936 points on my first try, 1702 points on the second. My strategy is to go for all the glowing green lights immediately whenever they show up, and not worry about the graves too much until the end when the light radius is huge.
Ending 2 details
I had to run all the way towards the bar and then turn around and dodge the monster a second time, I hadn't thought to try that after the doors, hiding places, and exits didn't work.
Great game! If not for the dream sequence intro and the game description then I might have stopped at ending 1, I’m glad I kept going for all of them.
I found endings 1, 3, and 4, and hints for ending 2? I’m stuck where heltenjon was on the AGS forums.
Ending 2 progress
I can get the sheet music and give it to Robo, but I haven't found a way for that to change anything. I can try running from the cop, and hide next to my house instead of next to the bar, but that doesn't seem to change anything either. I can't get the cop to go inside the school, I get arrested outside instead. And I can't get anything to fall from the tree onto the cop, the sheet music only appears in the other tree that can't be reached during the chase.
I haven’t found a way to run from the shape monster, or to get the screen to react to anything other than the small square, or to sleep on the bench instead of Coney’s bed, or to do something like find another instrument to jam with Robo.
This was magnificent, weird in the best possible way, and it deserves more recognition. More people should be thinking about what a better society might look like and what they’d do if they had that kind of freedom.
I noticed the main folder of the download includes a broken shortcut link to a non-existent location in the user’s Documents folder, the real executable is in the Windows subfolder within the download.
It wasn’t obvious to me either, but in the main menu it’s in the settings menu when you click the gear icon in the upper left. The option doesn’t show up while you’re playing the game, it has to be from the main menu.
I almost missed one log because I guessed a digit, so I had to go back and find it at the end of the game without being able to see everything in the root directory anymore. Fortunately I at least knew where to look because I had seen something unusual right before the last two messages.
I can’t take the knife. My inventory is closed, and the cursor changes to a pointer finger when I hover over the knife, but when I click on it nothing happens.
It only updates when you identify them with their official title and full first name and last name. Nicknames don’t update the count. At one point you’ll get a corrupted version of the manifest that lists all the job titles but obscures the names.
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How do you use nodes with each other? In the Japanese and Chinese versions I can place nodes on top of each other to interact, but that’s not working for me in this version.
The numbers seem to refer to search terms, not necessarily the number of documents. If you want to make sure, try checking every possible search term. There are some hyphenated words that you’ll need to type into the search bar, clicking the word won’t work because it’ll only search for the half you clicked on.
edit: Nevermind, I see what you mean now about the ##/49 at the top of the archive. I’m still at 46/49 even though I searched for everything from the ones I have. I’ll need to try typing in a few things and see what works.
edit 2: I had to check the game files, but the last three documents can’t currently be found by searching, they’re not in the top three results for any of their search terms. One of them seems kind of redundant, one of them is a part 2, and one of them directly states a motivation that you probably already guessed if you finsihed everything.
Tried again with the Red Disc, Red Mouse, Hungry Pachyderm, and Monopoly. This time with the help of a ladder I made it to Stage 11 Round 3. If I got rid of my ladder and rearranged a relic or two I could have made it to Stage 12:
Is the Golden Ladder description wrong? The tooltip says it spends 1 coin when banking to upgrade the category, but for me it spent 3 coins when banking.
OK, now I see someone else, not sure if that’s you emma but this is fun. One thing I noticed was that the other player was able to show two accessories at the same time, like glasses+bow, but when I tried doing that the accessory from one button removed the other.
e: I also don’t seem to always have the same color options as the other player, although maybe that’s intentional to keep everyone a little more distinct.
e: and now the accessory issue is fixed and I can pick two at once
Didn’t see anyone else online but the walking around and character customization seem responsive. In the customization menu I noticed the first icon with the bow appears twice and they both do the same thing.
