The captain took a perilous course through the ice, ignoring the warnings of his first officer, who placed his faith in the latest ice-detecting instrumentation, in favour of his own instinct and seagoing experience. He then enters the ship by following one of the dogs.įrom flashbacks and Mental Echo the ship's tragic past is put together. The ship's horn sounds, and the ice all around starts to break he falls down through but the bottom ice is thick enough that he doesn't end up in the water. The game starts with Alexander approaching the North Wind on a dog sled.
Through the game the character finds fragments of Maxim Gorky's fairy tale The Flaming Heart of Danko, which parallels what happened to the ship and its crew. The main character, Alexander Nesterov, is a Russian meteorologist who was supposed to board the ship for a lift home after completing a tour of duty at the pole however he finds it's been shipwrecked since 1968 and its dead crewmen have undergone bizarre metamorphosis. The gameplay is from a first person perspective.Ĭryostasis takes place in 1981 on an Arktika-class nuclear-powered icebreaker called the North Wind near the North Pole. The game, being set in an arctic setting, employs body heat as a health meter – the player must use heat sources (such as lights or stoves) to replenish health. This can involve saving people's lives by taking over their bodies in their memories and changing the course of history. The game story develops with help of a unique system called Mental Echo – the ability to penetrate another character's memory and change the actions taken by that character in the past.
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