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chrissie - 23 June 2014 12:48 PM

...love the snippets of info that appear on screen but they flash too quickly for me to read some of them completely!

They go by way too quickly for me. I can’t read a complete sentence in a split second. I’m lucky if I can read two words of it. I suppose my computer is faster than the game was made for and the screens load too fast to keep the “snippets” on screen. I wonder if there is a file where I could read the “snippets” outside of the game.

Okay, I’ve finished chapter 1.  Here are random my thoughts so far.

- Sam’s voice actress annoys me at times.  She delivers some lines REALLY weirdly, like she has no idea of the context of her sentence.  Even if it’s really obvious.  She seemed to get somewhat better as it went along though.

- Also Harvey’s voice actor sounds like he’s doing a bad Woody Allen impersonation.  But besides those two, everyone has been fine so far.

- Pretty good setup for the plot.  The mysterious experiment and Sam secretly pretending to be someone else are good hooks to get your interest.  Seems to be better at that than the beginning of Moebius was.

I’ve watched the opening cut scene a few times now. Spoilers if you haven’t played Chapter 1 yet.

There’s a face that appears in the clouds right near the beginning. A symbol of Fate, maybe? That’s before the Oxford/London sign gets blown in the wrong direction. Then the motorcycle breaks down. It’s almost as if a “presence” is steering Sam toward Dread Hill House. I agree that the young woman applying for the job is so nervous that it wouldn’t take much to make her give up. I’ve watched the thing that scares her off, and it really does look like a bat just at first—it has a bat shape and it flies back and forth like a bat might. Then it seems to morph into a (plastic garbage?) bag at the moment right before it hits the women in the face. It falls to the ground as she runs away, and is still there on the step when Sam approaches.

Similarities to the cut scene during the experiment—the wind that comes from out of nowhere and seems to have a purpose, and a lone individual caught up in it. Differences: the second cut scene doesn’t have a face in the clouds beforehand, what it accomplishes is far more intricate, and it seems much more dangerous than the first incident, with the young man caught in it nearly blinded. The first wind seemed to have a purpose (scaring away the young woman). The second wind’s purpose is still a mystery.

Like chrissie, I’m intrigued by the necklace. We know that Sam is short of money, and yet at a jumble sale she found a necklace of the same quality as (and identical to)  one that Dr. Styles’ mother used to wear. This seems to reassure Styles about Sam.

I enjoyed the Christmas short story. I chuckled at the bit where Sam is concerned that her tattoos and piercings might make her seem odd to the family she was planning to visit. Given the current popularity of tattoos and piercings, they now would probably make her fit right in!

Becky - 24 June 2014 07:48 AM

I’ve watched the opening cut scene a few times now. Spoilers if you haven’t played Chapter 1 yet.

There’s a face that appears in the clouds right near the beginning. A symbol of Fate, maybe? That’s before the Oxford/London sign gets blown in the wrong direction. Then the motorcycle breaks down. It’s almost as if a “presence” is steering Sam toward Dread Hill House. I agree that the young woman applying for the job is so nervous that it wouldn’t take much to make her give up. I’ve watched the thing that scares her off, and it really does look like a bat just at first—it has a bat shape and it flies back and forth like a bat might. Then it seems to morph into a (plastic garbage?) bag at the moment right before it hits the women in the face. It falls to the ground as she runs away, and is still there on the step when Sam approaches.

I know what you mean Becky about the face in the clouds & perhaps being the symbol of Fate steering Sam in the direction of Dread Hill House & also possibly for scaring the young woman away.

I watched the opening a few times & couldn’t really see that possibly the flying thing was a plastic bag to start with as just after hitting her in the face an ‘evil’ face seems to briefly appear behind her to make it look like she’s being whisked away. But on second thoughts yes, I think it was possibly a very clever piece of animation that perfectly illustrated how your eyes can play tricks on you in the dark & the plastic bag flying around on a windy dark night was misinterpreted as something else thus scaring the woman away back into the cab. 

chrissie - 24 June 2014 12:23 PM

Becky - 24 June 2014 07:48 AM

There’s a face that appears in the clouds right near the beginning. A symbol of Fate, maybe? That’s before the Oxford/London sign gets blown in the wrong direction. Then the motorcycle breaks down. It’s almost as if a “presence” is steering Sam toward Dread Hill House. I agree that the young woman applying for the job is so nervous that it wouldn’t take much to make her give up. I’ve watched the thing that scares her off, and it really does look like a bat just at first—it has a bat shape and it flies back and forth like a bat might. Then it seems to morph into a (plastic garbage?) bag at the moment right before it hits the women in the face. It falls to the ground as she runs away, and is still there on the step when Sam approaches.

I watched the opening a few times & couldn’t really see that possibly the flying thing was a plastic bag to start with as just after hitting her in the face an ‘evil’ face seems to briefly appear behind her to make it look like she’s being whisked away. But on second thoughts yes, I think it was possibly a very clever piece of animation that perfectly illustrated how your eyes can play tricks on you in the dark & the plastic bag flying around on a windy dark night was misinterpreted as something else thus scaring the woman away back into the cab.

I watched the opening again and I guess the object does settle down to be a plastic bag on the steps toward the end of its attack. It’s interesting to think the plastic bag could have been animated and made to attack the woman by some mysterious force. I don’t know what to make of the “face” in the clouds. It’s more like the “face” you see on a full moon than a real face.

I think it may be an excited Houdini happy to leave the backpack prison!

But seriously, I think it’s a random object drifting by the wind

crabapple - 24 June 2014 12:55 PM

I watched the opening again and I guess the object does settle down to be a plastic bag on the steps toward the end of its attack. It’s interesting to think the plastic bag could have been animated and made to attack the woman by some mysterious force. I don’t know what to make of the “face” in the clouds. It’s more like the “face” you see on a full moon than a real face.

I don’t think the plastic bag was animated & attacked the woman - it just seemed like that flying around in the wind!

Becky - 24 June 2014 07:48 AM

But on second thoughts yes, I think it was possibly a very clever piece of animation that perfectly illustrated how your eyes can play tricks on you in the dark & the plastic bag flying around on a windy dark night was misinterpreted as something else thus scaring the woman away back into the cab.

Yes, exactly. This is how I interpret it.

OK people, the waiting is over! Time to begin the second chapter!! Let’s go and find out what happened to the Horsepath Track that we imagined of in the experiment, more magic tricks to fool gullible victims, more laws to break and, most of all, more Daedalus Treasure Hunt!!
You have until 1/7/14 to finish the second chapter.

It is perhaps the first time in an AG community playthrough that so many of the participants actually replay the game. Gives it a special touch and I like it! 
(Also congratulations to all. No spoiler thus far…)

Until then, let’s enjoy the view….

Mikekelly - 24 June 2014 07:55 PM

A great game - I feel bad waiting so long to play it and them only paying 4 dollars for it. I’d have bought a collector’s edition at launch if I had it to do over again.

Well I paid over $40 for it when it first came out and was not able to play it due to the copy protection. The NoCD that was available didn’t work with my version of the game. Later I repurchased a DRM-free version from ShinyLoot for $9.99 which works fine. So don’t feel too bad about only paying $4 for it. They cheated other buyers—at least the publisher of the boxed version did.