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About a minute into my Dracula the Path of the Dragon playthrough I was blown away with the game. Dracula is a fully realized point and click mystery pc game right there on my freaking phone, complete with animated scenes, and is fully voiced over.

Point and click games are ones that you unfortunately do not see very often though they were extremely popular years ago when PC’s weren’t as powerful as they currently are so as a result the games were more story and puzzle based.
For those who don’t know, a point and click adventure game were commonplace on PC’s back in the late 80’s and early 90’s. Back then, a PC that had a 16 Mhz CPU and 2 MB of RAM was considered a power gaming rig. However, power gaming back then is far different than what it is now. In order to tell a deep story, game makers had to be more creative and work around the PC’s limitations. Mainly for this reason, the “Point and Click” Adventure game became a common method of telling a deep story.
Point and Clicks consisted of controlling your on screen avatar by using your mouse to point at a destination on screen and clicking. The avatar will walk to the spot you clicked. Using your mouse, you would search for items on screen you may need to pick up, use, etc for the sake of puzzle solving. These games consisted of little to no action. They focussed on story and puzzle solving. As a result, this type of game, while slow paced, can be enjoyed by people of all ages.
As technology allowed for more advanced style of games (visually), point and clicks faded in lieu of direct controlled action/adventure titles. Monkey Island made way for Drake’s Fortune.
So what does this have to do with Dracula The Path of the Dragon? Our featured title is a bit of a throwback to those games of old. Here we have an old school point and click on the iPhone.
Players control Father Arno Moriani, who is sent to investigae a potential candidate for sainthood in 1920 Translyvania. Through out your investigation you will come across some extremely difficult puzzles that are very fitting to the games story and time period.

Dracula The Path of the Dragon is hitting the app store episodically so you only get one part of the game right now, but it’s the first 2 days of the game. Don’t write Dracula off because you aren’t getting the entire game, the price beyond makes up for that. You’ll only be paying 99 cents for a good chunk of the game, which really is a steal if you think about it.
If you are a fan of either good puzzles, a deep story, or point and click games then you should just be on the iTunes app store right now getting this game.
And while you’re there tell them I sent you! No one will really know who I am and you’ll realize that you are talking to yourself but on the brightside you’ll still have a new fun game.
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