WAXWORKS GAME REMAKE PLUS

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.

WAXWORKS GAME REMAKE PLUS

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? 😮

When you complete an exhibit, you will be transported back into your Uncle Boris’ wax museum ready for your next adventure.I’ve selected a suitably spooky game for this Halloween post, an old favourite that I keep revisiting, but can never seem to complete. This is a true gory horror game, which has no mercy and it follows classic horror movies style from the 80s.īe warned that once you enter an exhibit, the only way out is to solve the puzzle, win a terrible battle, or die a horrible death. This is not an easy task and you will have to fight with vicious creatures and mutants, who will be more than happy to rip you apart.

Explore the intricate passages, alleys, and tunnels that make up the Waxworks –conquer four levels of Pharaoh, Jack the Ripper, Mines and Dracula to be able to catch the Witch and kill her. The ghastly exhibits inside hold the key to your fate. Try to ignore the gnawing fear in your gut, the feeling of impending disaster that threatens to overwhelm you. Waxworks: Curse of the Ancestors is a 2021 survival horror game that dares you to take the ultimate quest and discover the secret of the Waxworks and lift the curse of Ixona that plagues your family. To this end, you must travel to several points in time and take on the role of an ancestor hunting down his evil twin brother in each museum exhibit. Just like Elvira, this game was a pixel-art point&click classic in which you must save your family from an ancient curse. Waxworks was released in 1992 by Horrorsoft, that already brought us the game like Elvira: Mistress of the Dark and Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus.

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