#moon logic

[casualgay-mer]

Short ND game review: STFD

Stay tuned for Danger

Plot: ND heads to NY city bc local soap opera soap-er star is getting death threats - boy would she make a career nowdays.

Characteristics: Really good atmosphere and character depth we got here, an effective culprit as well, the game lets you be a detective for once. BUT. A huge BUTT. The whole gameplay is cheesy, wonky and at times stupid and irrelevant. A bootleg Life is Strange prequel - Nancy is expected to do some stuff WAAAY before the danger situation... wait...

Usually I do not provide spoilers but.

THE FUCKING BOMB SEGMENT FUCK FUCK FUCK AND FUCK AGAIN I HATE HATE HATE IT.

MANY REASONS

The solution to the bomb puzzle - which is in Rick's room - is located IN MATTIE'S ROOM.

The solution is THE COLORS OF THE MARKINGS ON MATTIE'S SCRIPT

You may not FIND THE SCRIPT AT ALL

And if you do you may not know that YOU CAN TURN PAGES ON IT SINCE THE GAME LETS YOU DO SO ONLY ON teeeeny tiiiiny corner of the screen

AND IF YOU DO YOU ARE PROBABLY NOT GOING TO GUESS THAT ONE THING IS RELATED TO ANOTHER - LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!!

If you do not have a screwdriver from the stage room - you are screwed (pun totally inteded)

If you didn't get the plyers from the prop room - you are also screwed

And if you didn't get plyers AND a door knob you are EXTRA screwed! If you played the game you sure know why.

And the biggest fucking pet peeve of mine. If you played other ND games before you are really getting used to danger segment solution being somewhere within the danger segment/the danger segment won't activate until you got everything prepared. That means that ND players who completed other later games probably WON'T EVEN CONSIDER LOOKING AROUND THE STUDIO FOR TOOLS - JUST LIKE FUCKING DID.

This segment is fucking scary in russian dub and it gave me nightmares for fucking years

THIS IS THE WORST PUZZLE EVER DESIGNED IN HISTORY OF WORST PUZZLE DESIGNS

Total score: 18,8/25. Would recommend only if you know beforehand about this bomb fucking segment

[thomasedmund]

Off Topic: The Challenge of Adventure Games

Off Topic: The Challenge of Adventure Games

Good Youtubers re: Adventure Games: PushingUpRoses Pixelmusement Cannot be Tamed So I’m working through a bit of a nostalgia trip at the moment, playing through a few, and also absorbing as much Youtube content of old Sierra Adventure games. I very much grew up with these games, Kings Quest, Space Quest, Quest for Glory and of course Leisure Suit Larry. I also much enjoyed the likes of Monkey…

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[a-dork-n-chips]

Solving puzzles on old games be like

[lordplavis]

I recently found a baclup file of a programm i wrote in 7th grade or something.

It was a small text advanture i wrote in school when i was bored in computer class.

It is hilariously bad.

For example:

You controll the game via text inputs.

These tect inputs have to be exact.

And they are infact case sensitive.

And no there isn't any major hints what these commands are.

If you go through the right door in a room.

You automatically go through the right door of the next room as well.

So if you have a square of room you are trapped running in a circle forever.

But thats not a problem because if you go into one certain room you just can't leave because i forgot to program the exit.

Some doors can only be opend with a key. But your caracter is very diligent. And lovks them again every time so you have to unlock them every time you wana go through.

There are also some doors you can only open without a key and if you have one.

Oh yea and there are the grammar mistakes that are so horrendous it becomes veeeery apparent why i alway got failing grades in dictations.

Buuuut it does have alternate ending so it has that going for it at least.

But now ive fixed most bugs so at least its kinda playable or at least as much as it will ever be.

[beardycarrot]

The Dark Spire has been... interesting. Unfortunately, it’s not the ultimate play-it-while-walking-the-dog game I was expecting; you’re basically required to play it with a guide and three maps on hand. Like, the “puzzles” can get real Moon Logic-ie. Okay, so, in one particularly cold room I found a Blizzard Crystal. Alright. In another, I found a well, which was radiating an insane amount of heat. Pretty simple: throw the crystal into the well, bam, puzzle solved.

Less intuitive is what I ran into a few minutes later (aka just now), which is what prompted me to write this. In the room I entered, there’s a loud noise, and my options are to press onward, retreat, or use an item. Well, I don’t think I have anything that can be used to locate the source of the noise, and this area doesn’t have any wild animals, just various types of undead for the most part, so maybe something to cover my ears? Looking through my items,  I find the marshmallows that I stole from some pirates. Well, I’ve seen dumber puzzles than marshmallow earplugs, so why not.

It worked! That wasn’t really any huge leap in logic, but that could be because I played a lot of games like King’s Quest and Monkey Island as a kid. Now, however, let’s get into the REAL meat of this post: how I got into this area in the first place. See, there’s this elevator that you’re tempted by right from the start of game, because it’s one of the first rooms you can reach on the first floor, but it’s inoperable. You eventually find a generator room directly adjacent to the elevator, with several components: a cage, a dish, an empty bottle, and a wheel. From the descriptions the game gives it’s not exactly obvious, but it makes sense in retrospect: the joke is that you need a hamster (or something similar) to run on the wheel to kickstart the generator to power the elevator. You’re able to take the empty bottle, but you don’t get any clues for what you should be doing.

What you’re supposed to do is fill the bottle with water from a spring on the first floor (the water refills your spell slots, so you wouldn’t expect to use it in a puzzle), collect some nuts pickled in rum from the pirate area on the second floor, collect some sunflower seeds and a gourd from the third floor (I think you have to search a random room twice to find the gourd), and examine a magician’s hat on the fourth floor. Bear in mind that between first finding the generator room and getting to that part of the fourth floor, about twenty hours had passed for me. This isn’t as simple as I’m making it sound.

Anyway, something will leap out of the hat and scurry off. In a nearby room, there’s a hole in the wall, and if you go in after examining the hat, there will be eyes peering out at you. You have to use the boozy nuts to lure out and intoxicate the animal (it turns out to be a squirrel), and then use the gourd to capture it. You have the option to try just catching it, but this doesn’t work: you have to use the gourd. Maybe it’s a Pokemon joke, who knows. After that, you return to the generator, re-attach the bottle, put the squirrel in the cage, fill the dish with sunflower seeds, and you finally have access to the elevator, one of the most important things you need to do in the game.

There isn’t so much as a hint to any of this outside of the player intuiting that when it mentions a cage and a wheel, it’s talking about a cage for a rodent. When I first arrived, my mental image was a small birdcage unrelated to the function of the generator, and that the wheel was a waterwheel.

So, yeah. This game is interesting, in its own way... the combat is built almost entirely around the evasion stat, for some reason, and like D&D you have a limited number of spell slots that you have to return to town to replenish. You can have some fun with it... but you really do have to play with the wiki open in front of you, and you have to save often just in case your next random encounter is against sixteen grim reapers.

[delcat177]

cathepsin said: I’m still waiting for them to throw away the master ball by accident over here

I liked the part where they tried to use the Super Rod on a Voltorb.  If it was a Sierra game, that would be something you'd have to figure out based on a Voltorb looking vaguely like a fishing bobber, and if you missed it the Elite Four would kill you.

Also I'd forgotten that the first time I saw Magnemite, I thought it had two little beaks and was some kind of bizarre two-sided duck head:

I wouldn't say no to that as a Pokemon design, really.  Kind of biting on Doduo, but just enough bizarre to not matter.

[lirillith]

So somehow the killer shoved her down from behind and stabbed her in the back yet the photo of them facing each other doesn't disprove that.