Embark on a dangerous adventure with young Adam Ventura - a womanizer, a rake and a real treasure hunter!
Find the lost path to the cradle of humanity - Eden! Save the real treasures of King Solomon! And, of course, win the heart of a beautiful lady!
Liked:
Localization into several languages, including Russian.
Availability of achievements.
Trading cards.
Support for Steam Cloud cloud saving.
Gamepad support.
Redesigned graphics.
Improved level design.
Updated puzzles.
New test sections.
A new active item is a cat, which allows you to solve puzzles and move over the abyss.
Did not like:
Inability to change control settings
Unskippable cutscenes
Light sources visible through character models
The presence of mistakes and shortcomings
Scarcity of animations
No animation of faces/lips during cutscenes
A bug where a character can move independently during a cutscene
Presence of inertia when the character moves
A glitch where the character uses a “descent” animation when interacting with some closed doors
The abundance of invisible boundaries that hinder the exploration of the world around us
Platforming Accuracy Problem
Occasional inability to use the jump function while running
Poor project optimization
Ability to remove textures and models from the character view when moving
A glitch in the “musical” puzzle at the church, in which quickly entering notes does not count as a “correct combination”
Problem with collisions when character jumps, in which the player dies
Lack of Hint feature for mini-games/puzzles
When the passage to the Temple of Eden explodes, if the player simply steps into the abyss instead of jumping, then you will find yourself at the bottom without the ability to move. In this case, the game does not load the next level, and also does not count the fall as the death of the hero
Temple of Eden section has no environment textures
During stealth sections with Evelyn, enemy spotlights, as well as the opponents themselves, ignore Evelyn's movement
When you first visit the car at the airport, it will be running and ready to use. However, the characters will consider it inactive and demand to "fill the tank with fuel"
Weak AI of enemies patrolling locations with flashlights. Why is a character able to run/jump behind them without raising an alarm?
A glitch in which the characters' military uniform instantly changes to a casual one when falling into Solomon's Temple
If you fall on Evelyn's head, or if you jump on the heroine's model while moving towards the task with suspension bridges, the AI responsible for the character's movement is disabled. And the girl herself either ends up in the textures or stops in place
Problem with displaying post-processing effects in the Temple of Solomon level
Possibility of falling out of the map while descending from a ledge after defusing dynamite (right passage)
Poor musical background
A character positioning glitch in the finale of the “Mine 1” level, due to which all the heroes are at the same point.
Conclusion:
"Adam's Venture: Origins" is a reboot of the "Adam's Venture Chronicles" series of games. Vertigo Games themselves worked on the “reworked” and “improved” version of the game, which is what gave the world the original games.
In Adam's Venture: Origins, the player will once again have to go through Adam's entire journey in an attempt to win the heart of his beloved, as well as save the world from the outbreak of World War II.
The game has undergone numerous changes: all levels, character models, and puzzles have been redesigned. In addition, the game has acquired a more colorful graphic component. However, not all graphical improvements have benefited the game, as the character models look many times uglier than the originals, and the “beautiful” picture often fails, which is why not only visible textures and effects disappear from the players’ screens, but also entire models, which breaks immersion into the game world.
In addition to graphical improvements, the game's camera view has been changed so that players are no longer locked into a fixed view, allowing you to enjoy the world around you and the beautiful views around you. In addition, the hero was given a new piece of equipment - a grappling hook, which allows Adam to move around the rings that are scattered around the world, avoid falling into bottomless pits and abysses, and also remotely activate some levers and bridges for further passage.
Although the developers tried to preserve the original puzzles, some of them were removed, and the remaining puzzles were completely repeated, which is why you can use solutions from the “old” game. However, along with the “cat”, new puzzles were added to the game, which are more related to platforming. Which, by the way, is pretty terrible. And all because of collisions, when interacting with which the character simply ignores automatic interactions with the outside world (catch on ledges), or simply “throws” the character model into the abyss, even though he managed to physically stand on the platform. These moments will more than once cause the sudden death of the hero, as well as frequent restarts of the level from the checkpoint.
It is worth noting that the musical background has become much paler compared to the original part. Because of this, players will often only be surrounded by the “strange” sounds of empty temples. The ambient sounds are quite loud, which often distracts you from what is happening on the screen, instead of helping you immerse yourself in the world of the game.
As a result: “Adam's Venture: Origins” is one of the worst remasters/reboots of a game series. If you are not familiar with the original series - which has become available in the form of a full-fledged project (since it was previously released in episodes), then I highly recommend that you familiarize yourself with it. Although “Adam's Venture Chronicles” can hardly be called an “ideal” game, it is many times better than this project.
If you have already played the original, you should not waste your time and money on playing through Adam's Venture: Origins, since the game not only will not give you anything new, but on the contrary, it will give you an aversion to history. Since the presentation of an already familiar plot looks flatter, which is why many mistakes and shortcomings of the developers come out. And because of this, you will understand that you wasted 385 rubles, while you could have purchased something much more interesting and exciting.
1.5