![]() It looms in the distance: a charmingly rustic affair, complete with a white picket fence. ![]() A misty fog begins to gust down the valley as I get closer to the Fretland’s house. I can’t stay there forever, so I continue my journey up the hill to meet the Fretlands. I take a moment to watch the small inlet as it meanders down the hill, under the old cobblestone bridge, and then out to join the fjord. Flickering rays of sunshine breach the golden canopies of the birch trees as the branches softly sway in the wind. I stop to take in the sights at a rest spot a little way up. You now gain control of Edward so I begin to head up the path to the hill. Let me set the scene for you: Edward and Lissie cross the cold blue waters of the fjord and disembark the rowboat. The graphics and setting are the real stars of the show. Her extreme nature provides a solid counterpoint to the somewhat dour Edward. I almost split my face in half with a smile when she unironically said something along the lines of “Hot dawg! Let’s shake some ankle!” She has a tomboyish way of dressing: she looks like an eager young street urchin right out of a period piece, complete with newspaper boy cap and all. Funnily enough, she tends to share the same vernacular as Adam West in the old Batman television show. She is an excitable 17-year-old girl who likes to gab and jape using all the slang of the ’20s. Now Lissie can be either a fun or an annoying character, depending on your outlook. Tagging along on the adventure is his plucky young ward, Lissie. As the game’s tagline bluntly implies, he is not alone. ![]() ![]() In this first-person view, exploration-heavy title you take control of the bookish Edward Charles Harden as he arrives in Norway on the trail of his missing sister, Betty. Draugen is pitched as a psychological thriller/noir mystery-type deal set in the remote rural Norwegian town of Graavik during the 1920s. ![]()
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