![]() ![]() It is the precursor to the Elvira games and Waxworks (1992). Anna and her identical twin sister Luisa are the daughters of Richard Gray and his second wife, Anastasia Grim.The original Horrorsoft game, Personal Nightmare is a turn-based First Person Adventure Game released in 1989. Their mother died when they were young, and as of the opening of The Bride, the twins did not see each other for years as Anna was away at boarding school. They come together for the occasion of Luisa's wedding, which has been turned upside down by the bride's disappearance, which Anna must resolve. Throughout the course of the series, Anna must assist various members of her extended family through the use of her special ability. She can travel through time to a fixed point provided she has some tangible object to serve as a focus, such as a photograph or dated document. ![]() Although she can't interact with any people she encounters when traveling back in time, she can manipulate objects in order to prevent various catastrophes, by which she is able to avert the long-term consequences of those catastrophes, which is usually someone's untimely death.Īnna can also travel forward in time if she's accompanied by someone who has come back from the future to bring her with them, such as when she first meets her daughter Alice in the installment Guest From the Future, but she cannot go forward by herself because she has no object to provide a focus.Įxactly when the Detectives United games take place in the Grim Tales timeline is uncertain, but it's implied that the first game happens sometime between the bonus chapter of Crimson Hollow and the events of Guest From the Future. Timeless Voyage gives players their first look at Alice Gray, who appears briefly in a photograph in her mother's wallet Anna doesn't comment on the photo, but the image is identical to Alice's appearance in The Generous Gift, which was released a few months later. The Generous Gift and Trace in Time each feature a newspaper which headlines the activities of the Detectives United Trace in Time is confirmed to take place after the events of Phantoms of the Past, as the newspaper found explicitly references that plot.Īnna is the only female detective in the trio, and occasionally refers to her partners as "the boys." A beautiful and intelligent woman, she is a member of the supernaturally inclined Gray family, and has the ability to travel through time to fixed points in the past as long as she has something to provide her with a time and place. While in the otherwise frozen past, she can influence events and change details in order to prevent future tragedies, which factors into the resolution of all of the DU games to date. As in the GT games, Anna is assisted in the first three DU investigations by the ghost of her father, Richard, whose soul is bonded to the enchanted skull his daughter carries with her. ![]() In Origins, she meets her new partners at the Black Swan Clinic, where she's searching for the personal artifact stolen from her by the Collector. She doesn't immediately endear herself to Brown and James, as she sets a trap for them in the misguided belief that they're enemies however, the mistake is quickly cleared up and the three join forces to save the world.
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