Most of this stuff will end up in my inventory.

I walk out of the room with a scarab beetle brooch (found in a chest), a dagger, a lamp, a bowl, a beaker, a stylus and ink block, two pieces of papyrus, three baskets, six jugs, a jar of oil, and a mat. I hope there's no limit to my inventory, then. The manual says that 'Drop' is supposed to be an object action when I click on an object, but it never appears. Clicking and dragging them back to the environment doesn't help.

At this point, I realize that I can't figure out how to drop things.

I do it anyway, mostly because I want to see if the 16 items the window holds are all I get, or whether it scrolls. Unlike Elvira II, there's no spell system here that's going to make use of all these items, so there's probably no point in loading up my inventory. The room is full of baskets, jugs, pitchers, and other objects, and it turns out that, just as in Elvira II, you can pick up just about everything. Determined to lift the curse, Boris also funded a dig at Vlad's castle in Walachia and recovered a crystal ball from the impaled corpse of Ixona. It was these very individuals that Uncle Boris chose to populate his waxworks. Generations later, other twins in the family included Torquemada, the Marquis de Sade, and a female witch burned at the stake in Salem. In retaliation, he chopped off her hand, for which Ixona cursed the family: 'In every generation in which your family bears twins, one shall belong to Beelzebub.' The curse nearly immediately came true, when one twin son of the family became Vlad IV of Walachia, or Vlad the Impaler, who lived up to his name by tracking down and impaling the witch. The game ends with the brothers leaving the museum.The protagonist remembers a tale that Uncle Boris once told, about a family ancestor who caught a witch named Ixona stealing one of his chickens. The dream's meaning is never made clear, possibly hinting at a potential sequel. However, in the dream, right before she died, Ixona muttered another curse which transformed the protagonist into a demon. Upon waking, Alex recalls a strange dream he had, in which he witnessed Ixona's death. As a result, the curse is erased from existence for every afflicted generation of the protagonist's family line.Īfter the curse is undone, the protagonist finds Alex unconscious in a corner of the Waxworks and revives him. Following Boris' instructions, the protagonist uses the artifacts to kill Ixona before she can place the curse. The final level is unlocked, and takes the protagonist back in time to confront Ixona. After defeating the evil twin four times, the protagonist is given four artifacts: the High Priest's amulet, the Necromancer's ring, Jack the Ripper's knife, and a vial of the Plant Monster's poison. Within each location, he is to defeat his evil twin who takes the shape of a villain.Įventually, the protagonist learns that the only way to break the curse is to prevent it from being cast in the first place. He must use the waxworks to travel through four locations in different time periods: Ancient Egypt, a zombie-infested cemetery, Victorian era London and a mine overrun with plant-like mutants. The protagonist learns that he must rid the family of Ixona's curse to save Alex. Boris, their uncle, has died and left them with his eponymous waxworks in his will, as well a crystal ball, through which his spirit communicates with his nephew. Whenever twins were born into his family line, one would grow up to be good while the other would become evil.Īt present day, the protagonist learns that his twin brother, Alex, is going to suffer the curse. In retaliation, Ixona placed a curse on the ancestor. Long ago, the witch Ixona stole a chicken from the player character's ancestor, who chopped off her hand as punishment. Waxworks was inspired by the 1988 film Waxwork. This was the last game made by Horror Soft before they became Adventure Soft, the company known for the Simon the Sorcerer series. In 2009, it was re-released on GOG using DOSBox with compatibility for macOS and Windows. It was released for Amiga and DOS the DOS release retained the Amiga 32-color palette rather than 256-color VGA graphics. Waxworks is a first-person dungeon crawl horror role-playing video game that was developed by Horror Soft and released in 1992.

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