BATMAN :) Time to answer these! I've hardly had a moment this week.
You and I both know I hate most of Sierra's design decisions, but the game really does do a good job of being oppressive starting right from the first second - you know that you're being watched, and that missteps will involve punishment or worse. Now that I'm thinking about it I think that I knew Mannannannan's schedule from briefly playing the VGA remake of this game, which I'll have to go back to after finishing this. Without knowing that, it would definitely be frightening to misstep with the fear of him coming back at any moment - especially as there's no way to tell when it's even close, short of looking at the debug screen which I'll bring up in an entry later.
His bedroom really is bizarrely frilly - it wasn't even really a restriction of the EGA palette that it was like that, he could have gone with a more darkly evil red or black!
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You and I both know I hate most of Sierra's design decisions, but the game really does do a good job of being oppressive starting right from the first second - you know that you're being watched, and that missteps will involve punishment or worse. Now that I'm thinking about it I think that I knew Mannannannan's schedule from briefly playing the VGA remake of this game, which I'll have to go back to after finishing this. Without knowing that, it would definitely be frightening to misstep with the fear of him coming back at any moment - especially as there's no way to tell when it's even close, short of looking at the debug screen which I'll bring up in an entry later.
His bedroom really is bizarrely frilly - it wasn't even really a restriction of the EGA palette that it was like that, he could have gone with a more darkly evil red or black!