Game:

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (1993)

Category:

Review

Duration: 36:15

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Intro - 0:00
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers - 3:45
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery - 16:05
Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned - 26:28

I, like so many others, was more of a Lucas Arts kind of point and click player as opposed to Sierra, but when giving them a chance I've realized how brilliant their work can be. Quest for Glory: So You Want to be a Hero was an RPG and adventure hybrid that was honestly one of the most satisfying cases of character progression I have ever played in a game. The first King's Quest had its share of flaws, but it surprisingly aged so well. Hell, there's still Space Quest, Police Quest, and the Leisure Suit Larry games which I gotta get around to eventually. Only one I wasn't too big on Phantasmagoria with its absolutely ridiculous plot.

Still, I've seen this one getting the most praise: The Gabriel Knight series. It seems to be one of the most big-budget of the series, with either Hollywood level actors being involved, or using on-set locations in foreign countries. The amount of praise the games got, especially the first two, are just ridiculous. They were known to be for a more mature audience, a direction rarely, if ever seen before in adventure games, and for the amount of research and detail put into the plot. I couldn't wait to play these. Do they deserve their praise? Find out here.

The music used is the in-game music.
Box art taken from mobygames.
Infamous puzzle is an excerpt from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_hair_mustache_puzzle
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Picture of Lori Ann Cole taken from mobygames.
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