Dracula Trilogy

A no-nostalgia review: 1st game: Fun, short, puzzles are reasonable, completed without a walkthrough and enjoyed 2nd game: Less fun, puzzles are getting ridiculous 3rd game: Stellar atmosphere, excellent beginning but then becomes more boring, I wanted to love this game so bad but the puzzles rapidly got more and more ridiculous and the game became a boring walkthrough-readalong simulator Also FYI you have to read up in the forums and do some extra steps to get the 3rd game to run on modern systems.

Dracula: The Resurrection: game loads good and works not that well. Wasted an hour looking to progress just to found out that you actually have an inventory for the items you pick up. Pressed everything on my keyboard and mouse with no luck. Also there is no way of saving the game. Once you start, you have to finish it. Add to that the only way of closing it is through Ctrl+Alt+Supr. Dracula: The Last Sanctuary: doesn't launch. Dracula: The Path of the Dragon: doesn't launch as well.

Very enjoyable point & click horror - with an unusal fmv style. Featuring straight forward puzzles & a great atmosphere. Pretty short to - not a game that goes on for to long.

after reading all the positive reviews here, i was a bit disapointed, when playing dracula 1, but i wasn´t shocked, until playing dracula 2. dracula 1 is still an "ok" game, even if it seems like a trashy budget game, but at least it´s trashy in a fun way, while dracula 2 gets worse in everything, that was bad about the first game, without being funny. dracula 3 could have been an ok game, if there was an option to get hints or even skip some puzzles. i finished dracula 1 in one evening without a walkthrough, but 2 and 3 took me both multiple days, because sometimes i just got bored and stopped playing. without dracula 1 i would have given this trilogy a 1 star rating.

If I had to rate these games separately, I would give 2 stars each to the first two games, and 5 stars to the 3rd one. For me the difference between the first two games and the third is so glaring that it felt like they belong to entirely different series, which, in a sense, they do, as the first two games are set in the 'fictional' world of Bram Stoker's novel, and Dracula 3 is set in 'real' world, where the novel features as a work of fiction based on 'real' events. Dracula 1+2 get two stars because they look visually nice and have good creepy atmosphere. Gameplay-wise they were often frustrating because of counter-intuitive puzzles, but mainly because they were too dark, even with screen brightness at max; I literally couldn't see an object I was supposed to pick up at times, so I sometimes spent ages scanning the whole screen pixel by pixel to find a thing that I would use once and then discard, which was very immersion-breaking. Other times the puzzles did not make much sense, so I just randomly tried using every item in the inventory, until something worked. It did not help that the items had zero descriptions, and it was not always clear what certain items even were and sometimes I didn't even know why I was doing what I was doing. I do however recommend Dracula 3 because I found it really enjoyable compared to the other games, with equally unsettling atmosphere and interesting, sometimes quite challenging and most importantly, logical puzzles. There is an objectives tracker, which is useful if you feel stuck or forgot something. I also liked that upon dying you did not lose progress since last save, because game auto-reloads the last scene. The narrative and characters were kind of bland though, so the game is best enjoyed as a series of puzzles rather than story-driven adventure game, as it is extremely linear. The only problem I had with this game was actually getting it to run on Windows 10 at first, but a little googling helped to fix that.