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To use the keyboard to enter letters, rather than having to carefully positionĪ cursor with the mouse. In the door riddles, it would have been nice to be able Also, there is no way to tell what difficulty level you'reĬurrently playing at.

Oracle), instead of having to reinstall the whole game in order toĬhange the level. It would have been more interesting to be able to set the puzzle Running in other words, there are no incidental animations adding to theĪtmosphere. FlamesĪnd other live-action sprites appear motionless unless a cartoon segment is Needed (for better results, do the copying after the game is exited). SCLAN.* files can be maintained and copied to the installation directory as Only nine save-game slots are provided, far too few considering There are a few minor flaws in Clandestiny, but none of them In fact, only one CD-ROM change is necessary if the gameplay sequence in Nicely-done way of reducing the amount of disk swapping required to play the Many of the backgrounds are repeated on both CD-ROM's, which is a Graphic backgrounds are rendered, with a cartoon overlay during the animation MPEG format, the segments ended up sounding rather short. Although severalĭozen megabytes on the CD-ROM's are used to store background-music files in Music played in the castle's chapel is particularly moody. Instrumentation and what sounds like authentic Scottish melodies. The music in Clandestiny is quite good, usually with acoustic Web-based anagram generators may be helpful in solving or A few locations in the game provide additional To Scotland' contains hints for puzzles and riddles, as well as educationalīackground information. The game's puzzles are stand-alone mental challenges. Manipulation of inventory items is absent since all of Paula's appearance is very attractive - it's nice to see a good-lookingĬartoon for a change. Of bagpipe music when starting the game and a real Scottish cookbook within theĬastle. Everything is given an authentic touch, even down to a blast We particularly liked the joke (90 KB) by As a result,Ĭlandestiny comes across as a nice improvement in Trilobyte's lineage,Īnd we hope this type of game design continues to be pursued.Ĭlandestiny's gameplay is very light-hearted, if you can forgive the Generally, the cartoons in Clandestiny work betterĪt immersing the player in the story than did the full-motion video (and Interesting, absorbing and humorous with a well-written plot tying the abstract Mansion used in the first two games, Clandestiny is much more Leaving behind the tired venue of the Stauf Hour) and provides an interesting mix of first-person gameplay and

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Installment in Trilobyte's series of puzzle games (after The Seventh Solve the mystery of the MacPhiles curse. Next Countess MacPhiles) and a friendly handyman named Fergus, Andrew must Along with his girlfriend Paula (who wants to be the

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MacPhiles, who has recently inherited a Scottish castle full of ghosts, and anĮarldom along with it. In Trilobyte's Clandestiny, you control the fate of one Andrew Contents subject to change! For the latest information, see Republication, redistribution orĬonversion is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Balmoral This was a particular problem on the final puzzle, which was rendered almost impossible to solve because of the difficulty of understanding the various characters.Trilobyte, Inc. This is a problem, because the comments made by the various characters frequently contained vital clues. Consequently I had a very hard time understading much of the speech in the game. It didn’t give me the option of turning down the music independently of the voice or effects tracks. On a technical note, one thing that irritated me about Clandestiny is the fact that it had only crude sound controls. These ghosts are a mixed bag some are entertaining, others not so. Opening a new door also frequently lets you meet a new ghost. As this family crest begins to take shape and you see a clan motto is being constructed by your riddle answers, solving the remaining riddles gets easier - as you are looking for specific words to complete the motto. Also, each riddle answer you get not only opens a door but adds a word to the family crest. If you hate riddles, this aspect of the game will not be one for you.

Now, you are either a person who likes riddles or a person who is driven up the wall by them. In order to pass through a door you must find the 'key,' which is the answer to a riddle. Then there are the 'door puzzles.' At the very beggining of the game most of the doors in the castle are locked.