The Blackwell Legacy

Cuban Commentator as the player and Hannah as the observer. The Blackwell Series is owned by Wadjet Eye Games.

Hello! I'm the Cuban Commentator...

And I'm the English Evaluator...

You know what, games are very popular. They can be played on pretty much any electronic device. But some games are considered less than games and more like visual novels.

Yeah?

Aye, and a prime example are the PaC(Point and Click) Adventure games. The most notable are the games made by Humongous Entertainment with their Spy Fox, Putt-Putt, and Pajama Sam series of games. They lasted until the early 2000's when they were over shadowed by console game systems like the Nintendo Gamecube, Sony Playstation 2, and Microsoft Xbox.

I like PaC games.

As do I. These games are usually top notch, but are overshadowed by COD, Battlefield, and Mortal Kombat. But I really think that this Genre of games is the best because they have an infinite number of genres that you can cover. I've already mentioned the little kids' games by HE. But what's at the opposite of the scale? What is the opposite of talking cars, foxes, and whatever Pajama Sam is? What is the opposite of colorful games with friendly atmospheres?

Dark and gloomy.

Exactly. And in these HE games, no one dies. What's the opposite of that? Death of course. Now you would think that it be a game more like Mad World or the Godfather game right?

Yeah.

Well, not really.There's this game company called Wadjet Eye Games that specialize in these type of games. And their best games come from a series that ended this year in April. That game series is called Blackwell.

Oh?

Yes, I have played four out of the five games that are out and completed three of them and own them. They include The Blackwell Legacy, Blackwell Unbound, Blackwell Convergence, Blackwell Deception, and Blackwell Epiphany.

Okay.

For a quick synopsis, This game series mainly focuses on Roseangela Blackwell, the third in her family to recieve a sort of a family heirloom, a ghost by the name of Joey Mallone.

Okay, so what does Joey have to with this?

He is Rosa's connection to the spirit world. And he helps the spirits move on to the second life.

Okay.

This game is all in retro graphics, meaning everything looks a bit blocky.

Ah.

Now, in the first game, The Blackwell Legacy, We are introduced to Rosa and Joey. But the intro... Is lackluster to say the least...

Oh?

 Yea. Let's say that you hit brick walls a the first part of the game. You kinda need a walkthrough to help you out the first time. But I figured it out on my first try.

Cool.

And there is Dr. in the game that we lovingly call Dr. Exposition. He just spouts out the plot-holes in the story and fills us in. It's also where we hear the name 'Joey' for the first time.

Ah.

Yes. And later after Rosa comes home she meets Joey for the first time. Three guesses of what he is.

A ghost?

Yep. Joey Mallone. A spirit guide for the Blackwell family.

Okay.

Of course, craziness ensues. The first case deals with three girls who used a ouija board to call a spirit for fun. Little did they know that the spirit they summoned, The Deacon, would drive them to kill themselves. Two succeeded, but the last girl you help and send The Deacon to the afterlife.

So you really get thrown in at the deep end?

Pretty much. And you have to save The Deacon from the Devil too, but that's optional.

Ah so its not over or it could be, it's all up to you.

Well, it's over either way. Either you save him for the good ending or let him die for a more gray ending.

Ah.

What I like about this game is the Illusion of Choice.

I do think its different.

I like how you can choose how your character will be, but not really change the outcome.

Yeah and for the time it came out it would have most likely been a new thing.

Na, Halo already did it. Then the next game is Blackwell Unbound. This is more of a prequal game featuring Lauren Blackwell, Rosa's aunt, who died in the first game.

 Okay, she's the one that passed Joey along wasn't she?

Yes. And we are then introduced to Joseph Mitchell, a famous writer for The New Yorker. And a woman named the Countess, a former Meduim like Rosa and Lauren.

Okay.

And she just happens to be insane and kills people that Joseph Mitchell writes about.

Oh so casually kills them?

More like strangles them with the intention of freeing them since she thinks that she's still a medium.

Insane much?

Very. And it ends with you killing her by pushing her over your balcony.

Huh and does she think you're freeing her?

No. Then we go the next game, Blackwell Convergence.

Okay.

And someone makes a comeback. Three guesses who.

Joey?

Well duh, but the Countess makes a comeback and is killing again. This time as a semi-ghost.

Ah okay?

Yea, and this time she's using the Emails from a man named Charles Meltzer. He once knew Joseph Mitchell when he worked for the New Yorker and the Countess' link was passed onto him.

Ah okay. So you're after a killer ghost?

Yep. And you are introduced to Madeline, the Countess' former spirit guide, a ghost.

A good ghost or a bad one?

A good one it seems.

Good.

And then we move on to Blackwell Deception. Oh, and the later games after Unbound have a much better intro than the last two.

Yeah well they'll get better with practice.

No, I mean they start off with you saving a spirit.

Ah.

Yea.

So?

This game focuses on several murders that all connect to people seeing a man named Gavin. He basically was a sort of vampire who leeches off someone's good energy from them.

Oh like their life force?

Yes. Exactly. And he basically sucks the life out of them making them have no will to live.

Lovely not.

Right. And then the final game Blackwell Epiphany. Now since I never played it and only watched Let's Play videos on it, I can't say anything about it. But I can say this, it's the best ending to a game series since Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations.

And you love that game.

Right.

Anything to add?

Only that it's an awesome game series and that I wish there was a bit more of the series. But all good things need an ending.

Yeah.

This is the Cuban Commentator...

And the English Evaluator...

Saying stay frosty and be nice to ghosts.