Plague of the Moon

Plague of the Moon description

One of the genuine masterpieces of world shareware-gamedev, full version of which, unfortunately, is not found to this day.

The action takes place in a fantasy world, somewhat similar to the real beginning of the Late middle Ages. The main character, and people have to play - Alucard, the daughter of a witch. Her mother Margaret, years ago sold his soul to the devil and received in return a powerful magical power was seized by the Inquisition and burned alive at the stake, but her spirit was his daughter and was ordered to do everything to avenge her death.

The exact genre is difficult to determine is the mix of quest, action and and extremely simplified RPG. The third person (often sideways, but not always), and with the possibility to go "inside" the screen that creates the illusion of 3D. Management is based on a simple point-and-click interface (buttons located at the bottom of the screen), the basis of the gameplay - progress through the story by solving various puzzles, often associated with finding and using items; depending on the situation, the cursor may change form. Present in the game and fighting, during which the prospect of review is replaced by a kind of "out of sight". An equally important goal is to first receive, and then the improvement of magical abilities, because the mother does not have time to teach Alucard witchcraft before his death. As the game progresses the character will be able to master a variety of spells from a magic crystal and fire balls (colloquially "fierball") to swarm of deadly stinging insects. For successful operations in the process of passing will be awarded points.

Perhaps the main advantage of Plague of the Moon is the graphics, the quality of which for shareware games sometimes naturally surprising; if we remember that the whole game is made by one person, the surprise increases even more. Yes, the character sprites are sometimes blurry, but the backgrounds attention is paid to even the smallest detail, and the animation of the moves the heroine made a very high quality. The total range of the game that's fun, not gloomy, but rather "desert", which creates an involuntary Association with the medieval southern European countries period of the rampant in them the Black Death in the fourteenth century, - sun-baked city roads or covered with sparse greenery of the surrounding area, where the gallows are hanging bloody corpses of poor sinners... well, in its niche this game is, perhaps, simply has no equal, so attention should at least as an interesting artifact.

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Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com