Can somebody help me find my chest?
"No really, I'm serious! See, I've been remodeling this cold and moldy castle, right? So how was I to know that I'd wake up Queen Emelda - especially since the old bat croaked hundreds of years ago!
Anyway, Queenie-baby wants to come back from the dead and rule t...
Windows 7 / 8 / 10, 1.8 GHz, 512MB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9, DirectX 9, 1GB a...
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Can somebody help me find my chest?
"No really, I'm serious! See, I've been remodeling this cold and moldy castle, right? So how was I to know that I'd wake up Queen Emelda - especially since the old bat croaked hundreds of years ago!
Anyway, Queenie-baby wants to come back from the dead and rule the world - and the only way I can stop her monstrous minions is to find a secret scroll of spells, hidden in a big chest somewhere in this huge castle.
Won't you help your poor, innocent little Mistress?"
Yours cruelly,
Elvira
Features:
Over 100 hours of frightening gameplay
An enormous 800-room castle to search and explore
Digitized voices and a haunting soundtrack
Over 300 ominous objects at your disposal
Real-time, hand-to-hand combat with more than 100 sinister characters
Comes with a spellbook to mix potions and ward off evil spirits
I played it on Amiga emulator a while ago.
The game is really good. The castle is interesting to explore with a lot of secrets/puzzles. The gameplay is in between two genre: point and click/puzzle adventure and rpg/dungeon crawler. Combat is hard, don't hesitate to use CE to slow down the game if it's too fast for your liking.
Enemy respawn can become tedious and beware because you only have a specific number of spells (you can't grind components, each is spell is cast one time only). So save often and on different files.
Dark humour, numerous gory death and complex exploration with a mix of dark humour and a specific ambiance (calm and oppressive).
(but beware, only tested on amiga).
Great game and an all-time classic. However, combat encounters are nearly impossible to deal with using a mouse pad/touchpad due to the sloppy reaction time.
to keep it short and straight to the point...
ANECDOTAL:
this is a step up for horror soft in one simple way. the game clock from personal nightmare is gone. PN was awesome, especially since it had the game clock that kind of provided a simulation of scheduled events and etc. aside from that, the game clock ultimately made the game waaay more frustrating than fun. actualy, PN was more intriguing than fun. not bad, just reaaaaly hard to get into because of said feature.
NOW ON TO THIS GAME:
without an in-game clock hampering the experience, this game capitalizes on the freedom to explore, as well as providing very fun and simple combat which is great for an old school classic such as this. more old school afficianodos know that most first person grid based exploration games tend to be pretty brutal, and because of that, hard to get into.
this game is a very rare gem in that case being that its notnecisserily brutal. as well, the environments are absolutly beautiful. the gameplay(player actions) or straightforward which is all very much a positive. gathering objects/plants or etc is simple... just drag from the environment and into your inventory space for the wonderful elvira's spell crafting/cooking :3
controls are all(gui based) mouse accessible which is always great.
CONCLUSION:
to sum it all up. This is a rare case where an old school dos game is highly accessible and fun. light on punishment, and deep with environment detail and characters. total recommend for newbies and old school pros alike. A MUST PLAY.
The Mistress of the Dark was a fun game back in the days and it still ist. Not too complex a nice mix of rpg and adventure, it still boasts some great graphics and is worth a play-session. Well, the 50/50-fighting-system was never very good, but one can manage. I still like this gem!
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