It’s all standard fare, but there are a few issues, the greatest one of all being the inventory itself and the lack of names or descriptions for each item, either written or spoken, and while a few are simple items like cranes, telescopes and keys, there are a few more obscure ones that’ll have you scratching your head on how to use them, and can, in turn, make all puzzles a simple task of using all items in your inventory on something in case one of the stranger items works with it. By clicking the right mouse button or pressing Tab, you access your inventory. You interact with objects when your cursor turns into a cog, you take a closer look at them when the cursor is a magnifying glass and you pick them up when it’s a hand. Like many of its kind, you move through flat screenshot environments by clicking when the cursor turns into an arrow. The games’ interface is extremely simple, and is in fact one of my main issues with them. The games star Jonathan Harker as he travels to Transylvania to rescue Mina, who’s fallen under Dracula’s spell once more in Resurrection and battles Dracula and his minions in The Last Sanctuary. Having said that, my love for Dracula won out in the end and I played through these 2 games in a matter of days, the first one I finished quite quickly, since it’s so short and the second because I wanted to be done with it as soon as possible.ĭracula: Resurrection and The Last Sanctuary, released in 2000, and developed by Index+, France Telecom Multimedia and Canal+, serve as a sequel to the novel. It breaks immersion almost entirely for me.
I dislike my movement to be constrained, to depend on clicking the exact point in the screen that’ll take me to the next location. Let me be completely frank here: I hate these games. I really should’ve done a bit more research on them before buying them, because only when I started Resurrection did I notice they’re first person point & clickers, those like Myst, where even your movement is bound to your cursor. So, I may be a tad harsher than usual in this review… I bought them because they were adventure games and based on Dracula, which might be my favorite novel, and also the first one I read willingly and not as part of a school assignment. I bought Dracula: Resurrection and Dracula: The Last Sanctuary as part of the Dracula Trilogy, a bundle of games sold on GoG.com. Terrible plot, characters and abominable writing.
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