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Maybe it's becsuse of the codec being used, but the intro is very hard to hear when the narrator decides to speak softly. I'm surprised that subtitles weren't supplied. Having both an ms-dos and windows version seems rare, unless the latter was part of a re-release. Was it Win95 or Win 3.1? And did you need to tweak the config.sys or autoexec.bat files?
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I still don't get how examining the boat is the trigger to "fix" it and release the spirit. Maybe there was supposed to be some other, more complex, mechanism for doing so but the devs ran out of time.
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Jul 30, 2022 01:16
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That kinda makes sense when explained in that way. Adventure game logic at its most logical, I guess.
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Jul 30, 2022 04:51
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That's, uh, mighty nice of quickthorpe to not pluck a coin or two from the stash. Although I guess the friendly bird could just refuse transport if he took on unnecessary weight. Also, I have no idea how he could be traipsing around the frozen lands without a cloak or a nice hat. With his next location being a desert (or so it seems), he looks better dressed for the occasion.
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Aug 2, 2022 02:49
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I think Jemima isn't necessarily protecting anything. I think she's just the obligatory brigand in the area and her day job is to kill unwary adventurers with her fancy drum.
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Aug 4, 2022 20:19
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Rocket Baby Dolls posted:
I had thought it would be a much more involved process to kill the snake demon but it turns out that a lot of the game solutions don't require the kind of backtracking and questing that is normally needed in, say, a Sierra game. Also, is the route to the Emerald Forest a path back to the first world or is it an entirely new world?
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Aug 7, 2022 23:11
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Rocket Baby Dolls posted:I'm not even sure if there is even a way to return to a previous area, it seems like each area is self-contained which makes life a lot easier. The only issue is the inventory but I've mentioned that before. We never get anything from the red gargoyle after it's freed, so either there's a mechanism to visit past areas (which is unlikely) or there's ways of getting the game into an unwinnable state. Of course, the last possibility is that there is actually no need to free the red gargoyle.
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Aug 7, 2022 23:55
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Rocket Baby Dolls posted:We had to free the red gargoyle because it was stopping us from entering the ship.  Sorry. I thought the gargoyle was preventing us from entering the Lizard Demon's lair.
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Aug 8, 2022 00:17
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I got the joke about holding your breath for 10 minutes. I'm not sure what the hairpin in the pillow represents exactly, but either it could be a discreet lover or the captain puts his hair up when indoors or cleaning himself. So I guess it would be embarrassing if he couldn't manage his hair without it.
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Aug 12, 2022 19:33
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I would have been much MUCH more receptive to the original ending if there was more foreshadowing of it in the game. As it is, I agree that it's completely out of left field and the NA ending seems like the most anyone could do while spending the least amount of money on new animation and writing. In fact, if I were the publisher and I was given the original game, I would have taken the source code and written the NA ending at a budget that would keep the bean counters happy becsuse they would save money on returns AND not having to hire extra security to manage irate customers.
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Aug 15, 2022 00:14
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ok, sure. but it's ridiculous if that was literally the only hint.
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Aug 15, 2022 04:31
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marshmallow creep posted:I feel it's said breathlessly quick, in a "don't even worry about that" kind of way, only to then become the entirety of the ending. I completely agree. I feel that if it wasn't for the intro and ending (and, of course, the terrible action system), it may have been a relatively servicable adventure game. But the way those parts were written were designed to make someone want to throw the computer against a wall. Of course 90s minitowers were at least 20-30 pounds so you may end up with more than just a dent in the drywall or wood paneling. The alternative would be to chuck an 80 pound CRT which people could barely lift, much less throw.
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Aug 15, 2022 23:38
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Rocket Baby Dolls posted:Bonus Videos I like how all the bystanders to the various deaths (like the shark death or the river death) don't react when someone perishes right in front of them.
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Aug 15, 2022 23:44
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Thank you very much for this LP! It's an interesting adventure game with some real effort and world building, but it could have used a little bit more polish. If I had paid $60 in 1996 dollars for this game, I would probably not be happy. But your LP has made the experience quite entertaining.
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