That it manages to be enjoyably naff instead is something of an achievement.ĭracula: Origin is a good puzzler if you're prepared to not only outwit, but second guess the quirks of the development team. For a French story about Victorian England and Romanian folklore that takes you to Cairo, the game was almost guaranteed to be risible. The other bad things are the acting and the script.

Sure enough, the box art has the prolific monster reclining on a chair, idly tilting a glass of wine with a face that says, 'I may not have a circulatory system, but I've still got fingers'. Speaking to the developers, I was surprised to learn that they'd focussed on Dracula for his lurid winkle appeal - nearly half of their customers are female. But the option to unlock the shed doesn't appear until you scratch away enough moss to trigger an outburst from your protagonist In a genre where wits are pitted, this kind of failure of in-game logic is a rather large annoyance - and that's not the only time it happens.Ī strange thing is the game's sexiness. You reveal the information that's useful and - hurray - you have the combination to the lock. You have to scratch away the moss that covers a grave. To risk a minor spoiler, take the very early puzzle to open the shed. Event triggers, that are presumably there to stop scum walkthrough users, hamper genuine progress. One of the bad things about Dracula: Origin is the game's hidden workings.

This makes it feel a little like Perplex City cards, or the DS's Professor Leyton and the Curious Village. There is the usual collection of item-combination nonsense that can easily be solved by mindlessly dragging everything around until something happens, but Dracula: Origin has a pleasant bias towards logic puzzles and single-screen brain-teasers. In the end, I settled on pointing out a good, a strange and two bad things about Dracula: Origin.Ī good thing are the puzzles. When Reviewing This game, I'd toyed with the idea of a deconstruction of the point-and-click genre (from the point of view of a vampire) or a pencil drawing about how the game made me feel.

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