Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers – 20th Anniversary Edition

I was introduced to Gabriel Knight through "The Beast Within", and I absolutely loved it. (I even fell in love with a Japanese-descendent girl a few years later, just because she looked like Grace! What a time that was! But I digress.) So to me, GK1 became like a prequel. The pixel art felt like a step back from the (fairly successful) Full Motion Video of GK2, but once I got into the story I found that I didn't really care about how it looked. The pixels made the clock puzzle difficult, since it was hard to see what the symbols were, but otherwise this might as well have been text-based. The remake feels less genuine, in a way. Not as soulful. Gabriel doesn't hug grandma anymore. The scene with Wolfgang does not nearly raise as much emotions as the original. And the voice acting is not as good. Many of the actors try to emulate or copy from the original, rather than doing it in their own style. Only Tim Curry can say "I really don't wanna die. Can we try that again?" with the same, slightly sarcastic, southern drawl. The changes that are there are mostly for the worse: silly puzzles added here and there. (But I do like the new Schloss Ritter scenes!) One should never go back to streets where one has lived, or revisit old love interests, and perhaps the same is true for computer games. If you are the kind of person who re-reads old books, why not give it a try. It's like a new edition with new shiny pictures, and it brings a bit of difference. Have you never played GK1? Do it, but you might as well play the original.

quick question, the game looks good but before i download it can you confirm if it's an FMV game like Pandoras Directive, which I love. thanks

I have nothing to say about the story or the game itself, except that I'm also disapointed by the voice actor, I didn't remember that Gabriel could sound as perverted as Larry Laffer, some movements might look clumsy, but I think it's because all the animations have been pre-rendered so you can't realy have smooth interactions with everything, but it's not that disturbing. The graphics have been polished, and it's easier to spot the things you can interact with than with the old game. Overall, nice game except for the voice of Gabriel ...

I've been playing for two days now and I barely have had any progress in the game. While playing I found a way to softlock the game during Day 1 and it took me a while to figure out how not to do it. That was on day wasted of my weekend. After that I started to play Day 2 in the game and almost got through it. Almost, because the game had a fucking bug that prevented me to progress to Day 3. I had done everything there was to do but the needed dialog option just did not show up. So after playing 8 hours I decided to reload Day 2 and managed to proceed to Day 3. To sum things up, during my weekend I managed to find some game breaking bugs that the development team did not and they pretty much ruined my experience with the game. Please test your games before releasing them.

How horrible is the new voice of Gabriel? Absolutely appalling voice devastates the whole game's atmosphere. I'm seriously thinking playing this game in mute.