Baron wittard (PC) (UK)

The atmosphere of "Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnorok" is excellently creepy. You are a photographer on assignment. Two years before, the authorities shut down Baron Horatio Wittard's "Utopia" development, before it even opened, due to subsidence. It's now an abandoned eyesore. Worse, people, including children, have gone missing, last seen in the area around Utopia.You arrive on the Utopia campus, and find your way in through a sewer access. Trying to stay hidden, you hear a man talking to another person on a walkie-talkie. They've been looting, it appears. Suddenly, the man talking gives a cry of horror, and then - silence. You creep up to see a chained door. In front of it are a pair of men's shoes, a briefcase and a flashlight, all around a circle of ash - as if someone or something was incinerated on the spot. If you were smart, you'd turn back. But you're not.Baron Wittard is almost a pure puzzle game, mostly mechanical puzzles, though one requires some codework and in one you have to reconstruct Wittard's family tree. You do have to find ten runestones, and you carry them and an amulet around with you, like an inventory, until you can find and fire up the machines the Baron created to dissolve them. But there aren't inventory objectives such as you usually see in an adventure game.Rather, you enter a room and after a little searching, you'll find a puzzle. Solving the puzzle fires up the machine. Throughout the complex are crucial clues showing you how each puzzle can be solved. One puzzle was quite obscure and I am sure I'd have never in a million years figured it out without a hint from a walkthrough. Most are more straightforward, though. My favorite was the very last puzzle, a tile puzzle rather like the fantastic "Rush Hour" kids' game. None of the puzzles are timed (thank heavens for me!).I had many hours of fun completing this game.This game's installation takes 2,415 MB. This is more than double a Nancy Drew game, but much less than a SIMS game like Medieval II Total War. Once Baron Wittard is installed, you don't need to use the disc again. I played it on a PC XP with no problem. For a hint, I used the walkthrough on gameboomers com.Happy Reader

If you enjoyed the solitary, exploratory, puzzle driven games that were quite popular around the Myst era, you'll love this game.You are a journalist/photographer on assignment to investigate Baron Wittard's utopian estate. It's a spooky assignment requiring you to trudge around alone through this abandoned complex with no one around except spirits.The puzzles are reminiscent of the Myst era in that they are based upon exploring for clues rather than inventory based. This means one must be very observant and jot down findings in order to complete the game. Take lots of notes.The puzzles are not especially hard and once you get into the mind set of the game you can pretty much anticipate a lot of what you must do. There are a couple of "old timers" like the Tower Of Hanoi and slider puzzles but there are many clever originals as well.The graphics are beautifully rendered and immersive. I played it on Windows Vista. Some transition scenes were slow in loading but other than that, no problems.I definitely reccomend this game to anyone who enjoys this type of format because it's very well done.

pretty good game with challenging puzzles and eerie environment.Would have been better had there been some real life characters but still a good and eerie game.

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Being a PC Gamer from the late '80s, this game is a perfect way to help you forget about the slow death of traditional point-n-click adventure games. Well done graphics, puzzles galore, somewhat linear narrative and good voice dubbing. They are not made like this anymore-if you play and collect PC games, this one is a must have/play. You might need to refer to a solutions guide here and there for the occasional difficult puzzle but, then again, it would not be fun if you could breeze right through the game-would it? It does come with a key code on the back of the manual-best to write it on the disk itself (in case you ever misplace the manual). Install the game on its default path-not an external HDD. There is a patch-make sure you go online, d/l and install it prior to playing. One of the most overlooked adventure games of the genre-buy it and play it. Let's hope the developers someday make another game.

Everything ok. Thank You and recommend.

Bought this as I very much enjoyed The Lost Crown and thought it may be similar. I'm not really a veteran of this type of game, so found the puzzles neigh on impossible to complete without a walkthrough. Even with a walkthrough it was very challenging. However, it was fun to do and passed a couple of evenings by the fire. It was quite attractive to look at and creepy without being scary, fairly easy to navigate through without getting lost. The ending was a little flat and I would have felt cheated had I worked out all the puzzles myself to get there.

good game plenty hard puzzles had to get walkthrough off internet

The puzzles in this game are a weird mix, some of them are truly mind-boggling but the majority are fairly simple. IMO the end is a little odd. I tried it both ways and I think I prefer the ending when you make the 'wrong' decision.

Goods received promptly and as advertised = no problems