Chronicles of Mystery: The Tree of Life - Introduction - game guide, walkthrough, secrets, game tips & strategies

This guide to Chronicles of Mystery: The Tree of Life contains a complete walkthrough of this sometimes quite demanding game.

Sylvie Leroux receives a proposition of working for a museum in Brittany. After arriving there, she learns that her predecessor has died in mysterious circumstances and many people are interested in the 17th century chest that he was researching, with count Saint-Germain among them.

The controls in the second Chronicles of Mystery are the same as in the first game. You move following an arrow-shaped pointer, a big arrow indicates a new location. The items which you can use or interact with are marked with a hand pointer and those at which you can only look – with an eye. Double clicking the left mouse button causes the character to run and double clicking the big arrow speeds up changing locations. You can skip cutscenes with Esc and dialogues with the left mouse button. After moving the pointer to the top of the screen, a menu will appear. The last option is important, as it contains the dialogues Sylvia had, items she obtained and her diary.

The inventory is at the bottom of the screen. After clicking on one of the findings with the right mouse button, you will get a zoom and a commentary, sometimes containing some clues. Rarely will you have to do something with the object while in zoom mode. At the lower right corner of the screen there is a question mark whish reveals all the important items and passages in a given location. The items which should land in your inventory are marked green, as the riddle solutions – red.

There are two moments in the game during which you have a time limit. I will warn you about the first one and suggest saving the game. During the second one Sylvie can die, but the game will automatically save.

Katarzyna „Kayleigh” Michalowska

Translated to English by Jakub „cilgan” Lasota