Posted on: June 7, 2023
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Games: 908 Reviews: 20
Gothic horror story done well
I played this game in the DOS era. While it does have RPG elements, it is, at its core, an adventure game. There is no random content, all locations are predesigned. While set in the 20th century, the story immediately thrusts you into a rural region that has a low fantasy feel to it (Romania and Dracula spring to mind). Modern times references are sparse and do not spoil the mood of the story. Horror elements are present as elements of the story, but this game will not give you scares. In order to finish the game you have to complete multiple quests/puzzles that lead up to the confrontation with the final evil, but the order in which you do them is not predetermined and the story mostly does not have a linear feel to it. The adventure part of the game is of reasonable difficulty and I was never perplexed for what to do next for long. RPG-style combat is interspersed between them, but is not the main part of the game. I had very much fun discovering new locations, talking to interesting characters, and figuring out the puzzles. Sadly, as in most adventure games, there is no reply value.
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