Icarus the wax in his wings melted he tumbled out of the sky and fell into the sea where he drowned, sparking the idiom ""don't fly too close to the sun"". This tragic theme of failure at the hands of hubris contains similarities to that of Phaëthon. Icarus' father Daedalus, a very talented and remarkable Athenian craftsman, built the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete near his palace at Knossos to imprison the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster born of his wife and the Cretan bull. Minos imprisoned Daedalus himself in the labyrinth because he gave Minos's daughter, Ariadne, a clew
The Daedalus Encounter likewise considered the FMV footage to be the highlight for its high video quality, stereo surround sound, and strong production values, remarking that "think of "7th Guest" with a solid story and decent acting and you get the idea." While he criticized that the interaction is too infrequent and the puzzles suffer from too wide a range of challenge, he concluded, "We almost hate to admit it, but here's an FMV title that works." The editors of "MacUser" named "The Daedalus Encounter" one of the top 50 CD-ROMs of 1995. The Daedalus Encounter The Daedalus Encounter is a 1995 interactive