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152 | Christian Wessely Yet this creature does not guard the entrance to the underworld but in- stead attacks the mansion of the birds, for reasons that do not become completely clear. The journey goes up and down and many more challenging puzzles are to be solved before the book can finally be recovered. With the support of one of the birds and one of their technicians (a brass-head, liter- ally), a magic light can be recovered from a floral cavern (fig. 4). But wait, light turns the dangerous creatures into furniture – so how about we con- front the Cerberus with the magic light? It turns out that this is not as easy as expected, but finally, after being swallowed by the monster like Jonah by the whale, my character opens the lantern and hit by the light beams, the monster shatters – no, not into pieces, but into furniture. In a long final video sequence, the now friendly mechanical dogs, coat hangers, goats etc. reconcile and celebrate with music and dancing (fig. 5). The underworld is saved – and I (my character) can climb back up the ladder and crawl back through the tunnel into my room, which is now bathed in bright daylight. The game has been highly praised for its creative artwork, and rightfully so. “It’s almost like a Hieronymus Bosch painting, where I feel like I could look at the artwork forever and still notice new things.”4 The soundtrack and music are remarkable too: the score is linked to the progress one makes in 4 AppUnwrapper 2020. Fig. 3: At a glance: the monster, one of the birds, and his brass-headed helper (Creaks 2020). www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/2, 149–155