Castle Paradox

Moogle1

OK, I'm pretty upset. I lose the game because I open Bluebeard's box? That seems pretty arbitrary, especially when I apparently couldn't lose the game anywhere else. This is the kind of thing that makes me wonder if I want to play the game -- I was pretty far in and I hadn't saved at all.

The game was excellent up to this point. This was disappointing.
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Hachi-Roku · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:32 am Post subject:

You can lose the game in other places, and I can only think of one person whom is at fault for not saving. Bluebeard's involvement in The Fox and the Eight Six is more true to his own story than a majority of the others who have changed in some manner, so the answer lies there.
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Moogle1 · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:50 am Post subject:

I think what really upsets me is that the game gives no indication of being losable up to that point and gives no warning message before what seems to be an arbitrary "game over."

I'll replay the game and see what Bluebeard is about, but not until I stop fuming about this.
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Aethereal · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:25 am Post subject:

I guess you don't like point and click adventure games then, huh? Happy

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Moogle1 · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:31 am Post subject:

This is more of a text adventure with graphics. Seeing as how I've played that genre for more than a decade, you'd think I'd've thought to save my game.
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Moogle1 · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:20 pm Post subject:

Um... yes, Fyre, that's exactly the kind of message I was thinking about.
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TMC · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 7:51 pm Post subject:

What? That doesn't seem right. I thought you meant a warning message in the readme: "Save your game occasionally, as there are unexpected deaths"
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RedMaverickZero · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 8:45 pm Post subject:

Usually I am pretty good about saving often, but I played the version without saving... Because I'm a bum and didn't download it a second time for the save copy. I faced the same problem Moog. And I faced it not once but in two situations.
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JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

I'm a save freak; the only think in that game that annoyed me was a tag error(which I fixed in custom).

Setu_Firestorm · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 5:20 am Post subject:

Heheh. Kinda makes you think of the PS2 game "Siren". God, I will never play that game simply because I'm not too keen on dying just because I made a decision instead of dying in a battle.
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