Niklas Leon is on the way to marry his fiancee Helene - a daughter of a rich bavarian count Gottfried von Wackersberg. He's about the find out that the true darkness lies within our hearts.
Another masterful work on this team. I streamed and played this mod couple days ago and I was amazed how everything was builded and atmosphere really gets me. Scripting is really good and something I never seen before.
Scares are pretty good and I jumped couple times unexpected. Map design and whole castle concept is really good overall, maybe sometimes rooms are too big on my opinion, but there is a lot to explore and takes's time to find all the solutions, I needed couple times help just, so it didn't take hours for me, lol.
Story is great and good to follow and understand, voice actors are great and big plus with those new animation models too!
Some things got my eye and I was amazed how they did that? Like that elevator sequence with a new twist and those freaking mirrors are unqiue af and couple other never-seen stuff. Amazing work on that.
Overall Castle Wackersberg is a must play with new unique elements and complicated puzzles at times, but playable with new scary elements added and deep storytelling.
Pos:
- Design and concept
- Elevator script & mirrors
- Puzzles
- Story
- Epic Boss Battle
- Music
Neg:
- Big areas like that prison
- Confusing to find stuff at times
9/10 - Thrilling ride with unqique ideas added!
The mod is not easy ... but I managed to solve all puzzles. Hahahaha a really great mod. :)
- beautiful graphic
- Great music
- Great story
- wonderful work by the entire team!
It'unplayable for me.
TOo many bugs.
I have a glass container with no description, and doesnt do a thing.
fall of the map here and there.
Stuck in between staircases with the flying enemy.
the event with the 2 dancing npc's is without a clue\hint not playable.
Had to look a lot iof things up in Youtube.
ALso the fuses, for me 5 fuses and it worked? having a free fuse in my inventory...
when that happened also the BIG hint disappeared in quests..
and its way too dark if oil is out.
need way more oil imo.
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9-10 cause it looks amazing!
scripts are amazing!
Enemies amazing!
mapping good\great.
Just too many problems\bugs for me...... :S
also the lantern.tga in the inventory looks very bad with the white around it.
The feeling in this mod, how anxious it makes you feel, and the scares which are perfectly timed and not obvious, it's just a different mod from every other mod I have ever played. Great one.
One of the best mods I've played. Best one of the entire bavarian saga. Imagine "Machine for pigs" with all its complicated, automatic machines, and add environment interaction of "The dark descent". And this mod is what you get. One of the things I really liked about this mod is that the secret notes are not from random people, but from one person, so you can view the whole story from a different point of view. While mod itself uses a lot of assets from different games by Frictional, it also provides a lot of it's own unique mechanics and threats. You definetly should give it a try.
Nice work.
This mod is a surprise for me tbh. I saw and played The Effect, and for me, the mod was bad ( sorry, Cyborg ). People may know me as a player who chooses carefully what to play :) If the maps are bad, I will never play the mod. Thus, I played probably 30 mods in my whole life. If the mods do not look like Amadeus, then I will not play them.
In this mod, I absolutely love some areas, especially the grand entrance hall with the arcade above and the elevator /sadly too slow :)/
I was proud of my carriage with actual visible moving outside area, but Cyborg's carriage was an actual moving carriage in the environment and even with the horses.
Same for the ship.
Overall I love this mod not just because of the story, environments and sometimes pretty scary events and parts, such as spider cave :)
Good Job.
I am looking for future projects :)
pure masterpiece they nailed it 10/10
What I enjoyed about this custom story the most was the original things the developer did, e.g. the opening scene, custom monsters and more smaller things like scare and insanity event.
The ambiance was really good and spooky at times and fitted the maps and atmosphere.
The mapping was really beautiful as well, nicely detailed.
This custom story has plenty of scary moments although not many actual encounters that are threatening.
The story is also good and the puzzles are ok.
There are boss battles in this custom story and they are kinda fun to do.
All in all, a really solid experience and the best points of this custom story are its original scares.
Despite some flawed dialogues and voice acting, accompanied by some inconvenient puzzle choices, this was one of the most enjoyable experiences from recent memory for me.
The story had its moments in itself, i only didn't like that there was no ending choice or a different outcome. Didn't really expect it to turn out this way, which i think was for the better, since it had its cliche moments, nonetheless turned out to be a unique experience in itself.
The areas were exceptional sometimes and mostly well designed the rest of the way. Sometimes unnecessarily large to fit the story, but i don't blame the designer for that. Secrets really spiced up the exploration and i enjoyed the bonus readables. Didn't find them all but they filled me with a sense of accomplishment, which is the purpose of hunting secrets in my opinion.
Puzzles were even somewhat clever sometimes with very few annoying parts like carrying and placing a giant ladder multiple times. I read/heard puzzles were challenging but they were a good hit for me, i barely had to check/ask for anything, pretty rare in longer mods. Some technical solutions were previously unheard of, like the horse ride or reflections, or burning the webs in the spider cave. Very nice!
Scary and tense moments were present in the mod with some unique encounters i definitely didn't expect (looking at you worm), haven't had one of these in a while, good job. A + for resource management as well.
Music and sounds were well placed, the first one chosen from many games i've enjoyed in my younger years, i'm glad they were used to such extent, thanks to Swankest for including these!
Really my only complaint is some plain characters, (some too long) dialogues and the occasional low quality voice acting. And while i've seen better design, story or puzzles in other mods before, this as a whole hit me with a sense of nostalgia and weird shivers.
During my time, at some puzzles and areas i was thinking about giving an 8 or 9, but by the end, especially considering how much effort the author put into this, and how much he improved on the quality of his work, i decided to give it an almost full score, 9.5 for the minor flaws.
Thank you for this experience! And i hope you return someday with something this outstanding :)