The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight® Mystery

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What a wonderful game. Those FMV games from the early-mid 90s are something quite unique, but this is the best one of the all IMO - maybe together with a couple of the Tex Murphy games. Now imagine this, you are actually playing a game that utilizes old European architecture, culture and music (Wagner) as part of its story. It's such a breath of fresh air, considering how games nowadays seem to ignore the rich European cultural history, to instead focus on some generic diverse futuristic or post-apocalyptic vision. This game represents better times IMO. Next Gen graphics aren't everything... If you have a slight interest in retro games, THIS is the one to play IMO.

i adore 90s FMV games & this one is fantastic! it's clear that so much care went into creating this game from the graphics, backgrounds, and assets to the dialogue and lore/story. i played most of the first gabriel knight game before starting this one (sins of the fathers) but i did not complete it due to some technical issues. i would generally recommend playing it first or maybe watching a playthrough because it was definitely helpful to have the background context for gabriel & grace's dynamic and some lore stuff like why gabriel ended up in germany and what it means that gabriel is a schattenjäger, as well as some fun in-jokes and references to characters/situations in the first game. but i do think the beast within would work fine if you hadn't played the previous game, and the mystery itself does not rely upon knowledge learned in the previous game. without getting into spoiler territory, the core mystery is really satisfying to unravel, the characters are well-acted and entertaining, and the split protagonist situation adds so much good flavor and drama. puzzle-wise, it can be quite challenging and mildly frustrating at times, i had to rely on an online hint guide to figure out what i was missing in several parts of the game, but that's to be expected from point & click mysteries from this era. the only part of the game where i felt actually frustrated was [spoiler] during the chapter where you are first exploring neuschwanstein as grace and have to listen to the audio tapes for every room in the castle as well as tapes describing all the artwork, because it's extremely easy to miss something and not realize it, so i got stuck for a while relistening to a lot of the same long audio files over and over again. several of the rooms also require you to click the audio tape button multiple times for additional lore, but there's no indicator for which rooms have multiple audio files. there are also some difficult-to-notice room transitions in a couple other areas during exploration with grace. thankfully her journal helped a lot with this problem as you can kind of tell when there's information missing on a specific topic when there's empty space on a page, so if you pay attention to where you got information on a topic, you can kind of retrace your steps and double check everything else in that room/area. [/spoiler] i would recommend it to anyone who enjoys games of this era and doesnt mind a little clunkiness, or to someone who's curious about FMV games, loves a good mystery, & doesn't mind potentially needing to rely on a guide or hints to get through some of the tougher sections. it takes some patience but it's very worth it!

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Its a little campy in terms of effects, but it was the 90s. I am a HUGE fan of the series though: HIGHLY RECCOMEND. PS: the first one scared the CRAP out of 12 year old me in the 90s.

Finally finished my first play through that I startted more than 30 years ago. I have a distinct memory of talking my mom into buying me this game when I was a kid and our crappy 90s PC could barely handle it and I was clearly too stupid to progress, and now here I am and i feel... well not much. GK2 is somehow one of the most impressive point and click games I've ever played while also being the most dated and frustrating. Peak era FMV games are really unique in that they briefly, in their time, felt like a generational leap into the future of gaming. yet those same games also feel so trapped in their time and aging so badly. GK2 felt so long and bloated in places. Grace's research chapters drag. One is literally just spending an hour at a museum reading exhibit cards. Travel gets repetitive af. The annoying obtuse thinking issue of just having to click everything on everything until something works is an annoyance compounded by frustrating timed game over segments in late game. The final puzzle is downright maddening. I can go on and on with reasons why you shouldn't play it, least of all it's weird disconnect from the characters, tone, and world of Sins of the Fathers. Yet I do recommend it because it is so impressive for its time. A big cool story and irl cast just getting goofy with it. So much more camp than I remember, like a low budget Twin Peaks. The big score and Gabriel Knight musical motif is so freaking good. It's just cool this game exists, warts and all. Really glad to finally add some closure to my childhood.

A trip down memory lane. As a fan of GK1, I bought the original GK2 as it were available, back in 95. Still have the complete box, with 6 cd's. Graphics today may not look like much, but in the day they were simply amazing. Solved the game with no help, because at the time, internet access were limited and not so many reviews anyway. It is a game of a time that has passed, but a time with another charm. Like listening to an old cherished music, it is still pleasurable to enjoy.

The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery é o segundo jogo da série Gabriel Knight, mas que fora algumas informações contextuais envolvendo as relações entre personagens e o papel do protagonista pode ser jogado de maneira isolada, cada um destes primeiros jogos acaba abordando um caso diferente, quase como se fossem episódios de uma série de "monstro da semana" como Arquivo X, Supernatural e Buffy. Neste jogo vemos a segunda aventura de Gabriel, investigando assassinatos possivelmente cometidos por um lobisomem na Alemanha, porém ele não está sozinho: nessa sequência jogamos também como a Gracie, a assistente dele do primeiro jogo, que aqui ganha um papel bem maior. O jogo possui um tom diferente, um pouco menos humoroso e mais sombrio do que seu antecessor, porém sua essência permanece a mesma: uma narrativa com elementos de aventura, terror, romance e História. Os personagens seguem bem divertidos de acompanhar, e a narrativa continua muito bem escrita - e até possui alguns subtextos que me surpreenderam muito pra um jogo dos anos 90. O maior diferencial da vez, e o que chama a atenção de cara quando você vê imagens do jogo, são seus visuais FMV que substituem a pixel art do original. Isso também significou a troca dos atores que interpretam os personagens, sendo que os dubladores do original não necessariamente se pareciam com os personagens. Essa troca de estilo visual pode causar um pouco de estranhamento no início, mas uma vez que ele passa, eu diria que funciona surpreendentemente bem: os novos atores que interpretam o Gabriel e a Gracie são ótimos, e os visuais e a atuação que poderiam ser risíveis se encaixam muito bem com o material - ainda existe aquele charme de algo datado ou "bobo", porém nos momentos em que o jogo quer ser sério ele consegue, o nível de produção aqui é bem alto. Quanto à gameplay, ela se mantém a de um point-and-click tradicional, com todos seus pontos positivos e negativos - existem aqui instâncias de objetos escondidos demais no cenário, diagramação um pouco confusa sobre onde você pode ir em determinada tela, ou quebra-cabeças que poderiam ter tido pistas melhores no texto do jogo, mas num geral eu diria que o jogo é bem direto e até mais fácil do que o primeiro. Eu gostei bastante do meu tempo jogando The Beast Within, e acredito que qualquer um que seja fã de jogos Adventure point-and-click antigos e especialmente os que jogaram o primeiro jogo vão gostar bastante da experiência também. Seus visuais podem ser um pouco difíceis de se habituar para um público moderno, mas mesmo assim sugiro que deem uma chance.

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