Dark Seed II
| Dark Seed II | |
|---|---|
| Studio | Cyberdreams |
| Publisher | Cyberdreams (Win) Bandai Visual (Saturn) B-Factory (PS) |
| Senior Developer | David Mullich |
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
November 30, 1995 |
| platform | Microsoft Windows , PlayStation , Sega Saturn |
| genre | Adventure |
| Game mode | Single player |
| control | Keyboard , mouse , joystick , gamepad |
| medium | CD-ROM |
| language | German, English, Spanish |
Dark Seed II is a horror adventure computer game developed and published by Cyberdreams in 1995 as the successor to the adventure Dark Seed . It was released for Microsoft Windows 3.x, Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation. In Dark Seed 2 , the player continues the adventure of the hero Mike Dawson in the Dark World, the counterworld to earth designed according to the art of HR Giger .
action
After the events of Part 1, Mike Dawson had a nervous breakdown. He has returned to his hometown Crowley to relax and is now living with his mother again. A year has passed and Mike still suffers from confused fears and memory loss. This becomes his undoing because his girlfriend Rita is found murdered after a high school reunion. While the police sheriff and local residents suspect Mike, his new friend Jack believes he is innocent. It turns out that the ancients have returned and are planning again to conquer the human world, the Light World. Mike has to stop them again and prove his innocence in Rita's death. To do this, he must return to the Dark World, which is already under the control of the ancients.
Eventually Mike can destroy the earth-threatening monster Behemoth and destroy the spaceship of the ancients. He wakes up in his psychiatrist's office. This was killed by Jack. Apparently Jack is Mike's counterpart from the Dark World. Jack now kills Mike too. When the sheriff and his deputy arrive, they only see the two bodies, but not Jack. It seems like Jack is the wanted mass murderer who also killed Rita and Mike is held responsible for his actions. The last scene, which shows Jack in the Dark World, leaves open whether Jack and the Dark World really exist or are just delusions of Mike. Then he would be a mentally ill mass murderer.
Game principle and technology
Dark Seed II is a point-and-click adventure. From Sprites composite characters act against pre-rendered, some animated scenes. The player can use the mouse to move his character through the locations and use the mouse buttons to initiate actions that allow the character to interact with his environment. Mike can find objects and apply them to the environment or other objects and communicate with NPCs . As the story progresses, more locations will be unlocked. The animations of characters and NPCs were created from filmed movement sequences. A special feature of the game is the change between two levels of reality. When Mike changes to the "Dark World", the arrangement of the rooms, NPCs and objects is the same, the game world is thus mirrored, but all objects are transformed into dark modifications. Manipulation of objects and interactions with NPCs in the parallel world have direct effects on the real world, which results in numerous opportunities for puzzles in the game.
Production notes
David Mullich was the game's producer and chief developer, while writer Raymond Benson wrote the script, dialogue and puzzles. HR Giger did not produce the original art for the game, but merely licensed his existing artwork for the design of Dark World. While in the first part, Dark Seed, the character Mike Dawson was played by game developer Mike Dawson, Chris Gilbert took over the role. A total of 40 actors were filmed for the animations of the characters.
reception
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Dark Seed II achieved a score of 64% on GameRankings from two aggregated ratings . GameSpot sees noticeable improvements over its predecessor and highlights the significantly improved graphics and the darker and wacky story. The predictability of the plot from around the middle of the game is criticized. Overall, GameSpot evaluates that Dark Seeed II is a suitable game for everyone who thinks " Blue Velvet is a suitable film for a first date. The German PC Joker praised the exciting story and the graphics, but complained about the sometimes uncomfortable controls and some illogical ones Riddle: Hardcore Gaming 101 compared the atmosphere and the soundtrack of the human world or the city of Crowley with those of the US series Twin Peaks .
Web links
- Dark Seed II at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Darkseed 2 # 55 - Bonus Chapter . Retrieved November 11, 2011.
- ↑ a b c Manfred Duy: Dark Seed II . In: PC Joker . January 1996, p. 74.
- ↑ a b GameSpot.com: Dark Seed II Review. Retrieved March 30, 2017 .
- ↑ a b GameRankings.com: Dark Seed II. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Dark Seed , hardcoregaming101.net, October 1, 2010, accessed on: February 12, 2015.