Game Information
- Platform: Windows Vista / XP
- PEGI Rating: Ages 12 and Over
- Media: DVD-ROM
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Product Features
- Set in present day, the plot draws from ancient Welsh myths and legends
- Explore the eerie Welsh farmstead, from the imposing house, to its extensive grounds and buildings
- First-person, point-and-click with approximately 20 to 30 hours of largely non-linear gameplay
- Involved multi-threaded plot
- Features classic themes such as:magic, paranormal phenomena,and technological gadgets
- Interact with a comprehensive inventory of nearly 200 items
- 1024x768 full-screen graphics
- Engaging and unusual challenges,mostly plot and inventory-driven
- A haunting musical score will send chills up your spine
- Solid chapter structure to the compelling and ultimately uplifting story
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Manufacturer's Description
Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches is set on the Celtic fringes of Britain; a place where myth and magic spill into reality,threatening the sanity of a teenage girl named Rhiannon Sullivan. An ancient battle for revenge engulfs Ty Pr yderi,the remote Welsh farmstead Rhiannon now calls home. She begins to hear unexplained noises, see disturbing visions, and experience other chilling paranormal phenomena.There is an ancient evil lurking in the walls of Ty Pryderi that holds a terrible connection to a timeless struggle between man and magic fabled in the Mabinogion Legends.
Her parents take Rhiannon away, leaving Ty Pryderi to your watch and exploration, but their absence can only postpone the inevitability of revenge and death. Unless you can stop it!
Her parents take Rhiannon away, leaving Ty Pryderi to your watch and exploration, but their absence can only postpone the inevitability of revenge and death. Unless you can stop it!
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
The initial impression of Rhiannon for me was of a game in the vein of 7th Guest or Myst, in that I felt there was something just around the corner waiting to reach out.
Sadly there wasn't. I had worked myself up into a tizzy over nothing, well almost nothing - a few ghosts.
But then it did its job - its a beautifully crafted story with impressive graphics which has been written by a small team and displays a lovely Welsh myth.
On the practical side I like the fact that, thrown into the game, your survival instincts hit in and right from the start you have to forage, gain access, find out whats happening - even the old chestnut - to switch the power on and light a fire. These touches drew me into the envinonment.
My only real criticism is that sometimes objects couldn't be picked up until they were needed in the game - but I'm not told that. I genuinely thought this was a bug, and perhaps an 'inner voice narration' - the 'No, that won't work' line you got in 7th Guest or the Tex Murphy games mightn't have been a bad idea, also a map to jump around the vast grounds.
But these are mere details. This is an impressive, pleasant and captivating game and one worth playing.
Sadly there wasn't. I had worked myself up into a tizzy over nothing, well almost nothing - a few ghosts.
But then it did its job - its a beautifully crafted story with impressive graphics which has been written by a small team and displays a lovely Welsh myth.
On the practical side I like the fact that, thrown into the game, your survival instincts hit in and right from the start you have to forage, gain access, find out whats happening - even the old chestnut - to switch the power on and light a fire. These touches drew me into the envinonment.
My only real criticism is that sometimes objects couldn't be picked up until they were needed in the game - but I'm not told that. I genuinely thought this was a bug, and perhaps an 'inner voice narration' - the 'No, that won't work' line you got in 7th Guest or the Tex Murphy games mightn't have been a bad idea, also a map to jump around the vast grounds.
But these are mere details. This is an impressive, pleasant and captivating game and one worth playing.
40 of 42 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
This is one of the strangest games I've played in a long time. Just think about it for a moment - a point and click adventure game made in 2008 and set in Wales?!? I'm not welsh but I think it's nice to set a game somewhere other than the usual settings of the USA, London etc.
There're lots of nice touches such as when you start the game and you hear a horse but can't see one and you wonder what's going on but a newspaper left on the floor tells you the story of a local "ghost horse" terrorising the area. Upon entering the house you can play back phone messages from a local van driver (complete with Welsh accent!) who's claiming money off you for your horse damaging his van and your wife/girlfriend reminding you about putting a fire on. It's all very day to day stuff and it does really feel like you're in the game.
The big drawback of this game is in it's cofusing navigation. For example, you'll often see a door and want to go to it but you just can't work out how to get to it, even though it's right in front of you, you have to keep walking around in circles to get anywhere. Instead of going from A to B you have to go from A to C to D to E to B and it does get a bit annoying.
Overall this is a great game if you're into UK/Welsh culture and want to step back in time to how games used to be. It can be frustrating to play, the graphics and sound are about 15 years out of date but If you can see beyond those problems then a great adventure is there to be found.
There're lots of nice touches such as when you start the game and you hear a horse but can't see one and you wonder what's going on but a newspaper left on the floor tells you the story of a local "ghost horse" terrorising the area. Upon entering the house you can play back phone messages from a local van driver (complete with Welsh accent!) who's claiming money off you for your horse damaging his van and your wife/girlfriend reminding you about putting a fire on. It's all very day to day stuff and it does really feel like you're in the game.
The big drawback of this game is in it's cofusing navigation. For example, you'll often see a door and want to go to it but you just can't work out how to get to it, even though it's right in front of you, you have to keep walking around in circles to get anywhere. Instead of going from A to B you have to go from A to C to D to E to B and it does get a bit annoying.
Overall this is a great game if you're into UK/Welsh culture and want to step back in time to how games used to be. It can be frustrating to play, the graphics and sound are about 15 years out of date but If you can see beyond those problems then a great adventure is there to be found.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I was looking forward to this game. I'd played "The Lost Crown" and found that truly spooky and difficult, but enjoyed the puzzles (even though i did have to cheat a bit with a walkthrough to get me through the sticky bits!!)I was lead to believe that this game was of a similar nature, a spooky puzzle game with lovely graphics. Okay it is both of these things but there is a rather huge snag.. it's sooo difficult all enjoyment disappeared after the first ten minutes of playing it! After several headbangingly frustrating hours i printed out a walkthrough and proceeded to use it to navigate the game with my mouth open!! How on earth is any normal person supposed to get any of these clues?!! The combination of ingredients needed to complete each chapter is so ludicrous that any and all logic seems to have gone out of the window!!
Sorry guys but this is just a horrible example of game designers being a bit too full of themselves. If your brain works in the kind of way that theirs does you'll be fine, but if you actually think in a rational and logical way forget it!!
Sorry guys but this is just a horrible example of game designers being a bit too full of themselves. If your brain works in the kind of way that theirs does you'll be fine, but if you actually think in a rational and logical way forget it!!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Rhiannon an amazing game
I love adventure games and this has to be the best I have played.
Each of the four branches are very challenging, stimulating and make you think, but at the same time... Read more
Each of the four branches are very challenging, stimulating and make you think, but at the same time... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Stan Ryan
Interesting but difficult
The idea behind the game intrigued me - Celtic mystery - but like many others I found it difficult to read the minds of the designers. Read more
Published 17 months ago by J. Gill
rhiannon
good game keeps your intrest, but you need help to get through it, but graphics and sound are good, feels like your actually there, liked it. thanks
Published on 15 Mar 2010 by G. S. Mcmahon
Rhiannon
This is a very good game, one of the best I have played, a bit scary at times but overall enjoyable, I dont know if it was my computer working slowly because when i go to save the... Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2010 by D. Godfrey
overrated
i read reviews and was expecting an A1 game , in reality i found it C-.As other reviewers mentioned the navigation was bad i must have got near the end and was still finding it... Read more
Published on 11 Dec 2009 by David Spice
Atmospheric
I enjoyed playing this , being a fan of first-person point and click type games. It was a bit of a memory test as you could not take certain items until you knew you needed them -... Read more
Published on 5 Dec 2009 by liz
Good old-fashioned point and click adventure game
I bought this game on impulse simply because I read a translation of the Mabinogion a few years ago, and I was intrigued by the idea of a game based on ancient Welsh legends. Read more
Published on 25 Nov 2009 by A. W. Askew
Wicked Welsh Wonder!
I would def recomend!! Delivery response excellent. The Arbeth studios team seem friendly and proffesional. Read more
Published on 16 Oct 2009 by Ms. Katie L. Maylin
Very good indeed and so nearly worth five stars
This is an excellent, well researched, detailed game. The gameplay is good and the storyline is excellent. Read more
Published on 12 Oct 2009 by HK Twigg
An adventure game that branches out in its own direction.
Hi all, I hope this review helps toward the desicion in buying this game. If you like point and click adventures then this is an ideal game for you. Read more
Published on 19 July 2009 by M. M. Deputy
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