Dracula: Origin
is a point-and-click adventure game for the PC based on the novel
Dracula by Bram Stoker. Released by Frogwares in 2008, it follows the
company's catalogue of action-adventure games such as the Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes series.
The
game follows Professor Abraham Van Helsing as the protagonist through a
unique take on origin of Dracula. His adventures span several
locations, such as London, Egypt, Austria and Transylvania, through
various puzzles and logic problems, individually interacting with over 40 characters.
Gameplay
The
game is played through the first-person eyes of Van Helsing, in a
point-a-click style. Using collected objects and puzzles, the player
advances through the story interacting with various characters to find
their way through the adventure.
The
game also features a progressive help system, providing players stuck
on particular puzzles with increasingly detailed clues to help them
advance.
Characters
Count Dracula,
the antagonist, is a young, attractive, religious vampire, rendered
immortal by a pact with Satanic forces. Mourning the loss and suffering the
abandonment of his suicidal former love, Dracula has become godless
and heartless; powerful, but pitiful, and seeks retribution for his
pain against the human race.
Professor Abraham Van Helsing
is a famous Dutch teacher at the University of Medicine in London.
Known more for his involvement in supernatural study and vampire
hunting, he bravely takes it upon himself to ending the terror of
Dracula.
Mina Murray
is Jonathan Harker’s fiancée, and a student and friend of Professor
Van Helsing. Pure and good, she embodies the essence of Dracula's lost
love, succumbing to his power and doomed to be stripped of her soul for
her bodily vessel.
Dr. Seward
A young doctor, and another contact and friend of Van Helsing. He aids
Mina at her sickbed, striving to free her from the demonic grip of
Dracula that has weakened her so.
Herodote,
a priest and healer in Cairo, Egypt. Possesses the knowledge, but, due
to his old age, not the ability required to release the curse Dracula
has put upon Mina.
Jada, a beautiful but deadly disciple of Dracula, devoted to serving and protecting her master.
Igor
is Dracula’s coachman in Transylvania. Of demonic-will and ill-intent,
he is another devotee of Dracula, sharing his contempt for humans, and
carrier-out of Dracula's menial, dirty bidding.
Plot
The plot follows the story of Bram Stoker's Dracula, with some variation in characters and plot detail.
At
first a zealot of Christendom, Voivod Dracula forsakes his faith at
the loss of his unrequited love, who opts to commit suicide rather than
give in to him. As his embitterment boils, Dracula begins to delve
heavily into Satanic practice. Unsatisfied with mortality, he drinks the
blood of a rival in a pact with the Devil, placing upon him the curse
that transforms him into the first vampire. In exchange for immortal
powers, Dracula becomes a servant of Satan, bent on the destruction of
humanity, finding his only solace in feeding upon human blood and
seeking revenge for his lover's death, for which he guiltily feels party
to being unable to save her.
Upon
learning of an antediluvian manuscript detailing a strange rite
alleged to return souls from the dead, Dracula seeks to revive his
former lover's soul. When Johnathan Harker, a disciple of Van Helsing,
sets out to combat the terror of Dracula's power, he sends a letter to
his professor details Dracula's intention regarding the manuscript and
his plan to resurrect his lover's soul into the body of a young woman,
Johnathan's fiancée Mina Murray, chosen for her remarkable resemblance
to his lover's former appearance. Johnathan's letter arrives but
Johnathan does not return, implying that he already succumbs to
Dracula's power.
Professor
Abraham Van Helsing, the protagonist, embarks to defeat Dracula before
he finds the manuscript and abducts the body of Mina, traveling
throughout Europe to do so. He begins with a London cemetery he
believes Dracula to be occupying, and his adventures take him to the
streets and tombs of Cairo, the salons of Vienna’s aristocracy and a
Rococo library that leads him on the trail to secretive damned monastery
to stop the evil plots being concocted therein. The vampire hunter
then finds his way to Transylvania at last, to the famous castle of
Dracula to complete his task.
No comments:
Post a Comment