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Originally Posted by AFGNCAAP
Yeah, because the game about Leonardo Da Vinci shouldn't mislead us by having "Da Vinci" in the title. I am sorry, but I'd expect an averagely educated person to associate "Da Vinci" with a certain Italian* from the Renaissance era first, and with a recent pulp bestseller second, if at all.
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Indeed, but they really were
deliberately trying to echo the book's title.
The Da Vinci code is, for some reason, one of the only books whose title was left in English when it got translated into French. And, guess what?
The Secrets of Da Vinci is Kheops's only game to have an English title for its French version (or rather, half-English, since they actually came up
The Secrets of Da Vinci - Le manuscrit interdit). So while the game has nothing to do whatsoever with Dan Brown's story, the similar title is definitely
not a coincidence. Nor is the fact that they hint at dark, forbidden secrets ("the forbidden manuscript"), when there's actually nothing of that in the game (and I still can't see how the titular manuscript might be called 'forbidden', even after completing the game three times). So there definitely are some cheap (and, I believe, actually counter-productive) marketing tactics involved around the game's title (and release date as well, probably).
