Lost Horizon 2: Video Game Overview

Release the sequel classic Point’n’Click Quest five years after the exit of the original – this is capable today, it seems, only the Germans. But what kind of quest and what Germans! Studio Animation Arts In Tandem S FusionSphere Systems Made two parts Secret Files, And they LOST HORIZON became one of the most important and fascinating quests of 2010. Therefore, many, I am sure, were happy after five years to meet with his main character, former British Military Fenton Paddock.What adventure today without QTE?
Fenton Jones

True, the Paddock himself, and the atmosphere of the game has changed somewhat. First LOST HORIZON Something resembled Indiana Jones in classic quest format. Everything was done here on the same recipes. The case was happening in the 30s of the last century. Leaving military service by the shoulders, Fenton Paddock turned into a charming, but not too lucky smuggler and treasure hunter. He traveled around the world, including Tibet, India, Hong Kong and Marrakech, to find the legendary Shambalu, stop the Nazis trying to create a superorary, and most importantly, charm their companion.

And all this was competed by humor, irony, romantic and a rabum fantasy of the authors who forced us to unconventional to use the surrounding items: for example, throw pumpkins to the “Messerschmitts” and wait for, sorry, poop a mountain goat, pre-stuck them in a patef1.

Fathers and daughters

So, in LOST HORIZON 2 Only at first glance it seems that nothing has changed. For nothing that the action was transferred to the 40th – 50th, and the place of mythical Shambhali occupied at least the legendary city of Asgard, as well as the Scandinavian gods and their powerful artifacts. We are still traveling around the world (this time Egypt’s tour program – Berlin – Moscow – Scandinavia), are confronted with the cunning Nazis (now they have been joined by no less insidious representatives of the KGB) and their plans for the inappropriate use of powerful artifacts of antiquity.

Yes, and Paddock seems to be all the same Macho: He will secretly penetrate the fortified military base, it runs from captivity, but it is carrying on a motorcycle in the company of a pretty blonde, having risen from the oncoming transport and the bombs falling from the sky ..Some of the players only here understood what a phone disk rotate!
But actually in LOST HORIZON 2 everything is much more serious and even more tragic. Our hero works on British intelligence, sees the death of his comrades, his daughter is kidnapped, which then you have to save from death. And at the end we even get the opportunity to change the past so that two girls do not see how they kill dad in front of them. In general, despite some lack of confidence (again mythical artifacts, the Nazis, and now also “Bloody Gabn”), this story is capable and surprised, and touch.

Classic adventure

The change of the atmosphere was reflected in the gameplay. We still manage different heroes, sometimes even switched between them, solve the subject riddles and puzzles, participate in mini-games. But in general, there is much less humor and the unusual use of things. Everything is somehow traditionally and seriously, or what to lubricate a rusty castle with a rusty oil, one’s two short boards, distract the call of the butler, interfere with getting into the house, turn the valve by a wrench, send the radiogram using the Morse alphabet and so on.

Much more often than in the first part, we are engaged in classical quest exercises: I am obtaining all sorts of mechanisms, decipher the code locks and mysterious signs, we properly arrange all sorts of runes and symbols … Good or bad – there is already a matter of taste. Someone loves the jogging and more fun, and someone is smarter and half-hour.

Besides periodically LOST HORIZON 2 All the same includes “Indiana Jones”. We have already spoke about a dirty trip on a motorcycle, and sometimes we are forced to play stealth or launch a timer so that we manage to escape from a burning building.

But what really did not like it, so this is the need to clamp and pull the mouse as in the series Penumbra, To open the door or drawer of the table, turn the valve or disc ph1. In the dimensional horrors, it seemed logical, and it looks frankly too much.Schedule from the time of the first part lied a bit.***
LOST HORIZON 2 – Extremely successful sequel, albeit with some reservations. Studio Animation Arts Again made a diverse adventure quest, where there was a place and action, and drama, and classical mysteries, and elements of other genres.