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Welcome to the last chapter!!! Last time, we freed the Magician of Mousewood, captured the Consortium Squamada, learned about our father, finished our training and open the portal to the Clearing of the First Tree, following Zaroff to the world of Dreams. It is time to move on!! To finally face the real threat, find answers to the mysteries and save everyone.

No time limits!! Just finish the game!! Dont forget to say everyone goodbye in Mousewood during the credits.

Until then, may you can always sleep as easilly as the Magician of Mousewood. The dood LITERALLY started snoring with his eyes open.

Some memorable moments from the last time:

“Too long you were gone… too late for dinner… too late for a good night kiss… too late for school… too late for a farewell….”

Saving the Magician of Mousewood. It was not even the first time we hurt the poor guy in the game btw.

Learning the truth.

Opening the portal for the path to the Clearing of the First Tree.

I’m still stuck on the world between worlds with the huge raven.  The puzzles seems to have gotten a little more confounding here in the last part of the game.  And I’m afraid my patience is running a little thin thanks to Talos 2 just being released (thanks for understanding Sefir!)

I have to say a lot of the turns the narrative has taken seem to come out of left field.  Like, why does the father character show up when there’s no set up for the relationship with Jerry in the beginning?  And who is this mystery villain Zarloff?  Fingers still crossed for a reasonable payoff here.

Keybordz - 08 November 2023 10:46 AM

I’m still stuck on the world between worlds with the huge raven.  The puzzles seems to have gotten a little more confounding here in the last part of the game.  And I’m afraid my patience is running a little thin thanks to Talos 2 just being released (thanks for understanding Sefir!)

It is the last part of the game I am sure you can do it. In any case if you need a tip or two, we are all here to help.

Keybordz - 08 November 2023 10:46 AM

I have to say a lot of the turns the narrative has taken seem to come out of left field.  Like, why does the father character show up when there’s no set up for the relationship with Jerry in the beginning?  And who is this mystery villain Zaroff?  Fingers still crossed for a reasonable payoff here.

While the clear explanations are left for the last chapters, there are hints for all these within the entirety of the game. We will speak about it after most people have finished the game, I am sure.

Some things regarding the last chapter, the ending and the game in general.

I also consider the last chapter by far the best in the game. All 4 challenges on stage from Zaroff, as parodies of the 4 worlds we visited were like a twisted sum up of our adventure that we had to cleanse, one by one. The crowd’s reactions made it all the better, alongside favorite characters, like Plato, the giant toad, The Leprechaun, Kitsune and the Guardian. The humor was pretty good too. I believe everyone was expecting Zaroff to be some kind of grandioze villain, probably equally spooky to the lizards. No one expected him to be a looney. Strangely, it fit the bill. The final battle against him was a bit too simple for my taste, but eh, can’t have it all. .

Regarding the story: While I do liked it, it felt like it was part of a bigger story. I could easily see an expansion where we are young Zaroff, or even Marquis in that era and see their adventures and how they became corrupted. It is just a better storytelling method than just getting a narration sum-up explanation from the Magician of Mousewood (whom, again, I consider one of my favorite characters in the game), which can be perceived as a bit “cheap” by some people. Even so, everything was wrapped up nicely in a positive manner. A rare occurrance in Daedelic Games, where bleak, sad or semi-successful for the protagonsit endings are the norm (TWW, Edna&Harvey;, Anna’s Quest, etc) and I liked it.

Regarding our father. I get it. The tree’s vision of Marquis entered our world (in literally the game’s prologue) and Jerry’s father had to go along with all the memories of him. WHY TAKE THE POOR PUG TOO??? Trully, the one unspoken victim of the story.

Speaking of the Marquis, can we just talk about how awesome his “corrupted” design was? With the eyepatch, the mask, the armor and the double swords, he was more like a badass techno-samurai than a pancy treewalker magician and I would be very interested to have more interactions with this particular version of him.

walas74 - 10 November 2023 01:13 AM

For now, I will only say this was the adventure game with more adorable secondary characters I have ever played (well, in a hard competition against Grim Fandango and The Longest Journey).

And just for that, but not only, it will always have a place in my heart…

Glad you liked it!! It does have its fare share of great secondary characters, doesnt it? Both the cute “comiclike” design, the atmosphere and most of all, the voice actings, where top-notch. Daedelic was a beast back then….

Doom - 10 November 2023 01:31 PM

They actually made the hint spell useful, woo-hoo!

Took me about half an hour of pointless wandering to realize what I had to do.

Doom - 10 November 2023 01:31 PM

Thank you, Sefir, and everyone for the playthrough! This was one of the best games from the Daedalic catalogue and I’m glad I finally finished it.

Thanks for the nice words. It was a pleasure to revisit such a beautiful game. I am very happy that this AGCP went smoothly and successfully for most.

Just wanted to say that I did finally finish over the weekend

The final act was certainly engaging and I’m pleased that I sussed out the solutions to each of the 4 acts without too much (ahem) hair-pulling.

Say, did anybody else think the voice of the whale in Act 4 sounded a little like Patrick Stewart?

Although I still have my issues with the narrative, I applaud the developer for achieving a nice balance between charm and sophistication.  I so enjoyed interacting with all the various critters of Mousewood, easily the best part of the game for me.  Even moreso now, the experience leaves me with more echoes to the film The Mouse And His Child as I mentioned previously, which also presents a allegorical, somewhat surreal tale with a similar cast of animated animal characters.

Thanks again Sefir for your enthusiastic guidance

Now onto finishing Talos 2 (strongly recommended!)

Lady Kestrel - 16 November 2023 08:45 PM

I’ve spent a long time trying to catch the fortune teller lizard, with no luck.  I put the label on the white ball, but when I click it on the drum hatch while the lizard is after Buzzy, it either doesn’t register or it triggers the same “teller of lies” dialogue.  I checked a walkthrough, and I seem to have the right steps.  Any suggestions before I’m completely bald?

Honestly, it should work. Is the hatch open though? If not, then that is the problem. You need to make the lizard basically have the hatch open (catch him monologuing with the black ball in his hands) AND have him after Buzzy so that you can put the white ball back to the hatch.