This cipher is used a few times in TLS and has a really clever puzzle behind it The Last Sanctuary also includes certain combinable items, kept in a separate row in your inventory and a few of them working with several items, such as the “formula”, which can be combined with your weapons.
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It’s not the general rule however, there are items you can figure out how to use, but there are some you’ll be surprised to see work in a particular situation, the clearest example being in The Last Sanctuary, involving the Cemetery, a compass and a pocket watch for a puzzle that left me asking “really?” when I used them together.ĭespite the problems I had with the overly simplistic UI and graphics, it’s worth noting The Last Sanctuary is the strongest of both titles, with some very ingenious and complex puzzles, including a few code-breaking ones that really had me thinking. Their greatest weakness is the aforementioned lack of item descriptions, making the game devolve into a matter of using all items on everything to see if it works, instead of logic. Speaking of puzzles, they’re the strongest point of the game, with a few head-scratchers and having a very good level in general. Characters are stiff and unnatural in the cinematics, looking like bad marionettes. Cinematics look extremely dated, even by that generation’s standards you can find better ones in games like Soul Reaver, released in 1999. This doesn’t happen that much in Resurrection, because most locations are brightly lit, which made it easier but TLS on the other hand has plenty of dark environments that are a pain to both explore and solve puzzles in, the sewers being the worst. Even considering the game is fixed at 640×480 resolution, some of the set pieces look extremely pixelated, and more than once, I was stuck because I couldn’t find a key item or a hotspot among those pixels. Graphically speaking, the game’s made up of different screenshot set-pieces that at their best mimic a 3D environment extremely well, but at their worst are too dark and pixelated, making interactions with items and picking things up a frustrating, ulcer-inducing pixel-hunt. 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.
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