Hunchback: The Adventure
Buy
Part of collection:
Hunchback
(last 3 games)
As they went on to demonstrate with Nightbreed, Ocean wasn't afraid to try a few different approaches to licensed material once they'd gotten their mitts on it, which is how you explain following up not one but two run-and-jump platform games with a text adventure game -- the change in approach a breath of fresh air and, perhaps, a response to critics suggesting that rehashing the same old thing is getting tired and stale. Many arcade games of the period would have a hard time with the transition, lacking enough of a skeleton of plot to flesh out with characters and events, but the Hunchback franchise has always enjoyed descent from one of the greatest works of French fiction (not incidentally long since in the public domain, hence ripe for free squeezing), Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris... even if it hadn't made terribly extensive use of its heritage up to this title. You are still Quasimodo, deformed ward of the Church, and you still quest for the favour and well-being of gypsy Esperalda, but for once you don't do so by jumping over pits and ducking under arrows (and, uh, participating in organised sporting events)! Instead, you navigate sites in, around and under Paris, including the Cathedral of Notre Dame, collecting inventory items to use to solve puzzles and overcome minions of the Bishop and Cardinal -- foes who no longer cause you to lose a life at the merest contact. The narrative does sustain a bit of garbling along the way in the transition from high literature to action arcade game and back to crypto-literary interactive fiction, but they take what they've learned about design along the way and present things clearly, possessions and companions continually visually indicated above a baroque text input/output field. The interface is as intuitive as those of the prior games in the franchise, despite the enormous gulf between their respective styles of gameplay. Now you can give your twitchy fingers a rest and let your brain take over for a while.
Summer Games clone.
On the first six screens Quasimodo must collect bonus bells to reach the following screen. On the first, a simple platform arrangement, the bells are set into the floor and walking over them will collect them. Each level of the platform screen is connected by the bell ropes at either end which go up and down. Hazards include arrows and fireballs which must be ducked or jumped, while on subsequent screens there are bats, birds and axes. On the seventh screen, which is inside the castle belfry, the working mechanisms of the clock threaten him. On completing the seventh screen, the game returns to screen one with an increased level of difficulty.
Part of franchise:
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
(last 3 games)
Can you save the city from the dangerous criminal Quasimodo?
The ugliest man in Paris, bell-ringer Quasimodo is mocked or ignored by everyone in the city. Then, one day, Quasimodo falls in love with the dancer, Esmeralda, and his life changes forever. As well as a great 50 minutes cartoon video, Hunchback of Notredame features an easy-to-use virtual colouring book and a challenging puzzle game. Can the hunchback find love?
Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame is an Action game and a mini games collection based on the Disney movie of the same name. It's essentially the same game as the PC version, but features two new mini games ("Catch the Fool" and "Picture Puzzle"). In turn, the mini games "Le Food Fight" and "Inside Outwords" were removed.
Could be interesting
It is said that there is a mysterious labyrinth harboring great secrets that might fulfill the wishes of those who discover them. Two countries respectively ruled by Queen Xina and King Bodd have been competing over the right to explore the labyrinth. However, strange events started happening one after the other: the guardian of the labyrinth died, his daughter disappeared, and King Bodd apparently fell under some sort of a curse. A goblin reporter named Blount get caught in the midst of these events as he attempts to interview the queen and the king. As if that weren't enough, Blount also gets bitten by a werewolf and falls in love, and must find a way to deal with both predicaments. Goblins Quest is the third entry in the Gobliiins series. Like its predecessors, it is a puzzle adventure game with the emphasis on solving complex tasks confined to smaller areas rather than on exploration. Most levels occupy more than one screen and allow limited navigation between different areas. As the reduction of the title to a single "i" implies, this installment only features one controllable goblin. However, at various points of the game Blount will require assistance from other player-controlled characters such as Chump the parrot, Ooya the magician, and Fulbert the snake. In addition, Blount's own spontaneous transformation into a werewolf may affect the solution of some puzzles. The hero will also undergo a few other mutations and drastically change his size during the course of the game.
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is a puzzle-solving adventure game based on Spider Robinson's series of stories about the unusual patrons of Callahan's bar. The characters in the game are taken from the first book of the series, though their stories are original. The game's world is composed of still screens viewed from first-person perspective. The interaction is point-and-click, with context menus appearing when the player attempts to interact with an object on screen.
You play the young warlock Damiano Delstrego who tries to find a sacred stone which contains the secret of life which will be needed to thwart Luficer's plans to destroy your home city Partestrada.
You have recieved word from a messenger that the Last Dragon has been kidnapped. You hold the scroll in your hand and read that you must travel with a special companion named Hawkwind. Only with him and yourself can you save the Last Dragon from never seeing the light of day again.
Medieval Text Adventure game with graphics.
This is a text adventure game in which the player follows the story of "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen.
Arthur's Knights II: The Secret of Merlin follows 2000's Arthur's Knights: Tales of Chivalry. The player takes the role of a knight of King Arthur.
1812 The Heart of Winter is an unusual Polish production, realized in the form of an audiobook with minimal graphic design.
Interactive novel and audiobook with FMV cutscenes that adapts the epic poem Orlando Furioso about medieval French king Charlemagne's heroic paladin Roland who falls tragically in love with sorceress Angelica and loses his mind.
Legend has it that deep in a mountain in the land of Meridan lies a Guardian who is believed to be eternal and would provide help to the people in their darkest need. The Guardian is needed now as Silvian have invaded Meridan once again, destroying everything and killing people with new and strange weapons. You have decided to test the legend of the Guardian by exploring the lands ahead to find the mountain that contains the Guardian. You start your quest waking from unconsciousness in your destroyed room. Pilgrim is a text adventure where text on screen describes your location and you type in commands with the keyboard to control your hero and interact with each location.