One of the most obscure point & click adventure games ever made, Heaven's Dawn is an average game created by Taiwanese developer Art 9 Entertainment, translated into English and marketed in Australia by Manaccom.
The game is yet another "clueless human gets sucked into a strange alternate reality" kind of game, except it is not as interesting as Accolade's Altered Destiny. You play a tourist who found himself listening to an old beggar who tells about God's curse on mankind. God, it seems, is now angry at humans for "creating sins," and has ordered 5 deities to curse mankind. The next thing you know is you get sucked into this strange fantasyland, beggar's necklace in hand. Naturally, you must find out where everyone has gone, save the world from God's wrath, and find your way home. All in a day's work.
The gameplay will be familiar to every fan of LucasArts/Sierra adventures. Run your mouse cursor around the screen, clicking on interesting-looking objects to read their descriptions or pick them up. Right-click brings up the inventory screen, where you can click on objects to use in the gameworld. One nuisance about the game is that it offers no description of inventory items, although fortunately most items are not entirely alien, and most puzzles are easy. Speaking of puzzles, most are variants of the traditional find-key-to-unlock-door puzzle, and although there is a few neat magical artifacts you can use, you will not be stumped for long in this game, except for some cases of annoying pixel-hunting.
Despite pleasant VGA graphics and a good feel of "traditional" point & click adventure, Heaven's Dawn has nothing to lift it up from mediocrity. The writing and plot are banal, and the puzzles are uninteresting. The game does not have the sense of humor of Monkey Island, the wacky but clever puzzles of Discworld, or intriguing plot twists of Dragonsphere to keep you interested.
If you are a fan of adventure games, you will probably play this one anyway despite what I say ;) But don't expect to find another forgotten classic. Heaven's Dawn is not so bad it deserves to remain obscure, but it is also not good enough to promote. Too bad.
Review By HOTUD
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Hey guys, I found a way to bypass the CD Check of this game.
Install from CD first, then edit the file "Art9.cfg"
A) Copy all the contents of the CDROM to the game folder under a subfolder like "CD" or "ISO" for example.
The first line on the file should to the CD-ROM drive letter you used when installing.
B) Remove it and point it to the "HD" folder under the HEAVEN folder of the subfolder we have created, example: "C:\HEAVEN\CD\HD"
This way the game is fooled that the CD is under that folder.
Played this first time at 1997. I didn't manage to get as far as to village. One of my friend find his way to troll scene but found not solution to reach further. The game hasn't proper copy protection. You can avoid cd check if you copy files from cd to game installation folder. I also wonder who can make the game to the end screen without any walkthrough guide. Sometimes there is no logic in point click solutions. Puzzles and elf's chess game are quite ok, but some of them needs good patience.
Game has very odd plot. It has influenced of Christianity but mixed of magicism and mystical symbols.
Does anyone actually really completed this game? Is there any cool cheats
How long it takes to finished this game? 2 years 3 years?
Maybe the game designers are still struck in 1991/1992 era
No comment nor review for this game at the moment.