Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 1993

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Sierra On-Line's 1993 point and click adventure, designed and directed by Jane Jensen, in which the New Orleans novelist Gabriel Knight investigates the Voodoo Murders. Knight, a struggling bookstore owner, hopes the killings will inspire a novel, and his inquiries lead him into voodoo and the truth about his family's past as supernatural fighters. The story runs in chapters, each covering one day, with required actions and optional side actions. Each day is spent talking. You choose cursors such as WALK, LOOK, ASK and TALK from a game bar, with TALK for short general interaction and ASK for specific topics with the main characters. Then a recorder lets you revisit conversations, and a hint system points to where to go next. Choosing exactly what to ask each person, one day at a time, still makes the investigation a slow puzzle of listening today.