
In the Raven Shadow is in the best sense an old-fashioned adventure game for all sense-seeking people.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.14/day in the week to Sep 1 → 0/day in the week after.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 3.5/day in the week to Jul 16 → 0/day in the week after.
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In the Raven Shadow is in the best sense an old-fashioned adventure game for all sense-seeking people.
The CINEMAX Developer Studio was founded in 1998. This is our first released game. True retro. The original game of 1999, no remake. Excellent voice acting from the famous Czech actor Jíří Lábus.
Severin is a young monk, who was sound sleeping, while some claustral disciples were disporting with adult literature. When he awakes and actually takes the erotic scripture from the boys, he himself is accused by his abbot of the worst sins. The abbot doesn't hesitate long - we are in the dark Middle Ages - trying to behead the 'devil's minion'. Severin can only save his life by a dauntless jump out of the window (he puts his Rambo scarf on for that). While he is lying unconsciously on the ground, he - like already before - dreams strange dreams, which want to bring him somehow on the road of insight about the meaning of life...
When he awakes, he finds himself in a forest without a notion, what to do next, but absolutely determined to fathom the sense of life and find his way. How he will keep track of the question of all questions with shrewdness, curiosity, mother wit and a thick skin and what will be the result, we will experience in this adventure game.
In the Raven Shadow is in the best sense an old-fashioned adventure game for all sense-seeking people, which can laugh about themselves. And not only the painting in the decayed house does show a twinkle of the eye. The game is made for all those, who don't want to be taken firmly by the hand in the way: here is a hotspot - interact with it, but more: here are many possibilities - think! The puzzles are of medium difficulty. Severin's story runs error free. It will amuse and entertain the gamers for about 20+ hours.
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Тень Ворона — Римская империя моего детства. Я понятия не имею, как мне в руки попал этот диск, никто из моего окружения про такую игру не слыхал, и для меня она всегда была в дымке ореола некой запечатанной тайны. Как будто её и вовсе не существует в нашем измерении, но мне каким-то чудом удалось к ней прикоснуться. Это ощущение активно подогревала атмосфера игры. Безмятежная, лубочная, акварельная картинка (ручная отрисовка, редкость в наше время) и повествование в формате «шутка за шуткой» оттенялись нарастающим мистицизмом, который выстреливает в эпилоге, погружая игрока в состояние полного аута. Я помню, как подсадила интернет-друга на неё, и мы вместе строили теории, проводили красные ниточки от одного элемента к другому, пытались нарыть хоть какую-то допинформацию о сюжете, чтобы пролить на него ясность. Даже писали разработчикам на Фейсбуке — ответ был настолько туманный, что, сдаётся мне, никакой глубиной тут изначально не пахло. И хоть сюжету не хватает целостности и более внятной философщины — я бы не отнесла это к минусам, потому что ощущения она подарила поистине уникальные. Некоторым историям, быть может, и не требуется обнажение; мозги дают трещину по мере прохождения и остаются в таком состоянии до финала, но я не возражаю, будем считать это неким актом мазохизма. Её нельзя отнести к квестовой классике, но она не тонула в океане конкурентов — скорее, изначально заняла ту нишу, на которую и был расчёт. Воистину чехословацкий янтарный огрызок, для кого-то непримечательный, а для кого-то — трофей, который будут передавать через поколения. Музыкальное сопровождение великолепно. Юмор очень специфический, вы либо будете орать как собака, либо с каменным лицом выгибать бровь. Для меня лично Северин — ролевая модель, он не шутит ради оценки зрителя, поэтому все его комментарии воспринимаются как естественные и бытовые, это не стендап, а монография нерадивого монаха, не более и не менее. Испанского стыда тоже немало, особенно во второй половине, но в 6 лет я, знаете ли, была не столь взыскательна, и отсылки, от которых сейчас мутит, мне в своё время заходили. Увы, steam-версия не содержит ту культовую русскую озвучку с идеально подобранными голосами и интонациями, прыгающими от оскароносной до настолько топорнейшей актёрской игры, что хохот унять невозможно. Я не знаю, где её можно скачать отдельно, поэтому храню на рабочем столе пиратку. Случайно забредшие сюда геймеры игру вряд ли оценят, у них она вызовет лишь недоумение. А вот ценителям жанра рекомендую — слом шаблонов и экзистенциальный кризис не обещаю, но удовольствие получите. Она коротенькая, местами душноватая (в нулевых приходилось ломать голову над откровенно идиотской — и оттого уморительной — логикой), но тут каждая гримаса, каждая реплика и каждая пролетающая в кадре бабочка — настоящая находка. Ну а финал, повторюсь, погружает в мыслительную кому, результатом которой будет лишь раздражение (да и ничего страшного, впрочём). Главное, помните — в начале было слово.
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Languages: English, Czech**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
If you're into the old point and click games, then this one is for you! Obviously it has some jank in the way of the puzzle solutions (as is the way for most point and clicks from the 90's). While the voice acting is done in Czech there are English subtitles, but there were bits and pieces that had been mistranslated. Overall the humor in the game kept me laughing throughout, and the artwork was beautifully done!
Skvělá Česká adventura, Dobrý dabing, hlášky, žádné bugy
1/10 Lábus je velké plus, ale sám to nezachrání.
Hezká adventura, kde se člověk musí občas i zamyslet, aby se někam posunul. Dobrý příběh, vtipné momenty a top dabing.
Nostalgie :)
Super hra vraceni o 25let zpet
Velmi stará adventura se skvělým dabingem, pokud máte rádi Lábuse. Občas dost praštěná a na konci i nesmyslně otravná v tom, kam přesně kliknout. Ale rozhodně klasika mezi oldschool českými hrami.
Moje dětství :') Just stay calm and STŘÍLEJ NA SLUNCE!
"In the Raven Shadow" is an ancient game from 1999. It's a whopping 25 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge, or just a cash grab to try profit from abandonware. "In the Raven Shadow" is an old school point and click adventure game from 1999, released in 2017 on Steam but without any notable remastering or adjustment to make it work well on modern PCs... it does run, although you may question the benefit of that. It's got Czech voice acting, no English, but there's subtitles. There's a strange story about a medieval monk who gets into trouble and is catpulted into a dream world, but the lacklustre, severely dated presentation kills any interest in the plot of this game. This game has been translated from some other language into English... badly. If this was done through Google Translate, Google Translate should feel ashamed of itself. Regardless, the language in this game is broken and will put off a lot of gamers. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The artwork here is terrible, it's all just amateurish "My First Wacom Tablet" style drawings used instead professional looking game assets. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget to arrange someone who can create graphical assets properly, or lack of talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low, enough on its own to deter gamers. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The game only displays in 4:3 pillarboxed aspect ratio, due to the age of the game, it predates the 16:9 widescreen gaming standard established back in 2006. It's possible they're marketing this towards people using an old CRT they found in a dumpster, or this game is being specifically marketed towards people gaming on PC's from 1995... either way, this isn't really acceptable in the modern era of PC gaming. It's obviously not going to look right on a modern 16:9 gaming display. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? "In the Raven Shadow" is relatively expensive for an abandonware nostalgia gouge, at $4 USD, and it's not worth it. The game is just too old, hasn't been modernised. And as the old saying goes, you can't go home again. This is also competing with over 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.
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