'7 Days a Skeptic' by Yahtzee

[nickeedoo]

Well, I just don't get it:

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I'm being chased by the dead captain and I have the towel rail, I've found Adam talked to William. Been in every room of the ship. From what I understand from reading other posts I'm supposed to knock him over the rails in the reactor room or is that someone else? Anyways, I've tried that and it won't let me. I'd love some help! Thanks.

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[Sam.]

okay nik

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Go to the reactor room and think stealth. HIde in the best place. Then, as highwaygal has stated hundreds of times, its time to play some baseball.

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[viktor]

finished a few mn. ago. Man the ending realy surprised me. :o
Who would hawe thought...

[veryweirdguy]

Just finished it. Amazing game, I may even play it again soon to......."watch out" for that ending, if you know what I mean. One weird thing though:

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I went to go & destroy the idol in the exhaust, when the other ship arrived. Just out of interest, I went back up to the top to see the welder's body again (just to check there were no hidden interactions with it), only to find it was gone! The radio mast was back to normal.

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[auhsor]

Well another Yahtzee game. Well I'll be. I've only had time to watch the intro, but it is looking to be an awesome game, and judging by everyone elses comments it is good. I'll play it tomorrow.

Oh and Yahtzee, good work with leaving the debug mode turned on...

edit: Also both the volume controls have no affect on the volume. Well at least for me

[Fabiano]

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when he said "I didnt mean to hurt him" he was talking about the real doctor that he killed to get on the space.
To me the spirit did all the killings but the "doctor" was blamed because noone was alive to tell the story, besides him.

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[DinghyDog]

But....

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I'm still not totally satisfied. I mean, what really was the POINT of having him be not who he said he was? I would have been satisfied if they just took him away cause he was the only one left. That makes more sense. A LOT more sense. Meh.

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-DD

[viktor]

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Maybee he did this on purpose so he can make another sequel. Or maybee yatzee just likes inclooding criminals in games (Trilby the catburglar)

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[rtf]

Helping time:

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How do I get the welder up to the radio masts?  I'm guessing I have to retract them, then lure him up there.  How do I get him up there?[/hint]

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[DinghyDog]

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Remember all the corridors/rooms, where either the welder appeared or didn't appear? It's like that. Once you've retracted the spikes, just keep going back and forth up the steps until the Welder DOES appear. When he does, lure him onto the center of the square (it could take a few tries) and it will skewer him.

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-DD

PS: Oh, and to Viktor....

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The first thing I saw when I looked at "Somerset" was "hey, he kind of looks a bit like Trilby. Maybe a descendant." Heh.

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[nickeedoo]

Just completed the game. Didn't like the ending as I agree, I don't understand the point in the *twist*. Oh well, it was a great game and was as someone said on here, I think it is shorter than 5 days. Probably because the puzzles in general are a little easier to figure out, except one which had me stumped for too long!

[Pesty]

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As far as I can tell, the point of the twist was to surprise you. That's it. Throughout this game you're supposed to think "Okay, this guy is Dr. Somerset" and you believe it. At the end, it's revealed that you really don't know who he is at all. It's fairly innovative to be fooled by who you're playing. I mean, we don't even know his real name!

And what about ship records or something? Maybe there were cameras, or some other way to confirm that it wasn't "Somerset" at all. We don't know that he was convicted for the murders. Just initially suspect. I felt the ending was suitably vague, and I just accepted it for what it was. I enjoyed the twist without tryingf to analyze it.

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[veryweirdguy]

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I found it rather interesting that at the start, I was more interested in the story but now I've finished the game I want to know more about that character, as the last thing I thought before it ended was how little I knew about the doctor-whose-name-I-can't-remember.

I think it would be an interesting path to go down in another game - starting with a character we know NOTHING about. Giving the player the freedom to control this person, despite the massive gap in what we know about him/her. Then slowly revealing more about them as the game goes on, gradually showing that this is not the person we thought it was. Would this cause the player to act differently within the game?

Does the knowledge we already have change the way we think about how to do things, when we know we are controlling someone else.....if you see what I mean?

I mean, if you had known the doctor was a murderer, would it ave caused you to think about the puzzles differently?

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[rtf_unplugged]

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I still can't get him up there.  I got the masts down, lured him out of the ship, went up to the top, waited for a long time, went back down, and he wasn't there anymore.  Should I try something else?

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[Bagpuss]

rtf:

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I had that problem too.Ã,  The welder just stood there and didn't move.Ã,  In the end I went through the bother of luring him outside again and this time it worked.

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[Anym]

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As far as I can tell, the point of the twist was to surprise you. That's it. Throughout this game you're supposed to think "Okay, this guy is Dr. Somerset" and you believe it. At the end, it's revealed that you really don't know who he is at all. It's fairly innovative to be fooled by who you're playing. I mean, we don't even know his real name!

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You should play the (text) adventure 9:05 by Adam Cadre (don't worry, it's a short & sweet one, suitable for people with little to no experience in interactive ficton) at http://adamcadre.ac/905.html

7 Days a Shrink was really nice, but I think I prefer 5 Days a Stranger.

[Ghormak]

7das is awesome. Good work.

9:05 is also awesome. I'd even go as far as calling it 'totally sweet'.

[rtf]

I just finished.  I loved it.  The graphics, the puzzes, the immersion, the characters...
One of Yahtzee's highest points is his ability to let you get to know about the characters, instead of saying, "He's the doctor.   He cures sick people."  Because of the character backgrounds, I was even more concerned for the crew, and that increases the immersion level a few points.

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However, I would have expanded more on the ending, instead of one short cutscene.

I really liked the one frame of a hand coming out of the box at the end.  It reminded me of the cheesy shark movies that they show on SciFi Network  

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[Sutebi]

As someone said, Yahtzee did a lot more exploring of the character's backgrounds in this game, which leads me to wonder whether he read Dave Gilbert's review at www.adventuregamer.com for 5 Days, where he said that he did not develop the characters enough.

[guest2]

HELP! The guy just opened up the escape pod thing and got sucked into space. Now I'm hangin on for dear life. I've been stuck on this part for about an hour, don't think I'm going to solve it. PLEASE I'M DESPERATE!!!