FAUST

                 Reviewed by Stefan Herber

Not quite the latest adventure from the French firm Cryo
Entertainment, but Faust is one of their more inspired stories. I
suspect Myst inspired the whole range but they have always tried
to include more interaction than that had.

Faust, also known as 'The Seven Games of the Soul', has very
little to do with the Goethe work and nothing to do with the
several operas inspired by it. Yes there is a character called
Faust as well as a mysterious individual called Mephisto but its
story is wildly deviant. Effectively you play a character who
arrives at a deserted carnival and has seven mysteries all
involving previous performers. The timing ranges from the 1930's
through to the present day. So it is in fact 7 different chapters
finally culminating in the "showdown'. The tales are always
involving and the solutions depend far more on accurate
observation of the environment rather than the abstruse puzzles of
'Myst' or the illogicality of the Lucasarts games. It looks
beautiful, the interface is quickly grasped and it whiled away a
pleasant weekend.

Yes, you read that right. It is far too short and as most of the
puzzles are solved in a single room is not that taxing. I have to
add that certain of the interactions, particularly between
inventory objects, are not always clear and the ending is an
anticlimax of horrendous proportions. Is the adventure game really
dead after all?









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