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Good morning Dan.

I too have the original boxed version. I can't remember if I played it or not. There is a manual on Steam's page. I don't know if this helps flotsam, does it give you what is needed to run the game without question

Thanks for look flotsam and thank you Drac

Why use all the stairs when you can use… just enough?

Good morning manXman.

great finish!

One of my all time favorite movie quotes OldBroad :yes:

Good morning everyone. Proceedure was textbook and couldn't have gone better...no driving today but lots of short walks. So will be taking short walks every hour today and then tomorrow back to walking Max in the park and more short walks. And best of all I can enjoy bagels and WADDB all day today! We'll have a few days of normal winter weater too Draclvr and Connie. Fogfighter, I would say you should wear what you like to wear. We are all foggy this morning too Gerry. Yes indeed OldBroad and Judith, there's nothing like a fresh blanket of snow where it feels like the world hit the mute button overnight--a white quilt that softens rooftops, swallows fences, and rounds every sharp edge into gentle curves. Hope the new motherboard cures all ills Hagatha!

Hump Day 🐪!!

Have a wonderful day everyone

Thank you flotsam (and Draclvr) 😬

Previously released as The Dark Eye in 1996, this is a self described piece of "narrative driven exploration," involving stop-motion puppetry and video collage that will take you literally inside three Poe tales.

In each of the tales you get to play both the protagonist and the victim, either sequentially or by jumping from one character to the other at certain moments. Flickering eyes are the giveaway, and whilst I have yet to take up that opportunity in this first 60 minutes, I remember it as an intriguing aspect when I played the original. I intend to give it a go once I proceed further.

You inhabit each of two characters in the particular tale, and progress by finding and engaging with the relevant hotspots. There is no puzzling as such, the challenge being to do what is required to progress the proceedings. You might engage with other characters, pick up an item here or there, but it's fundamentally about the storytelling.

Whilst it's all point and click, the nuances of how the experience works is a little opaque, but you can consider that part of the puzzling. Or you can get the 'survival guide' from your original boxed version (a very good box it is too) and review how things work. It relevantly explains the Soul Jump (the flickering eyes), the various versions of the Hand of Fate cursor (including the little side to side caress that is essential at times) and how the phrenology map works. It doesn't tell you everything though, not least of all that when the 'waking world' goes blue, you are looking for a reflection to trigger the alternative Poe reality.

As I said, you can consider how the worlds work to be part of the challenge, but I do think the availability of the manual somewhere would be helpful.

It looks surrealistically interesting, even given its age, and the sounds and the voice acting are rather good (did I mention narration is by Wiliam S Burroughs?). Animations can take a little while to trigger so be patient. The game autosaves exclusively, and I have yet to fathom its intricacies.

That is largely because of a number of lock-ups that required me to control-alt-delete to overcome, which tended to happen when I wanted to save and exit (double click Esc). Half the time I ended up with a black screen of death. More frustratingly, the load screen on activating the second character in the first tale refuses to move on, in effect preventing further progress. I might be able to work around it by replaying the previous character and 'soul jumping' into this one, but having gained early access I am hopeful that this will be sorted by the makers somehow. Having bricked up Fortunato, I am keen to get his perspective.

Dream Day Wedding Bella Italia was not offered in the Bundle or I would have bought it. I bought all 6 that were.

Marian, in the Gaslamp games there are those plaster tiles. Is there some way to break or move those? This is what I don't like about the game (unless I am not doing something right). There are matches that need to be made that are trapped inside of plaster tiles and blank areas that don't have tiles so you can't move things there but the matches that need to be made have nothing to match and nowhere to move at all. I hope I am explaining that right enough that you can understand what I mean. That forces you to use a power up tool which doesn't seem fair to me. I feel the tools are to help you in certain situations, not to be the only way to play the game. I had the tutorial on but didn't see anything about those plaster tiles and I cannot see a way to open the tutorial to look at it.

Thanks Marian!

I think they will be right up your street, hagatha!😊

Hi Uncle Reg, I can't find any concrete information about this for you. I have a feeling, though, from reading comments in the Steam forum for the game, that it uses save points.

Maybe someone else here will know more.

Good one.

Kudos, Sir Worrier!