Jekyll and Hyde (2001) is a PC action-adventure game adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde released in 2001 for Windows 95 and 98. The game's premise is that Jekyll's daughter Laurie has been kidnapped by a vampiric cult, forcing him to turn into Hyde and retrieve mystical objects for them.
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- Animation Bump: The game has detailed cutscene art but lesser graphics elsewhere. Levels with electricity, rain, or fire also ramp up production values briefly.
- Cane Fu: The game gives Jekyll a cane as a weapon.
- Canon Foreigner: Aside from Jekyll and Hyde, no one in the game is from the book.
- Damsel in Distress: Jekyll's daughter daughter was kidnapped by a vampire cult.
- Dead Man Writing: Jekyll's notes are written as a diary, as he believes he'll be dead soon and wishes to explain how everything happened.
- Easy Level Trick: If you encounter the final boss, leave the room and come back, he'll be gone and the rocks will respawn, letting you beat the game with little to no effort.
- Falling Damage: The game has Jekyll take falling damage from anything above his height, leading to possible death by leaping off a cabinet.
- Fetch Quest: Jekyll is forced to retrieve a mystical book and three pieces of a medallion for a cult in exchange for Laurie.
- Forced into Evil: Jekyll is forced to murder people and collect deadly artifacts for a cult because his daughter Laurie is endangered.
- Game-Breaking Bug: The game is riddled with them, including persistent crashes in the second level that can prevent you from progressing at all unless you run it in NT 4.0 compatibility with visuals disabled.
- Guide Dang It!: The final level is very non-intuitive as to what to do, with a confusing maze layout where you must break three pillars in three different rooms, then get the book to meet the final boss.
- Hero of Another Story: Late in the 2001 game, Jekyll runs into a church sect that fights vampires, led by a preacher with a shotgun.
- In Name Only: Aside from Jekyll and Hyde as characters, the game has anything to do with the book or its adaptations.
- Kleptomaniac Hero: Like most adventure game protagonists, Jekyll will add just about anything to his inventory whether it'd be useful or not.
- It's Up to You: Despite the NPCs' informed skill in hunting down vampires, Jekyll finds them dead and it's up to him to save the day.
- Leave the Camera Running: Most level-entering cutscenes in the game pan around the room for 10 to 15 seconds before giving you control.
- Mercy Kill: The priest performs a mercy kill on Howard Moran, who suffered from an incomplete vampire bite and is in pure agony.
- Non-Action Big Bad: The final boss is initially sealed away, and Jekyll is either forced into helping unleash them or tricked into it.
- Papa Wolf: The game has Jekyll become so desperate to get Laurie back he'll willingly turn into Hyde.
- Pixel Hunt: The game requires you to investigate your surroundings to find clues, leading into this.
- Run, Don't Walk: Playing with a controller or joystick sets the default movement to run, while on a keyboard you walk by default and have to hold Shift to run.
- The Quiet One: Hyde rarely speaks in the game, catching some players off-guard when he does.
- A Sinister Clue: Jekyll attacks with his right hand while Hyde attacks with his left.
- Tank Controls: In the PC game Jekyll and Hyde control like a tank, making walking around difficult.
- A Winner Is You: The game ends on a ten-second cutscene of Hyde rescuing Laurie and Jekyll swinging her in his arms as they're on a boat to America.
- Womb Level: The game's finale has the vampires' larder, dormitory, and worship room, which are full of blood, bodies, fleshy-looking textures, and the sense that the level is breathing.
