Lighthouse: The Dark Being

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Lighthouse: The Dark Being

Developer(s)	Sierra On-Line
Publisher(s)	Sierra On-Line
Platform(s)	PC (DOS, Windows), Mac OS
Release date	1996
Genre(s)	Adventure
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ELSPA: 11+ ESRB: Teen (T) USK: 12
Media	2 CD-ROMs
Input methods	Mouse

Lighthouse: The Dark Being is an adventure game developed and released by Sierra On-Line.

1 Gameplay
2 Plot
3 Reception
4 Trivia
5 External links

[edit] Gameplay

The game is a first person adventure with a point and click interface.

[edit] Plot

The main character is a writer who recently moved to the Oregon Coast, and was subsequently befriended by a local scientist named Jeremiah Krick and his baby daughter Amanda. Krick was studying dimensional anomalies and managed to build a machine that opens a portal into another dimension. Using the machine, he reaches the coast of the parallel world, and meets a deranged inventor, who warns him of an ill-intentioned "Dark Being". After opening the portal a few times, a strange, tattood man-creature appears on the other side. Eventually, Krick grows comfortable with the creature, and allows him to pass through the portal, into his lab. When an integral part of his machine goes missing, he realizes that the creature has copied his dimensional travel device, and must be stopped. Krick resolves to confront the Dark Being, but not before leaving a frantic message for the main character, imploring him/her to watch his daughter and make sure nothing bad happens to her. When the main character arrives at Kricks house, the power is out, Amanda is crying, and Krick is nowhere to be found. After exploring Kricks quaint house, Amanda screams, and the main character enters her room in time to see the "Dark Being" taking Amanda, and going back through his portal. In an attempt to rescue Krick and Amanda, the main character pursues the Dark Being in a bizarre, arcane, steampunkish world.

[edit] Reception

Lighthouse received mediocre reviews, averaging a 67% on Game Rankings. Critics praised the game's depth and graphical beauty, but objected to its illogical and unnecessarily difficult puzzles.^{[citation needed]}