2 PC games (50p each). Collection from Bedford Rd. Midnight Mysteries: Salem Witch Trials AGON: The Mysterious Codex Combining one-part ghost story, one-part historical intrigue, and one-part literary backdrop, Midnight Mysteries: Salem Witch Trials whisks you back in time to unravel the mystery of the murder of Nathaniel Hawthorne, famed American author of such classics as The House Of The Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter. Sin, guilt, and atonement, which are familiar characters in Hawthorne’s stories, take up residence in this casual adventure as you determine whether Hawthorne’s spirit can escape the sins of his ancestors. As you gather clues to his murder, you’ll encounter no shortage of sinners and sinfulness, including domineering Puritans, blood curses, stolen land, ghosts, and of course witch hunts in this spooky game. While you may find yourself a bit lost in a maze of characters and stories, the terrific atmosphere, logical inventory puzzles, plenty of fun animations, and well-integrated hidden object episodes round out this lite but entertaining game. In the Midnight Mysteries series, you play a writer who has a connection to the spirit world. But not just any old spirits – your character is a magnet for the ghosts of classic novelists. These ghosts ask you to use your powers of observation to explore the scenes not only of their deaths, but also of their most famous stories to find clues to their murders. Salem Witch Trials takes this formula, which began as a pretty straightforward hidden object game in The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy, and turns it up several notches by increasing your interaction with your environment, expanding the scope of exploration, and giving you plenty of inventory puzzles to solve for a better, more balanced adventure-like experience. adventuregamers/articles/view/18463 For those unfamiliar with the story, you play the games as Professor Samuel Hunt, who works at the British Museum in the early 1900s. Receiving a letter that references an ancient board game, Samuel sets off to find clues to the origin of the game, and eventually the game itself. By the end, the series will span fourteen chapters as Samuel travels the globe to unravel the mystery of AGON, the ultimate board game. In the process, he must locate twelve local board games that will lead him further towards his final goal. LONDON SCENE introduces our protagonist and sets up the series, as Hunt finds that the first clues he is looking for are right under his nose in the museum. So he must decipher the letter hes received and plan his next steps. In ADVENTURES IN LAPLAND, Samuel is off to the frozen Finnish province in search of his next set of clues. And of course finding these clues involves solving a series of puzzles in order to determine where he is to head next. Then in PIRATES OF MADAGASCAR, Hunt, believing the game to be in the hands of pirates, must hunt down their treasure in the hopes of finding his own reward. Unlike many other genres, adventure games live and die by their stories, and Private Moon definitely knows this. The overarching story is one that we havent heard before, and while the series promises to have an epic payoff for those who stick with it over its fourteen chapters, each portion of the story can be easily digested as a standalone tale. adventuregamers/games/view/16128
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:20:15 +0000
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