Heaven's Dawn

[Tomáš]

Genre: Adventure

Year released: 1995

Ross's rating: Unrated

Link to game:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/heavens-dawn-

Free to play: No

GaaS: No

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[kerdios]

Just finished the game yesterday.

It's a point and click adventure from a Chinese studio, so the English translation is understandable, but very clunky.

Story wise, it's a nice story with the usual saviour hero elements mixed with a bit of (in retrospect) chinese folklore elements. This for me is a major factor in a point and click.
The inventory management is very annoying, the puzzles are mostly disjunctive, and the music is mostly repetitive.

The puzzles are built in a manner that will make you mostly call the helpline of that era to pay for hints. Luckily today we have walkthroughs.

I would have given it good/great except it ends on two very annoying puzzles which make me downgrade it to Doubt/Love&Hate/Hazy.

The first is a sliding puzzle of an image of the map game with 36 squares, and I HATE slider puzzles.

After that, nearly immediately, there is a spinning maze riddle; attached is an image, see for yourself:

Spoiler

every time you move, the room you exited rotates 90degs

These two just feel like some kind of artificial time wasters that have nothing to do with the game