Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure
| Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure | |||
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| Studio | Cowcat Games | ||
| Publisher | Cowcat Games | ||
| Senior Developer | Fabrice Breton | ||
| composer | Fabrice Breton | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
May 31, 2016 | ||
| platform | Linux , Mac OS X , PlayStation 4 , PlayStation Vita , Windows , Xbox One , Nintendo Switch , Android , iOS | ||
| Game engine | GameMaker: Studio | ||
| genre | Adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| medium | Download | ||
| language | English | ||
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Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure is a point-and-click - Adventure of the French development studio Cowcat Games, which was released in May 2016th It is Fabrice Breton's first commercial release.
action
One night Bjorn Thonen, an antiques dealer from Paris, is robbed after coming home drunk. A certain stone tablet has been stolen and Bjorn is forced to do his own investigation. He gets help from his neighbor Sandra and her daughter Caroline. They travel to the fictional land of Nogo, where they learn more about the tablet and the ancient legends of King Demetrios. You have to find all the stone tablets to save the world.
Game principle and technology
Demetrios is a first-person adventure, i. That is, the representation of the event is from the perspective of the player. The rooms of the game world are presented as hand-drawn, static pictures. The player can use the mouse to explore the locations and, at interaction points, so-called hotspots, initiate actions that allow the game character to interact with his environment. The player can find objects and apply them to the environment or other objects and communicate with NPCs. He moves through the game world by clicking on an exit, for example a door, whereupon the room assigned to the exit, for example the adjoining room, is displayed instead of the last room. As the story progresses, more locations will gradually be unlocked. Dialogues usually run automatically, but occasionally also in a multiple-choice process. In some places the game changes to the third-person perspective , i. that is, the player sees the character act on the screen.
Production notes
Between 1999 and 2001 Fabrice Breton created the first prototype of the game, which was never published. In 2014, he started working on the remake, which was funded by a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.com in October 2015 . The game received an amount of € 4245, exceeding the target of € 2500. It was developed with GameMaker: Studio . The game was inspired by adventure classics like Baphomets Fluch , Discworld and Ace Attorney . Although developed by a French studio, the game was first written in English and then later translated into French, Spanish, German and Italian. The total budget for the production was 20,000 euros. Breton worked on Demetrios for a total of two years , and according to his own estimates he invested around 6,000 hours of work.
The Windows version of the game was released on May 31, 2016. The version for the PlayStation Vita was released in December of the same year, the version for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in August 2017 and the version for mobile devices with the Android and iOS operating systems in December 2017. About 12,000 units of the game were sold across all platforms (as of 2019); the turnover was around 100,000 euros.
reception
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Demetrios achieved a score of 72 from 13 aggregated ratings on Metacritic . Alexander Thomas from COGconnected called the game a “[...] bizarre point-and-click title with a perfect mix of clever, mature and pop humor that tells a refreshingly new story without slipping into slapstick for a joke. ”Adventure-Treff praised the German translation by Marcel Weyers and said that the texts in the game were similar to visual novels , although the lack of voice output was criticized. Just Adventure gave it a "B" rating and wrote: "There's enough variety in the game to keep most players interested."
Web links
- Official website
- Demetrios at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure . Kickstarter.com . Retrieved June 8, 2016.
- ↑ a b Gamasutra.com: "Demetrios" Post Mortem ?? The lowest budget adventure game on all gaming platforms. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
- ↑ a b JustAdventure.com: Demetrios - The Big Cynical Adventure Review. Retrieved October 20, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Metacritic.com: Demetrios. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Alexander Thomas: Demetrios: The BIG Cynical Adventure Review - Put My Finger WHERE !? . COGconnected. June 2, 2016. Retrieved June 8, 2016.
- ↑ Michael Stein: Demetrios: The BIG Cynical Adventure Review - Put My Finger WHERE !? . Adventure meeting. May 31, 2016. Retrieved June 8, 2016.