Posted on: March 27, 2018

ChronoTravis

Games: 461 Reviews: 3

A nearly perfect adventure game

This is a great game made even better with updated graphics and some quality of life features. The story is excellent, with an intriguing mystery, atmosphere, and memorable and likeable characters. The puzzle design mostly excellent with logical solutions that fit the story well and provide a good challenge without being frustrating. The voice acting is mostly good, but the music is absolutely amazing. I highly recommend this game. The only negatives are a few glitchy animations here and there, and the charaters do not always blend well into the backgrounds.

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Posted on: May 19, 2017

Xydonus

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Games: 21 Reviews: 1

A Frustrating Game With Shoddy Dialogue

This is an incomplete review, simply because I didn't get far into the game. Not even to the first crime scene; my total playtime is roughly 30/40 mins, maybe even less. First of all, the only game I played in the Gabriel Knight series was the Beast Within, which I absolutely loved and enjoyed immensely, despite the hammy acting at times. That game was very immersive, and is the direct sequel to this game. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers is a 3D game but doesn't contain the horrendous 3D backgrounds that Gabriel Knight 3 utilizes. Its backdrops are beautiful, well drawn and the characters themselves including their animations are done quite well. Normally I dislike 3D point n click games, but here it was at least done well. Once I started playing, the alarm bells started ringing straight away. The dialogue system is quite bad and inconsistent. Various topics that pop up can be clicked on twice with poor delivery by Gabriel, and no actual effort put into it to form complete conversations. It really feels like the devs/writers cut down on the dialogue because of the original voice cast for Gabriel (Tim Curry) and his very likely high price tag for each word uttered. As a result, npc conversations don't feel like conversations at all but badly formed questions. Yet it wasn't the dialogue that frustrated me or made me give up on the game. It was the very first 'puzzle'. Note: Spoiler ahead, so don't read on if you don't want to know the details. The first puzzle involves finding out the where the crime scene is. After heading to the back, it became obvious of what I must do; distract the cop to get access to his police radio. Unfortunately, the method of distracting the cop involves leading a Mime to him. Sounds easy, right? But either through a glitch or the fact its 3D and awkward as hell, the Mime will get 'distracted' with patrolling bystanders whose job it is to lead the Mime away from you. After repeated attempts... I gave up. 2/5 Stars

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Posted on: September 30, 2017

BeujSensei

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Games: 170 Reviews: 1

Excellent remastering !

I played Gabriel Knight a long time ago, and I found the game great, but really difficult at my age. Now I'm older, I just find the game fantastic ! And the efforts made for the remastering are really great, and give the game a new youth. It was a pleasure to play this really well made game with a so brilliant story and really smart enigmas. I suggest you play it ! I played it in French, the translation is not bad.

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Posted on: February 19, 2018

Multiplicity

Verified owner

Games: 164 Reviews: 3

Couldn't get into it

I can't say anything for the original. I've not played it (as a kid back then, I didn't have a plethora of games to play). For this anniversary edition, I am having a hard time not grimacing at the poor quality of voice acting this game has. I can't get past the early part of the game either. The puzzle with the mime in the park was not fun at all. I knew something with the mime and the people who he annoyed had something to do with this part, but I had to resort of hints to figure out what I was supposed to do with him. Finally, I just got fed up of him getting distracted by all the other groups that I simply had it with this game (yes, I know you're supposed to lead him to the cop without "nudging" the other people in the park, but couldn't manage to avoid them). If I am not having fun with the puzzles from the beginning, I doubt I'll enjoy the rest of it. I'd rather buy another adventure game more engaging.

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Posted on: July 2, 2015

Royalguard22

Games: 271 Reviews: 4

Badly broken and buggy

I have not played the original but picked this up because point and click adventure games are a lost art. The art style, music, and graphics are all very well done, and the interface, while a bit on the slow "90s game design" side, is easy to use and unobtrusive. Others have mentioned the voice acting, which is a bit ridiculous and exaggerated, but never harms the game's tone. However, my experience with this title was quite limited because of the bugs. There is a persistent freeze/crash bug that has halted my progress very early in the game and I would warn potential buyers of this issue (it may be related to ATI Radeon cards). Apparently, this is a common problem with this game, which may have needed a little more time in testing before it was released. Even on hardware that can more than handle the game, it crashes constantly. If you're interested, perhaps the original would be a better bet. I have played the sequel and can recommend that.

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