2014-07-24 04:39:13

Quite appropriately enough, on this dark and sleepness night we've got several nasty, claustrophobic and generally dark and dreadful experiences (and I'm not just talking about the terrible puns).

First off Ticonblu, those boys and girls from Italy have cranked out yet more games! Really I wonder how this bunch keep pumping them out at such a pace, It's probably all that good strong Italian coffee, ---- or maybe they borrowed some motivational tactics from Father Nicholas Eymerich.

Either way there newist title is She noire, which is unsurprisingly a game with a female character and a dark, police investigative theme (I wonder if their next Inquisitor title will be called He torturer?). 

She Noire is an adventure game with a difference and first in apparently what is to become a series from Ticonblu. Playing as Sophia, a police officer in the town of Tranates, you must investigate a series of mysterious crimes and happenings by gathering clues andd finding information, clues that reveal a darker and more secret plot that affects not only Sophia's home, but the hole world. As well as wandering through over 40 different locations and running through an ongoing story, you must also literally search for hidden objects and clues by physically moving around the environment and hunting for hidden objects. On the Pc and Mac this is done by moving around with the arrow keys, while on Ios you draw your finger across the screen.

The game is now available for all three platforms, more information, as well as links to buy and several youtube teasers and audio instructions can be found Here on the Ticonblu website and feel free to leave any comments in the several topics about the game in our New Releases room.

She Noire isn't however the only news from Ticonblu, sinse guess what. He's big, he's bad he's Roman Catholic and he's now got lost on your Iphone! FAther Eymerich, everyone's favourite Inquisitor now makes his second ios apparents as Inquisitor's heartbeat sees an ios release.

Instead of rattling your brain around complex puzzles and interacting with various unhelpful characters, Inquisitor's Heartbeat sees Father Eymerich lost in the dark, rat infested dungeons beneith a castle, looking for his way out. This requires complex orientation as you move around by swiping north, south east or west, rescuing prisoners, and dodging around guards on the way.

As well as many levels in 8 different settings from the castle dungeons to a deserted   forest, the game has an endless mode where mazes are created at random, so if you've ever been cursing at some of the nastier puzzles in the main Inquisitor adventure titles and want father Eymerich to get lost, ---- well now is your chance!

Lastly, we have a new developer, Ap index, and a trip back into a popular entertainment of the 1980's, ---- gamebooks.

Protius was a monthly magazine that ran ffor 19 issues. The first of these, The tower of terror has now been resurrected from the dust of history and made it onto your Iphone. Best of all, compared to some of the other attempts to port  gamebooks to the platform, it is intention and completely accessible with voiceover!

Play as a young wizard eager for fame and fortune who becomes impatient with his careful studdy of magic and combat and seaks out adventure on his own, adventure in the deadly tower of terror, a stronghold of fiendish traps and dastardly monsters ruled over by a tyrnaical warlock who of course you have come to slay.

With many endings (quite a few grusome), gamecenter achievements and a set of quite unique magic potions, this is definitely a must for all gamebook fans. The ap is free, however a save and restore bookmark or some cheat death cards can be bought within the ap for a small amount.

Now, it's time for me to leave, ---- assuming I can find the way out, ---- well this door looks perfectly saaaaaaaaaa!

With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)

2014-07-24 15:10:25

Hi,
@dark: This isn't really a spoiler, but it has actually been revealed in the past that the main character in Inquisitor's Heartbeat is not the Inquisitor himself, of course though, I think he'll show up somewhere though otherwise it wouldn't be part of the Inquisitor universe. As to where, well I'm guessing that's for us to discover.

2014-07-24 16:24:30

I'm not actually surprised Aaron. I've only had chance to play the first couple of scenes of Inquisitor's heartbeat and it was fairly obvious to me that that was a different actor to the chap who played nicholas, (for a start he sounded much less unplesant). I was however rather confused sinse the announcements did initially list Eymerich as the main character of the game which was a trifle odd, and whyI said as much in the news.

I also don't seem to get the controls or how the game works on Ios either, sinse rather than touching the screen I need to swipe up down left or right, and I can't get any other commands to work, though on one occasion I accidently deleted my progress and returned to the main menu. I don't know how to interact with objects or even what to do with the menu, actually the game I find a little mistifying,  though I'm relieved to learn that the different actor as the main character wasn't just a switch sinse my first thought on opening \the game was "wow! that doesn't sound like old nick!" big_smile.

I was actually rather looking forward to heartbeat me being an exploring sort of bod, as it stands I think I'm going to have to figure the game out, (particularly before I do a db page), though if anyone has played the Ios version and wants to give some ideas on how things work that would help, sinse even the movement commands don't work as the instructions say sinse the instructions say to touch the screen where as you seem to need to do one finger swipes.

With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)

2014-07-25 03:38:04

Hey peeps,
I've been playing both of these games for a while. It's definitely not the same character, but it is the same actor. I'm a voice hunter, so I've become pretty good at picking these things out, he's just really good at changing the quality of his voice, which is awesome.

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2014-07-25 13:35:31

Hi,
What's a voice hunter? That sounds kind of cool. Are you a talent scout of sorts or more like someone who's a voice enthusiast so to speak? I definitely like looking up voice actors and listening to different voices. The Inquisitor's actor is awesome!

2014-07-27 12:08:25

hi,
sounds like a nice game to try. now i do possess an android phone, it will be exciting to try the game out, specially if it is about a police character.

regards,
sid

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2014-07-28 17:22:06

I don't believe there is a version for Android,it's just on Ios, but there are versions for both Mac and Pc so you shouldn't have problems trying the game.

With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)