Who's the master now?
Frankenstein: Master of Death is a hidden object game created by Fineway Studios and Jet Dogs Studios, based on the Mary Shelley Gothic/Sci-Fi novel Frankenstein.
After receiving a letter from your friend, Victor Frankenstein, who asks for your help after his research into the secret of life and death have gone wrong, you immediately depart to meet him and Elizabeth to find out what had happened.
Not long after your arrival, however, you bear witness to a hideous cadaver chasing after Elizabeth and disappear into the isolated countryside. You must follow them in order to find Victor and uncover who is the real mastermind behind the experiments.
Frankenstein: Master of Death brought to life these tropes:
- Ambiguous Time Period: It's never clearly determined what time period this game takes place in.
- Apocalyptic Log: Documents found in different places provide glimpses into the events that transpired and what led to Victor's need for help in the first place.
- Aristocrats Are Evil: Baron Igor von Zinden
- Big Bad: Baron Igor
- Bound and Gagged: The friend finds Victor chained to a chair at the train station in retribution for refusing to work with Igor any longer.
- Came Back Wrong: In one of Victor's notes, each resurrected animal corpse brought back to life behaves quite aggressively and is in constant pain from the electricity coursing through them.
- Disney Villain Death: Igor falls off the crumbling cliff along with the Monster. However...
- Distressed Dude: Victor
- Faint in Shock: You find Elizabeth in the old house, having fainted after escaping the Monster.
- Featureless Protagonist: The player character hasn't many identifying characteristics. The opening intro, however, shows a male figure seated in the parlor, confirming that it's a man.
- Frankenstein's Monster: A particularly repulsive take on it, and with electricity visibly coursing around it.
- Godhood Seeker: Baron Igor meant to use Victor's research to create an undead army to use against society and see himself revered as a god.
- Hulk Speak: The Monster speaks this way once freed from Igor's control.
- The Igor: Baron Igor. Until he continues the experiments behind Victor's back.
- I Have Your Wife: Igor has Elizabeth kidnapped and held hostage to force Victor's cooperation.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The Monster does this to Igor with a spear. It doesn't stick.
- Lightning Can Do Anything: The machine used to resurrect larger creatures from the dead, including the Monster and a tiger.
- Magic Antidote: The friend fires an antidote-filled dart at the Monster, which frees it from Igor's control.
- Mad Scientist: Ironically, Igor becomes this more than Victor when he escalates the experiments.
- Mercy Kill: Victor wanted to do this to the resurrected creatures brought back because the machine causes them incredible pain. Baron Igor did NOT take this well.
- No Name Given: We never find out what the name of Victor's friend is.
- Not Quite Dead: Baron Igor used the machine on himself to resurrect himself after taking a nasty blow by the Monster.
- Over-the-Shoulder Carry: When the Monster finds Elizabeth, he kidnaps her in this way.
- Psycho Serum: What Baron Igor used on his own experiments to suppress their will and make it easier to control them, including the Monster.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the novel, Elizabeth was murdered by Victor's own creation. In the game, she is kidnapped, but is ultimately rescued along with Victor.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: The friend drugs a ham with soporific to incapacitate the tiger.
- The End... Or Is It?: Just when it seems like the nightmare the Frankensteins had to deal with was over, the ending cuts to a scene where a washed-up gem is picked up by Baron Igor, somehow still alive.
- Zombie Gait: How the Monster walks about.
