Finished my re-play of The Black Mirror and thoroughly enjoyed it Now about to start a re-play of The Black Mirror 2

Sounds good!

Yeah !! 😄

Now you have me replaying game 1. I am off to a bad start though, already stuck. (I will post in the hints section if I need to.) I cannot open the drawer in my room and I cannot see the too high door frame.

Winfrey .. Just a tip ..

Something I kept forgetting to do was click my R Mouse button on things

Did you mean oldbroad Mad?

Thanks for that tip because I think I thought of trying that but didn't or maybe where I tried it there was nothing to see.

Or are you in a wrong subject here?

Must be the birthday thing.

Definitely left AND right-click on everything; otherwise, you will find yourself stuck at several points throughout the game.

Sorry oldbroad. Yes. I was intending the "tip" for you

[ But blaming the "birthday thing" sounds like a good excuse - even if a naughty one - for the lapse ]

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Hi Marian

Mad.

Thank you Mad and Marian. I will start to right click!

Oldbroad and Marian

I'm replaying the game now too.

Speaking of right-clicking, I just discovered something that I don't remember from previous plays. On the Save Game screen there are 24 save game slots, but you can only see 8 of them at any one time. If you click the up or down arrows it will scroll up or down one slot at a time, but if you right-click the arrows, it will scroll up or down a whole page (8 slots) at a time. Every time you open the Save Game screen, it always starts at the first 8 slots, so if you're using save games near the bottom of the 24 slots, this cane save a lot of clicks.

I don't know why I didn't re-read the game booklet. Then I would have known about the right clicking.

Uncle Reg - only 24 save slots??? I've already used 6 I think and I'm still at the beginning of the game.

Saves can be overwritten. I found I managed fine using and then gradually overwriting my saves

I forgot to mention that this right-click feature also works on the Load Game screen.


I went back and read the manual (which is supplied as a PDF file in the GOG version), and while it amply covers the use of right-clicking during gameplay and in the inventory, there was no mention of using it in the Save Game and Load Game screens.


The game is divided into chapters (I think I remember that there were 6 chapters in all), so that once you advance to a new chapter, you can safely overwrite the saves for the previous chapter(s). That would effectively give you 24 saves for each chapter. I'm on Chapter 4 now, and the 24 slots have been adequate for me.

I'm no stranger to overwriting saves. I just didn't realize there were only 24 though.

I'm playing the GOG version but looked at the manual that came with my old disc. I never think to look for manuals with the downloads for some reason.

I'm off work tomorrow so, hopefully, progress will be made!

I don't either. I always used to look at the paper manuals back when we had physical releases.

I seldom look at them for Adventure games .... Unless I get stuck in some way .... And then of course I'm kicking myself for not having looked !!

I just discovered another place where right-click works. It's on the scroll arrows at the left or right of the inventory bar. If you right-click the left arrow it will move the inventory items so that the first inventory item is on the left side of the bar, and right-clicking the right arrow will move the items so that the last item is on the right side of the bar.

Thanks for the info, Uncle Reg

I'm replaying this game now as well. Thorsgoats and I love to quote these lines - "I think I will go now." "I'll return to my work." Samuel and Bates say these lines so many times, they seem to take up half of the game.

Really fantastic game, of course. I haven't gotten to the slider puzzle yet, but as I know the trick to solving it, I've never needed a saved game for it. I do, however, keep saved games for two of the very long waits after a couple of characters tell Samuel to come back later. I remember the second one taking about 40-45 minutes, with nothing to do in the meantime but run around to all the areas several times and re-read some of the family history just to pass the time.

I've just gotten to the part where (very mild spoilers for the entire trilogy)

The original is still definitely my favorite, though I loved the sequels as well. I'm still avoiding the newest game, as I'm hoping a patch to fix the controls will be released at some point. If not, I'll power through it one of these days.

Hi fellow Boomers,
i'm also re-playing BM1, but this time it's the GOG version, even though I still have my old Boxed version. Purchasing the game from GOG cost me $9.99.I had missed the $4.99 sale, but no big deal. Got past the "Torn Photo"
puzzle by using the savegame. I understand that some other puzzles are more difficult than the torn photo. Haven't gotten to these yet, and I'm hoping there will be more savegames available for the game. Crossing my fingers! lol
Sandy

Having completed and very much enjoyed BM1, I've now started BM2

A much slower moving beginning to this one and the setting is nowhere near as atmospheric but I expect it will fire up soon

Got to !! It IS a Blck Mirror after all !!

I finally made it to Chapter 3 in Black Mirror 1 after dying a few times.

Mad, I think the original game was the most atmospheric by far, which is a big part of why it's my favorite of the trilogy. The sequels are still pretty fantastic as well, however.