About This Game The Spiritual. The Supernatural. The Skeptical. All are touched upon in Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy. The player is immortalized as a profiler of sorts in this treasure hunt game - a brilliantly vivid historical rendition of the acclaimed quatrains of Nostradamus. The adventure begins in the South of France as Salon-de-Provence, and its Royal Family fall prey to unfathomable terrors. You play as Madeleine de Nostradame, the daughter of the famous astrologer, author and apothecary as she hunts down an assassin who uses astrology to disguise his crimes as fearsome prophecies. But when past, present and the uncertain future collide…your more logical nature may turn superstitious. 6d5b4406ea Title: Nostradamus: The Last ProphecyGenre: Adventure, CasualDeveloper:MicroidsPublisher:MicroidsRelease Date: 24 Apr, 2014 Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy Download Code Motion sickness.... Warning if you're the type of person that gets motions sick over games that where you move your 'eyes'\/ view with your mouse this is not the game for you! I'm not sure if it's just the way this game was designed but the way the game moves when you move your mouse is very nausiating. If you can get passed the nauseating part of this games movement it might be fun to play. I wish I could give this to my sister because I just can't play it without getting physically sick! If I'd know this game was set up like you're looking through the main characters eyes I woud not have bought it!. Good game, some puzzles take a long time (too long in my opinion) to collect all items and mix etc. Did not like having to replay the crumbling cave scene over 25 times just to get through. Otherwise a decent game wih a fun plot line.. Here is another "old" game that I was very happy to be able to play after so long. I didn't remember most of it anyway.What I truly love about this game is that most of the puzzles are very logical (and rather simple), unlike the new tendency of adventure games, which are usually based on gathering a lot random items without apparent reason, which you will have to combine (I positively hate pixel hunting), and where you don't always understand what you are supposed to do or, more important, why. In this game, everything you do has a purpose in the story. Futhermore, some of your choices have an impact on your progress (and score).I liked the story and the artwork so much, that I didn't care that the quality of the graphics was not the last of the last. Oh, and I found a little bug that made me have to restart the game (the importance of saving).Now, the truth is that it is a short game and the only interest of playing it again would be to try to get a higher score. But I am a sucker for this exact kind of game, so I loved it (and replayed it!).. Good game to work your way though in a day or so and the puzzles were sometimes of the very obvious side. When the game started there was nothing regarding checking that you were dressed..... wasn't until Nostradamus made a comment about not worrying about catching a cold or somthing that I when and checked (dunno if that effected the points obtained).Once you get use to the mouse directional movements it is really easy to navigate.... the way the invetory is .... mehThere were one or two glitches where one item kept on appearing and disappering from the inventory that I hadn't picked up until the very end of the game.. An absolute gem of a find. Though many may be turned away by the chunky graphics, this is a game that has really captured the true experience of a well made and thoughtful point-and-click adventure game. The voice acting is well done, the graphics (though blocky) are still pleasing to the eye, and the storyline is top notch.The puzzles range from simple recipies to weight distribution to complex translation of old celtic to french. Though you may find yourself doing many crafting puzzles, they are balanced thoughout the game and not used as a crutch, but as a way of transitioning the player from one objective to the next. The only issue I had with the game was that several timed puzzles and one particular quick-time event left me frustrated. It is important to save and save often. Other than that, this game was one of the most thought provoking and inviting point-and-click games I have ever played. Being a history buff, I would love to see more games like this, perhaps with characters from William Shakespeare plays. I would recommend anyone who wants a true adventuring experience like Myst to check this out.. Recommended with reservations - this is a decent game, but it didn't capture me, mainly because I'm not into astronomy and the pace is slow since I got stuck a lot.I've only played the first day, so far, no hidden objects. There's a bit of recipe mashing, collecting ingredients and such, but for the most part, it is point & click. The graphics are 1024x768, and that looks decent enough (remember, TV and DVD have had worse resolution for decades). The graphic art is actually well done, I've seen a lot cheaper (and the orginal Myst never looked as good). That said, it is still a game where you stop at fixed positions, and then you can rotate the view and interact with the surroundings, or move to another position.The game gets full marks for the atmosphere and the storyline so far; for the actual puzzling, there are too few hints, which had me needlessly stumped because I couldn't figure out what the game wanted me to do.. From all the forum posts AND the problems I have with this game...if you buy it, buy it as cheap as possible because you have like a 50\/50 chance of it working properly.The gameplay is awesome though, just what I like about point and seek puzzle games!It reminds me of old classics like Monkey Island and The Dig from LucasArts but...The bugs in this game are not worth the aggrevation!I DO NOT Recommend this game.. If you are a mac user, don't buy it! There is a bug in the very beginning of the game, where is impossible to exit the dialog with Nostradamus when you show him the coloring cream.. Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy was made by a group of french developers who were related to Cryo the company that created Atlantis The lost Tales in 1997. This game was made in 2007 ~ so it was a welcome back to some great puzzles and game things that were missing at that time. The game doesn't have high production values and that shows especially today after 10 years, but still what keeps my interest in this game now and kept it long time ago when i played it for the first time was the game mechanics. This game has a story of course (it is not only puzzles) there are many dialogs and there is story development to be found, suspense and murder along the way, but the main thing about this game was its puzzles (most of them, not all) wich are, interestingly @fun@ (who would knew!) something that other adventure games lack some times (many times).Of course, that depends largely on what you consider fun as a puzzle, but if you are interested in playing as madeleine, daughter of nostradamus, in the XVI century france, making potions , food and weird concotions at the laboratory and then drawing astrological charts, writing predictions based on natal charts and looking at constellations to find hidden clues to a murder(s) then i think you will like it. The game, as a said, gives you in several parts of the game receipts to prepare all sorts of things ranging from making bread (!) preapring tea, to preparing aphrodisiac and then making a mold key or even make up. All is fun and well done and you have many of the ingredients in you lab, but some of them you will have to go and look for them. In other parts of the game you go to Nostradamus observatory and look to the stars or use one of his contraptions to make predictions and birth charts. Some of them are intuitive and some of them are not (there are a few obscure puzzles there) but you always have the option to use a walkthrough if you are stuck) The game has many environmental and action puzzles, meaning doing things related to a scene. Of course you investigate crime scene(s) and you have your hour glass thingy, and you scalpel, and tweezer and all the renaissance detectives tools you could wish for (and you will use them, each one of them)The third and most interesting thing about this game was the role played by madeleine (the main character in this game)She is a woman from the XVI century and as such she is not given the same allowance to do things as his brother, cesar, so, when a murder is comitted in the royal court and nostradamus is called to investigate but he is not able to go because of his deteriorating health, he sends his daughter dress as man (madeleine's brother) so as to allow her to investigate and do all necesary things to solve the mistery. And far from being a gender thing (wich it is of course) the character uses her disguise as a man to investigate and meet some characters, but also changes to be dressed as a woman (as herlself) to take advantage of that in certain situations. So, instead of taking a solemn approach and making it a gender thing only, and showing up as a victim herself, on the contrary the main character, madeleine, plays around its limitations that society puts on her because of being a woman in the XVI century and instead she takes advantage of that and plays around it and takes advantage of all the characters around her, as a woman and as a man, making it a true androgynous character, wich is refreshing in a way, and also takes courage to do so in a game. But, anyway, thats not the main point of the game (allthough you are crossdressing from beginning to almost the end, when you cover is off) but the main story is the murder of someone in the court of the queen wich is related to an old prophecy nostradamus wrote , and off you go to investigate that and work with nostradamus across several days.The end of the story, its a little rushed and could have been a little more developed, but it serves the story right and all is completed, one way or the other. The expression of all the characters in this game, its a little lacking...especially for that few moments where important things happens, but again, its a game from 2007, and a low budget one at that, so you can't ask for a fully developed graphical experience here. What you will get instead its a game full of things to do, obects and ingredients to get , many potions to prepare, a lot of crossdressing to take advantage of and a good amount of astrological drawings and birth charts to make along the way.
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