Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals
Have you tried the Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals demo yet? Good graphics, interesting story, reasonable voice-acting. After finishing the demo I am convinced this will be a game to get if you are into adventure games, and/or like games taking place in an Orwellian type of environment. Paris 2023, democracy has been thrown out of the window, citizens’ lives are controlled by a powerful totalitarian government, and a flying pyramid hovers above the city. You are a struggling artist (your apartment confirms this, it ain’t exactly luxurious) who just joined a resistance group. The game is based on the Nikopol graphic novels, so readers of those novels will recognize the story.
Nikopol is a first-person 3D game, there is no free movement (as in: you click on an entrance and the scene loads). This may be a turn-off to some, however, the graphics make up for it in my opinion. What did annoy me were the illogical puzzles in just this demo. Hopefully the puzzles in the full game are slightly less frustrating. You will know what I am talking about when you play through the demo.
There are days when you wake up in the morning, look out the window, rub your eyes, look again, and you see something so strange that you have no other alternative than to just deliberately ignore it, ban it from your memory, and try to continue to live your normal life as well as you can. Yet if one doesn’t succeed at this, there remains only one thing to do: to get to the bottom of the extraordinary thing in question. In the case of our protagonist, it is a pyramid. A flying pyramid. Above Paris. To be precise, one that emerges suddenly and unexpectedly above the French metropolis in the year 2023.
Preview at Adventure Gamers.
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