This is particularly obvious if you pay attention to how much money I have - it's in the first of the three boxes displayed in the upper right of the screenshots. Here's where I have to come clean and admit that I did the events in a different order to the way I'm showing them here. and we'll continue on with it next time, because I've got a massive headache coming on and need a break from this insanity. So winning this contest is the main goal of this chapter. He's willing to help us get across if Simon wins the contest and gives him the trophy. One of his rivals cut the bridge down to stop him, apparently. He's trying to get across so he can enter the Gnome Flinging Contest. OK, let's talk to the guy on the other side. Actually, this does make a bit of sense, since if you drop a coin into a glass of coke it will clean it, but it's still a bit of a leap. I can combine these washers with the can of Cola I bought earlier to clean them. Looks like dirt from where I'm standing sitting, but whatever, I'll go with it. apparently it's a load of dirty washers. I know, it doesn't make sense to me either. So we need to use the sign from earlier to dig it up. I use the metal detector, and shortly thereafter find treasure! Just to up the asshole quota even more.Īnyway. I'll skip that (thank god), though I will note that it happens RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE GUY YOU STOLE IT FROM. The fairy godmother then pops up to give us a tutorial on how to use it. What makes this puzzle REALLY frustrating is the fact that not only do you need to use your kite to get the metal detector, but you have to be standing in exactly the right spot, so it's not likely to be something you'd guess at doing, and even if it was, you'd probably give up before you actually managed to do it. No, we just steal the metal detector he's holding and leave him there. Naturally, you might think we have to help him out. He offers to share whatever he digs up in future with you if you get him out. This guy's a treasure hunter and he's somehow got himself stuck in a hole he dug. Not much else to say about him, except that he likes a drink (a quirk his maker installed in him), and when Simon won't give him one, he says this: He's basically a talking sign that can direct you ANYWHERE. If I were a more talented sprite artist, I'd make a gif of Simon dancing on his corpse, but since I suck at that sort of thing, we'll just move on.Īh, this is S.I.G.N. His deal is that he wants some magic beans, just like that Jack and the Beanstalk thing, and in return he'll give you Daisy, the cow. Somehow, on my wanders, I discover this guy: I'll just take that sign and be on my way. Oh, it's the woodworms from the first game. Yes, there are items that take place in between loactions that are on the map. Oh, no, wait - I forgot to mention that there are some thing that AREN'T ON THE MAP. Exactly the sort of thing the previous games had, and WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SHOWN WHEN WE ENTERED THIS OVERWORLD.Įxcuse me while I go and have a mini freakout over this. They're actually warp booths (because THAT makes perfect sense), and if you enter one, you get this: But even so, this is still an entirely possible thing to have happen. I've deliberately chosen a path that doesn't have anything on it in order to really ram the point, and there's a few random events I've already triggered that would normally stop you, mostly in the second map. OK, obviously I've exaggerated this a little. I understand having a 3D world gives you the option of doing something like this, but for an adventure game this is possibly one of the worst things you can do! The world is absolutely massive, even having to be split into TWO SEPERATE MAPS, but there's only a few things scattered around it. When I said this game is HUGE, that's what I meant. did you watch the video? You should before continuing with this. Maybe if you just start running around, you'll find something. What do you do? You're supposed to get to Poliganis to meet up with Calypso, but how do you get there? Is that a phone box? What good is that? You don't want to phone anyone! Where IS everything? Let's put ourselves into the minds of people new to this game (which I suspect most of you are).
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