Rajah's Ruby" is covertly bought by Macavity at the end of the case and never shows up again for the rest of the game - not even among the wealth left behind by Macavity at the end of the game]].

* [[spoiler:SecretTest]]: The Challenge Book's version of "Case of the Attacking Aliens."

* [[spoiler:TheButlerDidIt]]: In two murder-themed mysteries in ''EEM London''. Both times, the murders are part of an annual game with the "victim" either playing dead or being a very lifelike doll.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: The TRAVIS is a hand-held device capable of storing written data and photographs, and is small enough to be stored inside a jacket pocket. Sounds almost like our modern palmtop computers and smart-phones, except the TRAVIS doesn't have a phone or Internet function and is somewhat bulkier than those devices.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pay keen attention to anything that is learned regarding [[spoiler:Mrs. Harper's family finances]] in ''EEM Original.'' It'll be important later on.

* OhCrap: Bobby Garcia in ''EEM Original'' when he realizes he may have allowed a con artist to clean him out of all his birthday money, some of which he should have put in the bank like his mother had instructed him to.

* RememberTheNewGuy: Happens several times in both games, where characters are introduced who the player has never seen before but who Jake and Jennifer have apparently had prior offscreen acquaintances with. One of the most glaring examples of this is found in the first game, where late into the game two brothers, Michael and Christopher Gallin, are introduced who have certainly never shown up at any earlier point in the game but who the Eagles are evidently familiar with.

* UrbanLegends: In ''EEM Original's'' "Case of the Ghastly Ghost," it's revealed that the town of Richview has a legend about a woman named Niagara Tumbel, who supposedly fell off the balcony of the Egyptian Theater after fainting while watching a horror movie there in 1925. In reality, as the Eagle Eyes soon learn, Ms. Tumbel was an actress who pretended to faint while watching the movie, in order to attract publicity for the film.

* AllThereInTheManual: The manuals for both games show you how to work your way around the various menus and maps and how to select clues in the TRAVIS to solve each case.
** ''EEM London's'' game manual contains guides for semaphores, hieroglyphs, train schedules, and the names of British monarchs and when they reigned. The game also comes with a map of in-game London that the player can use to find his/her way around.

* DifficultySpike: In the first game, the mysteries in Book 1 are extremely easy and require that you pick five clues to solve each one. Then comes Book 2, whose cases are slightly more difficult and require that you pick ''four'' clues to solve them. And then comes the [[UpToEleven Challenge Book,]] which for at least one of the cases will require you to take out actual pen and paper to keep track of the facts, and all of which require you to pick '''three''' clues before you can choose the guilty party.

* FanBoy: Jeremy, a bike messenger and minor character who you first meet in ''EEM London's'' "Case of the Lyric Larceny," is a rabid fan of Astrid Blake's band, Stiff Upper Lip. While you're trying to find Astrid's missing songbook, which is the main aim of the case, when you run into him he offers to pay you ''fifty pounds'' for the book, which he desperately wants to add to his Stiff Upper Lip collection. Seriously, his devotion is [[NightmareFuel not a little creepy.]]

** In the same game, in Book 1's version of "Case of the Midnight Masquerade," there's a slight animation error that will later prove to be a vital clue in Book 2. [[spoiler:The tear in the gorilla costume.]]

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---> ''Hi, I'm Jake Eagle''...
---> ...''' ''and I'm Jennifer Eagle'' '''.

* WorldMap: The two games provide maps of Richview (in the first game) and London (in the sequel). When you're at the map screen, the locations you need to visit are identified by flashing diamonds, with the scene of the crime marked by a flashing red diamond (and thus it being the first place you should go to). Once you've collected all the information at a given location, its diamond will stop flashing and turn solid blue (including the crime scene diamond); in ''EEM London,'' if new information is available at a previously-visited site, its diamond will flash again.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: In-game, the guilty party will sometimes be revealed to have committed this trope, and oftentimes it overlaps with the IdiotBall to the point of them appearing TooDumbToLive. You, as the player, must in such cases invert the trope.