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Adventure Game Scene of the Day — Sunday 30 November 2014
You’re at the exclusive Vito Brevis party in Mode (1996), a bizarre, pretentious fashion and art show with guests who want to get stoned, to get laid* and to get lucky. Cool! Dark, sinister Vito knows there is more to life than being a fashion designer. To make it the most memorable of all time, Vito announced that this party would close with his final performance. There’s only one rule: You have to wear your Dome pin at all times. But you were not invited and party crashers don’t have a Dome pin.
What Mode are you in?
You’re AFGNCAAP, no voice, no gender, no face. But you can communicate with people through the red-blue-green mood bar. If they ask you a polite question and you respond with red, they might get angry. You get the idea. Mode is an interactive FMV story with only one puzzle: the secret of the Mode Machine. But there are many other secrets to unravel. And many different endings. I liked the game a lot fifteen years ago. Not your average cookie-cutter.
The arrogant and dangerous guy in the screenshot is Riel. He’s Vito’s right hand and he could give you a Dome pin if you play it right. Or not. It is possible to see Vito’s final performance without wearing a Dome pin.
I think you’re my enemy. That’s okay, you can judge someone by their enemies. And believe me… I’m the very best.
*I had “sex” with four different people. 
Two male, two female. Not in the same playthrough though.
- Florence
A mood bar for dialogue puzzles? Sounds original!
Is that bar split in a couple of colours that each have a specific meaning or is it more like a sliding scale between angry and happy?
Now playing: Blade Runner (post-CPT) | The Witcher: Enhance Edition (on hold) | Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (on hold) | Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy (3DS)
Recently finished: Whispers of a Machine (CPT) - 4/5 | Beneath a Steel Sky (CPT) - 3/5 | 3 in Three - 3.5/5 | Puzzle Gallery: At the Carnival - 2.5/5 | The Fool’s Errand (replay) - 3.5/5 | The Dig (replay) - 4.5/5 | Return of the Obra Dinn (CPT) - 4/5 | Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity - 3.5/5 | League of Light: The Game (CCPT) - 3/5 | realMyst: Masterpiece Edition - 2.5/5 | Contradiction - 3/5 | Tex Murphy: Mean Streets - 2/5 | The Last Express - 3.5/5 | South Park: The Fractured But Whole - 4/5 | Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (replay, CPT) - 5/5
A mood bar for dialogue puzzles? Sounds original!
It was original in 1996. The whole game was a novel experience. I don’t know if it would stand the test of time.
Is that bar split in a couple of colours that each have a specific meaning or is it more like a sliding scale between angry and happy?
No specific meaning and no sliding scale. Three modes: Negative - neutral - positive. Sometimes that may mean happy or angry, depends on what the other party says.
- Florence
No specific meaning and no sliding scale. Three modes: Negative - neutral - positive. Sometimes that may mean happy or angry, depends on what the other party says.
Darn, and it sounded so promising… 
So it’s basically trial-and-error gameplay?
Now playing: Blade Runner (post-CPT) | The Witcher: Enhance Edition (on hold) | Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (on hold) | Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy (3DS)
Recently finished: Whispers of a Machine (CPT) - 4/5 | Beneath a Steel Sky (CPT) - 3/5 | 3 in Three - 3.5/5 | Puzzle Gallery: At the Carnival - 2.5/5 | The Fool’s Errand (replay) - 3.5/5 | The Dig (replay) - 4.5/5 | Return of the Obra Dinn (CPT) - 4/5 | Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity - 3.5/5 | League of Light: The Game (CCPT) - 3/5 | realMyst: Masterpiece Edition - 2.5/5 | Contradiction - 3/5 | Tex Murphy: Mean Streets - 2/5 | The Last Express - 3.5/5 | South Park: The Fractured But Whole - 4/5 | Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (replay, CPT) - 5/5
What Mode are you in?
Grumpy Lousy mode, as usual.
The human race is doomed to progress.
Tony Clifton
Darn, and it sounded so promising…
So it’s basically trial-and-error gameplay?
Yes and no. It’s a bit like In the 1st Degree where you must pry information from witnesses. Each witness needs a different approach, but it takes a lot of trial-and-error too.
What Mode are you in?
GrumpyLousy mode, as usual.
I know. Your tongue speaks volumes.
- Florence
I wish I’d had a PC in 1996 as I certainly would have given the game a shot to remind me of some of the many parties I’d been to in previous years just because of the various ‘carrying-ons’ & the need to avoid certain characters!
Please do tell us all about those wild parties you’ve been to, Chrissie! 
- Florence
Please do tell us all about those wild parties you’ve been to, Chrissie!
Unfortunately it would take several posts just to tell you Karlok - I’ll be quite honest in that I’m open-minded in what other people choose to do openly but it’s not my scene - I’m private!
Rats! 
Okay, be that way, party pooper! 
- Florence
Rats!
Okay, be that way, party pooper!
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