Remember such, we are not afraid of this word, masterpieces of humorous quest construction as Runaway or The Next Big Thing from PENDULO Studios? So, all of them are the past with which, obviously, the developers decided to tie. Now the “Pendulshchiki” is attracted by mystical plots with the raid of the horror. Satanism, human sacrifices, crazy cultists – in general, a gentleman’s set of novice Lovecraft. If, of course, believe the announcements characterizing the adventure called Yesterday Like a thriller.
Deception, a deception around
Looking ahead, let’s say right away: don’t believe. PENDULO She deceived everyone. This is another humorous quest that simply parodies Lovecraft Motives in modern entertainment and excessive business. That is, perhaps, the developers tried at first to “do scary”, but then they quickly realized how much the ghmous is this business – even when the demonically evil instructor of scouts, living in the subconscious of one of the secondary heroes, entered the stage.
And it all started with a real charitable organization. The noble mission of “children of Don Quixote” is to look for the poor on the street and help them with food, warm clothes and socialization. Being just such a volunteer, the future heir to the giant corporation Henry White goes to the Kedway station, where, presumably, the guys from dysfunctional families arranged for themselves. Or without families at all. The place is, to put it mildly, unpleasant. Instead of cute, smiling tramps who would thank Henry for tea, affection and use of warm things, the guy finds a couple of crazy homeless people who like to kill. Not without the help of Verzila’s friend White is chosen from this trouble, and takes crazy aggressors with him.
And here it turns out that this whole chapter, actually, is a prologue. In fact, we have to restore the memory of a detanologist named John, simultaneously finding out who is behind the brutal killings of persons without a specific place of residence. Once the hero has already tried to reveal this secret. And as a result, he was found in his hotel room without memory, but with a certain amount of mercury in the body.
Along the way, we find that Henry White grew up, from the heir turned into a huge fortune, he became the patron and friend of John. Moreover, it was Henry who gave the detective a dangerous, almost deadly task.
Blood, chest and amnesia
The plot unfolds with the unusual even for PENDULO dynamism. Unexpected betrayals, suddenly emitting killer and spies from nowhere, corpses-yes, quite real corpses with blood spraying the screen-and, finally, a naked heroine who shamelessly demonstrates her … “Topless”-all these surprises will be in wait for usAt every step. Not that they appeared when we are not waiting for them at all. Perhaps even the opposite. But then she is a parody, so that with a light, unobtrusive, barely perceptible notation of irony, demonstrate to us all the stamps and genre templates. In this case, a mystical detective.
Here, an attentive reader can take a picture and say that in the scenario described above there is no place for either irony or a cheerful joke. Of course, an attentive reader is right.
Do not believe the evil bourgeois propaganda: in fact, not chess will help to survive in a clash with a crazy cultist, but baseball. More precisely, bit. Bits are enough.
And at the same time it is mistaken. The plot conflict itself is really designed in accordance with all the canons of the “high” variety of the genre. Even amnesia of the protagonist – the most popular reception – in its rightful place. But all sorts of little things: messages that are displayed on the screen when trying to apply one or another object, or dialogs with second -plan characters – give out the true intentions of the developers. For example, when Henry tries to touch a “crying” mannequin in a car of an abandoned metro, we receive a notification that he does not want to console this humanoid figure now. And White’s friend constantly leads an internal dialogue with his former instructor in the scout camp. And mainly the instructor is talking. Mostly insults.
Scientific enforcement method of options
But it seems that the time has come to clarify how we can at all handle objects. Everything is simple here: in front of us is a classic Point-And-Click in all its glory. On a drawn screen – several active points. Each can be inspected and touched. And “touch” is not always equal to “take”.
When, with the help of a traditional “magnifying glass”, we pay attention to any object, right against the background of the “basic” location picture a small window opens, already dedicated specifically to the subject that we want to study. This approach fits into the overall graphic style of the quest. We will not say that the Advent comics managed to get bored with the order-this is already clear to everyone. PENDULO, Do you know, I released cool games in this style when all other imitators walked under the computer table! He has the right.
Nevertheless, let’s try to return to gameplay issues. If we have to conduct several characters according to the same location, we find that things that are of certain interest for one hero can not cause any mental response in the second. That sometimes it turns out very by the way, because, for example, a fragment of a basketball ring in Henry’s hands would be useless for us, while for his gorilla -like friend Cooper is the desired tool that is necessary for a successful crossing through the abyss.
It is easy to guess that the passage is completely linear. Even when Henry solves the chess problem and must voice the correct solution, choosing from several options in the dialogue window, the simplest and reliable method of simple pure. For the wrong answer, sanctions are not provided.
So that the child does not exhaust
The same applies to other conversations with NPC. We will be forced to answer correctly – earlier or later. PENDULO, Like their other colleagues, that now they are working in the Niva Advenchur, it is not too tuning to overstrain the brains of the player. The tasks themselves are mostly very simple. And if the player still does not cope, at his disposal there is always a built -in tint system – practically a guide to pass. It’s not worth talking about backlighting: what self -respecting developers will decide to release a quest today without the opportunity to designate all active points on the screen with one click?
So it turns out that instead of training the mind, we get a training of willpower. It is so difficult sometimes to force yourself to refrain from clicking on the treasured button with a “light bulb”! But only thanks to this abstinence from the “mental crutches” can one appreciate the most elegant combination with a stone horse, an envelopes, a fan and a towel. All these items, applied correctly, allow you to read the inscription that John from the past left to himself – the unconscious. There are not too many such original solutions in the game, but they are.
Are found from time to time and puzzles. Moreover, they are even similar to the old, “old -school” tasks, which forced us to repeatedly inspect the locations in search of veiled tips. So, in order to get the scientist’s diary with whom John was friendly during the days of prenamnesian, you have to properly arrange prints with symbols of alchemical elements on an old Celtic cross. And in order to find out this correct order, you need to carefully consider one poster hanging not at the other end of the city, as the gods of true puzzles are ordered, but at least not in the same room where the field of our brain activity itself is located.
Girl as a decoration of a location
A fan of beautiful graphics anyway, having looked at the diagonal of everything written above, he will say: “Well, this is a drawn quest in the style of a comic book – what else can we talk about?”Nevertheless, even from a graphic point of view of PENDULO Found in the sleeve trump card. All dialogs are … a three -dimensional comic book. That is, the traditional “windows” against the background of the base screen contain three -dimensional figures of heroes, which very convincingly move their lips,
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blink and express their emotions with the help of realistically recreated facial muscles. And about the art that makes up the main, gameplay part of the gaming visualization, you can say a lot of good. Compositionally verified locations, a beautiful girl – the one that Topless … In general, there is something to see. In addition, despite the ironic essence of the project, sometimes it’s not so scary, but at least slightly uncomfortable from the mannequins that suddenly arise in the middle of the screen, flashing a second of bloodthirsty pictures and other “boo” effects. We even think that, the Lord from solving PENDULO and really make a horror, they would have succeeded very well.
From a bunch of round seals in a box, we need to choose only four. E -fiber consumption!
Be that as it may, parody mysticism was a success – no worse than a parody of a “mafia” action movie or a classic detective. Questophiles – we recommend.
Pros: dynamic plot;elegant humor;original tasks;A peculiar graphic solution.
Cons: Excessive “casuality”.