I have been gone for far too long, but it wasn't because of the game. Had hip replacement surgery and all that led up to it and after it, so I've mainly been watching game videos instead of playing. But I'm pretty sure that the sequel to The Lost Crown, Blackenrock, is coming out very soon, so I want to finish this little gem.
And a little gem it is. Deceptively simple. Deeply disturbing. The Asylum is bad enough, back in the 1940s. But the visions Fran Bow has when she takes her pills--which appear to be some kind of experiment that they're doing on her, are even worse. She sees constant visions of gore and monsters. Once you find the operating room and the cells next to it, however, the asylum is nearly as bad.
As to gameplay, yeah, it's pretty simple. If you click on everything, both in hyperpill mode and out, you will find the solutions. The puzzles are inventory based, so if you find the inventory, examine things and combine them eventually you'll hit on the solution. (That, of course, didn't stop me from looking up the password solution. I am bad at math and I don't enjoy it. Look it up in the WT.)
Well I have at last made it out of the asylum. There was a very nifty maze puzzle that really was a game of Pacman. You can follow your mechanical kitty who, presumably, will show you the way out, but you have to avoid ghosts that will eat you if they catch you. I would have happily stuck with it but I wanted to save, so I clicked the upper right-hand arrows on the screen and alas, that turned out to be the way to bypass the puzzle. Plus, I can't go back because the game saves automatically from wherever you left off. No named saved games. Drat.
Anyway, I am out of the asylum and just beginning Chapter 2. I think I'll save that for next time.
A problem. For whatever reason, I cannot take screenshots on this Steam game. The shots I took in the previous entry I got from a YouTube video. Anyway, half of the inventiveness of this game is in the artwork, so I'd rather not spoil it! Ergo, no more screenshots from now on!
Till later!
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