These sound really interesting to me, and have pretty decent reviews, so I'd like to get them. However, I saw a picture on GOG's Dracula 4 page that completely turned me off: (http://2a34166a1c224507ff54-79590be14f37a3e58649da10f58ee927.r67.cf1.rackcdn.com/tips/full/11489/1372093888.jpg). I have nothing against those people who enjoy those sort of puzzles (my girlfriend is addicted to Big Fish / Wild Tangent hide-and-seek games, and they're chock full of that sort of thing); they're just not something that I find enjoyable. To me, they feel like "busy work" - extraneous elements thrown in as filler, and they bring the story to a screeching halt.

My question is, do the first three games have the same sort of puzzles?

EDIT: I just want to stress that I mean no disrespect to the developers, or to people who enjoy this sort of puzzle in their adventure games; I'd just rather play a puzzle game if that's what I'm in the mood for, than to have the genres combined.

Hi
I don't know about Dracula 1 and 2, but in Dracula 3 there are quite a good numbers of puzzles, of many different kinds. Some are combinations to find, some are pictures to draw, some are codes to decipher and some are quite similar of that one from Dracula 4.

Some of them are quite difficult too, but I must say I never found them boring or out of place in the story.

Hi! Thanks so much for your reply. The fact that they never felt out of place to you is huge, so I think I'll be picking up the trilogy.

Thanks again!