Jennifer Wilde: Unlikely Revolutionaries
In 1921, young French artist Jennifer Chevalier becomes embroiled in death, espionage and revolution, assisted by the ghost of Oscar Wilde. A hand-drawn Point & Click adventure with a unique comic book inventory design.
About
Jennifer believes the recent death of her father was no 'accident'. Finding a chained locket in her father's hotel, she attempts to use her childhood gift for talking to ghosts to call his spirit back. Unwittingly, the ghost recalled is Oscar Wilde, famous Irish playwright, whose secret affair with Jennifer's father has bound his ghost to the locket. Jennifer and Oscar find themselves following a trail of murder and revolution, through Paris, to London and Ireland, and into conflict with secret government organisations, a British occult spy network, and the Irish Revolutionary Army.
In a thrilling, witty and melancholic adventure. Jennifer and Oscar uncover dark secrets, deal with the loss of shared love and develop a deep friendship along the way.
- As Jennifer discovers clues, she sketches in her book; which the player can study
- Use this knowledge to confront characters, prompt their memories and link clues together
- Take control of Jennifer and Oscar as you interrogate the living and dead to solve puzzles.
- Environmental puzzles will vex your brain, with crafty but logical solutions to be solved.
- Use Jennifer's artistic skills to trick the Gendarmerie and talk to spirits, while Oscar can use his ghostly powers to sneak invisibly past the SIS, in character-specific solutions.
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Achievements
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” - Find the missing clothes.
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” - Use your skills for something dodgy.
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Obtain the aid of Oscar.
“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.” - Send someone to sleep with your storytelling skills.
“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.” - Assert your dominance over a malevolent spirit.
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” - Save Jennifer from a fate worse than death.
“In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.” - Learn to use your ghostly abilities to affect electricity.
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” - Pass Madame Sosostris’ test.