09-16-2007, 05:23 AM
brell wrote:
As far as I know the mansion never becomes unfinishable. Please give me an example if I am wrong.
The only one I could potentially think of is if you use your regular keys on the multicolored doors, then use your multicolored keys on the wrong color door in the future so that you have too much of one color key and not enough of another. You might think that only an idiot would do this in light of the warning on the sign, which I read, heeded, then came back and ignored because I hadn't found the hidden exit to that portion of the level and thought that, maybe, I could get through the multicolored doors with my normal keys.
I have seen worse design than anything in TPI without any warnings at all - but of course this is a matter of taste.
I wasn't trying to compare TPI to anything else. I was just saying that I don't think you should ever need to put warnings on signs as an essential aid to the player, and that to do so is like putting a band-aid on a design flaw and calling it good. A possible exception is (more rot13 here) gur uvagf nf gb juvpu pbybe bs pbva gb sbyybj va gur znmr - gung jnf irel urycshy.
You're right, this is a matter of taste. It's one man's opinion, and should be taken as such.
Can you please give me an example of completely unreachable secret keys?
Lryybj xrl va 30290. I could have sworn there was another, but I can't for the life of me remember what it is.
ryos wrote: I also was looking forward to seeing everyone's cabin, but unfortunately for me, more than half of them were completely hidden, and I missed them. I wasn't in the mood to play the mansion over and over, never being guaranteed that I would ever find all the cabins. So...you fill in the rest. :-?
Overall, and notwithstanding the criticisms above, I really enjoyed TPI. Thanks to Brell for a good time!
As I said above you propably missed around half of the cabins. In the readme file you are advised to pay attention to the sound. Did you listen to all different sounds in my cabin?
I didn't actually read the readme. :-[ I also didn't hear anything extraordinary, but then, I have MM's sound effects turned down a bit so they aren't so loud compared to iTunes, and sometimes I miss things like torch sounds etc. This is probably stupid since I'm a big fan of auditory hints, but, what can I say? I like my background music.
Honestly, I left that room as soon as possible because hidden spiders freak me out.
