Friday, December 26, 2025

Played through two of the "paths" in "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis"

Typical Indy-travel view
When I first played Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, I spent hours on figuring out all the puzzles. Mostly the dialogue ones gave me trouble, not being as fluent in English back in the day, and of course not as experienced in adventure gaming. This replay, however, is going very smoothly, even after so many years.

Follow the little red dot...
After the first part of my replay, I continued onto the Wits Path. This took me to Algiers and Monte Carlo, getting in touch with Sophia's contacts. I had to find a way to follow Omar Al-Jabbar's assistent to the home of his boss, locate a dig site deep in the desert on camelback, then save Alain Trottier from his kidnappers in a chase sequence you'd actually expect for the Fists Path.

High speed chase through the streets of Monte Carlo...
Finally I ended up in the Greek isles, first on Thera - or Santorini - and then on Crete and the labyrinth of Knossos. I think this is one of the rare in-game labyrinths I actually enjoy. It's been so long since I played this game, most of it I still remembered but navigating the labyrinth felt like it was the first time again, and it took some searching around.

Finish him!
Finally I found my way into Atlantis, and that's when I reloaded my game to the point where I get to choose which path to take, and this time I continued onto the Fists path. At first this felt like some kind of Easy Mode, visiting all of the same locations, but a bit further on the path's difference became very much apparent when I had to fight some soldiers and actually met up with Sophia again, which you'd only expect on the Team Path.

Did this inspire that Dial of Destiny scene?
After two hours and forty-five minutes of total playing time, I had completed both the Wits and Fists path up to the point where I reached Atlantis. Now it's time to reload again and finish the game following the Team Path!

You can find Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis on Steam and on GOG!

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