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Sir Beardalot - 03 October 2016 04:12 PM

Now they have released v1.03 looks like I have another reason to play through it again lol

Heh… I saw v1.03 and decided to give it another try. Started a new game of course and in the first 20 minutes I noticed 5 new details and changes since the preview version.  Music and ambient sounds are back too. One thing which still didn’t work for me is Emma’s HOG game. I don’t get to see what’s inside the caravan.

Karlok - 03 October 2016 06:04 PM

Sir Beardalot - 03 October 2016 04:12 PM

Now they have released v1.03 looks like I have another reason to play through it again lol

Heh… I saw v1.03 and decided to give it another try. Started a new game of course and in the first 20 minutes I noticed 5 new details and changes since the preview version.  Music and ambient sounds are back too. One thing which still didn’t work for me is Emma’s HOG game. I don’t get to see what’s inside the caravan.

Yeah, I was curious if it was ever meant to reward anything or if it was just added as a joke for fun. It obviously doesn’t need to be played to finish the game, but it would have been neat to have expanded on it a little more.

Question: Continued playing today, but something’s bothering me. There was a shopping cart (?) in the pond, which I removed. I hope it shouldn’t be in my inventory, cause it isn’t. What’s the point of removing it when there’s nothing else to click on in the pond?

Sir Beardalot - 03 October 2016 09:03 PM

Karlok - 03 October 2016 06:04 PM

Sir Beardalot - 03 October 2016 04:12 PM

Now they have released v1.03 looks like I have another reason to play through it again lol

Heh… I saw v1.03 and decided to give it another try. Started a new game of course and in the first 20 minutes I noticed 5 new details and changes since the preview version.  Music and ambient sounds are back too. One thing which still didn’t work for me is Emma’s HOG game. I don’t get to see what’s inside the caravan.

Yeah, I was curious if it was ever meant to reward anything or if it was just added as a joke for fun. It obviously doesn’t need to be played to finish the game, but it would have been neat to have expanded on it a little more.

The message at the end did change though, which makes me think we are supposed to see into the caravan.

EDIT: I could have sworn I found two simcards yesterday, one in the tree hole, one in a shoe, and now I have only one.

Karlok - 04 October 2016 06:57 AM

Question: Continued playing today, but something’s bothering me. There was a shopping cart (?) in the pond, which I removed. I hope it shouldn’t be in my inventory, cause it isn’t. What’s the point of removing it when there’s nothing else to click on in the pond?

The pool does become an active hotspot, but you need a specific item first.

There’s an official walkthrough out now at http://shadowtorstudios.co.uk/thedarkpath/BarrowHill-TheDarkPath-Walkthrough.pdf For some reason the site isn’t working for me I keep getting a http 404 error not found. Seems a few others are getting the same error while some are able to access the site?! If anyone here is able to access it could someone please send me the pdf! I’ve already beat the game but would like to see if I missed anything.

edit: No need, a nice fella has posted it on Gameboomers. To anyone having a prob with the main site here is alternative access http://www.gameboomers.com/wtcheats/pcBb/BarrowHillDarkPathOfficial/BarrowHill2official.htm

I enjoyed the game too, although not as much as you, tsa, and not as much as Barrow Hill 1, which I replayed first. I loved exploring, the puzzles were okay and the music was great. I liked the FMV parts, but why show us only the girls’ eyes on the mobile phone? Weird. I agree that the so-called “photos” didn’t do the characters justice. They didn’t serve any purpose that I can see and I wonder why any developer would choose to use both FMV and drawn characters. (Happened in Myst 5 too, Yeisha was also shown in FMV on a monitor.) Takes me right out of my nice immersion. Worse, Ollie looked and sounded like an 8-year-old, certainly not like the college boy he’s supposed to be. Hearing him whine on the phone made me cringe. Bad voiceacting on the part of Boakes, but Ollie’s lines were not convincing either. Both Matt Clarke and Jonathan Boakes are very good at creating atmosphere, but their writing and storylines are so-so. The whole idea of “we don’t know what happened ten years ago and there’s been a cover-up” was silly to begin with. We do know exactly what happened, Mia knows too. Her attempts to contact Ben have nothing to do with Baibin’s story.

How about the other posters in this thread? How did you like the game?

Karlok and Tsa pretty much said everything I have to say about it. I probably just enjoyed it a little bit more than most due to the nostalgia of returning to Barrow Hill literally 10 yrs later. I just wish they had worked out all the bugs before releasing it. It would have been much more enjoyable not having to do the same parts over and over with every new version. Speaking of version, 1.05 is out now.