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millenia - 04 February 2022 07:05 PM

My game has not run smoothly.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention this. The first session I played, the game crashed on me while I was exiting. No big deal, but still.

But what has occurred several times now is this: when we see a spinning newspaper about what purple tentacle is up to, the small “to the Batmobile”-like bit of music that plays, suddenly starts looping indefinitely and plays every 5 seconds. It only stops when I save, quit and restart the game…



But, criticism of the Remaster aside, the game itself is still as awesome as ever.

Let’s have two more days for this part (it’s longer than I predicted, anyway) for everyone behind to catch up, and we’ll start on Monday the next part of the playthrough. I hope that’s OK with everyone. In the meantime, please discuss everything connected to this part of the game.

Has anyone found the game within the game yet?

TimovieMan - 04 February 2022 08:17 PM

But what has occurred several times now is this: when we see a spinning newspaper about what purple tentacle is up to, the small “to the Batmobile”-like bit of music that plays, suddenly starts looping indefinitely and plays every 5 seconds. It only stops when I save, quit and restart the game…

I had a looping issue too, with the cigar man. But it luckily stopped when I switched to Hoagie.

Vegetable Party - 05 February 2022 09:10 AM

Has anyone found the game within the game yet?

Yes. But I’m still not playing! (Maybe some day)

Vegetable Party - 05 February 2022 09:10 AM

Has anyone found the game within the game yet?

Yep. And I played some of it. There’s an achievement for it.

Actually, just starting the game within the game also gives an achievement.

Nice.

I think that fun little feature is one of DotT’s original achievements! I’m glad they kept it in the remake. It’s how I played Maniac Mansion during the playthrough of that game.

Nice!

I cut back on my coffee intake and its effect is noticeable. I’ve been looking for alternatives for while, because I like a hot drink that packs a punch: just not one based on alcohol or caffeine.

The voice acting is very peculiar. Whether you like it or not might be based on your appreciation/tolerance of 90s cartoon comedy, but it’s really, consistently good. Both the acting and the audio quality.

Got the battery? Great!! Now it’s time to tackle the most amazing beauty contest!

I will give you 1 week, until February 14th to win the human beauty contest in the “tentaclian” world. You’re still free to switch between characters/periods, but stop once you win the contest.

I’ve just won the beauty contest.
Or rather, “my human” mummy Ted did.

Only took me 45 minutes, but I did a bunch of things that weren’t really necessary for this part. In fact, going over my inventory, if I had beelined for the beauty contest, I would have probably finished this section in less than fifteen minutes.
I already had most of the items I needed before this section started.

Result: I’m at 70%, in 5 hours 39 minutes.

I kind of like the Tentacle future. They just became the dominant species. We’re still there, they’re trying to figure out how to treat us.

Purple holds a grudge, but he doesn’t want to kill us, he just wants to shrink us out of sight. His awkward son is awkward about us. But most of the other tentacles seem fine with us the way we are. We’re easy enough to catch with a net, we have some entertainment value and the human veterinarian isn’t exactly evil, just clueless.