Разработчик: Nightdive Studios
Описание
In the City Of Darkness, where the spirit of the times is an insatiable lust for flesh and blood, a hero stands alone. You are Darksheer, and your nemeses will stop at nothing: the vampiric Succubus, Tophat the Magician, the masochistic Master Macabre and their demonic allies have joined forces to indulge in fantasies of carnage worthy only of the end of time. Night Dive Studios presents Noctropolis, a beautifully rendered, adult graphic adventure about the grisly things you dream.
New Enhanced Edition for Steam!
- High-quality, remastered OST
- Original bonus Comic Book included
- Improved mouse support - You can rebind left and right click function to any mouse button; scroll wheel can be used to navigate in-game menus and comic books
- Improved keyboard support - You can rebind virtual left and right click keys; page up and page down act the same as the mouse scrollwheel. Can use number keys to make choices during dialogue trees. Can adjust sensitivity of virtual pointer.
- Support for modern displays with ability to toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode
- SDL 2.0 Game controller support added, with rebinding and sensitivity controls supported.
- Several game crashing bugs from the original code were fixed.
- Dead-end situations in game play were removed.
- Optional linear texture filtering.
- Three-band equalized, filtered sound mixer.
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, german, spanish - spain
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows Vista / 7 / 10
- Processor: 1.0 GHz Processor
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: 100% DirectX compatible graphics
- Storage: 800 MB available space
- Sound Card: 100% DirectX compatible card or onboard sound
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 1.5 GHz Processor
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 100% DirectX compatible graphics
- Storage: 800 MB available space
- Sound Card: 100% DirectX compatible card or onboard sound
Mac
- OS: macOS 10.9
- Processor: 1.0 GHz Processor
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: 100% OpenGL compatible graphics
- Storage: 800 MB available space
- Sound Card: 100% CoreAudio compatible card or onboard sound
- OS: macOS 10.9 or later
- Processor: 1.5 GHz Processor
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 100% OpenGL compatible graphics
- Storage: 800 MB available space
- Sound Card: 100% CoreAudio compatible card or onboard sound
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (64-bit)
- Processor: 1.0 GHz Processor
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: 100% OpenGL compatible graphics
- Storage: 800 MB available space
- Sound Card: Any ALSA supported card on onboard audio
- OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64-bit)
- Processor: 1.5 GHz Processor
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 100% OpenGL compatible graphics
- Storage: 800 MB available space
- Sound Card: Any ALSA supported card on onboard audio
Отзывы пользователей
Gonna party like it's 1994! I like games where a character enters another world. Be it a computer, a cartoon or yes, a comic book. So I really enjoyed the idea. It is not a great game but it is entertaining. Some puzzles are extremely annoying though. The end credits are way too long. We don't need that.
This is an isekai story from before isekai even existed as a term.
You play a horribly depressed miserable comic book man that gets sucked into a comic book world. Then you save the day as not-Batman. That's the whole game.
It took me about 3 hours to get through it, and I'll be honest I was using a walkthrough for about 70% of it. I gave it a good try, but this is one of those classic point and click adventures where you have pixel hunting, useless items, and even useless locations! Many dialogue encounters have to be done 'the right way' to progress successfully, and if you mess up sometimes you just die. Now, to be fair the right answer is often quite apparent, but sometimes it really isn't and you won't really know where you went wrong, since you can enter a dialogue tree where every answer is a dead end, and you picked wrong at the start. Yeah.
So this game has all the problems of a 90s point and click adventure game. So what's the good parts then?
Well, the game is pretty short, which is a bonus. As mentioned, this is a 3 hour game if you're just going through it at an easy pace, following a walkthrough, enjoying the story.
The story is not disinteresting, really, but it is very stock in a lot of ways, but it all takes place in a kind of weird world which I think does a lot to make it... interesting. There's lots of stuff that's just hinted at. Noctropolis has pretty good art and backgrounds most of the time, and while I think none of the digitized actors are really taking anything seriously and some actors give shockingly bad performances, the game's tone actually somewhat effectively rides a line of being serious and at times pretty dark, without being too heavy. There's some silly dialogue and some funny text boxes here and there which give you a laugh, and eases any sort of tension you might be feeling.
As I mentioned, it's an isekai. Your sad, pathetic, ex-wife man who looks like a nerd gets turned into DARKSHEER, the legendary hero of the night. He even has a utility belt. Then there's like five bad guys you have to take out and then one final bad guy. There's really not a lot more to the story, since this is a game that was clearly more concerned, for the most part, with just providing an adventure game experience with maybe some wish fulfilment for desperate nerds who like comic books.
Yeah.
So in that sense at least this game aged a bit poorly, since just from my description there, you should be able to tell that this is one of those 90s properties where they have a very stereotypical vision of what a nerd is.
I should note too, I dunno who the writers on this were, but I think they did fairly well on this game. Again, not a complex story, or anything. Not THAT dedicated to concepts of setup and payoff, but there's some in there. It sort of comes with the design of the adventure game that certain things are going to be in there. There's some okay character work. I think that one of the big things I liked though was the dialogue for your character?
I mentioned that the game has dialogue trees that have some options that you can just tell are incorrect, and some that noticeably feel correct. One of the things I noticed about a lot of the 'correct' options in dialogue trees, is... the game seems to want you to pick the cheesiest 'action hero' dialogue you see. I kind of like that. I sort of like that the game seems to want you to play by its rules and it's up to you to adapt to them. It also makes sense somewhat with the character of your guy that you are playing as, because he should be able to solve weird puzzles like this by just being very familiar, himself, with the trappings of the world.
It also sort of ties in with the self-insert isekai type stuff since ostensibly, the player themselves can easily slip into that role by also probably being interested in comic books, since they are buying a game about comic books, probably being interested in nerdy things like adventure games, since they are buying a game about adventure games... there's something there, I think, I don't know how much of that is intended, but I think it's neat. I think too that as an isekai it's more interesting and immersive when you take an active role in it, such as in this game, than a passive interaction, such as in a novel or something like that where you are just watching someone else go through it.
The game has a bit of nudity to it in a couple places, but it all feels pretty skeevy. This is a sleazy game, in a lot of ways, and it feels exploitative. It's gross enough that it's not really all that erotic. It has like three or four cat fights where the girls of the game beat on each other, kind of. The game obviously has a hard time even rendering two characters interacting let alone fighting, so these are almost more verbal than anything, but still.
Right at the start you get to read basically an entire comic book which, I thought was kind of neat. The art quality was sort of all over the place though and while some pages looked great, some other pages were like, this is CLEARLY not the same artist? What happened? Where'd he go? Did they lose an artist and just have to make do on their own? Really puzzling stuff, but it's not something that really bothered me... merely just an interesting observation.
I think overall I would recommend the game though, since, I think I generally liked playing it, there were some moments where I was kind of impressed or made me go 'wow'. There's plenty of nice art to look at. And I sort of liked the pulpy comic book setting. It was a generally good experience, and there was nothing too frustrating. It's not really a very difficult game, except for all the usual adventure game problems.
The only problem is, I don't know who I would recommend it TO. The list of people I can think of that would actually want to spend the time to play this is pretty narrow. But, if it sounds interesting, give it a try.
Oh also, this is a great port. Ran great for me. I played on Linux, but I am sure it's great on Windows too.
A cool and sometimes sexy 90s FMV, I really enjoyed all the crazy characters we meet along the way. The location designs are very unique looking and have their own music tracks. I do wish I would have found a use for the divorce papers, I kept offering those to everyone I met but no one wanted them. :(
The music at the Cygnus lobby is an absolute banger of a track!
This was really fun and silly. I dig it.
classic
This is unfortunately very bad. I wanted to like it, but I can't: The general idea is cool but poorly executed, you are supposed to be a superhero but you dont get to use any superpowers, the main guy is totally lame, there are plot holes. At some point you get raped by a succubus because she wants to get pregnant for some reason (another plot hole) and you tell all that to your priest friend and he says Don't dwell on it, son....Right? No big deal! Who cares
The gameplay really sucks, you click the USE button for everything, the pop up actions menu is terrible and the riddles are almost stupid (killing a supernatural gargoyle with an electrified metal javelin??? Really?? And you dont get to die? A freaking succubus demon who keeps a diary under her pillow?? LOL).
At some other point, you, despite being the city's loved superhero/protector, get arrested for breaking and entering to an abandoned observatory and end up in jail, lol
Overall, the game feels rushed and it is also too short. Characters are not well built and they lack depth.
You learn about a lot of villains, but most of them only appear for mere seconds in the game before they disappear forever and they also still roam free when you finish it.
The only good thing about it is the music and the beautifully goth portrayal of the city which is actually a Gotham rip-off. Don't pay more than 5 USD/ EUR for this crap..,.j
One of the better point-and-click adventures from the 90s. The music and graphics are pretty good for an older game. I've read that the characters were digitized from analog footage which makes for impressive in-game animation. I had no issues running this game in Windows 10.
You play as a bookstore owner who is mysteriously transported onto the pages of his favourite comic book, so yes, the plot becomes a juvenile power fantasy typical of 90s era comic books. In this context, the FMV acting and dialog are suitably over-the-top. The puzzles can sometimes be convoluted for the same reason.
Not for everybody, but if you are a fan of older PC games (especially FMV), you're sure to get a few hours of entertainment from this title. I enjoyed every moment that I spent saving Noctropolis from evil.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Nightdive Studios |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 19.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 86% положительных (49) |