Stumbling through Le Fetiche Maya
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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.
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Date: 2012-12-24 04:55 am (UTC)The key to the game is that there are rooms that I didn't know about - it's very unclear on when walking off to the side of a screen will lead you to a new location or an invisible wall. In the destination with the crowbarrable floor plate, there are actually three shrines - you can walk off to the left and the right from your jeep - and the correct solution is to go into the left one, look at a door which has two symbols on it, then to go all the way to the right, press the statue holding one of the symbols, and only then to go into the shrine I was in and press the statue holding the other symbol. None of these have any apparent effect, but once you've done that, the door in the left shrine will open and you can get a bit of statue.
This kind of puzzle, combined with there being one medikit in the entire game, and almost everything not just hurting but poisoning you - so you can only take three hits, ever.
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Date: 2012-12-24 06:57 am (UTC)You've apparently never had to deal with the joy of pixel-hunting; finding a 2x2 pixel area in a full-screen game to click with nothing to indicate when you're in the right area until something finally happens.
Especially fun if the game's not translated into English.
(Fortunately, I would never drop such a RE on you...that'd just be too cruel.)