Lost Eden



""My name is Eloi, and I am old.""

A beautiful Point and Click Game game from 1995. The plot follows Adam, the young prince of Mo, in his quest to unite various races of Men and various species of Dinosaurs. The game features nice puzzles, a detailed backstory, impressive graphics for its time and a truly awesome soundtrack.

Watch the opening movie here.

The story itself is fairly simple; a long time ago in an alternative version of Earth, dinosaurs and humans lived together in harmony. Then, the evil army of Tyrann came down from the north, threatening to destroy everything. To stop them, a great human king rose from the kingdom of Mashaar. This King was known as the Architect, and he designed citadels to be built by dinosaurs while humans fed them, so human armies could garrison in them, protecting whole regions from Tyrann attack. The evil predators were beaten off, and kept confined to the far north, too afraid to attack.

Then, the Enslaver, the son of the architect, came to power. He hated all of the dinosaurs, and most humans too. He tore down most of the citadels, and the trust that once united humans and dinosaurs was lost. After the enslaver died, the human king Gregor came to power in Mashaar. At about this time, the Tyrann returned. At first, Gregor fought the Tyrann, but after the loss of his wife and daughter, he lost the will to fight. Years later, you play as Prince Adam, heir to the throne of Mashaar. You have lived all your life in the last remaining place of safety, the citadel of Mo. You have come of age, and long to see the world, but your father forbids it. The game begins when a Pterodactyl named Eloi arrives at Mo with news from the north...

This show provides examples of:

 * Adam and Eve Plot: Literally.
 * Big Bad: Moorkus Rex.
 * Bittersweet Ending: You've defeated Moorkus Rex and observe the hatching of the Egg of Destiny in the White Arch.
 * Cool Mask: Lots of tribes in this game have these, but the Ulele in particular stand out.
 * Does This Remind You of Anything: The setting and plot was very reminiscent of James Gurney's Dinotopia series.
 * Everythings Better With Dinosaurs: And how!
 * Scaly Confusion: Several of the main characters -- Dina and Eloi, for example -- are dinosaurs and perfectly conversant in English. But quite a few more (the sauropods, velociraptors, mosasaurs) only speak very simple tongues, or don't speak at all.
 * Hot Amazon: An entire tribe of them!
 * Interactive Narrator: Eloi. He tells the story and also acts as your guide and navigator. Was banished from the pterosaur roost, the White Arch, but redeems himself after you find and help him return the Egg of Destiny.
 * Long Lost Relative
 * Scenery Porn
 * Simpleton Voice: All Tammnians speak in one.
 * Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying: Played completely straight, but one should remember that this was meant as a Captain Ersatz of Dinotopia, and not a realistic representation of our world.
 * Spiritual Successor: To Cryo's first Dune game.
 * What Measure Is a Non Cute: Thugg. He's sure good for finding apples, though!
 * The Obi Wan: Grandfather Tau.
 * The Underworld: For the dinosaurs, The Valley of Mists, accessible by humans only by eating the Root of Ages.