Platform(s): PC
Genre: Point'n Click
Estimated year of release: Early 2000's
Graphics/art style: first person, 3D, pre-rendered
I’m French and I played the game in French.
I have these vague memories of a game I rented from my local library, probably between 2004 and 2008. I think I played it on Windows XP.
The game had an intro scene where a narrator (with voice acting) tells you that your goal is to find the wizard’s cat.
However, I don’t remember seeing any wizard, any cat, or even any humans or animals during the game.
It was set in a big mansion or a large house that felt inhabited. I don’t think there was any music. It had a mysterious atmosphere that really impressed me as a kid. It wasn’t particularly dark or creepy though, the rooms were actually quite bright.
You could move from room to room. The scenes were fixed (pre-rendered 3D), but you could zoom in on certain areas of the room that contained important objects or puzzles.
One puzzle I vaguely remember was quite elaborate: you had to figure out how to make a device work. You could drag and drop items, turn the power on, etc.
In a small corner of one room, there was a tiny “Master Hand” (the one from Super Smash Bros.). I remember it made sounds and reacted when I clicked on it, but I couldn’t figure out what to do with it.
In another room, the narrator read a note or a passage from a book describing a family making pancakes (crêpes). The dough was lumpy, and the daughter couldn’t complain because she hadn’t fixed a device that was still in her bedroom.