11-20-2010, 08:42 AM | #61 |
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I've reached the kitchen, again with an unsolved puzzle. Spoiler:
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11-21-2010, 03:22 AM | #63 |
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Finally our little cockroach-family arrived in the bathroom.
I had problems with the last step, but here i am. Apart from the encouter with this ugly spider i loved chapter one. But now i want to know: what where the two secrets of the rat?? Someone commented in this playthrough that the rat has two secrets. Can't find the comment and can't find the secrets. - At least, if you don't cout the snatching mouth and the beating tail, but they are obvious. |
11-21-2010, 05:29 AM | #64 |
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BM is a terrific game, join us, why don’t you. You can replay The Whispered World anytime. @Diego Yes, Eddie’s remark about the “fairy godmother" makes perfect sense if he has read about Roger’s mysterious gift of a million bucks in the paper which we find in the basement. Gamewise that’s the most logical solution. But even so, we don’t know that when we’re watching the intro and it does strike me as strange that Eddie is talking about money he can’t see, Roger could have put it on the bank. @Zobraks Thanks for your appealing, even touching marriage proposal. Of course I’ll give it serious consideration, there’s so much in it for me. I saw a “puzzle” of the bathroom floor in your community playthrough at that other forum. Do you have maps of the other rooms as well? I didn’t find the game easy at all. For instance, the slug pointed me in the right direction (pills on the radio) but I was running around there forever pushing pills all the way across the radio, because it didn’t occur to me to “turn on” the radio first. Heard the same clanky sound whenever I entered some of the screens (not all of them) marked as overviews by you, so my conclusion is that the game regards those as overviews as well. Nice stuff in the bathroom: The lovely sucking noise when I’m touring the yucky toilet seat. Eddie as a little angel in mom’s message makes me giggle. The visual details in all the hints are great. The text on the bottles in the cabinet, like Gut Balm. Here comes my nitpicking again. In the cutscene with Eddie taking a leak you can see the article on the noticeboard in front of him, but not the letter about suspending his license to serve alcohol. Totally unimportant, I know. The message of the silverfish is confusing, it’s too far ahead. As has been mentioned, the burning cigarette is there after the cut scene but you can’t do anything with it yet. I guess it’s natural for the player to think in linear terms of different rooms they gain access to, whereas the developers were obviously thinking more in linear terms of the overall journey, including backtracking. Also, in the mostly non-linear exploration of separate rooms it would be hard to present the player with the right hint at the right time. What are those 3 sparkling rings doing in the rat’s hole? Just curious. Forgot to mention that for the first time I saw a fellow roachie being burned on the hot pipe in Eddie’s hovel. Must be one of the 260 screens I missed in my previous playthroughs. @Zobraks and Pollo I don’t think Pollo has missed anything. Unless you’re talking about a tiny hint *which can only be recognized as such* much later in the game. @seagul Yep, the tail and mouth. They may be obvious to you, but they are also easy to miss. |
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Let me know what that tiny hint was, I forgot it. I thought Pollo didn't notice the relation between moving over fuses (when making sparks) and the state of power meter dials, but I was wrong. On the other hand (s)he didn't notice the patterns of numbers similar to those on the dials.
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I've finished the second chapter and right now i enjoy the mesmerizing view of Eddie's kitchen.
Now, Bad Mojo is not really a hard game, but i think that developers in sake of pulling players into the game world, especially in terms of orientation and puzzles, should had swapped second and first chapter, since second one is shorter, with less locations and easier. The bathroom might be straightforward, but also quite fun. In contrast to the first chapter, i knew exactly where i was going and what was i going to do. Huge area in the middle which "serves no purpose" is not a big problem, and acts as sort of a red-herring here, to an already somewhat easy chapter. The "lookouts" from the right are especially helpfull in terms of orientation. The only negative side of the chapter is the damned rat he'll scare the hell out of ya no matter if you know he is there. Quote:
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[...] means that I didn't catch that word.
Mouse: you'll find her in the cellar you'll need her if you crawl beneath the sleeping giant within the broken wall be wary of the low lands be careful on the floor don't stray near the cat's hands beneath the cellar door Slug: a capsule filled with dreams above a golden well [...] dubloons cascade in streams you must remember this the drawbridge lid is heavy a weight must cause a fall to span an electric levy gain passage through the wall Silverfish: this room has deeper meaning beyond the sacred rat watch the special screening outside the mirror crack tobacco leaves are smoking atop a porcelain god if the paper bridge is stoking it will rouse the sleeping guard Ant: strange medicinal elixers pills and creams and charms a cabinet of bewitchers protection from bodily harms enter the razor graveyard above the great rat king heed me, the modest [...] and avoid his deadly sting you need to start an avalanche to cause a minor jolt you will not get a second chance so push the carriage bolt. |
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Great job! Thanks, Fien!
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I never understood something of the rhyme by the co-cockroach in chapter 1. It implies you have to do something with the burning gas-stove or whatever it was. Maybe in a later chapter?
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Do not fear me little one, I'm your guide and friend. Do not loathe your appearance, it is merely a mask through which truth may be conveyed. Ask yourself who you are and look all around you. For you are there, and there is another who is part of you. A great fire burns in the cellar of your heart. Be careful and wary of your noxious intent. Mom when you've left the bathroom: The rat king lies dead and with it may your fear die as well. Fear is the great inhibitor you must conquer before you can cross the threshold of awareness. The means to solve any dilemma lie at your disposal. Remember, where there is fire, there must be smoke. Answers smoulder in the recesses of thought and on the precipices of great fountains. Great fountains indeed! Origami, so it's mom talking about the "fire", not the co-cockroach. Nice word, btw. Almost as nice as the Dutch word for roach. For the benefit of the few non-Dutch participants in the crawlthrough (Pollo and Origami are Dutch too): it's kakkerlak. Last edited by Fien; 11-22-2010 at 03:21 AM. |
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There's a whole list at http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/kakkerlak
(I hope I get all the languages right as they are in Dutch on that page) * Alabama: iskanpatha * Armenian: ուտիճ (hy) (utich) * Bosnian: žohar (bs) m * Bulgarian: хлебарка (bg) (khlebarka) v * Catalan: escarabat (ca) m * Chinese: 蟑螂 (zh) (zhāngláng) * Danish: kakerlak (da) g * German: Schabe (de) v, Kakerlake (de) m * English: cockroach (en) * Esperanto: blato (eo) * Finnish: torakka (fi) * French: blatte (fr) v, cafard (fr) m, cancrelat (fr) m, coquerelle (fr) v (Quebec) * Greek: κατσαρίδα (el) (katsar*ða) v, μαυρομαμούνα (el) (mavromamúna) v, βρομομαμούνα (el) (vromomamúna) v, βλάττη (el) (vláti) v, κανθαρίδα (el) (kanthar*ða) (ongewoon) v * Hebrew: ג'וּק (he) (juk) m * Hongarian: csótány (hu) * Ido: blato (io) * Indonesian: kecoak (id) * Interlingua: blatta (ia) * Italian: blatta (it) v, scarafaggio (it) m * Japanese: ゴキブリ (ja) (gokiburi) * Korean: 바퀴벌레 (ko) (bakwibeolre) * Latin: blatta (la) v * Lituwanian: tarakonas (lt) m * Luxembourgish: Kakerlak (lb) * Mongolian: жоом (mn) (joom) * Napolitian: scarrafóne * Norwegian: kakerlakk (no) m * Papiamento: kakalaka * Persian: سوسک (fa) (susk) * Polish: karaluch (pl) m * Portuguese: barata (pt) v * Romanian: gândac (ro) m * Russian: таракан (ru) (tarakan) m * Slovenian: ščurek (sl) m * Spanish: cucaracha (es) m * Czech: šváb (cs) m * Turkish: hamam böceği (tr) * Urdu: جهنگر (ur) * Swedish: kackerlacka (sv) g
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Well, no "cucaracha" word is complete without a song:
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No Fien I wasn't talking about that rhyme. I meant the first one. The one where we're presented with 2 ways to make it past the vacuum part.
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... and a famous Mexican revolutionary song.
I loved that song when I was a kid , didn't have a slightest idea what it was about. edit: Diego barged in while I was typing. Quote:
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My sister lived in Thailand for a couple of years. She once told me that the cockroach is called "doomed" there because it takes roaches so long to die. The Thai must be very tender-hearted, such empathy is unusual. Personally, I'd rather call the roach "damned" because it takes so long to kill it. |
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Now let me tell you that I had never met a cockroach in my life (I swear!) until I went to work in a Near East country where there were hundreds of those critters crawling over the kitchen we had (in a local motel).
And that was in the middle of a desert...
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First and only time I saw one was in the kitchen of a backpackers hotel in New Zealand. Fortunately I always bring my own cooking gear which I wash carefully and keep in a plastic bag in my own room.
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