Primal

History (introduction)

Jennifer Tate is 21 years an ordinary young woman living in New York. The night, she attends the places where his/her Lewis small-friend plays as a leader of an rock group. This evening, after a formidable concert with the Nexus club, the two in love ones which leaves the district are attacked by a gigantic and especially malefic animal. All two then are projected on the ground quickly and are left for died in a lane.

At the hospital, the doctors cannot conclude as for survival from two young people: they are in a deep coma. But whereas nobody any more takes care in the room of Jennifer strange a small creature emerges and gives energy to the young girl who " dédouble". Intrigued by the fact that the stone waste-gas main is not the Reaper, and by what arrives to him, Jennifer Scree in a dimension called follows Oblivion…

Gameplay

The goal of the play is to explore the 4 worlds of Oblivion (Kingdoms) from one the 5th dimension controlling all the others and called Nexus. Jen explores successively the 'Nexus, Solum, Aquis, Aetha and Volca. Jen can fight sometimes according to 5 forms including 4 démoniaques while Scree will be transformed into stone. Jen obligatorily obtains a new form thanks to Noble of a Kingdom, them only are able to transmit the capacity to be transformed into demon of Oblivion to a mortal. It is necessary to use the duet according to competences suitable for each one to explore and find the enigmas of the various worlds.

Description of the Play

Primary Forces

Oblivion is a world imaginary and filled with magic energy, nevertheless necessary to the survival of the terrestrial world called Mortalis. There does not exist that a single door allowing the passage enters two spaces. The center of Olivion is Nexus, an enormous tower, posed in the middle of a red sky, and composed of a central well where vital energies of the 4 Kingdoms converge. In the middle, saw Chronos, a being entirely connected on Nexus: its role is to channel arriving energies and to distribute them equitably.

Two forces primary education coexists in Oblivion: the Order and Chaos. First is personified by the Arella goddess while second is represented by the Abaddon god. The two divinities are opposed and fought a ceaseless battle via their army, but actually one cannot exist without the different one. Two Kingdoms are on the side of the Order (Solum and Aquis), and the two others on the side of Chaos. But Abaddon formenté a plan against its female mirror and that has consequences serious in the 4 Kingdoms of Oblivion and even on the health of Stopwatches which does not manage any more to distribute energies. Arella thus sent its trusty servant, Scree, to seek Jen and to bring back it to save the universe.

4 Kingdoms

Nexus gives access 4 different Kingdoms and where physical time does not pass:

Solum, is a world where the night and snow are eternal. Its inhabitants are them Ferais and civilization that they built resembles to the Romans. It is a kingdom of the Order directed by powerful king Herne.
Aquis, is a made world of lagoons surrounded by pink and yellow sand cliffs. Its inhabitants are Undines (watery creatures) and the civilization which they built is underwater. It is a kingdom of the Order directed by king Adaro.
Aetha, is a world in the clouds on rocks, beaten by the rains. Its inhabitants are Wraiths and they have a lifestyle close to that of the 18th century in France. It is a kingdom of the Chaos directed by the caste of the aristocrats who mistakes that of the peasants.
Volca, is a world covered with lava in fusion and where a sun is shining unceasingly. Its inhabitants are the Djinns, they sleep when their volcano is in sleep and their civilization is close to the Egyptians. It is a kingdom of the Chaos directed by king Iblis.

One can notice that the 4 kingdoms are composed of the 4 elements of Aristote, namely, the ground, water, the air and fire.

Some characters

Adaro : It is king d' Aquis married to Aino, large and strong, it was touched by a strange underwater evil.
Aino: It is the queen of Aquis, Undine wise and right, married with king Adaro.
Devena: It is the queen of Solum, a Lady noble and right, mother of Jared.
Elizabeth: It is the Wraith little girl of the count Raum and the Empusa countess. Locked up in its room and permanently in dissension with her mother, it does not leave there that to have fun in the labyrinth driving of the Castle built by her father. She has as a pet, a dead rat: Claude.
Empusa: It is the woman of Raum and the mother of Elizabeth. Jealous and avid of blood, she likes the sacrifices of peasants.
Herne: It is king de Solum. On Solum, the king is held to sacrifice itself to the top of his glory: it is not its case. It has a son: Jared.
Iblis: It is king de Volca, most powerful of Oblivion, since it is immortal and almost invicible thanks to a gift of Abaddon. He traverses his kingdom in the search of possible conspirators, however, he loves his wife the Malikel queen.
Jared: Wire of Herne and Devena, it is the legitimate applicant with the throne of Solum: it carries a coat to head of wolf on the shoulder.
Jen: It is the heroin of the play, one of the character whom the player directs. It is rather large, brown with two feather beds which fall on its nape of the neck and carries a high red. As soon as it put its guns of front armlever, it is sensitive to the energy of Oblivion.
Malikel: It is the queen of Volca and the woman of Iblis, residing in its dedicated Temple. She cultivates the style of downward of Cléopâtre.
Raum Tale: Interpreted by Stephan Cornicard, it is a perfidious and sadistic count of Aetha. It spends its time asking sacrifices near the peasants of its villages and is surrounded by an exclusively female Wraith guard, because it is not insensitive with the charms of the ladies. His wife is the countess Empusa and their only daughter is called Elizabeth.
Scree: It is the hero of the play, one of the character that the player controls. It is in fact an alive stone waste-gas main! One realizes quickly that it is wise and that it can be completely defended in spite of its small size. It can also have statues and absorb the energy of Oblivion to make it possible Jen to survive.

To note

graphics are of an impressive reality, all that with a sight with 360°, a vision with far infinite in each universe and of the quasi non-existent loadings (if one excludes that at the beginning of a safeguarded part).
the material with which the player interacts remainder such as it left. For example, if it kills an enemy with the other end of the kingdom: it will be there always.
It is possible to control Jen or Scree and this constantly (except some times)
Of the rythmées background musics and harmony with the decorations, played by the Orchestra philarmonic of Prague.
Of the musics of combat composed by the rock group 16 Volt.
criticisms reproached the play engagements too much uninteresting and it is the case, one does not have practically any combo and the engagements tend to last for ever on Aetha because of the resistance of the enemies.

Comings out date

Europe: June 2003

See too

Official site of Primal

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