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Stumbling through Le Fetiche Maya
Dec. 23rd, 2012 04:41 pmWith some encouragement from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rakarr and lupineangel, I chose to play through the game that I dredged up in my last entry. To my surprise I already had it on my hard drive - I must have found it on some site years ago and left it forgotten in my DOS folder. I always knew it as Maya but its full title is Le Fetiche Maya - and it's a sort of adventure-action hybrid thing by French studio Silmarils with no dialogue or explanation as to what's going on at all, and so I could never get anywhere. I thought that now that I was older and presumably wiser, I would be able to make some sense of it - and that worked out about as well as it usually does when I make these videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjQdK3JDuLM
To my surprise, according to Abandonia, there is actually a plot to this game - you are Michael Fairbanks, an archaeologist determined to continue the research of the famed Edward Halifax against a rival treasure-seeker whose name isn't mentioned but is probably called Algernon Farthington-Carstairs. At the start of the game, you arrive in southern Mexico investigating rumours of a strange fetish - and if there's anything I've learned about over the last fifteen years on the Internet, it's strange fetishes.
None of this would have really assisted me in getting through the game, though - as it is, the video consists of a lot of driving, a few injuries and a couple of brushes with death in the form of giant spiky balls.
A couple of extra pictures that show the usual outcome of the game:
rakarr and lupineangel, I chose to play through the game that I dredged up in my last entry. To my surprise I already had it on my hard drive - I must have found it on some site years ago and left it forgotten in my DOS folder. I always knew it as Maya but its full title is Le Fetiche Maya - and it's a sort of adventure-action hybrid thing by French studio Silmarils with no dialogue or explanation as to what's going on at all, and so I could never get anywhere. I thought that now that I was older and presumably wiser, I would be able to make some sense of it - and that worked out about as well as it usually does when I make these videos.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjQdK3JDuLM
To my surprise, according to Abandonia, there is actually a plot to this game - you are Michael Fairbanks, an archaeologist determined to continue the research of the famed Edward Halifax against a rival treasure-seeker whose name isn't mentioned but is probably called Algernon Farthington-Carstairs. At the start of the game, you arrive in southern Mexico investigating rumours of a strange fetish - and if there's anything I've learned about over the last fifteen years on the Internet, it's strange fetishes.
None of this would have really assisted me in getting through the game, though - as it is, the video consists of a lot of driving, a few injuries and a couple of brushes with death in the form of giant spiky balls.
