Win 3.11 QL | The Cassandra Galleries (1997) When Games wanted to be like 7th Guest
7When something becomes popular EVERY ONE WILL APE IT ... welcome to The Cassandra Galleries from 1997 , when Corel wanted to jump into the gaming sector ...yes that COREL , the maker of paint programs and video editors ... and financed aka published a game made by Kutoka Interactive Inc (more about them later)... So what is the main jist of this 2 CD FMV puzzle game ... its 49 puzzles with a simple fmv story hook ... A wealthy guy William Casandra meets a cute Asian gal in Paris , they marry and she convinces him to spend all his wealth not to produce more wealth ... but on ART , her motivation was to make him buy special art pieces , that if combined with a special URN ... transport the user into pocket dimensions ... the problem is, if someone removes the urn, when your in that dimension , your trapped till the person trapped in that pocket solves riddles ... from a set setting
So , Williams wife vanishes in one of those dimensions ... fake PR is used she has Cancer and died ... but William becomes obsessed about Puzzles , same with his daughter Maya ... and then they vanish ... only his secretary\the caretaker of the wealth left behind, live in that House\Gallery ... your hired to solve those riddles, and get the family back ... more like the daughter Maya, since that secretary was in a romantic relationship with her ... since you can bet on it , he was responsible for all this misery , since MONEY ...
So , is it good ...YES!!!... players that played this game , say this game had no ending ... when you beat those 49 puzzles , all of them are piss easy... since hints(even full solutions) how to solve all of them are around the house, hidden in art ...only music puzzles can be hard , but like with the 2 Tetris blocks that at 13:28 you can see its solution... some even you can bruteforce, like you could see in the Alphabet Puzzle .
So what about the story hook . Like in 7Th Guest ,the story Fmvs present it ... that are unlocked if you do puzzles... well , its pointed to you the whole game takes place in the span of 24h , and when you get into a dimension and get out of it to look around the mansion, you will find Guests that look around the mansion puzzled why there where invited ... A Family Banker, that tells you about the Money ... A art Dealer, that lies\steals and cheats to get a set art piece for the family collection... Mayas Nanny, that tells you , she was a close BFF of wifey (she made her meet William, hers future husband) and after Mayas birth... she teached her piano (Since she inherited her Moms musical talents) and how William insisted his wife is still ALIVE... and that Maya, was left all alone , all the time ... in this gigantic house ... hinting that the Secretary wants to only free Maya and then sell the art ... the ending is , well He won ... you free ONLY Maya , and he thanks you for her freedom ... and sells off the whole place ... leaving William and his wife trapped FOREVER .. The End HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Video shows the first steps in the Mansion Gallery , 2 puzzles solved of 49 ... 3 other puzzles , and 1 pocket dimension out of 6 .
So what about Kutoka Interactive Inc . After this game , they became a indie dev aka independent by making games for a sector that GUARANTIES EASY MONEY ... Children software ... and partnered themselves to co-develop another IP that at that time Sold like CRAZY , a AI game called CREATURES ... now they mainly live from porting those children games to the DEVICE of the DECADE ... the Smartphone and its other iterations ... more here https://www.mobygames.com/company/2074/kutoka-interactive-inc/
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