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The upside of this though is that the exhibits can be tackled in any order (though some are certainly harder than others), and you can communicate with Boris’ spirit via a crystal ball if you need a hint. The game is actually four self-contained adventures tied together by the plot items are only useable in the waxwork you find them in, you can’t leave a waxwork once you enter it, and your combat level (raised by fighting, solving puzzles, and just walking around) doesn’t carry over. Now it falls to you to enter the exhibits to travel through time, destroy your evil ancestors and ultimately find a way to lift the curse before Alex annihilates the world. Luckily your recently-deceased uncle Boris was working on a way to destroy the curse, which involved trapping the spirits of the most evil twins in your family tree in exhibits in his wax museum.

Your twin brother Alex is the latest one to fall foul of the curse. From that time on every time twins were born into the family one of them would become pure evil and serve the Devil. The story goes thus you are the latest in a family that was cursed by a witch named Ixona hundreds of years ago, when your ancestor chopped her hand off over a theft. All have a similar dungeon crawler role-playing game format, but Waxworks is much more refined than the others… and possibly more gruesome.

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It’s technically fourth in a series of horror games that began with Personal Nightmare and went through the two Elvira games. In case you don’t know, Waxworks was a first person adventure game developed by Horror Soft (an alternate label used by Adventure Soft, who developed the Simon The Sorcerer games) and published by Accolade.

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However, I think I have enough ideas together now to go more in-depth about a game I would dearly love to see remade, particularly in light of the Halloween season Waxworks, originally released on the Commodore Amiga and PC in 1992. My thoughts on a game I would like to see remade didn’t occur to me until well after the Hot Topic on the subject, so I do apologise for that.

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