As Klaymen travels the Neverhood, he occasionally crosses paths with Willie, who agrees to help him in his journey, while Klogg spies on them from afar. The game begins with Klaymen waking up in a room and exploring the Neverhood, collecting various discs appearing to contain a disjointed story narrated by Willie (which Klaymen can view through various terminals scattered throughout the land). Much of the game's background information is limited to the 'Hall Of Records' which is notorious for its length, taking several minutes to travel from one end of the hall to the other. However, the Neverhood itself is strangely deserted, with its only inhabitants being Klaymen (the main protagonist and player character), Willie Trombone (a dim individual who assists Klaymen in his travels), Klogg (the game's antagonist who resembles a warped version of Klaymen), and various fauna that inhabit the Neverhood (most infamously the 'weasels', monstrous, crablike creatures that pursue Klaymen and Willie at certain points in the game). The titular Neverhood is a surreal landscape dotted with buildings and other hints of life, all suspended above an endless void. The Neverhood is a point-and-click adventure game which emphasizes the solving of puzzles through character action rather than inventory usage. In addition to being unique, The Neverhood aimed at being quirky and humorous, as is evident by the characters, the music, and the plot sequence of the game. As the player advances through different areas of the game, there are various video sequences that help advance the plot. The gameplay consists mostly of the player guiding the main character Klaymen around and solving puzzles to advance in the game. When the game was originally released, it was unique in that all of its animation was done entirely in claymation, including all of the sets, rather than 2- or 3-dimensional computer graphics, like many other games at its time. The game follows the adventure of a claymation character named Klaymen as he discovers his origins and his purpose in a world made entirely out of clay. and published by DreamWorks Interactive for Microsoft Windows.
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I’m going chronologically to hopefully get a better sense of how the genre has developed over time, and there’s a solid mix of old beloved classics alongside more modern interpretations of the form.Įxcept for the original Blade Runner, all of these games are currently available somewhere and I’ve linked to them where I can.The Neverhood (released in Japan as Klaymen Klaymen: The Mystery of Neverhood and referred to in the English version's intro as The Neverhood Chronicles), is a 1996 point-and-click adventure video game developed by The Neverhood, Inc.
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I have compiled the following list of games that I’ll be working my way through. I want to learn what works, what doesn’t, and, most importantly, what worked once but has somehow been forgotten-i.e. To help me craft a beautiful graphic adventure, I want to salvage the past for parts. As an education on what a good graphic adventure looks like, this was not really much of a disadvantage, but in order to be a more rounded student of the form I want to get a broader history.