Paradise (video game)

Paradise, in the version for Nintendo DS The Last King of Africa is an adventure of the French computer game developer White Birds Productions. It is based on the eponymous, four-volume comic series of Belgian comic artist Benoît Sokal. The player controls is a young woman caught up in the struggle between the king and the rebels after a plane crash in the fictional African kingdom Maurania. Paradise was released on April 21, 2006 for Windows and 2008 for Nintendo DS

Action

The player plays a young, dark-skinned woman who is shot down during a flight over the fictional African kingdom of rebels. The crash suffers amnesia and can not remember her name still on the purpose of their trip. In the Palace of the beleaguered rebel king it is nursed by employees. For the player will gradually clear that it is the young woman is the daughter of the king, who was shot down on the way from Swiss exile to her death near father of rebels. The woman herself remains trapped in her amnesia. It sets itself the task, return a black leopard at the place of his birth, and joins it in ignorance of their descent to the rebels.

Gameplay

Paradise is a so-called 2.5D point-and- click adventure. Characters that were created as a three-dimensional character models that move in front of hand-drawn 2D scenes. Using the mouse, the player gives his character action commands, moved him from place to place, examined the scene, analyzes and combines found objects, hints and statements of other characters. With advancing storyline more places to be unlocked.

History of development

Author of the game is Benoît Sokal, a Belgian comic book artist. This was 2002 for Microïds designed the two-part adventure game Syberia series and later founded his own company, White Birds Productions. Paradise was the first published title of the company. 2008 DS port was published under the title The Last King of Africa (Original title: Last King of Africa). From 2005 to 2008 Sokal created together with artist Brice Bingono and Kolorator Jean -François Bruckner four comic books to the game, which were moved by the Belgian Casterman and republished in a single-volume complete version 2010. A one-volume, 200 -page German edition was brought out by the Bielefeld Splitter Verlag already on April 1, 2009.

Reception

In reviews the basic setting, imaginative details of the game world and the cutscenes were praised. Were criticized for being slow in coming journey and sometimes incomprehensible story that pale characters that thread, bad dialogue set to music as well as occasional crashes. The Metacritic score is 57

• 4players: 48%
• Adventure-Treff: 73 %
• Gamestar: 53