![]() ![]() All have a similar dungeon crawler role-playing game format, but Waxworks is much more refined than the others… and possibly more gruesome. ![]() It’s technically fourth in a series of horror games that began with Personal Nightmare and went through the two Elvira games. In case you don’t know, Waxworks was a first person adventure game developed by Horror Soft (an alternate label used by Adventure Soft, who developed the Simon The Sorcerer games) and published by Accolade. However, I think I have enough ideas together now to go more in-depth about a game I would dearly love to see remade, particularly in light of the Halloween season Waxworks, originally released on the Commodore Amiga and PC in 1992. My thoughts on a game I would like to see remade didn’t occur to me until well after the Hot Topic on the subject, so I do apologise for that. And all four can get frustrating if you wind up lost in the maze.A reader looks back at forgotten Amiga adventure Waxworks and details how he’d like it to be remade as a modern survival horror. Overall: I like the Graveyard and Pyramid, but the other two are brutal. There are many ways in which your character can die, and each features a different, but invariably gruesome ‘game over image’.Īside from that, the individual mazes each have a very distinct look and feel, as well as their own soundtrack – different BGM, combat music, victory jingles and death music. Graphics and sound: Waxworks is perhaps best known for its death sequences. Most actions (combat, picking up or using items, selecting dialogue etc) involve only the mouse, and only the left button at that clickable on-screen arrow buttons mean that even movement can be done without the keyboard, though I wouldn’t recommend it! Unlike the other waxwork mobs, you can’t even fight back! Navigating this maze in search of clues, items and the killer is much harder in the darkness, where patrolling NPCs can approach from any direction, which is why I’ve barely gotten anywhere on this one.Ĭontrols: Waxworks is grid-based, and you can only move or look in the four cardinal directions. Your evil twin is Jack the Ripper, and since you have the same face, the police and angry mobs are out to get you. I have yet to clear this level, as if you fail to do certain tasks correctly, you can leave it unwinnable without even realizing it.įinally, there’s Victorian London. ![]() Here, you actually have to rescue and work alongside NPCs. Combat in this area is FAR more difficult – fortunately, you find a herbicide sprayer early on, which can one-shot them. The Mine has been taken over by alien plants. Main mobs this time are ancient Egyptian guards. It also features puzzles that require more than one or two items to solve. The Pyramid is similar, but multi-level, and made all the more difficult by tripwires and giant rolling boulders, plus a mean crocodile. Along the way you’ll have to pick up key items, fight off zombies, and avoid that one instant-death trap. The Graveyard is the most straightforward, requiring you to find your family crypt, talk to a few more dead relatives for hints, then thwart your brother’s plans. Each maze has point and click + RPG elements, but the exact gameplay and tasks vary quite a bit between them, and they’re definitely not at the same difficulty level. Gameplay: Waxworks consists of four self-contained mazes, which you can tackle in any order by entering the exhibit of your choice. They just don’t make game plots like this anymore, do they? There are four exhibits in the museum, and each one acts as a portal to the time and location it portrays. ![]() The setting for the game is a waxwork museum, left to you by your late uncle Boris, whose spirit you can still communicate with via crystal ball. You play as the latest ‘good’ twin, and must defeat your brother. As a result, his entire family line is cursed – whenever twins are born, one will grow up to be evil. Story: Long ago, your ancestor got into an argument with a witch about a chicken. Oh, and apparently it got a shiny new remake on Steam last year? □ I’ve selected a suitably spooky game for this Halloween post, an old favourite that I keep revisiting, but can never seem to complete. ![]()
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