Dracula Unleashed
Slow mo Night TrapGenre: adventure - point n click
Publisher: Sega
Year: 1993
System: Sega CD
Gameplay Score: 1
Gameplay Notes:
Simple enough controls. A confirms and C cancels. No idea what B is for. Navigation is via a visual menu with huge icons. I like how quickly the custom moves and how large the click targets are. The main problem is that everything requires two or three more clicks than it needs to which leads to aggravation and tedium. The actual gameplay amounts to traveling to a location (from your ever expanding address book), entering the location, watching a scene, and in some cases acquiring an item. Rinse and repeat.
Level Design Score: 1
Level Design Notes:
Basically a slow motion Night Trap. There's a clock and each scene and travel passes time, or you can purposely advance the time without going anywhere. Certain scenes are available only at specific times but it's far more laid back than Night Trap and other FMV games. The closest comparison are the Sherlock Holmes games, which I prefer over this one.
Theme Score: 2
Theme Notes:
Three FMV scenes are well shot and well acted, but I have no idea what I'm doing or why I'm doing it. All I know is the my brother died but the characters I meet seem unrelated to anything going on. I don't get it.
Art Style Score: 3
Art Style Notes:
Everything's clear and clean. Even the FMV looks good, at least compared to other games on the Sega CD. Maybe my standards have dropped so low that this looks decent.
Audio Score: 3
Audio Notes:
Good voice active and sound mixing. An ominous but sparse soundtrack compliments the theme but doesn't do much beyond that.
Overall Score: 29
Review ID: 12027
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