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9: The Dark Side Of Notre Dame 
ExclusiveThe Festival of Fools is in full swing in Paris when the gargoyles of Notre Dame Cathedral abduct a festivalgoer in plain sight. What was assumed to be a festival stunt turns out to be something much more foul. You are hired by the Paris Police to work the arcane angle of the case in this fantastical reimagining of Victor Hugo’s classic tale.
- Beautiful hand-drawn art
- Relaxing and atmospheric soundtrack
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- For a more in-depth experience, check out the Collector's Edition!
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Game System Requirements:
- OS: Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8
- CPU: 2.0 GHz
- RAM: 2048 MB
- DirectX: 9.0
- Hard Drive: 852 MB
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9: The Dark Side Of Notre Dame
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What a great game!!!! :)
Wow, couldn't stop playing... Breathtaking graphics, wonderful settings, thrilling story, gameplay is very fluently. Loved the well animated characters with their french accent:)
3 modes to choose from, a map, which allows you to "travel", hintsystem is very useful outside the HOS. No journal.
Lots of minigames, some are new and some are really challenging.... Not so many HOS (approx. 70 % minigames, 30 % HOS)
And what I already liked in the first game of this series: We have this guardian amulet, added to the taskbar, which can reveal secret glyphs... And not to forget our friendly helping hand, a small gargoyle, which helps us to reach things.
Main game ends conclusively after +/- 5 hours (in the 2nd mode).
Bonus content offered to the Collector?s Edition: Bonus-chapter, strategy guide, wallpapers, soundtrack, concept-art and 32 achievements to earn!!
You have a lot to do and to explore and that's a lot of fun!!!!
March 10, 2013
Ah Voila! Fantastique!
GAME COMPLETED TWICE
Story: The gargoyles of Notre Dame come alive and kidnap a young lady. The Paris Police can?t admit the existence of paranormal events, so you are invited to solve the mystery. Unsurprisingly, the story is somehow connected to your role as the Last Descendant of the Clan of 9.
Developer: Play Favorite Games
Release Date: Mar 2013
Extras: Guardian Amulet, Interactive Jump Map, Gladriel
A little more fanciful, light hearted and easier game than the original ?9?, this sequel is a wonderfully put together game that I believe would still offer challenge enough for our ever-demanding adventure brethren. HOPA fans will be pleased to hear that the puzzles aren?t impossible, and are outnumbered by some exceptionally beautiful HOs. Which are heavily interactive and are almost a puzzle mini-game in themselves.
As everyone else will tell you, this is a beautiful, and classy game. Excellent graphics, music, voice acting. This is as you?d expect after the first ?9?. The jump map is essential, and invariably helpful. I didn?t need the hint button at all, but it is a large and complex game area and I would have lost my way frequently without the map.
Gladriel is adorable, but I felt she seemed out of place in this story - just a little too much magic.
March 15, 2013
Excellent game!
Excellent game, based on a very interesting and original stroyline and setted in the magic Paris.. and you can really have the feeling of! Graphics are fantastic and the sound magic, all fits perfectly with the atmosphere of the "Ville Lumire". The game is intriguing and hooks you from the beginning on, is fluid but makes you also think about where to go on what to do next (that i like!)...there are a lot of beautiful locations to visit, HOG are very funny and puzzles, most on the difficult side, are original and make work the brain. I loved our heping friend Gladriel, very nice and funny! The main game took me more then 5 hours, playing hardcore (no skip or hint button available) and relaxed, reading the story and the dialogues. I played the full version of the CE, with a lot of achievements to get, but the bonus chapter was nothing really worth the double price..., round about 40 minutes of gameplay not so challenging or interesting, a sort of flash back on the beginning of the story of the cathedral...If you don't care much on wallpapers, music & co...i suggest you to purchase this SE, really a 5 stars game you cannot miss!
March 10, 2013
Outstanding Challenging Game
Review is on finished Demo - and playing on casual mode :
This game caught me from the very start, Challenging puzzles (puzzles that vary in difficulty ) - there is always the Skip/Reset button if you get stuck or you lose your patience. The HOGs are clear - and not too HOS heavy, the quality of graphics are very well done, great storyline, cut-scenes that were well done. music changes with diferent locations. Three levels of difficulty, useful hints, achievements,The crowbar is very useful and it stayed in my tools. Got startled a few times from werewolves,ghosts jumping out at you.This is another BFG Winner !
My decision now is whether to go with the CE or the SE.
March 10, 2013
GARGOYLS COME ALIVE
What's not to like about this game. The King ordered a powerful amulet be divided in half because it's magic was to powerful for one man to contain. The King didn't know the amulet wasn't divided equally with one half still in the guardians posession and the other half has now been used to bring the gargoyals to life, kidnapping the mayors daughter! Your task is to quietly investigate this matter that the town believes was part of the festivals activities. The mini games are really fun such as a grid with numbered buttons 1-4 which you must move all buttons to a different slot in the amount of space that button says like two spaces up or 4 spaces over. You will recieve a map with tasks that allows you to travel to that location, three modes of difficulity from casual to hardcore, and a hint system that tells you exactly what to do with no penalties because only the CE has achievements. The graphics are crisp, the developers have paid attention to detail, the cutscenes are HD quality and the story is captivating. Honestly you can skip the demo and just buy this one, it's a keeper.
March 10, 2013
Love it!!
I played the demo of this game in Collector Edition and now I purchased the SE. Great game, full of play and thought provoking intrigue. Beautiful to look at and listen to. Plenty of action, Hidden object games are really good. You get a little "pal" to work with too!! You have to really think and remember all the places and move your cursor around the entire field of play. There are things all over the place. Hint button is really good, will lead you to where you have to go if need be. I am having a blast playing this and hope you will too!! Enjoy!!
March 10, 2013
Sacre bleu!
I fully expected to like this game, because the first "9" was very good and I've played it several times. This game, however, I found unbearable. Perhaps it was the terrible fake French accents, or the ugly sidekick that made unfunny jokes. There were too many cutscenes, and when I clicked to skip a cutscene, the game lauched directly into another cutscene so I had to skip twice. There was an object clearly lying on the ground. Could you pick it up? No, you had to zoom in to pick it up, again, just useless clicking. For me it got tedious after a while. Nice graphics, and some well- thought-of minigames were pluses.
March 12, 2013
Almost perfect
Beautiful graphics, an animated, helpful sidekick, a strong storyline, a help system that really does help and an interactive map. Hidden object scenes were nearly 100% clear and unobstructed. I even left the music on.
Unfortunately, many of the cut-scenes were out of sync and the plot left too many loose ends. The ending is abrupt and confusing.
March 11, 2013
Potentially good game spoiled by rubbish storyline and setting
I tried both the CE and SE. When I tried the SE I remembered...
I know there is a certain suspension of disbelief required to play a fantasy game, but I found this just impossible. Supposedly it takes place in Paris: cue cod-French accents. The style of dress of the missing girl and the car suggest it is some time in the 1960s; Esme seems to be kitted out in an Edwardian number, while the police officers have some sort of 19th century Ruritanian uniforms. That is, if they are police and not gendarmes (or "gandarmes", as it says on one sign.) All this is supposed to be happening at a festival which was never a public one and which was suppressed in the 15th century. In the first two scenes you examine there are so many errors, it really grates. It's all too plain, as you attempt to play through, that the developers have no command of either English or French, nor any understanding of history or legend.
I just found it impossible to ignore so much rubbish in order to actually play the game, which possibly would be quite entertaining.
I can't recommend it; no doubt there are people that aren't annoyed by such sloppy production who will enjoy it.
March 13, 2013
Incredible Game
I waited for the normal issue of 9: The Dark Side of Notre Dame to be released before buying it. I was not disappointed, as this is a really great game that keeps your interest and has clever mini games.The artwork is incredibly well done and really captures Paris. I would have given this five stars but *possible spoiler* the way the game just abruptly ends was sloppy and not well thought out.
My assumption is that you would be best purchasing the CE version instead of this one for that reason.
March 13, 2013
