About This Game Visiting Rome from Chicago, where he works as a doctor, ex-priest James Murphy answers a mysterious call for help from his friend Cristoforo. The disappearance of a briefcase containing compromising documents is enough to convince James that his friend is a victim of something shady and sinister. The Vatican's involvement and some strange parallels with his own traumatic past inspire James to get to the bottom of this mystery. Along this dangerous and disturbing path, James finds the most unlikely travelling companion who will question his deepest beliefs. And so the two characters begin both a physical journey in search of the truth, and a metaphysical exploration of the inner soul and the darkest secrets that everyone hides, even a "champion of the faith" like James. Rome is the stage for this adventure – a city bathed in eternal twilight, its skies tinted the color of blood spilled in more than thirty years of intrigue: blood of innocents and guilty, unknown and famous victims alike.KEY FEATURESShadows on the Vatican is a thrilling new point-and-click adventure in 4 acts, inspired by real events in recent Italian history and freely adapted from the bestseller of David Yallop "In God's Name". Art direction by Lorenzo Ruggiero (Marvel/DC Comics)Over 10 locations per episode with high resolution graphics and Full HD supportRealistic characters with hours of motion-capture animationsWell integrated puzzles and several hours of gameplayAnimated coloured comics by award winner Daniela di Matteo 7aa9394dea Title: Shadows on the Vatican Act I: GreedGenre: Adventure, IndieDeveloper:10th Art Studio, Daring TouchPublisher:Adventure Productions, Daring TouchFranchise:Shadows on the VaticanRelease Date: 10 Jun, 2014 Shadows On The Vatican Act I: Greed Download Nosteam Enjoyable Story with some great puzzles that make actual sense. I like the artwork and the setting. Has maybe not aged fantastically well. Good Game all in all, for 6 bucks you get between 2 and 3 hours of old school-y Point and Clicking. Just keep in mind that it is only the first part of a story, but a fine one at that.. Tried twice but really struggled - the voice acting was really bad. I've played games with bad VA before but the VA here was bad enough to put me off the game - at the very least the protagonist's VA should have been a bit better to balance out the rest of the cast. The point and click puzzles aren't too bad, insofar as it's just a matter of figuring out what to click next.Despite getting it on a sale, still can't recommend it. Lackluster in every way.- Looks terrible. The car chase sequence is a joke. The cartoon panel cutscenes are not bad, but not great either.- Sounds terrible. Some of the music is nice, but not varied enough. There is no sound design at all.- The limited voice actors does nothing to save the abysmal script.- The story isn't very compelling. It's set in Rome, but there are next to no references to the city geographically, and Vatican city is completely absent. Curious, considering the game's title.- Most importantly, the puzzles themselves are completely uninteresting and don't require any creative thought besides some simple logic and a bit of pixel hunting. Even in the limited landscape of adventure games, stay away from this one.. Took me about 30 mins just to finish the tutorial, not a huge fan of that. The tutorial wasn't the problem the game was really slow, the character, the dialouge and the box that comes up took too long to come up. I really tried, sorry.. A hidden gem. In a gendre that can often be slow and tiresome this game manages to stand out. Keep up the effort and thanks for the great game.. i like religion plot.. music and suspense.. the only bad thing is, that this game is so short.. but bought it on steam sale and it was worth it ! Cheers mates and enjoy playing SotV: Act I ! here you have polish achivment guide -> http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/sharedfiles\/filedetails\/?id=595285949. Writing this review just to point out that the Key Features section of the store page for this game is almost entirely false. "...a thrilling new point-and-click adventure in 4 acts" False. There is no indication that parts three and four will ever be complete. "Art direction by Lorenzo Ruggiero" True, but a third tier inker with a bog standard resume seems like stretching the truth a bit too far in order to use the Marvel\/DC credit."...with high resolution graphics and Full HD support" False. Low quality models, backgrounds, etc., The HD version will not run on many systems and the developer's (paraphrased) solution is "Oh well, just run standard. The only difference is full HD backgrounds" meaning that "Full HD support" is an outright lie."Realistic characters with hours of motion-capture animations" False. Awkward student-level character model design and laughable "motion capture.""Well integrated puzzles..." False."Animated coloured comics..." False. Zooming in and out and panning on a still image is hardly animation.All told, you'll have a better time reading the wonderfully florid text of the store page. The quality of writing here is far better than the in-game text and dialogues. It was so well written, it convinced me to buy this below average, overly-ambitious game with all the red flags of a terrible adventure experience.
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