Dracula 4+5

The 4th chapter was too short, but now gog has gifted the 5th to whom owned the 4th! Thanks!

Dracula 3 was one of the best adventure games made. This is certainly not. The story line is simple and uninteresting. also, it has nothing to do with dracula 3 and despite a few pointless artifacts from the first game showing up here, there is even a direct contradiction to Dracula's backstory compared to that game. Besides that the ending is abrupt. The puzzles have little to nothing to do with the plot and remind me of puzzles from a Hidden Object adventure. The controls force you to swipe to look around the room giving you the feeling of a game made with mobile in mind. Some of the dialogue is ludicrous. There is an almost offensively bad implied sex scene where the protagonist suggests sex with her bland love interest despite being so ill she cannot stand. And finally, the voice actors dont' know how to pronounce half the foreign words. This is really garbage and if you liked Dracula 3, it's all the worse. Please ignore it and hope that some day this will be forgotten and the series will be revived with Janos's adventures during WW2.

Most of negative reviews refer only to Dracula 4 which is first half of one game. After second part release it was merged into single package as Dracula 4+5 which makes some of the complaints about length and abrupt ending no longer accurate but unfortunately overall quality didn't improve. Both parts take about 4 hours to finish and D5 starts right where D4 ends. Game(s) is standalone and though there are few nods to Dracula 3, they seem just put there for sake of belonging to the same franchise. I quite liked puzzles, they felt mostly well balanced, not too easy not too hard. But as whole it's more on a casual side. Inventory-based actions are straightforward and there is very little freedom in exploration, so mostly just hopping from one riddle to another with occasional talking in between. Story is moderately interesting at best and gets more ridiculous with time, plot twists make no sense and all characters are incredibly dull. What's worst, despite being story about vampires and Dracula, it's hardly horror at all. Forget the gothic weirdness and grotesqueness of Dracula 1/2 or heavy atmosphere of Dracula 3. Here everything seems remarkably boring and non-threatening. And then there is this stupid mechanic with medicines that protagonist has to take from time to time. I have no idea why it's there but it feels utterly pointless, out of place and annoying, and could even potentially lock player from finishing the game. Considering it gets super cheap on sales might be worth these few cents if you really like puzzles (or bad vampire stories).

I remember playing Dracula Resurrection when it first came out for PC and I was left wondering WOW! DR felt as if it could have been written by Stoker himself and seem well researched, I played the sequels over the years, I don't remember completing D3 but since I got these games as part of the deal that came with this game, I intend to try to complete it this time around, now that brings me to my whole problem with D4, throughout DR-D3 Dracula is a constant threat, you constantly feel that he is looking over your shoulder and could leap out and bite your neck at any moment, which for a point and click puzzle solving series of games is quite an accomplishment in itself, and due to DR-D3 we have an a mythos that has long been built up, sadly in this game the Dracula we know and love to fear simply doesn't appear, this is just the story of an investigator tracking down a painting and even when she finds the painting, the twist just seems to ruin the classics that have gone before it, no I'm sorry but in my book this game does not hold up well to its predecessors and considering I completed it in an afternoon, I feel the creators could have put in a lot more effort than this pulp fiction style of game.

I do really like Dracula games. I've played Dracula Last Sanctuary, Dracula 3 - this one belongs to my favourite adventures. I also played Dracula Origin, I very liked it too. In my opinion the Origin's cemetery's atmosphere amoung the best. I consider Dracula 4+5 for one piece. Its not bad at all, but lacks graphics, characters compared to previous episode. (Anyone noticed Janos Pekmester?)