The answer is of course BEAST, as BE is the beginning of the missing word, ST is the end and A is in the middle. An example for the first riddle to the drawing room is: As each door riddle is solved, the word is revealed on the MacPhiles family crest. Some of these are easy, and some are cryptic. The rooms that contain the puzzles can only be opened with a key, which is achieved by solving a door riddle. The Cowardly level has all the puzzles one step away from completion. The Nervous level has the puzzles altered to make them easier, either by making the solution more obvious or nearly completed. The Brave level has all the puzzles left to solve at their most difficult settings. You start the game in the main foyer, where you must first select a difficulty level. You finally arrival at your destination and are introduced to Murthley, the butler, Mrs Dimwitty, the cook, and Fergus, the handyman. As he lifts his glasses up you can see the castle come into focus in the two lenses. As Andrew cleans his glasses he looks to the castle which appears blurred. In this introduction clip (and the rest of the clips in the game), the attention to detail is amazing.
As you travel, you see the credits like the beginning of a film. You have inherited the castle and the treasures it holds, and you return there to win your legacy. As you drive your car to the Castle MacPhiles, your girlfriend explains the story through a letter she is reading. You play Andrew J MacPhiles, the last living scion of the clan of MacPhiles.
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The clips are a variation on the mpeg format, and means a full screen display with stereo sound. This is due to the facts that there are no live actors filmed on a blue screen to later be superimposed onto the computer generated castle scenery. The characters in the game are all hand drawn, and blend seamlessly onto the rendered backgrounds. Starting the game plays the introduction film. I was very impressed with this level of care and service, and they even asked for my comments on the new EXE program. I thought I was to going have to return the game (as you can't play it without seeing the screen!), but within the week Trilobyte had sent me a new version of the EXE file (only a 187k attached file) which was still in the beta testing, but worked perfectly on my PC. In two days they had sent back to me a reference call number, and confirmation that there was a problem with the program running on PCs using the SiS video chip, diagnosed as a Tseng ET4000.
After several attempts to fix the problem, by changing colour depth and resolution, I sent an email to Trilobyte.
When I first ran the program I had a garbled screen of five half images, even though the sound was fine.
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I understand that it is a bug with the installation of the drivers for DirectX. I had to re-install the sound card drivers, and I found this to be annoying. I have an AWE32 sound card, and the DirectX installation overwrote the new drivers, reducing the features available.
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It can detect whether your current DirectX drivers are up to date, but be warned that if you do install them, as they can overwrite your sound card drivers or corrupt your video drivers. Installation was easy, but it added the DirectX drivers required for the game. It requires a Pentium P-60 processor, Windows 95, 8Mb of Ram, local bus video card with 1Mb of RAM compatible with DirectDraw 2.0, Double speed CD-ROM drive, 100% Sound Blaster or compatible sound card, 8Mb of hard disc space, and a mouse. Unfortunately this means you need a fairly powerful PC to get it to work smoothly. This was probably done to reduce the sound card and video drivers needed, as was the case when the programs ran in DOS, as it uses all your Windows 95 ones. The latest graphic adventure puzzle from the people that created The 7 th Guest has finally arrived for the PC running in Windows 95 only.
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Software Reviews Clandestiny by Trilobyte Reviewed by Laurence Fenn
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