Charlaine Harris: Dying For Daylight
type: adventure
genre: Humorous, Hidden object
perspective: 1st person
player options: single player
languages: eng
genre: Humorous, Hidden object
perspective: 1st person
player options: single player
languages: eng
Personal review
Summary
A short, easy game that does not take itself too seriously and doesn't require that you read a manual before you start playing.
This game suitable for a someone new to gaming. While none of the puzzles should give anyone who's played a game or two any trouble the hint system tells you the answers and, if that isn't enough, many puzzles have a 'Skip' option that's triggered after about half a dozen attempts.
The Good
The game is well drawn, has decent music and game mechanics, everything just works as it should.
The standout part for me was the voice acting of the main character. Xe Sands sounded suitably vampish, i.e. flirtatious and suggestive, as Dahlia the lead vampire character, delivering her lines like a modern Mae West. Very easy on the ears.
The Bad
It's very short. There's a decent story here that has potential. A vampire group in New Orleans has this formula but under threat they have scattered and Dahlia starts tracking them down. Episode one sets the scene and the remaining episodes deal with the first three characters then the game stops. Why? There are several other characters to track down plus what happens when she gets the formula? Do the bad guys get there first? It feels as though either the game is incomplete or the author couldn't come up with an ending.
The install process does not put a link into the Start menu. Whenever the game is to be played the CD must be loaded and the game runs from there, just a minor niggle but I spent longer looking for the installed game than I did solving some of the puzzles.
Estimated time to complete: Around four hours
Piltdown_Man # 2013-10-05 11:19:11
A short, easy game that does not take itself too seriously and doesn't require that you read a manual before you start playing.
This game suitable for a someone new to gaming. While none of the puzzles should give anyone who's played a game or two any trouble the hint system tells you the answers and, if that isn't enough, many puzzles have a 'Skip' option that's triggered after about half a dozen attempts.
The Good
The game is well drawn, has decent music and game mechanics, everything just works as it should.
The standout part for me was the voice acting of the main character. Xe Sands sounded suitably vampish, i.e. flirtatious and suggestive, as Dahlia the lead vampire character, delivering her lines like a modern Mae West. Very easy on the ears.
The Bad
It's very short. There's a decent story here that has potential. A vampire group in New Orleans has this formula but under threat they have scattered and Dahlia starts tracking them down. Episode one sets the scene and the remaining episodes deal with the first three characters then the game stops. Why? There are several other characters to track down plus what happens when she gets the formula? Do the bad guys get there first? It feels as though either the game is incomplete or the author couldn't come up with an ending.
The install process does not put a link into the Start menu. Whenever the game is to be played the CD must be loaded and the game runs from there, just a minor niggle but I spent longer looking for the installed game than I did solving some of the puzzles.
Estimated time to complete: Around four hours
Piltdown_Man # 2013-10-05 11:19:11
Official description
Enter a vampire world as Dahlia, a vampire with a fantastic sense of fashion and a razor-sharp wit!
Go on an epic hunt to find the legendary sun potion in Dying for Daylight.
As vampires have been productive and ultimately accepted into society, their ancient vulnerability remains true, they can only emerge at night.
When rumours circulate that a legendary potion exists allowing vampires to walk amid the daylight, Dahlia jumps at the chance to further investigate in this fun Hidden Object game.
•Incredible atmosphere,
•Fantastic action
•Enter a vampire world
# 2013-10-05 10:41:51 - official description - source
Go on an epic hunt to find the legendary sun potion in Dying for Daylight.
As vampires have been productive and ultimately accepted into society, their ancient vulnerability remains true, they can only emerge at night.
When rumours circulate that a legendary potion exists allowing vampires to walk amid the daylight, Dahlia jumps at the chance to further investigate in this fun Hidden Object game.
•Incredible atmosphere,
•Fantastic action
•Enter a vampire world
# 2013-10-05 10:41:51 - official description - source
Technical specs
display: textured polygons
Authors / Staff
management
Aleksei Gilenko (producer)Andrew Williams (post beta game balancing support coordinators)Doug Spaulding (producer)Jane Jensen (creative director)Louise Blenkharn (post beta game balancing support coordinators)Mark Litwin (i-play creative director)Robert Adams (executive producer)Roman Nesin (art director)graphics
Anastasia Moiseeva (artist)Andrey Sirchenko (artist)Anna Bashmakova (artist)Dmitriy Pantiukhov (artist)Ekaterina Matkovskaya (artist)Olga Troekurova (artist)Tatiana Nazarova (artist)Vitaliy Smik (artist)Yaroslav Medvedev (artist)audio
Alexander Kolomiets (sound engineer)Andrey Kosarev (sound engineer)Marta Tsvetsikh (music)Nikita Demidov (music)Stanislav Tretyakov (music)acting
Ben Youngerman as Petite Pete (voice actor)Bill Connolly as Black Jack (voice actor)Bill Connolly as Felix (voice actor)Bill Connolly as one of the Flagelli (voice actor)Bob Barnes as Cedric (voice actor)Dustin Parkhurst as Johnny Ghoul (voice actor)Edward Dalmas as one of the Flagelli (voice actor)Edward Dalmas as Polly The Parrot (voice actor)Edward Dalmas as The Glutton Of Gilborne (voice actor)J Michael Collins as Melvis (voice actor)Jon Goff as Blood Bank Camera (voice actor)Margaret Somody as Monsieur Bobo (voice actor)Margaret Somody as Tinderbell (voice actor)Martha Lee as Estrella (voice actor)Martha Lee as one of the Flagelli (voice actor)Paul Bellantoni as Alexandjo Philoff (voice actor)Rhonda Phillips as Maggie Mayhew (voice actor)Scott Fortney as Slick (voice actor)Scott Fortney as Slick (voice actor)Sean Stoney as Pirate Guard (voice actor)Self-Adhesive Records (voice recording)Xe Sands as Dahlia (voice actor)Xe Sands as one of the Flagelli (voice actor)tester
Adam Parker (tester)Alexey Petrov (qa engineer)Alexey Rubasheff (qa)Alys Baines-Dinning (tester)Andrew Williams (tester)Anna Bukina (qa engineer)Anthony McCormick (tester)Aris Drosos (tester)Christopher Rae (tester)Colin Harding (tester)David Stammers (tester)Dawn Campion (tester)Denis Poguts (qa manager)Denver Sharman (tester)Ding Sheng (qa engineer)Dragos Matei (qa engineer)Evgeniya Agranomova (qa lead)Fran Barlow (tester)Giovanna Pellegrino (tester)Hari Dunn (tester)Ivan Zotkin (qa engineer)Jacob Dunn (tester)James Robertson (tester)Kyle Cherry (tester)Lee Sparkes (tester)Maria Mal (qa engineer)Mark Grimshaw (tester)Mark White (tester)Michaela Halsall (tester)Michal Lysiak (tester)Mihai Vladu (qa engineer)Nicholas Doran (tester)Robert Johnson (tester)Rudy Lu (qa engineer)Shane Crawley (tester)Shauni Maple (qa engineer)Vernon Wroe (tester)Wes Hindle (tester)Wesley Hindle (qa engineer)Yuriy Fakeev (qa engineer)other
Alexey Rubasheff (game logic scripter)Buck Wilcox (wrote manin menu theme)Eddie Schneider (agent to charlaine harris)Mikhail Vatsovsky (executive)Olya Nikitova (executive)Raleigh Holmes (wrote manin menu theme)Robert Holmes (wrote manin menu theme)Self-Adhesive Records (editing studio)The Scarlet Furies (performed main menu theme)Tom Chan (wrote manin menu theme)Viktoria YurchenkoVitaliy Okorokov (scripter)Tags (9)
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