Two guards at an intersection will murder you if you even attempt to talk to them. Again, nothing here is challenging, per se, but it is another friendly reminder of how fucked the game's checkpointing and difficulty can get. Getting the Earring From the Fisherman - 4/10 - After interacting with Agatha and crossing paths with a handful of other named characters, your protagonist needs to pick up an earring from a local fishmonger. Do you like clicking through screens and fumbling through bad inventory UI? If not, then this is NOT THE GAME FOR YOU!
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By the way, this is one of those CD-ROM adventure games that uses checkpoints rather than manual saves. If you interact with the guards for too long or enter the Queen's Palace before meeting Agatha, you will get a "Game Over" and start back at the pilot, which could represent the loss of hours of game time. At this point, the game also reminds you of its brutal difficulty. If you enjoyed Riven, flaws and all, it's a fun start to the game wherein you can talk to NPCs and learn more about the machinations of the world. In other words, it requires a lot of aimless wandering. You can brute force this scenario, but it is worth pointing out how large the starting hub city is and how little the game signposts you. After a pilot plops you at the capital city of the kingdom of Atlantis, you endeavor to meet with the general of the queen's guard. The trick is knowing where to go and getting used to how Atlantis controls. Now, let's jump into my puzzle rankings with all of that in mind! Puzzle Rankings (In Chronological Order)įinding Agatha - 3/10 - This starting puzzle all but determines if you will finish Atlantis or not.
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In fact, a majority of the people with even a slight memory of the game are likely to be owners of the console ports rather than the original PC version. Also, for Saturn and PS1 owners, this game was a fixture at game shops and often sold at ridiculously low prices. While none of this graphical fidelity holds up by today's standards, there's something impressive about a game in 1997 with animated 3D polygonal characters and voice acting to boot.
Unlike Cyan, Cryo entirely rendered its environments and characters in-game and fully 3D. Nonetheless, if there is one thing you have to give Cryo credit for, it has to be the production values of the Atlantis series. However, as with most Myst clones, none of the Atlantis games provide as much of Myst's storytelling and gameplay upside while still repeating many of its faults and shortcomings. Regardless, each game repeats the Myst franchise's gameplay and mechanical tropes. The second game features fabled lost cities steeped in Chinese and Japanese mythology. For example, the first game features a version of Atlantis based on Greek and Roman legends. The gimmick with these games is that each tackles a different historical thematic, and none of them are explicitly connected.
In comes the Atlantis franchise! Atlantis: The Lost Tales, the game we will be discussing today, is the first of five games in the Atlantis anthology. However, eventually, they found a niche of sorts making what many would derisively call " Myst Clones." You sure do see Game Over screens like this one a lot in this game. Versailles 1685 mixed then-groundbreaking 3D graphics with historical fantasy storytelling. When the genre bottomed out, they were one of the few studios to survive as they quickly pivoted to make edutainment games much like Humongous Entertainment. At the studio's onset, they were making SCUMM-clones to try and capitalize on LucasArts' "Golden Age." Somehow, they ended up with the Dune IP and developed the well-received 1992 Dune adventure game. However, they were a studio that rarely brought anything new to the table. During the late 90s, they were outputting three to four fully-featured adventure games per year. Cryo was a massive figure in the PC adventure game community as their output during their peak was bonkers. As such, let's jump into everyone's "favorite" era of PC adventure games: the CD-ROM era! That's right, assholes it's time for us to talk about "Myst-likes."įirst, we should talk about Cryo Interactive. You fuckers said I was "too soft" last time. Therefore, I decided to tackle something different with today's blog. It is a technical masterpiece that, at its worst, has a handful of above-average puzzles that can impede the player as they progress its story. Despite all of its faults, The Dig is in no way the "worst" at anything. I received moderate criticism during that blog that I was engaging in histrionics, and it was a fair point to make. When I last talked about an adventure game, it was for LucasArts' The Dig. Preamble Well, this is certainly something different!
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