Software Adventure Games - 6 Days a Sacrifice
Assault Trooper
Genre: Adventure Game
Production: by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
Publication date: 2007
Description:
Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw has done it again.
He made another sequel to his "John DeFoe"-series.
So be aware that you need knowledge of "5 Days a Stranger", "7 Days a Skeptic" and "Trilby's Notes" to play and enjoy this game.The Story:"196 YEARS AGO:The DeFoe Manor Incident takes place.
Trilby, the master thief, successfully destroys the body of vengeful wraith John DeFoe and escapes his clutches.
(5 Days A Stranger)After being caught in a reality shift at the Clanbronwyn Hotel, Trilby learns the nature of the Ethereal Realm and the Scientific Realm, of the demonic deity Chzo, and the plan to create a bridge between the realms by destroying the three aspects of John DeFoe.
He has the Soul blasted into space to prevent that from happening, but this only serves as a delaying tactic.
Meanwhile, Chzo's acolyte, Cabadath, aka the Tall Man, crosses over to the Scientific Realm to orchestrate the building of the Bridge.
(Trilby's Notes)196 YEARS FROM NOW:The Soul is recovered by the scoutship Mephistopheles, floating unprotected in space.
After John DeFoe's influence kills off the entire crew save one, Dr.
Jonathan Somerset, the Soul is finally destroyed in the ship's engines.
It is then discovered that Somerset is an impostor, and he is arrested.
(7 Days A Skeptic)TODAY: JULY 22nd, 2189Theo DaCabe, a surveying officer for Buckinghamshire County Council, is assigned to run a routine health and safety assessment on the headquarters of a fad religion called Optimology.
Little does he realise that he is about to be caught up in the machinations of destiny, and a plot that has simmered for two centuries." (Ben "Yathzee" Croshaw)Being the last part of the "John DeFoe"-series the developer promised to tie together the loose ends of the former games and to answer all questions.
Well, I have to admit that I'm not sure if he did so, because the game left me kind of confused and it was hard to figure out what really happened in the end.
But maybe that left some space for another sequel sometime in the future...
;)The puzzles are much easier to solve this time (compared to the other games of the "John DeFoe"-series).
But the graphics are nice and the whole game is very atmospheric again.
And the best thing: Yahtzee left the parser control behind and returned to good old point 'n click.
Thank you!