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The story revolves around Gabriel Knight, a wannabe author and the proprietor of St. George's Rare Books in his hometown of New Orleans; and just for the record, the store doesn't make a dime in profits, so he's sort of going with the flow of life, lazing around and waiting for the right opportunity to write a bestseller.

He struck a deal with his childhood friend, Franklin Mosely, now a detective at the New Orleans Police Department, to use investigation materials as a source of inspiration for a new novel. A fitting case arises when a series of gruesome murders shocks the city. Signs that rituals were performed prompted the media to call them the Voodoo Murders, even though the police insisted everything was set up by the criminals in order to instill fear into the people.

However, as Gabe investigates further, he will become entangled in a plot that will uncover both New Orleans' and his own bloodline's mysterious past. In his endeavors, he'll benefit from the help of his lovely assistant, Grace Nakimura. In this first part she mostly deals with store management, keeping record of Gabe's mail and phone calls; at the same time she will research everything you ask. Later in the trilogy, her role increases, and she becomes a playable character.

Voice director Stuart Rosen, renowned for his work in the animation industry, has succeeded in gathering a formidable cast of Hollywood talents. The only irritating performance is that of the narrator's, voiced by Virginia Capers. Thankfully, you can disable it in the Options menu. Tim Curry Dr. It's fairly distinct from the regular game philosophy that applies a bland voice or none at all in order to make the player take over the protagonist's eyes and feel the world directly.

Story-wise, the game is a combination of detective work, mystery and voodoo culture. The progress is divided into 10 days. Every day, you wake up after being tormented by the same nightmare you have been having since childhood, you exchange a couple of words with your assistant, Grace, drink a cup of coffee and read the daily newspaper.

Following your current objective, you can explore different locations in New Orleans - new ones will be available as you find out about them. The navigation is done by clicking the illustrated locations on a map, which much resembles how London is depicted in The Gene Machine or The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes.

Eventually you'll leave the shores of Mississippi and leave for distant lands, mainly Bavaria and Benin. However, this won't become the saga of Indiana Jones. The heart of the game is still New Orleans, and I admire how much thought Sierra has put into reproducing real places from the city, like St. Louis Cathedral, St. Louis Cemetery and Lake Pontchartrain, giving a historical background to the game's events, as well as dwelling in the realm of the Louisiana Voodoo cult.

As it happens in all conventional mystery titles, at the beginning, you see a jumbled picture of the whole murder case. As the days pass by one by one and you gather new pieces of information, several suspects emerge. It's your job to investigate these different trails. While the story is conceptually linear, you can spend every day exploring the given locations in any order and as many times as you like.

One negative aspect is that there's a single event which triggers the end of a day. Usually it happens at a logical point, yet it's difficult to determine if you scrutinized everything - now there's a challenge for completionists, especially since there's the old Sierra score which keeps track of your achievements and detective skills.

At the same time, Sins of the Fathers doesn't punish you cruelly like in the old King's Quest games: there are no real dead ends to be encountered, except for a couple of deaths, which you can easily avoid by using common sense and by periodically saving your progress.

This is the perfect example of how dying doesn't have to ruin an adventure game. Sierra has also polished other gameplay elements, for example the interaction with the world. You can do this via two methods: either right-click repeatedly to browse through the icon-based commands, or select the one you need from the menu screen at the top. After that, the cursor takes the form of the respective command icon and you can click on the particular place on the main screen to perform it.

Of course, it's not the smart auto-changing cursor of modern adventures, which executes the correct action every time you click on something, but Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers doesn't really need it. Everything is pretty intuitive. Some of them could've been merged, but you can't always have everything you want, and retro gamers will most likely master the system in no time.

Unlike Talk, which activates a small exchange of words, using Ask will bring up the Interrogation screen - one of my favourite parts. The dialogue is fully voiced and the faces of the characters are animated when talking. Few games in the 90's could pride themselves on such an achievement.

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Historical Voodoo Museum Dr. John length: min. Tulane University Professor Hartridge length: min. Louis Cathedral Crash's Death length: min.