On a wave of creativity caused by Dan Brown's interest in the name of da Vinci's Kheops Studio decided to make their game dedicated to the great Italians. "The Mystery of Da Vinci's" skillfully exploits the familiar moves: a portrait of the Mona Lisa, a conspiracy of people in the mantle with a hood, the secret knowledge of Maestro Leonardo. However, the similarity ends, because the game retelling of the bestselling other people do, and we now have quite a different story.
It was overgrown and bylem Seventeenth century. Three years have passed since the death of Leonardo. Da Vinci's disciple Francesco Melzi kicked out of his shop a talented journeyman Waldo, intending to give him the painting for the work of his teacher. Offended by a young man agrees to a dubious proposal to the unknown. Waldo goes to Cloud Castle, where the last 3 years before his death, Leonardo lived, remained part of the studio and work. The castle inhabited by Mrs. Baba, the person close to the King of France. Youth must be under the guise of research works by the master to find some important manuscript, which was kept from the great painter.
 | |  | Did the developers believe that people have during sex and truth such terrible faces? | | And here is the conspirators in overalls. A penny extras in breaks between filming "The Da Vinci Code" |
In the role of Plyushkin The castle Cloud hero will hold four days. The building is full of puzzles, secret doors, underground passages and unfinished mechanisms da Vinci. All of this will be to find, fix and make it work to their advantage. Mademoiselle Babu and inspector of the castle are the extras Saturninus among almost living arrangements. Interaction with puzzles based on the principle "Travel to the Moon" and "Return to Mysterious Island." In the inventory, there is room for more than three dozen items, most problems are solved in two, and even more ways. For example, we use carbon powder, or to prepare the ink using a special build-up with oak bark. The developers have gone further - now "taking" of some items may be delayed for a day or two. Conditions for obtaining them appear, for example, on the evening of the first day, and they need only a third, and the player is free to choose the time. Unfortunately, if you defer too much to do on the last day, risking to get into a dashing cover. Let's say you pulled with the purchase of an important subject in mercantile Saturninus, the last day he will not sell you anything. Everything. Deadlock. At the beginning of his eyes just run away from passing options but, alas, the last game day it becomes clear that many of them lead to nowhere and have to start almost from the outset.And that cost the developers a bit more attention paid to them also invented the nonlinearity!
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According to tradition, some of the scenes staff Kheops Studio substitute for your own performance figures. Alas, amid works by Leonardo, they look pitiful, and the obligatory sex scenes between Babu and Waldo able to fight off any desire to play for two weeks, no less.
 | |  | Waldo now and then visited with visions of Leonardo and the French king. They say, of course, about the manuscript. Such is the engine of the plot. | | Note the portrait of the hero in the upper right corner. Under certain circumstances, will fasten themselves to different objects. |
Once da Vinci, two da Vinci In general, much in the game look unfinished. Let's say that Waldo is counter "bad" and "good" deeds. Depending on the dialogue and some action, then the scale is filled with devils, then the scale of an angel. For solving puzzles are awarded points that can be, if anything, to correct "cracked" status. Just why this is, if the whole game is easily traversed with an average position of the scale? "Extra" points accumulated over a hundred. Or "meter" of relations with Mademoiselle Baba. It appears in some point near the portrait of the protagonist, her image gradually approaching Waldo (if you act right), finally we see them embracing. However, the portrait is clearly stocked place for some third party who is not there. Who could it be? Really ... Saturninus? Why would it?
Perhaps, now, and not guess. The developers clearly wanted to buzz about "another da Vinci" has helped them sell the game, but because, apparently in a hurry to finish it to a certain date. Because of this, the plot formed hastily patched up the "hole".
In defiance of the elements But the play still interesting, especially those in real life loves working with his hands. What happens if a water mill to fill the flour? And if it is to stuff the old rag? How to cook pink water? Or fake gold? It is to such manipulations pulls through the game again, even if the last game day it turns out that the chosen sequence of actions lead to impotence. One can only hope that the next "thematic" game Kheops Studio will not be forcibly tied to any date and complete in full, as "Journey to the Moon."
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Unfortunately, the search for a lost manuscript unduly burden the right arm and index finger. First, the game still maintains a pseudo-three-dimensionality, as in Myst IV, where the camera moves between the fixed-volume categories. Later. Receipt of each new subject - a tedious series of "clicks." Judge for yourself. To make a sheet of paper, it is necessary: to lift the press, remove the tray, open it, find the "pockets" hero pulp, put it in the tray, close it, close it, click on the news, pick up the press again to get the tray open and remove the sheet . Phew! A dozen motions for a piece of paper, and the player they need a lot.
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