Further exploring Warg Castle in "A Vampyre Story"

The next big objective: getting rid of this guy...

After my first playing session of A Vampyre Story, I was stuck getting into the rest of the castle, the door locked, the key guarded by a talking gargoyle. Exploring the other part of Castle Warg some more, I discovered there were more characters to talk to than I had initially thought. So that revealed some new options, and finally I vanquished that gargoyle, opened the door and...
 

Cozy...

...had my further escape plans foiled by another creature of the night. So I was very much still a captive of this place, and with no clear idea of how to get past this particular obstacle. At least I had a couple of new locations to explore, like the grand dining hall, the adjoining kitchen, and an office space.

Ah, a lovely library to peruse...

To solve the next c ouple of puzzles, though, it turned out that I had to walk back and forth between this newly discovered and the first part of the castle a couple of times, wishing Mona could fast-travel over there, or at least turn bat and fly (at least if the transformation animation didn't take so long...) In general, this game feels much slower than the new games coming out today, and the double dialogues (both Mona's and Froderick's comments when you perform an action) aren't always that much to the point. But that's just how games were back in the day; even though this was only released in 2008, it has the look and feel of one of the late 90s classics like The Longest Journey and The Curse of Monkey Island.

This cat is very particular of what it eats...

So finally one thing led to another and I was able to open a secret passage, hopefully leading to something that could help me get rid of that flying abomination preventing me from boarding the boat and rowing to shore. Even though there are some puzzles in the first part of the castle I haven't touch on yet, like the plant box on the balcony and the theater controls. But after 3,5 hours of game time, I thought it a good place to save and continue another day...

Castle Warg has some very weird plumbing...

You can find A Vampyre Story on Steam!