In a world where comic books are real - The final issue is Evil!
In the City Of Darkness, where the spirit of the times is an insatiable lust for flesh and blood, a hero stands alone. You are Darksheer, and your nemeses will stop at nothing: the vampiric Succubus, Tophat the Magician, the masochist...
In a world where comic books are real - The final issue is Evil!
In the City Of Darkness, where the spirit of the times is an insatiable lust for flesh and blood, a hero stands alone. You are Darksheer, and your nemeses will stop at nothing: the vampiric Succubus, Tophat the Magician, the masochistic Master Macabre and their demonic allies have joined forces to indulge in fantasies of carnage worthy only of the end of time.
Night Dive Studios presents Noctropolis, a beautifully rendered, adult graphic adventure about the grisly things you dream.
New features include:
- High-quality, remastered in-game soundtrack
- Original bonus Comic Book
- Improved mouse support: You can rebind left and right click function to any mouse button; scroll wheel can be used to navigate in-game menus and comic books
- Improved keyboard support: You can rebind virtual left and right click keys; page up and page down act the same as the mouse scrollwheel. Can use number keys to make choices during dialogue trees. Can adjust sensitivity of virtual pointer
- Support for modern displays with ability to toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode
- SDL 2.0 Game controller support added, with rebinding and sensitivity controls supported
- Several game crashing bugs from the original code fixed
- Dead-end situations in game play removed
- Optional linear texture filtering
- Three-band equalized, filtered sound mixer.
Confront a labyrinth of mind-bending puzzles as you close in on the evil mastermind.
Hand-painted backgrounds project a highly stylized comic book reality.
A 28-page digital comic book is the catalyst for this dreaded apocalypse.
Got this way back on release, mostly b/c it was adult-oriented and featured some nudity, thanks to CD storage and FMV. Anyway, while it is a somewhat light R-rated point n click featuring the hero Darksheer, it also has a terribly clumsy, awkward mouse interface. It has to be seen to be understood. On top of that, the hero has no super abilities, just a cape. I guess he uses the dark to hide or something. He can't call the forces of darkness to help him or levitate. Noctropolis has no groundbreaking content to offer besides being on CD. It's the usual walkaround, find things, solve puzzles, with no compelling story to drive it. There is some cool twisted imagery and disgusting visuals but that's it. Short game too, maybe five to seven hours. Even $9.99 is absurd. I'd pay no more than $4.99 for this.
I played this game when I was a teenager, in the days when free nude pics were still a chore to find. So a game with live-action topless chick in a game?! That being said, I dug the world they created here.
The highlights of the game for me are the two perky breasts that belong to an actual woman, a pretty one at that, and the comically exaggerated FMV.
It also doesn't hurt that the game is pretty forgiving with its puzzles. For example, you don't have to use items on a specific place on the screen. If an item in your inventory can be used anywhere on the screen, your character will automatically use it correctly as soon as you tell him to use the item.
Otherwise, this game feels like a wasted opportunity. If I got to see more of Noctropolis, if there were some hardcore sex scenes with the Succubus, if there were some SAW-like horror scenes with the Butcher, if Top Hat just got more screentime and Greenthumb just did something, anything, this would have been a much better game.
Alas, a risque video game from the 90s is pretty tame by today's standards. If this weren't FMV, I'd probably give it a lower rating than many free games on itch.io.
Why 4 stars then? I applaud Night Dive Studios for bringing this game to the modern era. Although the game has aged about as well as beef jerky, the setting, some characters, and the wacky superhero theme hold a lot of promise in my mind. Perhaps someday there will be a better version of this game by today's standards.
A nice click and play game. I have the original CD and box still. You guys seriously need to add the CD soundtrack to this, back to a time when they put some time and money into doing some great music. TFX is another one that did this.
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