The Crimson Diamond - Demo Playthrough (No Commentary)
46A demo playthrough of The Crimson Diamond, a text-parser EGA mystery adventure game created by Julia Minamata (time stamps below). This game is a sort of spiritual successor to Sierra's Laura Bow games (particularly the first one, the Colonel's Bequest) and follows Nancy Maple, an aspiring mineralogy student sent to Crimson to investigate the presence of diamonds after a large diamond is found in the area. Of course, things are never that simple and she finds herself involved in a mystery!
Gameplay begins at 9:20 but most of the exploring is done at 42:28 when I've talked to everyone and start dinner. Since this focuses on setting up the game, it's a bit slower just exploring things (I recommend the time stamps if you want to cut out excess examining/asking people about various topics).
As this is a demo, there's some things like placeholder graphics in the intro, there's not much music (none while wandering about the lodge similar to other retro adventure games), and a few minor bugs (like with Nessa's and Margot's portraits), but this looks to be an interesting adventure game focusing on investigation.
If you are interested in trying the demo, it can be downloaded at www.thecrimsondiamond.com (you will need a means of extracting .rar files).
THE CRIMSON DIAMOND:
0:00 Intro (Heading to Crimson Lodge)
9:20 The Adventure Begins & Talking to Kimi Kishiro
12:10 Meeting Margot
17:02 Meeting Albert Respa
20:09 Taking a Shower
23:02 Eavesdropping on Nessa and Corvus
23:40 Meeting Nessa Crabbe and Corvus Shaw
31:21 Toasting (But definitely not a lush!)
31:53 Meeting Jack Precord
33:20 Eavesdropping on Nathan and Evan
34:22 Meeting Nathan Cardinal and Evan Richards
42:28 Dinnertime!
49:05 Eavesdropping on Nessa, Corvus, and Albert
52:14 Spying on Nathan and Evan
54:20 Helping Jack with the Dishes
55:45 Eavesdropping on Nessa and Corvus
57:04 Eavesdropping on Jack and Margot
58:45 Demo Finale
59:32 Easter Egg Death (Shower without locking the door)