The game also has no automap, so the player must either make their own or look up maps online. This has made some people reluctant to play the game. When your character dies, you are given a very detailed image of his corpse. The game has been noted for its large amount of blood and gore, mainly in the death scenes. In the mine level, you must save the prisoners, as well as fight off the grotesque mutant slaves who were once innocent humans and avoid organic traps. In Ancient Egypt, you must fend off against not only the several guards and priests, but also the clever puzzles and traps found in the pyramid. In the graveyard, many undead creatures wish to feed on your flesh and you must free some of your good ancestors, who have been revived and are tortured by Vladimir. In London, you have no means of defense against the cops and the angry mob who roam the streets looking for Jack the Ripper, who, as your twin, is conveniently identical to you. To do so, you use four items that your uncle had managed to obtain each one coming from an evil ancestor that you killed.Įach level has its own creepy atmosphere. After you defeat the ancestors, you must stop the witch from placing the curse and revive your brother. In the mine, you must stop an evil plant-like monster that your evil brother turned into. In Victorian-era London, you must stop Jack the Ripper. In the graveyard, you must stop Vladimir the Necromancer. In Ancient Egypt, you must stop the High Priest of Anubis. The game takes you through four places, in which you must stop your ancestor's evil twins by taking the place of a good ancestor. He can also sometimes help you magically, though two of the four levels are in places in which magic usage is impossible. An interesting feature is that you can use the crystal ball anytime to ask for your uncle's advice. The waxworks can be played in any order, as completing any of them resets the player's stats, as well as taking away any items that were obtained in the waxwork. The game uses standard RPG elements such as health, strength, and experience levels. In order to stop him and lift the curse, you have to first weaken him and the curse by travelling in time thanks to your uncle's magic waxworks, then kill the witch before she casts the malediction. Your uncle tells you Alex is not dead and plots to revive four of the most evil ancestors. Then, in the middle ages, another of your ancestors cut the hand of a gypsy woman because she stole one of his chickens the gypsy then avenged by casting back the powerful Egyptian curse for eternity, meaning every time there would be twins in the lineage, one would serve Beelzebub. The latter informs you that millenia ago, an Egyptian sorcerer placed a curse on two of your ancestors, two twins: One would grow up to be good and the other, evil. His butler then gives you an old crystal ball which allows you to communicate with your deceased uncle. Several years later, your Uncle Boris passes away and leaves you his wax museum. The player and his twin brother Alex, aged eight, are playing in the vast majority of mine tunnels underneath the town of Vista Forge when he suddenly goes missing. The game came out for MS-DOS, and later Amiga. WaxWorks is a dungeon-crawler action-RPG video game developed by Adventure Soft (as Horror Soft) and published by Accolade. A part of me is kinda sad a more installments never got made as the Waxwork concept is something that can easily sustain a series for several sequels and concepts in the sequel could've also opened more creative doors.For other games in the series, see Elvira. It was great re-visiting both for the first time in so many years and both make for fun Halloween-time viewing. I particularly enjoy how it literally resumes where the original ends and fills in some of the gaps. The original has the right balance of Horror and humor with an array of excellent practical make-up effects and it's creative concept that even today helps it stand apart from other Horror films, while the sequel is more fantasy-oriented and very different, but still works in it's own way. While the original is definitely better the sequel is also very fun and took a more slapstick approach with it's comedy much like Evil Dead II (even Bruce Campbell has a small but memorable role in it). Had a lot of fun watching these for the first time in so long. Watched this and it's sequel again for the first time in so many years just the other night as part of my Halloween Horror viewing (yes, as part of the new Blu-ray two-pack from the recent Vestron Video series).
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