Moreover, despite its pulpy tendencies, there's a level of maturity at play in the Gabriel Knight series that was all too rare in adventure games at the time. What follows is an investigation that somehow encompasses everything from cuckoo clocks to 19th-century Bavarian monarchs to the staging of a lost opera composed by Richard Wagner himself as a trap to expose and kill a very sexy werewolf named Baron von Glower. After closing the case on a series of voodoo murders plaguing the Big Easy in his first outing, Gabriel jets off to his ancestral castle in Germany and stumbles upon a new mystery involving brutal mutilation killings attributed to escaped zoo wolves. Aiding Gabriel in his paranormal adventures is Grace Nakimura, his sardonic research assistant and eventual mystery-solving partner. Our titular protagonist is a New Orleans-based novelist and the latest in a long familial line of Schattenjägers - "shadow hunters" who investigate and combat supernatural threats. Gabriel Knight 2 is a game that defies a simple synopsis, but here goes. What I discovered was a subversively campy adventure, bursting at the seams with ambition - a game that could only have been produced in the mid-1990s, yet one that nevertheless feels decades ahead of its time. So, when I finally decided to stream Gabriel Knight 2 on my retro Twitch channel a quarter century later, I didn't entirely know what to expect.
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