Has anyone around here played them? I've already through all of them a few times, and still love them.
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It's probably one of the best series of games I've played up until today (at least, in my opinion).
Basically, for those who don't know about it, it's a series of 4 point and click (horror?) old school games, just like the Monkey Island series and such, and is made by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, which I'm sure a lot of you already know about due to his reviews.
I think that the game's strong point is the story, and atmosphere. Definitely. I'm not usually even a lot into horror stories, exorcism stories, etc, but I loved it from the very beggining to the end.
As for graphics, well, it's 2D, nothing too fancy, but hey the entire series is free and it is enough to keep you immersed (at least it was for me).
I also found that the soundtrack was awesome, very creepy and keeps you on your toes most the time.
The games by order of release are these (with links to download): 5 Days a Stranger, 7 Days a Skeptic, Trilby's Notes and 6 Days a Sacrifice.
Which reminds me of something else... You should play the games by order of release (the one I just gave you), the story is not set chronologically that way, but it's the way Yahtzee recommends (and I do as well, having played them all a few times).
There's also one other thing... I consider the first game (5 Days a Stranger) to be the worst, but don't let that stop you there, I can almost guarantee you when you reach the other games everything will be a lot better (especially in Trilby's Notes).
Well, that's all, if you have any other questions, feel free to ask. I think this is a game that, given that the player likes the genre, should be experienced by everyone. Definitely a gem, even among paid games.
Have fun!
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P.S.: I forgot to talk about the story itself... Well, I don't really know what to say without giving away spoilers, so I'm leaving this bit off the Wikipedia page:
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It's probably one of the best series of games I've played up until today (at least, in my opinion).
Basically, for those who don't know about it, it's a series of 4 point and click (horror?) old school games, just like the Monkey Island series and such, and is made by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, which I'm sure a lot of you already know about due to his reviews.
I think that the game's strong point is the story, and atmosphere. Definitely. I'm not usually even a lot into horror stories, exorcism stories, etc, but I loved it from the very beggining to the end.
As for graphics, well, it's 2D, nothing too fancy, but hey the entire series is free and it is enough to keep you immersed (at least it was for me).
I also found that the soundtrack was awesome, very creepy and keeps you on your toes most the time.
The games by order of release are these (with links to download): 5 Days a Stranger, 7 Days a Skeptic, Trilby's Notes and 6 Days a Sacrifice.
Which reminds me of something else... You should play the games by order of release (the one I just gave you), the story is not set chronologically that way, but it's the way Yahtzee recommends (and I do as well, having played them all a few times).
There's also one other thing... I consider the first game (5 Days a Stranger) to be the worst, but don't let that stop you there, I can almost guarantee you when you reach the other games everything will be a lot better (especially in Trilby's Notes).
Well, that's all, if you have any other questions, feel free to ask. I think this is a game that, given that the player likes the genre, should be experienced by everyone. Definitely a gem, even among paid games.
Have fun!
P.S.: I forgot to talk about the story itself... Well, I don't really know what to say without giving away spoilers, so I'm leaving this bit off the Wikipedia page:
Quote:
In 5 Days a Stranger, the player controls the shady cat burglar Trilby, who stumbles across a demonic force that manifests itself as a masked killer in the tradition of Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers, while finding himself one of a group of strangers thrown together in an abandoned mansion, inspired by Nocturnal Illusion, and being picked off one by one. 7 Days a Skeptic emulates the claustrophobic horror of Alien, following a spaceship crew that finds artifacts from the first game floating in space, four hundred years after the events of 5 Days a Stranger. Trilby's Notes, set in a hotel which exists in both the real world and a horrific alternate dimension in the style of Silent Hill, goes back to flesh out the origin of the cursed African idol from the other games. While the first two games use the point and click interface typical of recent adventure games, Trilby's Notes requires the player to move with the keyboard and type commands with a text parser, similarly to early Sierra On-Line games like King's Quest I-IV. 6 Days a Sacrifice completes the set, sitting in the timeline exactly halfway between 5 Days and 7 Days. Yahtzee's later game, Trilby: The Art of Theft, features the character's exploits before the series, but is not connected to it thematically, story-wise or gameplay-wise. |
