Lord_Brownie
Watchdog
The funny thing is, after reading all the replies I went and go the game. So I want to play it!
There is no similarity between both. Both are entirely different names.
The ONLY thing both have in common are
- the art set (just a guess, I really don't know)
- the brand name.
Nothing else.
There is no "Philosopher Stone" addition. You might mean a Mod or something.
There IS an expension to Drakensang 2 called "Philleasson's Secret", however.
And there's a mis-interretation by those who did the titl, too : "The Dark Eye" is the title of the WHOLE pen & paper role playing game system - I have no idea why they put it so into the title as if this game was about an Dark Eye …
Not being able to re-visit areas was "fixed" for the second game - plus I read there is a fan-made solution to get these areas reaccessible again … Didn't try it out so far …
As far as I know, Radon Labs probably already had quite some financial problems (I heard that, but don't know it for sure), and they wanted to get more money to solve this with Drakensang 2.
Hoever, bad timing let dtp release Drakensang 2 around the same time as the rather dark & bloody Dragon Drage 1 - which people liked much, much more than Drakensang 2. No-one seems to like these lighthearted games like the Drakensang series anymore, says the cynic in me …
Well, Drakensang 2 was no success, negotiations for money fo Drakensang 3 failed - that's it.
Online games giant "Bigpoint" bought Radon Labs - and all of the assets of them.
They decided to do an online game called "Drakensang Online". It ill be pure hack & slay and ill have NOTHING anymore in common with Aventuria - because they just don't have the license anymore to use the "The Dark Eye" (TDE) game license for their games …
So consider this book closed.
There are, however, two more games in the works : The action-RPG called "Demonicon" and the adventure game (yes !) called "Satinav's Chains" (with Satinav being "the keeper of time itself", so to say).
You can find a *lot* of background information on Aventuria in this discussion : http://forum.dtp-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=14843
So, is the Philleasson's Secret available in English?
Not that I know of. But - maybe in Benelux countries.
Besides, within the game you can do a right-click on almost everything !
This helps understanding the game quite a lot, imho !