Stumbling through Uninvited
Sep. 30th, 2011 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnAfter two weeks with my parents here and not really working on anything during the evenings in favour of actually going and enjoying life with people, I'm back on my computer again now. I've missed these - have you?
This time, I picked up a game that I'd been aware of for ages, but hadn't ever tried - a game which, as I was to find out during the course of this video, contains three hundred rooms, six thousand inventory items, and a puzzle. It's Uninvited!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bERyeu6_Z0g
I actually did this about a fortnight ago, but it took me this long to finally edit it together. I think I got a few good moments out of it, but the majority of the video is of wandering around hoovering up items from most of the house and not really understanding what to do - the pitfalls of the adventure game genre. By the end I felt like I was just getting started, but the video had already been going on for over twenty minutes, so I felt it best to quit while I was ahead.
I think I'll do something more actiony again next time, that I have a decent chance of grasping entirely instantly - perhaps Marble Madness.
Please don't laugh at the way I say "Gameboy".
This time, I picked up a game that I'd been aware of for ages, but hadn't ever tried - a game which, as I was to find out during the course of this video, contains three hundred rooms, six thousand inventory items, and a puzzle. It's Uninvited!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bERyeu6_Z0g
I actually did this about a fortnight ago, but it took me this long to finally edit it together. I think I got a few good moments out of it, but the majority of the video is of wandering around hoovering up items from most of the house and not really understanding what to do - the pitfalls of the adventure game genre. By the end I felt like I was just getting started, but the video had already been going on for over twenty minutes, so I felt it best to quit while I was ahead.
I think I'll do something more actiony again next time, that I have a decent chance of grasping entirely instantly - perhaps Marble Madness.
Please don't laugh at the way I say "Gameboy".
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Date: 2011-10-01 09:50 pm (UTC)...I never thought of that. God, you're right. That makes the game completely pointless, doesn't it. And I'd actually forgotten about the magic, virtually as soon as the mag.book disappeared - some of those might help.
I did get the idea that the ruby was the problem, though it really doesn't make it obvious as it takes so long for its effects to trigger the first time...! In a game where there are so many pointless items to pick up, it's difficult to tell which one might be affecting you. And there's only one place in the game you can drop items, not shown in this video - but at least it outright tells you that you can leave what you don't need there, when you get there. And apart from the ruby, he's not exactly the greatest cat burglar ever, preferring to steal people's laundry, soap and old shoe boxes rather than anything of any value!
The game was becoming... absolutely bizarre, when I stopped. I could just about cope with the things I expected to happen sooner or later, like undead creatures leaping out, but... when I had no idea what it was going to do next, that's somehow a lot more frightening!