The Legacy: Forgotten Gates
"The Legacy: Forgotten Gates" is a hidden-object adventure game packed with mini-games and puzzles, telling a story of a journey to another world, where danger and unexpected turns of events await around every corner! It was late evening and the museum was almost empty. At the Maya artifact exhibition, one of the exhibits suddenly started to move. The sound drew the attention of a young woman named Diana, a museum employee and an expert in Mayan culture. When she came closer to the artifact she realized it looked like a portal… and suddenly some unknown power lifted her up and teleported her to an ancient temple! Now Diana has to figure out where she is, how she got there and how she's going to return home. The young woman encounters a civilization similar to the Mayan culture, but this is neither the past nor a parallel reality. It's another planet, connected to Earth centuries ago by some special gates. And now the gates have been activated again…
Game Discussion
Steam User 3
It's a good game and I enjoyed the artwork and complexity of puzzles for the mostpart, however it isn't perfect.
For one thing, there are no hidden object scenes per se. Instead, we get the 'domino effect' scenes, where one thing you find leads to another, and eventually you get one item from a scene - where everything you pick up is used in some way to get what you need. From a realistic perspective I can see how these sorts of scenes should be more common, but I found I missed the old mess scenes, and the game felt lacking.
The bonus chapter is home to the worst puzzle though, with concentric rings and the outer ring linked to three other separate puzzles. I ended up using the in-game guide for this as I often tried it only to end up with two pieces left over and found it too hard to swap them, as the pieces were position specific, not just colour specific.
To top off, afterwards there are 20 bonus puzzles to finish for an achievement, and some of these require some serious thought. The hexagonal grid has to be filled up completely by only using straight line moves, but each puzzle has various obstacles scattered around the grid so as to make it awkward to complete. Ultimately you can skip these, and the game will show you the solution, but you still need to finish them yourself to get the achievement.
Having just come away from fully completing the achievements, I find myself a bit drained from the experience. But even with the harder puzzles it isn't too bad and I'd still recommend it.
Steam User 0
It has a nice short story with a bit of von Däniken’s and Star Gate mixed. Add a bit of Maya culture and ancient technology (“stone punk”) and then you have the setting. It’s not an empty world either but has some characters and an evil villain.
The voice acting was fine and the animations quite nice.
I can recommend this HOG.
Steam User 0
Very fun game.