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It’s great to see so many unexpected participants for the playthrough & ALL VERY WELCOME! 

Whether you want to play along at ‘my’ pace, race ahead, re-play and/or add your thoughts I would just ask that you keep comments relevant to the game as far as we’ve got in the playthrough & please to use spoiler tags when appropriate! 

Please feel free to proceed with Day 1 (you can click on the door now if you haven’t already! ) & stop when you get to the end of it (you will know!)
There’s a lot to do but I think it only took me about 2 hours so I thought we could aim to start Day 2 on Wednesday evening?

rtrooney - 27 January 2017 08:50 PM

I know this has been the style of late, but I find the extreme pixelation a real turn off. This is 2016 product, not 1994 product. Don’t know whether this was a conscious design choice or a budget choice, but I don’t like it. Am hoping the story will overcome initial misgivings.

I hope so too Tim but I gleaned from another thread that you’ve got a 28” monitor? which I guess will exaggerate the pixelation? 

Just bought and installed the game. I will join in with my own comments and observations but I really look forward to reading other people’s.

If not today, I hope to have time to finish Day 1 on Tuesday.

I finished Day 1 and liked it a lot. Kathy pretends to be hard and cold but, in actuality, she is an empathetic softie and cares deeply about human suffering. And I love the Katmobile.

So far, the game makes me think of Fargo meeting Gabriel Knight: SotF, which, in my book, is a very good thing. I don’t mind the resolution but the voice overs are only so so, despite being directed by Dave Gilbert, who is normally excellent. The sheriff’s voice stood out for me as being obviously poorly recorded.

The plot is progressing nicely so far. Obviously, the mysterious kid at the cemetery is related to Kathy’s abortion (and what a topic to broach, too!). I just wonder how this relates to the rest of the mystery.

The puzzles so far are on the easy side. I liked the simple light bulb swap (other games would have sent you on a wild goose chase for the spare bulb, KR has you do what you would do in your house) but the convincing of the AFB phone operator made no sense: why would he think that the police needs him to find out Charles Wade’s contact info?

Also, a small Easter Egg from the game developer’s home country: a red herring Dalarna horse in Grandma Rain’s house.

I reinstalled the game and I’ll see if I can keep up in between playing Mass Effect 2 and Monkey Island 2…

It can’t be a coincidence that the first game ‘suggested’ when running the GOG installer is Gabriel Knight 1

I remember that in the beginning I found it hard to relate to Kathy - apparently I wasn’t as much a rebel as some of you… But she grew on me while playing the game. She starts showing more and more of what’s behind that abrasive exterior as the game goes on.

I haven’t had & won’t have too much time until tomorrow but have read all the comments with interest.

rtrooney - 28 January 2017 07:07 PM

I’ve arrived at the sheriff’s office. I’m not sure what you meant when you said that we will know when to stop. Because, if I’ve passed the stopping point, I didn’t have a clue.

I’m sorry Tim I should have been more specific & you have more to do before finishing Day 1. When I said you will know, you just need to keep playing until it comes around to the beginning of Day 2 which will show up similarly to the screenshot I posted for Day 1 - hope that helps!