The story is of a young man named Andrew MacPhiles who has recently inherited a Scottish castle full of ghosts, and an earldom along with it. Another re-hash of the previous games is the cursors used in the game which are exact copies of those from the preceding games. An accomplished music producer and musician, Matthew has produced and performed on nearly 13 albums over 10 years of his career.
The puzzles include mazes, chess problems, logical deductions, and word manipulations. Matthew Jaidev Clandestiny Internationally renowned Live-loop world music recording artist layers powerful vocal harmonies, throat-singing, indigenous instruments, chants, mantras and thoughtful cinematic production. Solve puzzles to find the legendary Stone of Scone and lift the curse. The place turns out to be haunted by his cursed ancestors. A few of the puzzles in the game were re-hashed from previous titles.Ī fairly simple plot is played out by animated characters through animated clips as you progress between rooms by solving puzzles of shifting nature and increasing difficulty. Clandestiny Video Game 1996 IMDb RATING 5.5 /10 10 YOUR RATING Rate Cast & crew Trivia IMDbPro Animation Adventure Comedy Cowardly American, Andrew McPhile, and his fiancee visit an old Scottish castle he had inherited. The main protagonist, Andrew MacPhiles, grows as a character and learns the secrets of his family's past along with the help of an array of characters who further the story giving clues and hints along the way. Clandestiny is a real-play, monster of the week podcast brought to you by a group of nerdy creatives who love collaborative story-telling. They must face cryptids, aliens, cosmic forces, and some big magic. Like that of The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour, the game is played by wandering a castle, solving logic puzzles and watching animated videos that further the story. Set in the fictional town of Burgoon, Ohio, six unlikely individuals find themselves tangled up in many mysteries. Cowardly American, Andrew McPhile, and his fiancee visit an old Scottish castle he had inherited.
It also did poorly with consumers.Ĭlandestiny is the third installment in Trilobyte's series of puzzle games and provides an interesting mix of first-person gameplay and third-person cartoon. With Sherman Archibald, Marco Barricelli, Patrick Claflin, Graeme Devine. After the profit loss of The 11th Hour, the second game created by Trilobyte, the producers went on to make a more kid-friendly version of the The 7th Guest series (even though that game has a T (Teen) rating). This was a particular problem on the final puzzle, which was rendered almost impossible to solve because of the difficulty of understanding the various characters.Credits | Soundtrack | Codes | WalkthroughĬlandestiny, published in 1996 by Virgin Games and developed by Trilobyte, is a video-based puzzle computer game. This is a problem, because the comments made by the various characters frequently contained vital clues. Consequently I had a very hard time understading much of the speech in the game. It didn’t give me the option of turning down the music independently of the voice or effects tracks. On a technical note, one thing that irritated me about Clandestiny is the fact that it had only crude sound controls. Solve wee rascally riddles and persnickety puzzles to learn the fate of this dimwitted clan From Graeme Devine the co-creator of 7th Guest and the 11th Hour. These ghosts are a mixed bag some are entertaining, others not so. Opening a new door also frequently lets you meet a new ghost. He has inherited a castle in the remote Scottish highlands, but when he arrives, he discovers that the ghosts of his ancestors are haunting the place. As this family crest begins to take shape and you see a clan motto is being constructed by your riddle answers, solving the remaining riddles gets easier - as you are looking for specific words to complete the motto. Enter the 1996 game Clandestiny, a tale of Andrew and his girlfriend Paula who receive notice that Andrew is the 13th Earl of the MacPhiles. Also, each riddle answer you get not only opens a door but adds a word to the family crest. If you hate riddles, this aspect of the game will not be one for you. Now, you are either a person who likes riddles or a person who is driven up the wall by them. In order to pass through a door you must find the "key," which is the answer to a riddle. Then there are the "door puzzles." At the very beggining of the game most of the doors in the castle are locked.