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I decided to join you also. I played i think 3 hours total so far last days and still in first chapter. Not sure how much time i got though so no need to wait.

So far i m not that impressed with the game. Samuel speaks robotic like the actor reading from a script. Also as others have said the game is pretty linear as you need to solve the puzzles in order. I enjoyed a puzzle to get a picture together but other than that gameplay just asks to go around the castle, do errands and keep exhausting the dialogs.

Anyway is too soon and maybe i end up liking it.

Intense Degree - 30 March 2023 03:25 AM

Good Question!

I’d like to get Chapter 3 underway today, but I recognise that there are a fair few people some way behind and these chapters are all pretty long.

Yes, I am quite behind (just starting at chapter 2), but don’t wait for me!

Intense Degree - 31 March 2023 04:09 AM

…..The reassembling the letter puzzle is basically a duplicate of the photo puzzle but oddly easier this time around. For me personally I felt fine with doing the same thing again, possibly because I enjoyed the first one.

I enjoyed those puzzles too but I always think it’s a mistake for a developer to include similar ones more than once as it can put players off who really don’t like them!

Intense Degree - 31 March 2023 04:09 AM

…..I always have the feeling that though the game is set in England, it doesn’t feel that English to me at all. The castle itself, the town, the wolves give more of a gothic eastern European feel to me….. Ultimately, does that matter? Not for me.

I agree that the game doesn’t feel English although it is apparently set in Suffolk.
I’ve never been to that county but I’ve been to a few villages/small towns so the town possibly fits but not the castle.
The game was developed by a Czech company which would explain the eastern European feel & no, it doesn’t matter to me!
It also doesn’t feel like it’s set in 1981! 

I am stuck in chapter 2! I cannot enter the church.
I have the developed photos, I have received the key and checked the garbage, I puzzled the letter , but the gravedigger sits in the pub and does not open the church.

In my inventory, the letter that I puzzled together is still shown as pieces; maybe that’s the cause. I tried to puzzle it together a couple of times, but that does not help.
Anybody any ideas?

The Steam discussion gives a link to savefiles, but my PC sees them as a risk, and so do I :-)

Hi sylv I think the problem is the letter still being in pieces. It should once all the pieces are in place stay completed & go into the inventory. I found the picture puzzle very picky needing the pieces to be exactly placed so maybe it’s worth trying this one again?

Mystery Manor have some game saves in the ‘Attic’ but unfortunately not for this specific puzzle.

It’s quite clear when the game registers the parts of the letter being placed correctly. I deliberately dropped the individual parts a tiny bit “off”, which made the game kind of “clicking” them in place. Hope that makes sense.

Hi
I finished ch. 2. I purposely avoided the thread until I finished it, but now I see that I should’ve checked in. My bad! I will do so from now on, if I’m running late, although my response will always be - don’t wait up for me. I don’t want to slow down the pace for everybody.

I’m definitely enjoying the unfolding of the story as it gets progressively darker and tangled. From my understanding Samuel is now either has to potentially be that descendant that will help to bring Mordred’s prophecy to life OR stop the curse? At least that’s the impression that I got. I kinda like that he doesn’t have much quibbles on which direction to go with - I’d spend time deliberating, but he’s off to new things immediately.

I liked the puzzles, although none of them difficult, I noticed that I miss these kind of knobs/levers/cables etc. puzzles that we get less and less in modern adventures, but were the usual fare in mid-2000s, we already touched on that before.

I didn’t mind the mine sequence as to why it is even there - the game might explain that later, but I did find it really back-and-forth heavy, so the puzzle element did feel a little filler-ish, not necessarily the section itself. I also didn’t like the ending of that. Not just because I didn’t get it right quite a few times (despite Intense Degree warning in the pre-chapter section), but I also because in the similar situation I’d do my best to scare the animal away first, before just putting a round directly in its head. I do see the proximity and unexpectedness of the encounter might not make it an option, arguably. But it left a very bad aftertaste in my mouth. Wolves aren’t grizzlies - they generally don’t attack like a steam train

chrissie - 24 March 2023 03:12 PM

I did wonder though where the mine cart went?

That’s the first thing I went and checked on Still don’t know.

I really like that we start next chapter at the entrance of another beautiful mansion - very promising.

I’d say game gets progressively better. I can see the “age showing”, sure, but I also can see how it made so many of our lists. So far my main complain is over-reliance on some odd dialogue with seemingly random person to progress the entire game forward, and the snail walking pace with glitching double-click function that does nothing to alleviate the wait from going through empty side-scrolling screen in the church, for example, or stops mattering all that much when you constantly traverse through 20+ screens… These are first world adventure problems, though, so I’m looking forward to ch.3!

Managed to get some time to play and finished chapter 2. A big improvement over first one. Many puzzles that are more involved. Also a great deal of the story. i didnt have problems with the puzzles except missing a hotpoint in the middle of the chapter and also checking internet for one of the riddles.

I liked the mine part and the puzzles there. I shot the lock after right clicking it but by now i right click everything in the game. But then i died to the wolf once when i left click it. Thing is i wouldnt except for the game to let me harm the animal but this is an old game and it was a wild wolf anyway. Still you dont see that too often in modern adventures. There is usually a peaceful way to progress.

Time to move on to chapter 3 now and the change of scenery is refreshing. I m happy that i dont have to visit same areas for this chapter.

chrissie - 02 April 2023 11:25 AM

Hi sylv I think the problem is the letter still being in pieces. It should once all the pieces are in place stay completed & go into the inventory. I found the picture puzzle very picky needing the pieces to be exactly placed so maybe it’s worth trying this one again?

Thanks, I’ll try again :-)