Playthrough: "The Secret of the Nautilus / Mystery of the Nautilus" Part 1/3

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Quite an unknown adventure-game, designed by T-bot Interactive and published by Cryo Interactive. Unknown because this game is one of the more difficult games to get working nowadays. As far as I know, this is the only playthrough on the internet at the moment. There was a re-release of this game for iPhone and iPad back in 2014, done by Koalabs Studios. But lots of music, puzzles and graphics were removed in that particular version.

As a fan of the Jules Verne books of "20.000 leagues under the Sea" I remember looking forward to this game back in 2002. But it was not exactly what I was hoping for; almost no characters or story, but lots and lots of machinery to fix to escape a broken Nautilus-submarine. I think the game is quite attractive in its visuals and music, but like almost all of Cryo's adventure-games it falls short on puzzles and game-design. And there are...timed sequences. The most annoying things ever in a puzzle-game were clues are limited...

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TECHNICAL NOTES
I tried playing it in Windows 10, but I always got a crash when my mouse was hitting the edge of the screen.
I tried playing it on PCem, but as a game of 2002, it needed quite a powerfull emulated machine to run it at a satisfying speed. It ran too slow.
Finally, I played it in VMware with Windows 2000 installed on it. As far as I know, it's the only way to get this game working correctly, with just one glitch left; the intro- and outro-cinematics were not properly placed in the center of the screen. But I corrected that in the editing.

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