![]() ![]() ![]() That may be because the author conceived the game as a novel rather then, well, a game, and this is the story in it's purest form.Though it's been awhile since I've played the game or read the book, I recall the novel version seems to get deeper into the clockwork that is Gabriel Knight's character, his motivations, inner dialog etc, especially concerning the relationship with Malia Gedde. ![]() Without the player interactions and puzzle solving required for the PC version, the plot is left to flow as it was written, and where it's expected something like that would be choppy or convoluted, no such problem exists here. The novel follows Jane Jensen's acclaimed and groundbreaking 1993 PC game almost verbatim (the only point keeping it away from a 5 star book), but manages to be a reading experience quite different from its counterpart. Without the player interactions and puzzle solving Probably one of the first and possibly best modern paranormal investigator stories, Gabriel Knight Mysteries: Sins of the Fathers remains stuck vividly in my head from beginning to end almost 20 years later. ![]()
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