![]() ![]() The quirks and well thought out (and acted) characters also deserve a special mention. The Disney-quality cutscenes are beautifully animated. The graphics are top notch and surpass any other previous Trilobyte release. Clandestiny weaves a spell that is undeniably hard for anyone to resist. They soon arrive at their new and not-so-humble abode and the troub…erm…fun begins. So many images were produced that they had to be stored in an entire room.Scary spooks abound in Trilobyte's ghoulishly delightful Clandestiny.Īndrew MacPhiles has just inherited the family castle in Scotland.īeing the coward he is (it runs in the family you see), he doesn't want to go.Įventually, his girlfriend obsessed with the hidden treasure that is mentioned in the estate executor's telegram practically bludgeons Andrew into going. The characters were drawn and animated using Animo, which was also used to draw sketches before being rendered by Autodesk. All backgrounds were designed and drawn using Autodesk 3D. ![]() Andrew, Paula, and Fergus pack up the car to head back home with the Stone of Scone, but only Fergus is aware that all the MacPhile ghosts are tagging along.ĭuring development the game was to be titled "Castle". ![]() He also discovers that the butler is actually a dragon that is an enemy of the MacPhiles, and is trying to locate the Stone of Scone, a powerful magical stone, somewhere in the castle.Īndrew eventually slays the dragon, finds the Stone of Scone, but the castle is destroyed in the process. With his girlfriend Paula (who wants to be the next Countess MacPhiles) and a friendly handyman named Fergus, Andrew must solve the mystery of the MacPhiles curse and the goal of an evil force trying to claim the ancient legacy of the MacPhiles.Īs he explores the castle and solves various puzzles, he learns that the curse is one of cowardice - many ghosts reveal they died because of their own cowardice or the cowardice of a family member. Morgan Sheppard) who has recently inherited a Scottish castle, being the last MacPhiles standing, full of ghosts, and an earldom along with it. The story is of a young man named Andrew J. Another re-hash of the previous games is the cursors used in the game, which are exact copies of those from the preceding games. The puzzles include mazes, chess problems, logical deductions, and word manipulations. The main protagonist, Andrew MacPhiles, grows as a character and learns the secrets of his family's past along with the help of an array of characters who further the story giving clues and hints along the way.Ī fairly simple plot is played out by animated characters through animated clips as you progress between rooms by solving puzzles of shifting nature and increasing difficulty. Like that of The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour, the game is played by wandering a castle, solving logic puzzles and watching animated videos that further the story. The game was re-released in January 2011 on the Mac App Store.Ĭlandestiny is the third puzzle game made by Trilobyte, and provides an interesting mix of first-person gameplay and third-person cartoon. After the profit loss of The 11th Hour, the second game created by Trilobyte, the producers went on to make a more kid-friendly version of The 7th Guest series. Clandestiny, published in 1996 by Virgin Games and developed by Trilobyte, is a video-based puzzle computer game. ![]()
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