Dracula: Origin

Pretty fun point and click adventure game. Most puzzles aren't that hard but there are a few that may stump you for quite a while.

Крутой детектив, интересные диалоги. Загадки можно решить с помощью простой логики: главное — слушать и читать. Было пару загадок, с которыми пришлось повозиться. Модельки персонажей красивые, озвучка хорошая, персонажам идут их голоса. Кат-сцены и графика достаточно высоки для года издания игры. Вкратце, мне очень понравилось играть.

A true adventure game from Frogware. Lots of locations and good music and voice overs. It has complex hellish puzzles (and locks), nothing is skippable, you will need a guide at every second. I recommend.

Got this game on sale on a lark and was disappointed. This is an old style point and click adventure/detective game, which is a genre I usually enjoy. The first major puzzle is a map excercise based on 'clues' given in a number of newspaper articles. The game expects you to find the position of a mysterious attacker, presumed to be vampire based on information in the articles. The interface is not explained and is especially frumpy leading to extreme frustration on the part of the player. If you like this genre of game I would recommend later Frogware titles.

The atmosphere is pretty cool, but this game lacks polish.

Cool game

프로그웨어의 흔한 포인트앤클릭 게임. 게임은 무난한 편인데, 캐릭터의 과거사나 퍼즐의 실마리등을 문서 하나로 땡친 경우가 꽤 있어서 좀 아쉬움. 셜록홈즈 시리즈처럼 끝날 줄 알았는데 설마 엔딩이 그렇게 날 줄이야..

(I've needed 11 hours for completing this game, but played a lot of it in offline-mode, therefore the amount of game-time in this review will differ with the actual one). Well... would there be a review option available between good and bad, I would have picked that one out. Such an option doesn't exist though and this game's way too well made for giving it a negative one. Therefore I will offer to you all now the pros and contras: * Great detective work, challenging puzzles and interesting environments. * Loved the hand-painted looking backgrounds in the loading screens. * There were a creepy scene in the story, which was really giving good horror-vibes! * It's different from the original Dracula-story, therefore not just a 100% copy of Bram Stocker. - Some puzzles were too hard and/or didn't feel right. I asked in the discussion forum how to solve the hieroglyphic one for example, but didn't get a response. So get used to keep a walkthrough next to you for solving this game. - Dracula's looks seemed to have been more focused on horny, teenage Twilight fans, instead of real horror-lovers. Not even his eyes glowed unnatural red once. - The ending was really short and disappointing. Can't go in detail though without spoiling you all. Let's just say that it made zero sense, how the count could have survived this whole procedure (vampire or not, doesn't matter). So... yeah honestly I can only recommend it to fans of vampires and detectives. And maybe while it's on discount.

Cooles Point and Click mit ziemlichen Black Mirror Vibes. Auch wenn einem einige der Rätsel ganz schön alleine lassen und man erstmal verstehen muss, was zu tun ist. Ich hätte mir aber schon ein paar Auftritte mehr von Dracula gewünscht.

I had so much fun playing this game, lots of laughs. My favourite puzzle was when we had to combine some things with mysterious sticky thing. Heh, don't wanna spoil the fun! 10/10 would play this again, can't believe how big Van Helsing's pockets are for him to fit an entire library staircase ladder, in order to move it 4 meters to the right. "Beautiful roses!"