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The player must collect five crystal shards to defeat the malevolent god Kal; using doors in the
Hawthorne Mansion, they may travel to different time periods, each with their respective shard. The five time periods can be accessed in any order, and each time period has a unique musical accompaniment.
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that is rumoured to be haunted, and previous residents supposedly went insane after living there. The player takes the role of an employee of the agency, and arrives at the house to inspect and clean it. The house was built on the site where a 15th century castle once stood, and in the 1920s a
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music as being a detriment to the game's otherwise "eerie" atmosphere, expressing that the music quality deteriorated as part of porting the game from Amiga to DOS, and stated that "the translation to PC is sometimes so badly done, that it's genuinely horrible." Anton praised
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an overall score of 82%, noting its fantasy setting as 'dated' but "fun", expressing that "Admittedly, old ruins, strange dimensions and broken rocks are nothing new in adventure games, but the story is full of fantasy, has atmosphere and is fun."
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god Kal, a malevolent god that has been asleep for eons. The protagonist must continue Jugger's work to stop Kal from waking and returning to Earth, bringing about the end of the world. Doors in the house allow the protagonist to
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In the midst of cleaning the house, a parcel arrives to the house addressed to Jugger, that has been in transit for 70 years. It contains Jugger's diary, which contains research about a cult that worships the
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is the addition of an auto-mapping feature. In dialogue, key phrases/topics can be clicked to ask characters for further information, or interact with objects, i.e. inspecting an object for further detail.
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music: every world has a different soundtrack, but tracks feel indistinct from one another. In addition, only two tracks are memorable." In his conclusion, Trafford summarised
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has a grid of icons for common commands, i.e. ascending or descending stairs and picking up items, and these icons can be clicked to input them. Also exclusive to
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writing as "casual" and "not as serious as its predecessors", something that they note as a detriment to the game's "eerie" atmosphere. Trafford criticizes
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mine, a 19th century ship in the midst of battle, and far in the future. To defeat Kal, the protagonist must recover five
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scientist named Owen Jugger lived in and studied the house and its haunted past, and then abruptly died.
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as a "superb German language graphics-accompanied text adventure game that has definitely earned the
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controls 'user-friendly', and noting its text input as "much easier to edit than in
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music as "harmonious", however they express that in the absence of sound effects,
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December 1992, titled
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is the last entry in a text adventure trilogy; it is preceded by
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has recently acquired
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games, "the textbox manages to avoid looking ugly and grey".
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an overall score of 9.8 out of 12, labelling it as an
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unfortunately arrives too late to be revolutionary."
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backgrounds can be interacted with in the style of a
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662:[A Family Business With A Future]
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643:[The Eerie Voyage].
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