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Okay, I have still to get around to really playing it (I started a second playthrough about a month back but stopped really early) but I just had to say that Sam’s earing habits are crazy! I mean, just look at her go! Incredible speed, and she’s talking at the same time. The superspeed clinking of the cutllery is really the icing on the cake.

Almost gives me the creeps, the scenes where she’s eating…

Anyway, need to get back to playing it, to get to discuss the finer details (like whether I consider something a plothole or not).

I’m guessing I’m the only one with an XBox version? The interface is somewhat bizarre

Hi All,

Wasn’t sure about this game (I never got on with GK) but thought I’d give it a go and see. Just finished chapter 1, not too bad so far.

Liking the animated cut scenes, think I would have preferred the in game graphics to be more of a similar style, just a bit too different for my liking. Puzzles are ok if a bit linear, hoping they get more complex as the game progresses. The old hide it behind a door adventure game staple (red box on tower), gets me every time! Don’t mind the magic tricks, sure there was a mistake in one of them, will have to go back and check.

Cheers
Nod

I suspect that Sam can get away with her imposture because she’s an American. She’s not that much more of a mismatch for Oxford than Harvey seems to be, for example. Elite universities want a mix of students—they want students from all over the world, with different interests, backgrounds and talents. They also want individuals who have overcome obstacles and have plenty of initiative. Sam would need good grades and test scores to prove she could handle the academics, but after that, her lifestory of being an orphan and in foster care would (frankly) have looked great on an application to Oxford. (Am I being too cynical here?) That said, Helena is highly suspicious of Sam at first, and rightly so. Helena seems to be the student with the most practical intelligence, despite her world-weary posturing.

Does anybody else think that, from what we’ve seen so far, Sam understands human nature much better than Styles does? Despite his years of study?

I’m enjoying the combination of uncovering the mysteries at Dread Hill House combined with the treasure hunt “game.” Should we assume that Mephistopheles placed many of the clues around Oxford in response to Sam’s interest?

Finished the second chapter.
Story is ok, the development is predictable so far. I agree with that the whole Sam posing as a student is a bit forced nobody finding out. Liked the bit of fleshing out the students personality.

Puzzles are easy - magic tricks are nice but they are basically following a set of instructions, no thinking required, just setting up a trick that involved buying stuff from the magic store. I hope things get more complex for the magic tricks in the future.The treasure hunt has a good moment at the end because getting the password Judas actually required a little outside thinking while the rest of it was just following the hotpots.

I’m not liking the music, the piano tune was decent at first but now I find very repetitive playing over and over again.

I seem to have hit a pretty serious bug!

I’ve got 100% for all the progress bars in Chapter 2, however I’m not being forwarded onto Chapter 3? I’ve seen the Lambs club video but still stuck wandering about with nothing else to do. Eventually looked online to see what I was missing but seems others have had the same problem with only solution to go back to a previous save. Apparently this can happen if you don’t do everything in the expected ‘correct’ order!

I wasn’t particularly enjoying this game much so don’t think I’ll bother. Good luck to everyone else, hope no-one else hits similar bugs.

Cheers
Nod

Still have to finish the chapter, but just a few thoughts… I had forgotten about the “different” puzzles, like the sort-of dialogue puzzle in getting the student card to the library. It’s a nice change from most games that just focus on stuff that is fundamentally always the same, especially when it’s naturally tied to the game-world (instead of, like finding a safe you need to open, with some bizarre logic puzzle lock). This is what I really like in JJ games, even though Moebius was kind of lacking. It isn’t as good here as GK, but still a refreshing change.

Someone said they didn’t like the music but I’m really enjoying it.

The magic stuff indeed isn’t what it could be, luckily Jane said that for GM2 she’ll revamp it to something more interactive or such (~interesting).

Noddy - 30 June 2014 05:54 AM

I wasn’t particularly enjoying this game much so don’t think I’ll bother. Good luck to everyone else, hope no-one else hits similar bugs.

Eh, too bad. I do however find that the game gets better as it goes along. If anyone is on the edge, I’d urge them to keep going, as I feel that things only start getting interesting, and tied together, later.

Well, here we are. Most of us finishhed chapter 2 and are ready to proceed. How about something different? In chapter 3 we take control of the good doctor. It will give us some good background info, and more character development from his side. You have until 8th of July (I heard some complaints from some participants on the other side of the Atlantic ). It is a smaller chapter and will give a chance for everyone who stayed behind to catch up.

Why I don’t have such a view in my office? It’s unfair!

P.S. I really love the game’s soundtrack. I find it fitting and emotional. Not in my top-10, but a very successful one nevertheless.

P.S.2 I was really unaware of the bug that doesn’t allow players to continue to chapter 3. Up to now, no fixing patch was released. If the problem can be sold by loading a save game, it is easy for me to send a save file just before the end of chapter 2 to everyone interested. Just PM me. Hope we won’t find more of those.

P.S.3 In some other time I would probably joke about diego and his infamous tradition about comumunity playthroughs, but a lightning-burned motherboard is no easy issue. Keep up man.