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Sea, sails, living dead, voodoo magic, sunken treasure, saber duels, love, and thousands of jokes, puns and jokes - it's Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island, a new game by Bill Tiller. Original, unique and like nothing on earth. Especially on the TV series Monkey Island.
Audacity developers and publishers, issued a somewhat similar game after the remake of The Secret of Monkey Island and was not afraid of competition from Telltale Games, is worthy of respect. And advenchur, the protagonists of which have been ghosts, can be called not so much. (But not too small: recall the episode in stride Blackwell, Ghost in the Sheet, Gast, geymkubovskaya Geist, where too many quest items related to the intangible essence of the hero, and its ideological predecessor, Haunting Starring Polterguy. - Ed.) But Topic rich. Imagine, for example, such a situation: you have to get some important information from a prisoner in the cave man. If the hero is made up of flesh and bone, the hardest it will penetrate into the cell. He'll have to fool security guards, locks open and operate at the same time quietly and carefully. Disembodied spirit simply pass through walls and will face a different problem: how to ask the right question of the prisoner if he did not hear a ghost, does not see it and not even aware of his presence? And how to protect poor from fainting when his attention is still out? Or, conversely, is to reduce the prisoner's mind and play on his madness, as did blue belly, inspiring another prisoner who had died recently?
 | |  | By the end of the game designers imagination fizzles out, and this final battle without tears will not look. By the way, do not be afraid to die. Papa Doc reflect any magic attack. Another question - how and, more importantly, where he had flip. | | At first glance, the vault can not penetrate. People will stop the strong castle of spirits - sprinkled salt on the ground. |
Blue belly - the nickname of one of the three main characters of Ghost Pirates, stout, good-natured ship's cook.He was mired in a cycle adventure by chance, and in other circumstances might have been on the other side, because the fat was in the team the Green Beard - the same whose treachery has found clever spy Jane Starling, the second of the trinity. Gave the captain a pirate brotherhood, or rather, the self-styled King of Flint, in which Jane was secretly in love with and who is lured into a trap on the island Vudzhu shaman Simbi.
Simbi, except that was allied with Green Beards, accounted for his wife a powerful priest Pope Doku, the third main character. In recent years, he is more engaged in wholesale trade coconuts than magic, and did not know that Simbi secret from him created an army of zombies (check out the play on words: zombie Simba). With this army, the pirate fleet and blood King Flint, intended as a sacrifice to the gods, she was planning to do something terrible.
 | Physically manipulating other people's body, the ghosts still can not talk. Asking questions comes with the help of gestures. And be sure that the interviewee must prointerpretiruet them wrong! |
It's amazing how a short digression on the idea lasted for three whole paragraphs and turned into a retelling of the intro game. This feature story Ghost Pirates, which is composed of many intricately interwoven lines, and therefore, remembering one hero will inevitably have to speak about other. But the "feature" does not mean the "dignity". In the tragedies and comedies that are played around almost every secondary character (you can find the theme of the Bible, Greek mythology, The Little Mermaid Hans Christian Andersen, and even "Crime and Punishment"), it is very easy to get confused. In this situation, could help to competently organized blog or at least a hint system, but nothing like in the game there, and after the first episode, where the souls of fellow sufferers are looking for a way to reclaim the body from which they were expelled Simba, to understand what happens, happens very hard.
Let us return finally to the central question: whether disclosed in the Ghost Pirates theme of ghosts? The answer, unfortunately, negative. Several findings, such as the above-mentioned episode in jail, still not enough, and the notorious closed doors designers replaced by scattered on the ground salt for the deadly spirits, strange as it may sound. And let him think about how to deliver the chickens from the other side of the river and get them to eat this salt, more fun than poking a regular pick in the next lock, we had hoped for more.
To complete the picture the finishing touch, remember the previous game Tiller, A Vampyre Story. What is interesting, Ghost Pirates surpasses it on all counts: quality of humor, elaboration of characters (with some genuine pain Papa Doc remembers his family life, as pathetic blue belly looks after the little sister, as pathetically lonely says Jane Starling of friendship - no, Mona such feelings experience can not!), the complexity of game problems, music, graphics, animation - everything except the final grade. The reason is simple. The history of the vampire was a breath of fresh air for the genre of hard times. Since then, times have changed.
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Around the house Papa Doc hung the mask with the image of some "loa": loa of love, fear, loa, loa family home. It's voodoo spirits, mediators between the god-creator (Bondieu, from the French bon Dieu - good God), and humanity. Among them we can find very unusual. For example, Mademoiselle Charlotte is responsible for the European race and is the patroness of all white women; Baron Saturday, the spirit of death and the underworld, is portrayed as a skeleton in a top hat with a cigar, wearing dark glasses and a black coat, and Erzuli, the goddess of love and beauty, has two angles: Erzuli Fred, an analog of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, and Erzuli Dantor, which in one hand and holding a baby, and the other a knife - it is the canonical image of Black Madonna.
In the loa can be found the names of some heroes of the game. So Simbi - this is the spirit of water, and Papa Doc - it's probably Papa Legba, guardian of the world Loa, it was he who gives or does not give permission to appeal to the gods of death (besides, "Papa Doc" - the nickname the Haitian dictator Francois Duvalier, who was in power from 1957 to 1971 and called himself a sorcerer Voodoo, but correlate with the noble priest of the Ghost Pirates will not receive any).
 | |  | Initially I had thought to replace Jane on the screenshot image Guybrush Tripvuda. Then I thought: 'Why? And without that all is clear. " | | Ghosts pass freely through all the items, so the problems with search path no. |
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