A Vampyre Story
A Vampyre Story is a video game that consists of 3 releases
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Created by Bill Tiller (Curse of Monkey Island) A Vampyre Story follows the tumultuous life of Mona de Laffite. Mona dreams of becoming an opera singer in Paris, but she's current being held hostage in Draxsylvania by Shrowdy von Kieffer. She's also a vampiress, but Shrowdy is too afraid that she'll be upset to tell her.
Froderick - Mona's only friend in the castle is coincidentally a bat. He aids Mona throughout her journey.
Shrowdy von Kieffer - Mona's captor who is too guilty to admit to her that he made her a vampiress.
Mona makes another reference to a Lucasarts game, this time The Secret of Monkey Island. She mistakes a dead chicken for a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle, which leads to a burlesque-style wordplay arguement with a Gypsy over exactly what type of chicken it is. The rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle is a memorable item from the Monkey Island series which has become an in-joke in several Lucasarts games. There are other passing references including Mona introducing herself as "a mighty opera singer!" similar to Guybrush Threepwood declaring himself "a mighty pirate!". During an arguement between a prostitute and an orchestra conductor yet more references are hurled as insults: SCUMMbag, Dairy Farmer and Cow. SCUMM is the system that Lucasarts used to create their graphic adventure games, including Monkey Island. Dairy Farmer and Cow refer to the Insult Swordfighting section in Monkey Island. Insult: "You fight like a dairy farmer!" Response: "How appropriate, you fight like a cow!".
The code A113 appears a lot throughout the game. Mona's Academy of the Arts is on Avenue 113 in Paris, the number on the door of the brothel is A113. In the stable there's a numberplate that is inscribed with A113 - "ParArts, quality since 1870". A very important grid reference on a map late in the game is A1-13. What does it all mean? It's another reference, this time to CalArts, the California Institute of the Arts. It's the number of the classroom of animation students at the school and appears in many famous animated series like The Simpsons, South Park and American Dad. You can read more about it here. As the development company Autumn Moon is based in California, at least one of the artists working on the game probably attended classroom A113 at CalArts.
One of the residents of Draxylvania is the writer Stefan Rex, who writes a play called Wagons about some wagons that come to life, run people over and terrorise a group of people in a livery stop. The book made him a laughing stock and a flop, causing him to lose all his money, his house and his mind. This is a reference to Stephen King (Rex is King in Latin). Although you would think it's a reference to Christine, the famous novel about a posessed car that murders people, it's not. It's actually parodying the film Maximum Overdrive, which is based on a short story by Stephen King called 'Trucks'. While being a serious horror movie about inanimate objects coming to life and terrorising people, culminating in a truck terrorising a group of people in a truck stop. The movie was 'a laughing stock' and earned the lead actor, Emilio Estevez, a Razzie.
There is also a very obscure easter egg that references the Mexican novel Like Water for Chocolate. It is in Mona's bedroom, which is the first screen in the game, so can even be attempted in the demo. If you use Froderick on the vase of dead roses, Mona asks Froderick if he's ever eaten rose petal sauce, as it has strange effects. Froderick replies that when he ate some, he went into a raging fever, had to have a shower to cool down and then a Latin rebel carried him off on horseback. In Like Water For Chocolate, when the protagonist Tita cooks quail in rose petal sauce for her sister Rosaura, a similar thing happens, although far more graphic. When Rosaura tastes the rose petal sauce, she gets a fever all over her body. When she showers to cool down, the heat from her fever is so intense that it sets fire to the wooden shower stall. One of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa's men gallops by on his horse, swoops up the naked Rosaura and they make love on horseback.. A WTF moment so memorable, it's an easter egg in a videogame.
The vocal performance of the character Mona La Fitte is very distinctive. It's highly reminiscent of the famous actress Madeline Kahn's voice, specifically in her performance of Elizabeth in the movie Young Frankenstein. It's probably no coincidence as that movie is a horror comedy classic in the same vein as A Vampyre Story.
Windows XP/Vista
Pentium 4 1.6GHz/AMD Athlon 1600
512MB RAM
256MB DirectX 9.0 compatible graphics card
(Nvidia Geforce FX/ATi Radeon 9500/Intel GMA X300 or higher
2X DVD-ROM drive
3GB Hard drive space
DirectX 9.0 compatible sound card
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In this adventure game you play as a young female vampiress and her bat-sidekick. Created by Bill Tiller (The Curse Of Monkey Island), the game is the first in a planned trilogy.
Overview
Mona de Laffite, the protagonist
Development Cycle
Gameplay
Characters
Mona de Laffite - The young vampiress who dreams of becoming an opera singer.Froderick - Mona's only friend in the castle is coincidentally a bat. He aids Mona throughout her journey.
Shrowdy von Kieffer - Mona's captor who is too guilty to admit to her that he made her a vampiress.
Trivia
As this is a game with a sense of humour and a lot of ex Lucasarts members are involved, there are a lot of references to games like Sam & Max and Day of the Tentacle. Some of these can be seen in the related website The Von Kiefer Journal. "Summoned a new familiar, Pyewacket ... She looks like a certain bunny" The accompanying sketch of the cat looks a lot like Max from the Sam & Max series. On the page before are the 'lucky numbers' from the Lost series. In the study later on in the game, if you look at the stained glass windows, Mona comments that they look like purple tentacles. Froderick responds that he hates purple tentacles and that green ones are much nicer.Mona makes another reference to a Lucasarts game, this time The Secret of Monkey Island. She mistakes a dead chicken for a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle, which leads to a burlesque-style wordplay arguement with a Gypsy over exactly what type of chicken it is. The rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle is a memorable item from the Monkey Island series which has become an in-joke in several Lucasarts games. There are other passing references including Mona introducing herself as "a mighty opera singer!" similar to Guybrush Threepwood declaring himself "a mighty pirate!". During an arguement between a prostitute and an orchestra conductor yet more references are hurled as insults: SCUMMbag, Dairy Farmer and Cow. SCUMM is the system that Lucasarts used to create their graphic adventure games, including Monkey Island. Dairy Farmer and Cow refer to the Insult Swordfighting section in Monkey Island. Insult: "You fight like a dairy farmer!" Response: "How appropriate, you fight like a cow!".
The code A113 appears a lot throughout the game. Mona's Academy of the Arts is on Avenue 113 in Paris, the number on the door of the brothel is A113. In the stable there's a numberplate that is inscribed with A113 - "ParArts, quality since 1870". A very important grid reference on a map late in the game is A1-13. What does it all mean? It's another reference, this time to CalArts, the California Institute of the Arts. It's the number of the classroom of animation students at the school and appears in many famous animated series like The Simpsons, South Park and American Dad. You can read more about it here. As the development company Autumn Moon is based in California, at least one of the artists working on the game probably attended classroom A113 at CalArts.
One of the residents of Draxylvania is the writer Stefan Rex, who writes a play called Wagons about some wagons that come to life, run people over and terrorise a group of people in a livery stop. The book made him a laughing stock and a flop, causing him to lose all his money, his house and his mind. This is a reference to Stephen King (Rex is King in Latin). Although you would think it's a reference to Christine, the famous novel about a posessed car that murders people, it's not. It's actually parodying the film Maximum Overdrive, which is based on a short story by Stephen King called 'Trucks'. While being a serious horror movie about inanimate objects coming to life and terrorising people, culminating in a truck terrorising a group of people in a truck stop. The movie was 'a laughing stock' and earned the lead actor, Emilio Estevez, a Razzie.
There is also a very obscure easter egg that references the Mexican novel Like Water for Chocolate. It is in Mona's bedroom, which is the first screen in the game, so can even be attempted in the demo. If you use Froderick on the vase of dead roses, Mona asks Froderick if he's ever eaten rose petal sauce, as it has strange effects. Froderick replies that when he ate some, he went into a raging fever, had to have a shower to cool down and then a Latin rebel carried him off on horseback. In Like Water For Chocolate, when the protagonist Tita cooks quail in rose petal sauce for her sister Rosaura, a similar thing happens, although far more graphic. When Rosaura tastes the rose petal sauce, she gets a fever all over her body. When she showers to cool down, the heat from her fever is so intense that it sets fire to the wooden shower stall. One of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa's men gallops by on his horse, swoops up the naked Rosaura and they make love on horseback.. A WTF moment so memorable, it's an easter egg in a videogame.
The vocal performance of the character Mona La Fitte is very distinctive. It's highly reminiscent of the famous actress Madeline Kahn's voice, specifically in her performance of Elizabeth in the movie Young Frankenstein. It's probably no coincidence as that movie is a horror comedy classic in the same vein as A Vampyre Story.
System Requirements
Windows XP/Vista
Pentium 4 1.6GHz/AMD Athlon 1600
512MB RAM
256MB DirectX 9.0 compatible graphics card
(Nvidia Geforce FX/ATi Radeon 9500/Intel GMA X300 or higher
2X DVD-ROM drive
3GB Hard drive space
DirectX 9.0 compatible sound card
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| Original US Release |
Nov. 17, 2008
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November
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| ESRB |
ESRB: E10+
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PEGI: 12+
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