Ni Bi Ru - Age of Secrets (Computer)
User Review
Product Information:
- Release Date (NA): August 31, 2005
- Release Date (EU): March 30, 2005
- Publisher: The Adventure Company / dtp entertainment
- Developer: Future Games
- Genres: Point and Click Adventure
Game Features:
Single player
Local Multiplayer
Online Multiplayer
Co-operative
Review Approach:
A great "Time Travel" into glorious Re-Birth Times of the Point and Click Adventures.
A Point and Click Adventure with an charismatic Main Character and really good,sometimes mystical Story.
The Czech Martin Holan studies Archeology and Linguistics in Paris.
His Uncle,Professor Francois De Wilde,asks him by Phone for help on a mysterious and apparently dangerous Matter.
For more Information,Holan goes to Prague,where he is supposed to meet the historian Barbora Kranska.
But this disappears from the agreed meeting Point at the Charles Bridge after a mysterious stranger has appeared.
Holan goes to Barbora's Apartment and finds her murdered.
He researches their working environment and thus uncovered the secret classified information "Project Nibiru".
"Project Ni.Bi.Ru" was a Project run by Nazi Germany in the last days of the war in 1945.
The Germans wanted to use Extraterrestrial Technology from "Ni.Bi.Ru" - a mysterious and so far undiscovered and inhabited Planet of the Solar System.
To revolutionize Cell Regeneration in the Human Body,thereby turning the world around in World War II.
(Source - German Wikipedia)
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The Story so far,Martin is about to travel in different Locations like Böhmen,France and Mexico.
The Quest and Riddles are "easy" sometimes too easy.
The Graphics are really very nice and detailed.
The Locations where drawn with Love and Passion and many Details and sometimes Animations.
(People are walking in the Background,Cars and Trams in some Locations,Birds.....not really usual in Adventure from 2005)
Unfortunately sometimes not many Objects in a Scene....
The Control is very easy (with the Mouse) Left Button for Action and Right Button for Details and Characteristics of the Objects.
You can "Shortwalk" from one Location to the next by Double clicking the Exit.
The Atmosphere is very good and authentic,"underlaid" with a very good Music/Soundtrack.
The Inventory is on the lower Part of the Picture (classic).
The Conversationthemes also.
The Voice Actors (I have played the English and German Version,more a little later) are really good and authentic and fits absolute into the Story.
The Conversations are very realistic and not boring,at no Time.
You can nearly save at any Time.
There are few Spots,if you react too slow,you can die.
But it is really not frustrating,after 2-3 Tries you know the Solution.
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A little "Background":
The Game is based on the Original Windows 95 Version "Posel bohu" from 1998 developed also by Czech Company "Future Games" (1996 - 2011).
For the Release in 2005 it was reworked and customized for the German Market (guess what....)
So the Polish/Czech/English Versions are uncensored with the NS Symbols whereas the German Version "miss" that Symbols and also had an "customized" Riddle (the "famous" Door Quest)
His Uncle,Professor Francois De Wilde,asks him by Phone for help on a mysterious and apparently dangerous Matter.
For more Information,Holan goes to Prague,where he is supposed to meet the historian Barbora Kranska.
But this disappears from the agreed meeting Point at the Charles Bridge after a mysterious stranger has appeared.
Holan goes to Barbora's Apartment and finds her murdered.
He researches their working environment and thus uncovered the secret classified information "Project Nibiru".
"Project Ni.Bi.Ru" was a Project run by Nazi Germany in the last days of the war in 1945.
The Germans wanted to use Extraterrestrial Technology from "Ni.Bi.Ru" - a mysterious and so far undiscovered and inhabited Planet of the Solar System.
To revolutionize Cell Regeneration in the Human Body,thereby turning the world around in World War II.
(Source - German Wikipedia)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The Story so far,Martin is about to travel in different Locations like Böhmen,France and Mexico.
The Quest and Riddles are "easy" sometimes too easy.
The Graphics are really very nice and detailed.
The Locations where drawn with Love and Passion and many Details and sometimes Animations.
(People are walking in the Background,Cars and Trams in some Locations,Birds.....not really usual in Adventure from 2005)
Unfortunately sometimes not many Objects in a Scene....
The Control is very easy (with the Mouse) Left Button for Action and Right Button for Details and Characteristics of the Objects.
You can "Shortwalk" from one Location to the next by Double clicking the Exit.
The Atmosphere is very good and authentic,"underlaid" with a very good Music/Soundtrack.
The Inventory is on the lower Part of the Picture (classic).
The Conversationthemes also.
The Voice Actors (I have played the English and German Version,more a little later) are really good and authentic and fits absolute into the Story.
The Conversations are very realistic and not boring,at no Time.
You can nearly save at any Time.
There are few Spots,if you react too slow,you can die.
But it is really not frustrating,after 2-3 Tries you know the Solution.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
A little "Background":
The Game is based on the Original Windows 95 Version "Posel bohu" from 1998 developed also by Czech Company "Future Games" (1996 - 2011).
For the Release in 2005 it was reworked and customized for the German Market (guess what....)
So the Polish/Czech/English Versions are uncensored with the NS Symbols whereas the German Version "miss" that Symbols and also had an "customized" Riddle (the "famous" Door Quest)
Verdict
What I Liked ...
- Classic Point and Click Adventure
- Very good Story
- Charismatic Main Character
- Very nice Locations and Graphics
- Very good Soundtrack,Sound Effects and Voicetalents
- Easy Controls
- Not too difficult
- Working under Windows 10 (needs Customize Settings in "Compatibility")
- No "Monster" Hardware needed
What I Didn't Like ...
- Not many Riddles/Quest
- You can die in some Situations
- Not to difficult
- German Version censored
8
Gameplay
Nothing more to say - Point and Click in purest Form.
8.5
out of 10