[RLacey]

OMG. Forgetting the old-skool looks, this thing has already sucked me in and I've only been playing for five minutes. Any tactics that people want to suggest - is the combat actually at all difficult on Easy, and should I play this with the lights on or off?

[samIamsad]

Lights: off
Pants: .. on

Err, mh. I've still got that copy I borrowed from someone, err, three years ago. I was stuck on a puzzle, though. Tell me if you made it past the house and its secret "cellar"!

[Hammerite]

Originally Posted by RLacey

OMG. Forgetting the old-skool looks, this thing has already sucked me in and I've only been playing for five minutes. Any tactics that people want to suggest - is the combat actually at all difficult on Easy, and should I play this with the lights on or off?

Spare your health vials, when you get Florentine's staff DO NOT use it until the end (you'll see why) and the easy mode only means that the inventory items used for puzzles are automatically selected.

[seebaruk]

Man that was such a good game. I got stuck near the end which pissed me off, but what a ride getting there. Might have to find that one on ebay...

[RLacey]

Originally Posted by Hammerite

Spare your health vials, when you get Florentine's staff DO NOT use it until the end (you'll see why) and the easy mode only means that the inventory items used for puzzles are automatically selected.

I meant the COMBAT difficulty. I'd never play with puzzle difficulty on anything other than Easy .

[Richard]

Originally Posted by RLacey

OMG. Forgetting the old-skool looks, this thing has already sucked me in and I've only been playing for five minutes. Any tactics that people want to suggest - is the combat actually at all difficult on Easy, and should I play this with the lights on or off?

Play with the lights off. Conserve health potions. Play on Easy mode, not for the difficulty, but purely to save time fiddling for objects. Oh, and play with the subtitles on when you pass the Sarcophagus. Unless they patched it after my version, one character was impossible to hear.

Oh, and when you get to...hmm, how can I say this without spoiler? Oh, yes. When you get to THE SINGLE WORST LEVEL IN ANY GAME EVER, YEA, EVEN CRUMMY OLD SHOOTERS FROM THE DARK AGES*, keep with it. There are three stages that are the absolute pits, and will make you want to stab the developers IN THE EYE, but it does pick up again afterwards for a good ending.

* For those that have played it:

Spoiler:

The entire of Sheol, really: The fricking Brain Maze, followed by Abaddon's mirror puzzle, and then that truly godawful Crystal Maze segment where you have to do about eight pointless tech-demo mini-games to unlock the door to the next level. I don't know what happened here at all...