Posted on: February 18, 2017
CTSxViper
Verified ownerGames: 639 Reviews: 2
Awesome older Sierra title!
Excellent Game!!
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The Dagger of Amon Ra
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An Ancient Mystery...
A Roaring '20s Murder...
Laura Bow, intrepid heroine of The Colonel's Bequest, is back! This time she's trapped in a huge, imposing museum in the dead of night, surrounded by socialites, miscreants, thieves...and a cold, relentless murderer.
What is the ancient secret of The Dagger of Amon Ra, and who is willing to kill for it? What's the motive for murder? Greed? Religious outrage? Patriotism? Rivalry? Laura Bow, cub reporter for a major New York newspaper, better find out fast!
Are you ready to meet the challenge? Can you discover the truth about the priceless Dagger of Amon Ra before the killer discovers... you?
- Hand-painted, digitized backgrounds inspired by the art of the era.
- Realistic video-captured and artistically enhanced animation.
- Deep puzzles with multiple solutions.
- An intricate and multi-layered storyline; several different endings possible.
- An original stereo soundtrack evocative of the 1920s.
- An intuitive no-typing, point-and-click interface.
© 1992 Activision Publishing, Inc. Activision is a registered trademark and The Dagger of Amon Ra is a trademark of Activision Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. The ratings icon is a registered trademark of the Entertainment Software Association. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners.
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ACCEPTANCE OF END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT REQUIRED TO PLAY
This game is powered by ScummVM
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ACCEPTANCE OF END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT REQUIRED TO PLAY
This game is powered by ScummVM
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4 hMain
7.5 h Main + Sides
10 h Completionist
7 h All Styles
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Posted on: April 16, 2022
Robinson02
Verified ownerGames: Reviews: 14
I’m amazed by the glowing reviews
I liked the first Laura Bow game (Colonels Bequest), but this didn’t have the same atmosphere in my opinion. No suspense/tension, no fleshed-out characters. The voice acting was so cringe worthy and I just couldn’t listen any more (felt like someone doing a caricature impression of stereotypical ‘southern belle’ and ‘snooty rich guy’ people rather than natural voices). I agree with other reviews that it seemed like a parody and broke immersion. Typical of Sierra of the era, it relies on random triggers to events based on innocuous and unrelated things you do elsewhere (an analogy I used for a game from the same period was: Imagine the people you work with didn’t appear unless you opened a certain window in your house before leaving and waved to your neighbour, leaving you trapped in ‘pre work’ time until you guessed at the solution). How was this ever considered fun or good game design?! You’d have to resort to walkthroughs. Again, I know it’s typical of games at the time (and perhaps the genre at large) that you’d be lacking a really obvious essential day to day item and have to do a series of steps to get it… but not being able to leave the starting location for something so easy to resolve (that should have been given to you by now) was just a road block to getting the story going. Having to use the note book to initiate certain dialogue by combining locations, people and facts is a nice idea, but quickly devolves into trial and error. A more standard dialogue tree would have worked better in my opinion. Overall I just couldn’t get on with it and struggle to think of anything positive to say.
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Posted on: April 20, 2021
topboy1480
Verified ownerGames: 340 Reviews: 6
Lovely game
Not perfect, but lovely game.
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Posted on: December 31, 2021
Kirovan
Verified ownerGames: 27 Reviews: 1
A good adventure game
I like vintage adventure quests.
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Posted on: September 28, 2019
Karl_Sookdeo
Verified ownerGames: 376 Reviews: 1
Bow Down To Destiny With Amon Ra
This is an unusually fun game!!!!
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