The Legacy Every fifty years, the ancient manor of Winthrop is upset by strange paranormal phenomena, especially in dark nights you feel an unnatural glow above it as well as the mysterious glow fluorescent that cross in far and wide. As early as the nineteenth century should be read in the chronicles of the disturbing reports about the most worrying thing is, however, numerous complaints about the disappearance of all those who for one reason or another, they were to wander in its immediate vicinity. After the untimely demise of Prentiss, the last family known to have inhabited and as the last descendants of that dynasty, we have just inherited this mysterious building. Unfortunately for us, what at first appears to be an unexpected stroke of luck will change soon in our worst nightmares! One night, in fact, bring back the dark about what the official reports mentioned above, we venture recklessly into our new property, in the period in which we see as many of these phenomena. When you step in, violently slamming the door behind us is frozen in what appears to be an evil laugh. Within a few moments we realize that they were imprisoned and soon we also understand that it is not the only ones stuck inside. From the pages of a diary disseminated to the various rooms of the mansion, Marcus Roberts, a private investigator in Boston, warns us about what is actually happening: a mysterious evil entity took possession of the villa and now desire to extend its influence to 'outside. Perhaps the nightmare of which we do against our party has to do with the eccentricity has always been marked by Winthrop. However, in the guise of an ill-fated heiress, we must do everything in our power to find any ways leakage and prevent the evil can reach the nearby town of Longport (New England). From the very beginning, this excellent production of "Magnetic Scrolls," looks like a fascinating adventure game that owes much to the works of the controversial "Edgar Allan Poe
. The game builds on the cornerstones of the horror genre, in particular at "
Alone In The Dark" and "Resident Evil
", but instead of borrowing from the well-known three-dimensional approach that has consecrated them, go for the style of the old " dungeon crawler "of the early '90s.
"The Legacy", in other words, is divided into a series of vast mazes, characterized inter alia by a first person view, in which the movements take place in the box and the box changes in direction by rotation of ninety degrees, in a manner quite similar to what happened in "
Dungeon Master" and "Eye Of The Beholder
. Instead of those two masterpieces, do not control a group of brave heroes, but rather a single character, an ordinary person. Early in the game we are offered the opportunity to select our alter ego by a cast of eight candidates, stand out among them: gentlemen, ladies, professionals and students. Each character has a set of parameters that specify the physical and intellectual abilities. Some, moreover, being versed in the magical arts, they are also able to cast powerful spells. If a candidate does not meet our needs, you can edit the various skills appropriately distributed to special "skill point" to the company. Once in the heart of the game, we make your way through several corridors and several rooms that feature the mansion, of course, helping us with the excellent automatic map that tracks our every move. The solution of the puzzles that come across along the course of the adventure, as well as provide for the recovery and subsequent use of special items, also will emerge from reading a lot of information concerning them. Of course, the villa of Winthrop is far from uninhabited since the beginning, in fact, we come in many different creatures: zombies, ghouls, lurker, skeleton, ghosts, demons or whatever. Fortunately, we are not obliged to address them by force, even when it may be better to cut and run perhaps taking refuge in a quieter area, as long as our character does not remain petrified with fear. In those cases where the collision becomes inevitable, we resort to various types of weapons and sharp objects: bars, jars, bottles, swords, pistols, rifles and all that might be harmful to the aforementioned creatures. The combat system sees the use of both hands, with each can deliver two types of attack: an instinctive, through which you want to use the weapon well and better, that is hitting a bit ' at random, and one targeted. The latter allows, of course, take aim and therefore enjoy a higher precision, although the reaction times to widen as a result, we, of course, it will know when to prefer one over another, provided the limitation due to the fact that one of his hands, more often, will be undertaken to hold a container designed to transport our inventory.
As mentioned above, some characters can cast spells of various kinds, as long as I hold a special book. The game will cover the offensive (such as the classic "fireball"), defensive (such as the traditional magic armor) and regenerative (such as the classic "healing" so dear to the genre). The nature of the spells that the selected character will depend both on the level of his magical abilities / intellectual. To replenish the mana, the magical energy that allows us to perform spells, we are required to identify, and consequently to exploit it wisely, the appropriate artifacts enchanted. Of course, along the course of the game we will unearth and learn more sophisticated. To rebuild our health, as well as use the medical kit and the aforementioned healing spells, we can also rest in special rooms marked by a special symbol. As that we will defeat the monsters and head of the puzzles scattered throughout the mansion, redistribute the experience points earned between the different skills that we want to improve. Like any good RPG worthy of respect, happen also to meet the non-player characters that we can steal information through a system of multiple-choice dialogues. The control interface sees a number of resizable windows and a convenient point and click system. The actions on objects are activated with a convenient context menu. "The Legacy" is a title no doubt challenging, the difficulty level settles on the average value / high and is not without some occasional loss of balance in this regard. Longevity is equally high, includes a dozen levels, if that can be called, appropriately segregated between the different floors of the villa, different dungeons, the mausoleum and the ethereal and astral planes. Course was also provided the opportunity to save our progress, the manual calls for using it rather frequently. The graphics are nice on the whole, although in the long run you will feel a certain repetitiveness general. The soundtrack accompanying the action is also good quality and contributes greatly to drop the player in various situations of the game. Summing up, "The Legacy" is an interesting adventure game that finds its raison d'etre nell'inquietante horror atmosphere that characterizes it. A title, in short, that should not be totally ignored by fans of the genre! Edition multi-language: Inglese, Francais, Deutsch. Link:
Download The Legacy CD (Multilanguage)
