Lucius (computer game)
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| Studio | Shiver Games | ||
| Publisher | Lace mamba | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
October 26, 2012 | ||
| platform | Windows | ||
| genre | Adventure | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | Keyboard , mouse | ||
| medium | DVD-ROM , download | ||
| language | German English | ||
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| information | Indexed in Germany. | ||
Lucius is a horror adventure game from 2012. Because of its macabre game principle, it was indexed in Germany .
action
The player slips into the role of the eponymous boy Lucius, son of Lucifer , who has received the order to acquire souls for his father. In a more or less unusual way, you gradually kill the mostly innocent staff of your parents' property in 19 missions. To do this, the player has to solve puzzles and use the magical talent of the protagonist. The plot is commented on by Detective MacGuffin , who is investigating the mysterious murder cases.
Game principle and technology
Lucius plays like a mixture between a classic point-and-click adventure and a third-person shooter and borrows from the Hitman series , but Schleich components are almost completely missing .
Production notes
Due to the game principle and the representation of violence, the entertainment software self-control refused to issue an age rating for the game. In December 2012 the game was indexed in Germany.
In 2015 a successor was released, Lucius 2: The Prophecy . Because of the indexing of the predecessor, Lucius 2 did not appear in Germany.
Another successor, Lucius 3 , appeared in 2018 .
reception
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The game received mostly mixed reviews. From 23 aggregated ratings, Lucius achieved a score of 59 on Metacritic . While the game idea and the sometimes macabre humor were praised, the out-of-date graphics, the limited game world and the comparatively linear and redundant style of play were criticized. The German trade press also criticized the synchronization, which suffers from the atmosphere.
“There are three very good reasons not to play Lucius. On the one hand there is the dull game mechanics. […] Secondly, dramaturgy, depth of character, variety, twists and turns or well-written dialogues shine through absence, which probably explains the unmotivated German voice actors. And third, of course, there is also the [...] question of ethics: yes, it's just a game, and yes, almost the same story is also available as a (rather dreary) horror film series. Nevertheless, every adult gamer has to answer the question for himself: Do I want to play a game in which, as a six-year-old, I saw up, crush, poison or impale innocents? My very personal answer to that is simply and definitely: No. "
“Be it the rushed entry, in which we directly start murdering without much detours, the few free options for action, the unbalanced automatic storage system or the somewhat unsatisfactory end - Lucius just seems too half-baked in many places. […] You only enjoy the brutality of the deaths in a slightly perverse way, if you are into plenty of blood and brain matter flying around. However, I would have liked to have allowed this attention to detail in the depiction of violence to flow into other parts of the title in order to provide a few more playful incentives. Thus, in the end, Lucius is just a very nice filler for in between, who does not try to score points with wit, but simply by stringing together scenes that are as bloody as possible. "
Web links
- Official website
- Lucius (computer game) at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gamestar: Lucius - Horror Adventure rushes through USK test ( Memento from October 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ sectional reports
- ↑ a b Metacritic.com: Lucius. Retrieved September 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Gamestar.de: The Devil's Hitman ( Memento from December 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Adventurecorner.de: Review: Lucius