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''The Lost Crown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure'' is a British graphic adventure video game released in 2008. ''The Lost Crown'' is the third full title to be written and developed by Jonathan Boakes, author of [[Dark Fall the Journal|Dark Fall: The Journal]] and Dark Fall 2: Lights Out. The screenplay follows the adventure of Nigel Danvers, as he experiences the paranormal in his quest to find the fabled Lost Crown of Anglia.▼
 
▲''[[The Lost Crown: A Ghost-Hunting Adventure]]'' is a British graphic adventure video game released in 2008. '''The Lost Crown''' is the third full title to be written and developed by Jonathan Boakes, author of [[Dark Fall the Journal|Dark Fall: The Journal]] and Dark Fall 2: Lights Out. The screenplay follows the adventure of Nigel Danvers, as he experiences the paranormal in his quest to find the fabled Lost Crown of Anglia.
The game is vividly set in the fictional harbor town of Saxton in The Fens of eastern England, ''The Lost Crown'' follows the adventures of two young ghost-hunters, Nigel Danvers and Lucy Reubans. Nigel has fled London, after the theft of several documents from his employer, The Hadden Corporation. The documents contain proof of Hadden’s involvement in experiments with paranormal forces, and the existence of ‘chasm ghosts’. Two Hadden agents, Mr. Hare and Mr. Crow, are dispatched to capture Danvers and return the stolen documents.▼
 
▲The game is vividly set in the fictional harbor town of Saxton in The Fens of eastern England, ''The Lost Crown'' follows the adventures of two young ghost-hunters, Nigel Danvers and Lucy Reubans. Nigel has fled London, after the theft of several documents from his employer, The Hadden Corporation. The documents contain proof of Hadden’s involvement in experiments with paranormal forces, and the existence of ‘chasm'chasm ghosts’ghosts'. Two Hadden agents, Mr. Hare and Mr. Crow, are dispatched to capture Danvers and return the stolen documents.
Nigel takes refuge in Saxton, where he meets local psychology student Lucy Reubans. Together they set out to solve local mysteries, study paranormal activity and discover the whereabouts of a legendary Anglo-Saxon crown, thought to be buried somewhere around town. Nigel’s presence in the town does not go unnoticed and there are many threats to his life...not just from the living but from the dead also!▼
 
▲Nigel takes refuge in Saxton, a harbor town in The Fens of Eastern England, where he meets local psychology student Lucy Reubans. Together they set out to solve local mysteries, study paranormal activity and discover the whereabouts of a legendary Anglo-Saxon crown, thought to be buried somewhere around town. Nigel’s presence in the town does not go unnoticed and there are many threats to his life...not just from the living but from the dead also!.
A sequel, ''The Last Crown'', is in development.
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A sequel, ''The Last Crown'', was in [[Development Hell]] [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.thelastcrown.com/ since 2009] and is expected to release in 2016.
 
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* [[Agent Scully]]: Lucy has shades of this initially, although she's willing to concede that ''something'' weird is going on.
* [[Ancient Tomb]]: The hiding place of the Crown is one of these.
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* [[Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday]]: Takes place on and around May Day, a major holiday for Saxton.
* [[I See Dead People]]: Some of the ghostly images appear briefly, only the cameras can let you see some of it clearly...other parts are a little....spooky...see the Spooky Photography explanation below.
* [[If Jesus, Then Aliens]]: Played with when Nigel is frustrated by Lucy's skepticism about ghosts, yet pokes fun at Hardacre's speculation that ''dragons'' might have a factual basis.
* [[ItsIt's Always Spring]]: True because it's the end of April, but not this trope because the weather varies widely (cold, fog, wind, thunder, sunshine, rain), much like a realistic British springtime.
* [[Lightning Reveal]]: Done with creepy mystical energy-discharges {{spoiler|in Ganwulf's tomb}}.
* [[Mind Screw]]
* [[Mysterious Employer]]: Mr. Hadden
* [[Non -Action Guy]]: Nigel barely fights or does more than run.
* [[Occult Detective]]: Nigel is forced to act as one during the game.
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: Seems like every variant Boakes could think of makes an appearance, from disembodied voices to wraiths of the still-living to full-body corporeal presences that don't know they're dead.
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* [[Red Herring]]: A few clues point you in the wrong direction where you eventually get the right direction.
* [[Seasonal Baggage]]: The clues for the "mill stones" puzzle.
* [[Shout -Out]]: Several to ''[[Barrow Hill]]'', whose designers assisted with ''Lost Crown'''s visual effects.
** Also several to [[MRMontague JamesRhodes (Creator)James|MR James]] and his ''A Warning To The Curious''. A big one is a skeleton found in the woods {{spoiler|which you can identify as a victim of the Ager brothers}}. Doctor Black is a character from the television adaptation of that story.
* [[Spooky Painting]]: The Agers' group portrait from {{spoiler|the Nightmare Room}}, and Thomas Ager's from Northfield Church. The "Tree of Crows" is haunted also, but less menacingly-so.
* [[Spooky Photographs]]: Nigel uses a digital and video camera to sniff out clues in the game. Seeing the whole world in gray-scale or night-sight green sometimes really makes it more creepy to see said ghostly images.
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* [[The Unintelligible]]: Doctor Black. Also, Gruel speaking through "Jemima", unless s/he's saying her name.
* [[Unnaturally Blue Lighting]]: Not exactly blue but the whole game is in gray coloring with only a few objects (flowers, certain animals, train, some objects, some buildings) having splashes of color like blue, green, yellow, or brown. In Night-Vision mode everything is green which makes it irritating to the players eyes after a while.
* [[VideogameVideo Game Caring Potential]]: Soft-hearted players can let Nigel stuff Cairon the pig with leftovers to their heart's content. {{spoiler|And then [[Subverted Trope|be heartbroken]] when Bob [[Eat the Dog|dishes up pork]] at the Fair.}}
* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: Pretty much everything about the town of Saxton. Weird time compression? Odd people? Ghosts running about? Nope. You never learn anything about all that.
* [[What Year Is This?]]: Nigel never gets a straight answer to that one, and neither does the player, really.
 
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