The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav

The Dark Eye: Satinav's Chains

Release Date: June 22, 2012

Adventure, fantasy, point-and-click, 2D, singleplayer

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Developed by Daedalic Entertainment, The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav is an adventure game that takes the players to a fantasy realm of Aventuria. We play as a young man named Geron, who, according to the prophecy, will bring unspeakable evil to the world. Together with two of his friends, he tries to prevent this from happening.

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The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav is a classic fantasy adventure game based on the popular tabletop RPG Das Schwarze Auge. The game was developed by Daedalic Entertainment also known for working on such adventure games as The Whispered World and Edna & Harvey: The Breakout.

Plot

Players assume the role of a nineteen-year-old Geron who is accompanied by Nuri – a fairy. Each hero can cast one spell – Geron is able to destroy objects, while Nuri can fix them. The main protagonist is considered to a jinx ever since he became the part of the prophecy regarding the upcoming evil foretold by a dark wizard while he was being burned at the stake. Several years later the young man was very unfortunate and wherever he went, accidents tended to happen. The game starts with a murder of a famous knight. Let us just add flocks of weird behaving ravens and we can easily guess that the main protagonist is bound to have a lot of work ahead of him.

The story is set in a fantasy world known as Aventuria. This universe was created in 1984 for the tabletop RPG called Das Schwarze Auge (The Dark Eye) – its popularity has resulted in multiple video game adaptations including the Realms of Arkania trilogy, the Drakensang series, and several web browser games. Chains of Satinav for PC is the first adventure game based on this license.

Mechanics

In The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav for PC, the gameplay resembles other games of the same genre and involves interacting with NPCs, solving puzzles, and exploring consecutive locations to find new items necessary for beating obstacles to come. The game is designed in such way that players know what task they have to complete, and the difficulty lies in finding the way of completing it – this is why players can refer to the journal that includes pieces of information regarding both current and completed objectives.

Techincal aspects

The 2D visuals feature beautiful, hand-painted backgrounds and poor character animations. In spite of the fairytale-like themes, the game features intense and nostalgic atmosphere, and the in-game world looks very realistic. Interestingly enough, the game supports high resolution (1080p) and works properly on panoramic screens.

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7.4

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Game is Recomended by 60% of Critics. There are 8 Critic Reviews.

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Nindie Spotlight: 7 / 10 by Justin Nation

While most people first think of LucasArts classics when waxing nostalgic over the days of point-and-click adventures past, the foundations of the genre were typically focused more on fantasy and adventure than plentiful silliness...

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FingerGuns: 5 / 10 by Sean Davies

The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav has glimpses of ingenuity with its puzzle design, it looks great for its age and it has a satisfactory port of a point and click system on the PS4. Unfortunately, the story doesn’t pay off, often feeling disjointed along the way which isn’t helped by some uninspired vocal performances. Hopefully the sequel is better.

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GameOnAUS: by Chris Inglis

The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav is a fantastic point-and-click adventure game that does not feel at all 9-years old. I played this on the Xbox and it was a great experience, though the control mechanisms were clunky from time to time. The hand-drawn art is amazingly detailed and with the game’s music, sets the mood perfectly.

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