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Couple of things, first, thank you for the birthday wishes. I survived the festivities. Second, I managed to get about 2/3 of the way through the robot puzzle, but kept getting zapped. So, after about six or seven tries, I gave up. Third, had some problems extracting the file all the way. My fault. After an earlier download I double clicked on the .sav file, and was asked what I wanted to used to open the file. Thinking I might find some useful information I selected Notepad. Bad mistake as Notepad became the default for doing stuff. I know I can open file associations and remove Notepad, but I basically said “enough is enough” and watch the endgame on video. Not as satisfying, but it appeared to me that there wasn’t all that much puzzle solving once you were finished with re robot.

Some other comments. I, too, would have been annoyed with the painting names/database search. Even though all the work was essentially done for via the flashing names, it just seems as if there could have been a less tedious way to get the information. I was actually getting a little irritated watching someone else do the work. I also couldn’t tell if Mia survived. Hope she did.

Even though we don’t know who the killer is, that shouldn’t be the case. After all, Victoria shot him/her, so there ought to be some blood at the crime scene, (both at the bridge and in Mia’s apartment.) At least enough the tell you the sex of the killer.

I liked the game overall. Somebody, I think it was jdawg said he didn’t like the cookie puzzle because they took you out of a game-playing state of mind. I think two puzzles, the lock pick and the robot, were so difficult that they did exactly the same thing.

I do have some other questions. For example: Were crowman and Ackerman the same person? Maybe some others have questions of their own when we get to discussion period. Which I guess will happen when Walas finishes the game.

You can start the discussion period whenever you want, I still don’t know when I will be able to finish the game, probably tomorrow…

chrissie - 05 October 2022 05:19 PM

It’s a shame that you didn’t get to play to the end.

I’m sure that sometime in the near future I will go back and try to solve some puzzles on my own. I know I want to solve the “Key” puzzle. And I might want to find out why, even with a walkthrough, I couldn’t get past the Lock-pick puzzle. And I certainly want to either get the robot save game installed or actually solve it myself.

But I just don’t have it in me to do any of those things now. And I’m not disappointed that I finished the game watching a video. I’m sure you remember all the casual game playthroughs when it was questionable whether purchasing the CE version was worth it. In most instances it was not. You could just watch the bonus material on YouTube and say “Meh” glad I didn’t buy it. But there were exceptions.

This is like that for me. Everything before the start of the robot puzzle is the main game. Everything after is the Bonus. I’m OK with my choice. Will try to rectify things later.

Sorry, I don’t know when I will be able to finish the game.

Please, feel free to start a new CPT.

walas74 - 10 October 2022 01:11 PM

Sorry, I don’t know when I will be able to finish the game.

Please, feel free to start a new CPT.

You need to request that a mod unpin the thread and then Lady K will probably do a recap of the last vote and set the dates for nominations to start/end.

My guess is when you started leading this playthrough, for which we are all grateful, you had, as you said, some serious translation deadlines. And I guess from your last post, you might be a bit behind. Understood. With your permission I’m going to ask Lady K to unpin the thread with the obvious caveats that the thread will always be open for comments and conversation. Again, we are all grateful for your leadership of this playthrough.

And, since you implied permission in you last post, I’m asking a mod to unpin the thread and ask Lady K to open the Time for a New Playthrough for nominations and voting.

Thank you very much, I hope you all enjoyed this CPT although I was terribly busy while playing it.

Haha, thank you, I share, I share!!! (had too much of those lately)

FWIW I just installed Still Life 2. I bought it the same time as I bought SL1. Both were under $1 US, so it’s not like it was a risky bet. I’m fairly certain now that SL2 was the game I didn’t like. Not sure why I thought there were three Still Life games other than I probably conflated Post Mortem into the McPherson trilogy.

Wil play it when I get the chance. It’s supposed to reveal who the killer is. As evidence of my not thinking much of the game, I must have given up on it before the killer was revealed.

I’ll probably use this thread to post my SL2 thoughts rather than start a new thread to discuss a game the very few people like, and one that I may not finish.

chrissie - 11 October 2022 06:58 AM

I’d like to suggest that nominations & voting for a new ‘Time for a new community playthrough’ can begin during the concluding part of a playthrough rather than afterwards.

It avoids the urgency to have the thread unpinned before the anticipated scheduled deadline, which in this case would’ve been tomorrow, & before ALL participants have finished & had time to comment if they wish.

Certainly a proposal that made on the TFANCP thread. I would support it. However, while it might be easy to say “OK. We’re starting Chapter 7. I’ll let Lady K know that it’s OK to start a new nomination/vote.”, it might be more difficult when a game has less structure.