Chronicles of Mystery: The Tree of Life

Chronicles of Mystery: The Tree of Life
Chronicles of Mystery: The Tree of Life
Developer(s) City Interactive
Publisher(s) City Interactive
Distributor(s) City Interactive
Series Chronicles of Mystery
Platform(s) PC (Windows)
Release date(s)
  • USA December 10, 2009

  • EU November, 2010

  • RU March 17, 2011
Genre(s) Adventure
Mode(s) Single-player
Rating(s)
Media/distribution DVD Digital download
System requirements

Chronicles of Mystery: The Tree of Life is the second game in the series of adventure games for PC. The game was developed and published by City Interactive in 2009.

Contents

Gameplay

The game starts off with people wearing masks gathering somewhere in Venice, to discuss the assasination, who will carry it out, and who will be the victim. As they conclude, Marcel, one of the owners of the castle is the target. The leader of the assasination ring, shoots a poison dart at Marcel, who falls, as soon as he receives it. His wife who was with him saw him falling, but didn't knew how it happened. Meantime, our hearoine, Syvie Leroux turns out to be in the same city where assasination took place, and starts the investigation. The owner of the castle tell her that Marcel died after an excident, caused probably by love, a heart attack, as his wife, Claire, has describes it. But Sylvie have her own take on it. The investigation leads her from Brittany to Venice, Cairo, Gibraltar and Cuba. Sylvie Leroux starts her investigation in Brittany, which was a stop-by city. Her real destination was Venice, where she was scheduled to carry on a lecture about her book, "The Scorpio Ritual". In Brittany she finds a chest that was a key part in "Mary Celeste" mystery. Also, she finds notes about a strange collector nicknamed "Saint-Germain". When she arrived to Venice, she meets a gondolier, but right in front of her eyes he was assasinated by a masked figure. Sylvie finds a chronometer, and a coin (a murder mark), next to the body. She throughtly examines the chronometer and finds out that it dates to 1872, the year that "Mary Celeste" drowns. Due to the murder the lecture was canceled, but she managed to sign the book and give it to a couple of carnivalers, which she met outside, who wanted to come for a lecture and book signing. After she left them she saw the same figure on the bridge, (the same figure that killed the gondolier), and got terrified. She avoided the confrontation with him by traving on a gondola, under the darkness and a flare, which she made to distract the figure. After a successful distraction, she manages to flee the place unnoticed. She lands her gondola at a garden which is a property of that mysterious collector. The collector and Sylvie introduce each other, and then Sylvie gives him her find, the chronometer. She mentions of a date of sinking to him which is on the chronometer. Saint-Germain then wants Sylvie to bring him the chest, but she can't do it because it is a property of a museum now. After an arguement they came to a deal: She will work for him, and she will get more than a half objects that they will excavate together. Saint-Germain mentioned her about a collector in Cairo, who is speciallizes in Atlantis. He doesn't remember his name due to amnesia, that was caused by an excident. Sylvie takes a flight to Cairo, in search of that collector.

Reception

The game received a score of 8.0 from Worthplaying, saying, "...and while the dialogue is not the best, the overall plot is quite intriguing." The game also received a 5.0 score from GameZone comenting on the great soundtrack, but mentioning of the improvements quoting this: "The game could’ve benefited from the game’s various exotic locations and interesting “Fountain of Youth” premise. Unfortunately, the weak script and lacking puzzles make this an adventure that is ultimately hard to recommend."

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