.I picked this up to bridge the gap between finishing Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, and the release of Link's Awakening.I picked this up to bridge the gap between finishing Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, and the release of Link's Awakening.Sphinx And The Cursed Mummy isn’t a forgotten masterpiece, but that doesn’t mean it deserves to be forgotten. Taking a lot of cues from Zelda, Sphinx is a solid action-adventure title with some interesting ideas, yet seems to be lacking the vital ingredients to make it a truly memorable experience.The sections where you play as the Mummy are fantastic. He is a delightful creation – the character animation has a real slapstick charm and the puzzles are well executed. The Mummy is invincible, most of the puzzles requiring you to cause him bodily harm (set him on fire, electrocute him, flatten him, etc.) to progress.
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There is a great running joke that when the Mummy completes his task he begins to proudly stride away before collapsing to the ground dead. It’s a great gag and the game could have done with more of this darker humour or really any personality at all.Unfortunately the Mummy sections only make up roughly 30% of the game.
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy. Release Date: Out Now; Genre: Adventure. Publisher: THQ; Developer: TBC. ESRB - T Rating. Fantasy Violence. Thanks for the list. I'll definitely be using a guide as i play through the game, and i'll try to keep an eye on my onyx scarab numbers. At the moment i don't know how much time i'll have to put into this game per day, so it may take me quite awhile to finish even a single playthrough.
For the rest of the time you will play as Sphinx. Sphinx is your generic silent protagonist Link knock-off, and his sections mostly ape Zelda with mixed results. Due to the Egyptian setting most of the environments are vast desert landscapes or cavernous temples.
These look great, but other than the small city of Abydos, which sits atop an electrified body of water, they tend to lack variety and blur together. The sense of scale, particularly of the temples, is nice but doesn’t feel as lived-in or atmospheric as a great Zelda title. It doesn’t help that all the NPCs are bland and forgettable.The combat is a mixed bag. You’ll mostly be doing the same 3-hit combo again and again, interspersed with the.Sphinx And The Cursed Mummy isn’t a forgotten masterpiece, but that doesn’t mean it deserves to be forgotten. Taking a lot of cues from Zelda, Sphinx is a solid action-adventure title with some interesting ideas, yet seems to be lacking the vital ingredients to make it a truly memorable experience.The sections where you play as the Mummy are fantastic.
He is a delightful creation – the character animation has a real slapstick charm and the puzzles are well executed. The Mummy is invincible, most of the puzzles requiring you to cause him bodily harm (set him on fire, electrocute him, flatten him, etc.) to progress. There is a great running joke that when the Mummy completes his task he begins to proudly stride away before collapsing to the ground dead. It’s a great gag and the game could have done with more of this darker humour or really any personality at all.Unfortunately the Mummy sections only make up roughly 30% of the game. For the rest of the time you will play as Sphinx. Sphinx is your generic silent protagonist Link knock-off, and his sections mostly ape Zelda with mixed results.
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Due to the Egyptian setting most of the environments are vast desert landscapes or cavernous temples. These look great, but other than the small city of Abydos, which sits atop an electrified body of water, they tend to lack variety and blur together. The sense of scale, particularly of the temples, is nice but doesn’t feel as lived-in or atmospheric as a great Zelda title. It doesn’t help that all the NPCs are bland and forgettable.The combat is a mixed bag. You’ll mostly be doing the same 3-hit combo again and again, interspersed with the occasional jump attack. These work well enough for the most part, but due to the lack of a lock-on feature or evasive roll, it can feel kind of clunky at times. There is no voice-acting, which seems at odds with its cartoonish design, but considering how painful a lot of voice-acting for these types of games can be, it is probably a blessing.Sphinx And The Cursed Mummy is one of the few original IPs developed by Eurocom and it is obvious they poured their hearts and souls into it.
They have made a few decent licensed games (Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds) as well as a bunch of others that look terrible and don’t interest me enough to ever bother checking out. Sphinx And The Cursed Mummy isn’t a great game, but it is one I enjoyed a lot and still felt compelled to finish. I don’t regret the time I spent with it, and if you are looking for a solid title to waste some time with you could probably do a lot worse.
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy is a third person action-adventure video game inspired by the mythology of Ancient Egypt for GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The game was developed by Eurocom and published by THQ. Nordic Games acquired THQ in 2014 and formed THQ Nordic, as a result, a remastered version of the game was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux on November 10, 2017. A physical Nintendo Switch version with several enhancements was released on January 29, 2019.In Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, the player falls into the role of a demi-god, Sphinx, and the undead corpse of Tutankhamen.
Sphinx's role is one of a brave warrior who battles fearsome monsters and relies on raw power to complete tasks. Tutenkhanmen, also known as the Mummy, revolves around puzzle-solving and logical thinking to outwit his foes.PlotThe fictional version of Egypt in which the game is set is in a period of turmoil when the player is introduced to Sphinx, one of the main protagonists. He and his colleague Horus are given the task of retrieving the legendary Blade of Osiris. They are taken to Uruk, 'the land of darkness', by their master Imhotep where they eventually find the Blade. Horus is attacked and supposedly killed by a deadly ray that protects the Castle of Uruk, a mysterious building that houses evil. Sphinx retrieves the Blade, but while trying to escape is also attacked by the ray and forced to travel to an unknown location through the use of a portal system.Meanwhile, the young Prince Tutenkhamen of Luxor celebrates his birthday, but his older brother, Akhenaten, captures him and performs a ritual that turns him into a mummy.
Sphinx arrives and interrupts the ritual, causing Tutenkhamen and Akhenaten to be teleported to the Castle of Uruk. Sphinx learns that fragments of Tutenkhamen's soul are stored in Canopic Vases, and takes on the task of recollecting them to restore him to his former self. In the Castle, Akhenaten gloats that the recent events were nothing but a minor setback. The player then learns that 'Akhenaten' is in fact the dark god Set in disguise, and that the real Akhenaten was mummified in the same way as Tutenkhamen to allow Set to assume his form. However, because of Sphinx's actions he cannot disguise himself as Tutenkhamen. Sphinx and Imhotep devise a plan to use the Mummy/Tutenkhamen's immortality to their benefit; a single Canopic Vase is able to bring him to life for a short while, but he still remains practically dead allowing him to safely venture the trap-riddled Castle of Uruk. Imhotep creates Bas-ket, who can sneak inside the castle to deliver the Vases to the Mummy.
Throughout the story, the Mummy exploits his inability to be killed to survive the traps and retrieve valuable items to aid Sphinx in his quest. In return, Sphinx finds more Canopic Vases over the course of the game and uses Bas-ket to send them to his undead ally.During his time in Heliopolis, Sphinx learns that the god Anubis has caused great suffering to the people of the land; most prominently, he cast many of them into stone statues.
Sphinx's heroic nature appeals to Anubis, and gradually allows him to free the people from their stone curse. However, the tasks given to Sphinx become more dangerous over time. Anubis asks him to retrieve 'Sacred Crowns', immensely powerful objects once used by the gods of Egypt.The first crown to retrieve is the Sacred Crown of Abydos, a land barraged by various disasters and troubles (though not apparent at first, the chaos is the work of Set). Most recently, the Mayor falls very ill and the Crown almost falls into the hands of his traitorous aides. Sphinx is able to save him and in return is rewarded with the crown.Each crown presents a greater challenge for Sphinx than the previous; he battles and defeats the fearsome Geb Queen for possession of the Sacred Crown of Uruk, and the pharaoh of Heliopolis for the Crown of Heliopolis. As Sphinx proves his might to Anubis, the enigmatic god reveals he cast the people of Heliopolis into stone to protect them from the darkness that will soon descend upon Egypt at the hands of Set.The Mummy discovers The Sacred Crown of Set, the final crown, in the depths of The Castle of Uruk.
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He takes it and this greatly weakens the ray protecting the castle. Bas-ket is able to escape with the crown, but Set catches the Mummy and paralyses him.With all four Sacred Crowns, Anubis is able to Summon Osiris, another god who reveals he and Set were once a single form named Ra. Set, however, became greedy and stole power from Osiris to take over Egypt. Osiris uses the last of his power to transport Sphinx past the defenses of The Castle of Uruk, where he challenges Set for the fate of all Egypt. Set takes on his 'true form'; a hideous monster with immense power, but Sphinx is able to defeat him. Set is not destroyed, indeed Imhotep appears and tells Sphinx that this is not in his destiny.
Instead, Osiris arrives and forcibly reunites himself with the weakened Set and Ra is formed once again. Ra gives the Mummy the last Canopic Vase, but the Mummy tragically falls and breaks it. The game ends with a cliffhanger as Imhotep states there may be other ways to help Tutenkhamen regain his human form. Video Review and Screenshots.
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