The Lost Crown : A Ghost-hunting Adventure ( Great Review Score! )

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Weston, CT – October 8, 2007 - Got Game Entertainment LLC today announced a new release date of November 1, 2007 for “The Lost Crown: A Ghost-hunting Adventure”, a suspense-adventure game for the PC created by Jonathan Boakes and his Darkling Room team. Hair-raising chills and thrills now lurk just around the corner for adventure game fans and ghost story lovers alike. “The Lost Crown: A Ghost-hunting Adventure” will make its retail debut at $29.99 (USD) and is not yet rated by the ESRB.

In “The Lost Crown: A Ghost-hunting Adventure”, join ghost-hunters Nigel Danvers and Lucy Reubans as they unravel an ancient mystery and search for hidden treasures on England's fog-shrouded coastline, famed for its legends of smugglers, pirates, and ghosts. Wielding the tools of the modern-day ghost-hunter in a cinematic, richly detailed interactive world of wind-swept coastlines and crumbling crypts, you will be captivated, taunted, and teased by mind-bending puzzles and interactions with the town “locals”.

“The Lost Crown: A Ghost-hunting Adventure” Features:

• Spine-tingling ghost story
• Realistic ghost-hunting, featuring actual E.V.P. (Electronic Voice Phenomena)
• Photographs of unexplained entities captured by creator Jonathan Boakes while researching the game
• Chilling original soundtrack Point and click gameplay with both first and third person interaction
• Cast of virtual actors to share your paranormal adventure
• Local legends to investigate, interrogate, and observe
• Realistic and integrated puzzles
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Review
http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/LostCrown/LostCrown.shtm

Result - A+

The Lost Crown stands head and shoulders above most of the adventure game offerings that have come our way over the last few years and frankly I was saddened when it finally ended. I have the sneakiest suspicion that I’ve just been hugely spoiled and am going to have to suffer through some withdrawals over here. While there is some room for improvement – mainly on the production side of things - The Lost Crown is as close to perfection as any adventure game I have played in the last few years.
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The Lost Crown has some type of movement going on. From birds sailing across the sky, to dust glimmering in the sunlight filtered through windows, to flowers slowly waving in the breeze, to the fog rolling through town. Nearly every screen is alive and a pleasure to view.
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The special effects in this game are truly rewarding. Ghostly apparitions are extremely haunting and believable. Particle effects have been provided by Matt Clark (aka, Barrow Hill) to greatly enhance the scenes.
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In addition to there being movement on most screens, you are also greeted with ambient sounds and effects that truly bring each screen to life. The sound editing in this game is second to none and Jonathan Boakes has really done an outstanding job in this department.
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As a storyteller, Jonathan Boakes really shines. As I found myself exploring the town and learning about all of the history of the area that was playing into to storyline, I couldn’t help but draw comparisons to the work that Jane Jensen has done with the Gabriel Knight games. The game gives you bits of information in small doses that slowly weaves itself into an intricate and complex story - a story that holds your interest and builds on it with each new piece of information discovered.
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One of the very nice features of the game is that despite it’s huge size and massive amounts of locations, they are all self contained. Don’t expect to have to run from one extreme end of the map to the other just to solve something. For example, at certain parts of the game there might be some crates stacked up on the docks preventing you from being able to get to the other side of the village. This effectively gives you a much smaller area to cover in order to advance. With the game world being so massive, this is a welcome feature that will greatly reduce the number of player frustrations.
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Buy it on website
http://www.thelostcrown.com/


REVIEW! "...may actually go down in history as the best horror adventure game ever written...Seriously." - JustAdventure

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Another review , though it has Fustrating cryptic puzzles
http://www.cheatcc.com/pc/rev/thelostcrownaghosthuntingadventurereview2.html

The Lost Crown has a great, creepy atmosphere, and the presentation is one of a kind. Dark shadows, spectral figures, near constant mist, and chilling sounds are bound to give most folks an uneasy feeling about playing the game at night in a dimly lit room. Of course, that's partially the point. If the developers could have paid closer attention to character animations and movement, the game could have an even greater impact. As is, it's like playing a stunning, immersive adventure game with a bunch of crummy puppets. Thankfully, the many high points propel things forward to keep players from tripping up on this setback. Adventure fans would do well to add this one to their collection, ghosts and all.
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Superficial said:
how do i purchase this game? the site link is not allowing purchses from the UK or something? tried googling but i cant find a retailer?

DAVE18 - how did you get hold of it?
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Having the same problem , i need a usa proxy :mad:

Tried emailing but no response , great isn't it publishers complain about piracy then they do this. Money is ready and waiting and i can't buy it :(
 
Yeh the link isn't working now , humpff

Huge mistake by the publishers not to sell it outside uk , would've made some money!
 
Well i just played it i nearly forgot what time it was , think of this game as a 2d point and click adventure version of penumbra ( VERY CREEPY! ). Even in the menu you are listening to some eeery style of music straight out of the latest horror flick. The entire game is black and white with bits of selective colouring but don't let this put you off it works fine!.

The animation is crap , its very slow but luckily you can double click out of an area to go to the next screen or look at an item. The effects in this game are VERY VERY good , with fog rolling across the screen , insects flying about birds crowing. The entire game is basically alive but in black and white. Don't forget the eeery music though it really adds to the creepy factor.

Every new bit of the game im waiting for something to come across me , something from the undead and well at one point i found it. I looked in this room and it was pitch black only to be greeted by dark shadows moving across the back of the room ( gave me goosebumps ). Especially with the change of music.

Thus far 8/10 if you want horror , ghostly music scary moments get this game!

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This game is really good , one of the best point and click horror adventure games i've played for awhile.. I've just become the ghost hunter and hearing screams and seeing faces is kinda cool :)
 
Superficial said:
neil mate please post spoilers in another thread or summat - im not up to that yet :)
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Sorry Superficial i won't post anymore pics , really wanted to show everyone what the investigating part is like... You forgive little old me? :eek::D

About the resolution it does look to be fixed yes
 
But still...

Why not get that damn digital download service available for uk users aswell? , i downloaded it at 300kb/s via a backdoor buy :). Thats what i was complaining about originaly :(
 
Great :)

Can you also ask to add the ability to SKIP text , nothing worse than accidently clicking on some text i've already read/listened to.
 
On a humorus note if you click an area which makes him walk to , keep clicking fast and the guy slides on one foot! :D
 
If you right click on the CB unit after coming out of nanny noha's ( after the cat story ) the old cutscene kicks in and you restart many scenes back which you just did!

You can also replay cutscenes and say the same damn thing as if the scene hasn't happened yet!
 
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