The Book of Unwritten Tales
Encyclopedia
The Book of Unwritten Tales is a point-and-click
adventure game
by German developer King Art.
s and brain teaser
s presented as a traditional "point and click" adventure game. The puzzles are embedded in an adventure story that will take most players an average of twenty hours to complete. There are 60 locations to explore with a total of 40 non-player characters
and about 250 interactible items.
A notable feature of The Book of Unwritten Tales is that the player takes control of four different characters. In some scenes it is possible to switch between two or three active characters. Making explicit use of this mechanic some puzzles require the playable characters to exchange items or otherwise cooperate.
Point-and-click
Point-and-click is the action of a computer user moving a cursor to a certain location on a screen and then pressing a mouse button, usually the left button , or other pointing device...
adventure game
Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...
by German developer King Art.
Plot Details
In a world torn by war, the aged gremlin archaeologist Mortimer McGuffin harbours the dark secret of a powerful artifact. Whoever calls this artifact its own, will determine the fate of the world. While the Army of Shadows sends out its best and most devious agents to discover the secret, the Alliance's three heroes find themselves involuntarily drawn into the crisis...Gameplay
The game challenges the player with a series of puzzlePuzzle
A puzzle is a problem or enigma that tests the ingenuity of the solver. In a basic puzzle, one is intended to put together pieces in a logical way in order to come up with the desired solution...
s and brain teaser
Brain teaser
A brain teaser is a form of puzzle that requires thought to solve. It often requires thinking in unconventional ways with given constraints in mind; sometimes it also involves lateral thinking. Logic puzzles and riddles are specific types of brain teasers....
s presented as a traditional "point and click" adventure game. The puzzles are embedded in an adventure story that will take most players an average of twenty hours to complete. There are 60 locations to explore with a total of 40 non-player characters
Non-player character
A non-player character , sometimes known as a non-person character or non-playable character, in a game is any fictional character not controlled by a player. In electronic games, this usually means a character controlled by the computer through artificial intelligence...
and about 250 interactible items.
A notable feature of The Book of Unwritten Tales is that the player takes control of four different characters. In some scenes it is possible to switch between two or three active characters. Making explicit use of this mechanic some puzzles require the playable characters to exchange items or otherwise cooperate.
Characters
- Wilbur Weathervane
- Unlike other gnomes, Wilbur shows no particular enthusiasm for technology and machinery. His heart belongs to the world of magic and adventures. Wilbur works as "chief cook and bottle washer" at a pub of a dwarf bastion in the Whitcomb Mountains. When he is given a strange ring by the gremlin archeologist MacGuffin, he receives the order to bring it to the archmage of the humans.
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- Nathaniel Bonnet
- Nate is a human adventurer. His attitude is very cocky and narcissistic. He doesn't want to help Ivo and Wilbur at first, but they save him from a bountyhunter and so he joins their party. He is accompanied by a furry pink creature, which he only refers to as "Critter".
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- Ivo
- Ivodora Eleonora Clarissa, Princess of the Silver Forest Realm, normally does not meddle in affairs of "the mortals". She witnesses the abduction of an old gremlin professor by the Shadows and in the attempt to save him she's drawn into their affairs.
Reception
The Book of Unwritten Tales has received wide critical acclaim in Germany with an aggregated score of 87 from 24 different reviews and a 86 on Metacritic.External links
- http://www.pcgamesdatabase.de/gameinfo.php?game_id=2565&cat=zit PC Games Database
- http://www.gameboomers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/748303 Preview of English release
- http://www.brainlazy.com/article/preview-2/book-unwritten-tales-pc-review/ Preview of English release
- http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,1351/p,1 Preview of English release
- http://www.adventure-treff.de/artikel/tests.php?id=183 Review of German release
- http://www.adventurecorner.de/reviews/148/the-book-of-unwritten-tales Review of German release