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 2
A good quality casual hidden-object game, featuring elements of Central-America indigenous cultures applied to another world where your heroine gets accidentally teleported through a portal. Game features good graphics and audio, logical HOG scenes and puzzles, plenty collectibles and bonus games; on the downside there is (again) the illogical need to travel back-and-forth across the map to apply picked items. Overall the game is a good representative of the genre, and has been succeeded by two episodes more, which are well worth adding to your collection if you enjoy these types of games.
Steam User 1
The Legacy 1: Forgotten Gates
SPIDER ALERT for you arachnophobes: There is one large, nasty-looking spider in the game.
Options include fully-customizable difficulty (which can be changed at any time), sync w/Steam Cloud and separate sliders for Music, Environment, Sound Effects and Voiceovers.
I would not categorize this as a Hidden Object Game, but rather as a Hidden Object Puzzle Adventure. The "hidden object" scenes are not your standard find-by-list, or even what you see, which is find-by-silhouette. These scenes are actually puzzles, where you need to use each and every item you find in the scene in order to progress. To increase the difficulty (and interest), there are multiple zoom-in areas that you need to interact with, as well.
This title is heavy on the adventuring, and items you find often need to be combined in order to become functional - sometimes more than once!
As you navigate through the game, be on the lookout for:
30 Morphing items - One per scene in the main story
42 Collectible Items - There are multiple types of collectibles, and you'll net an achievement for completing each set. 12 of these are found in the bonus chapter. *NOTE: You must complete all of the sets to unlock some of the puzzles in the Extras area.
8 Story Scrolls - Collect them all to unlock a mini-game in the Extras.
Your journal will track the story, of course, as well as info you may need in order to solve puzzles. I did not spot any spoilers in the diary.
The MAP is fully-interactive, depending on what difficulty level you have chosen. It will insta-transport regardless, but you also have the option of having it show you where active areas are and where you might have missed collectibles and morphing items.
Like other games by this developer, when something we try doesn't work, it tells us WHY it won't work. "I can't dig with my hands, the ground is too hard," for example.
Bonus Content:
21 Achievements - Puzzle achievements CAN be obtained by replaying them in the Extras section.
Integrated Strategy Guide, which is accessible from anywhere in the game. Not only a walkthrough, but also shows every collectible and puzzle solution.
Bonus Chapter
9 Wallpapers
10 Concept Art
18 re-watchable Videos
8 Music tracks
18 re-playable Mini-games
6 Mosaic puzzles (scenes from the game)
Bonus Game - A fill-the-field mini-game with 20 levels to complete.
Complete Collections - This is a GREAT bonus for the completionists and achievement-hunters. Go to Complete Collections in the Extras areas, and it will allow you to go back in-game (main and bonus) to find any collectibles you missed!
Bonus Chapter:
This is not needed to have a "complete" story, like some bonus chapters... It's simply a mini-story that is related to the main game, but could easily be a standalone. Keep an eye out for some collectibles!
The music and sound effects are very nice, and the voice-overs were pretty good, as well! I really liked the graphics, the story was entertaining and the gameplay is top-notch.
This is another high-quality offering from FIVE-BN, and one which I thoroughly enjoyed. I believe that even people who don't usually like HOG's will enjoy this. Highly recommended!
Steam User 1
You know the game is great when it goes out with a BOOM!
But seriously, in the main game... Where were the guards of the Main Evil Guy? Did the Shaman beat them all up? If I were to do an evil plan... That required me to be immobile... I'd make damn sure that I am well guarded! Just saying.
Also... Those animals were adorable. Love them.
The rest was done in good fun. :D :) =) (Thanks!)