'7 Days a Skeptic' by Yahtzee

[viktor]

I'm stuck:

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I got the bloody food from the food dispencer and exsoused all the conversation topics with ewerybody on the ship. What do I hawe to do next?

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[Darth Mandarb]

@ viktor

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There's something wrong with the despenser ... you might want to try and fix it!

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@ zooty

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They ignored the box (evil) and blamed the tragedy on 'Somerset' so perhaps the point was that the evil wasn't discovered ... I'm not sure if that's important though ... 'cause the idol was destroyed

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[Goon]

I'm trying to override the security systems. I know how to solve it, problem is, I can't remember for the life of me what day it's supposed to be in the game. Help?

[Darth Mandarb]

I'm trying to override the security systems. I know how to solve it, problem is, I can't remember for the life of me what day it's supposed to be in the game. Help?

Read the old messages in this thread ... it's answered 2 or 3 times!

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280730

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[PaulSC]

MAJOR ending spoilers here, so be careful:

Zootyfruit:

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what was the point of having him holding a false identity? he didn't do anything wrong did he? daFOe was the killer... If he wasn't then what was the point li nking the two games up?? Bah.

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I think the main idea was simply to catch you off guard and unsettle you by turning everything you thought you knew about your character on its head. It's fun to play it again and see the hints that your character really doesn't really know as much about his job as he should.

Anyway, even aside from the false identity thing, it's a nice bleak twist to realise that after all your hard work, all of the remaining evidence really does point the blame directly at you.

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[big brother]

Thought of a few more problems:

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William ejected the escape pod before you could get to them to prevent you from escaping because he needed your body. Wouldn't it be more likely that you would've been sucked out, leaving him without a body anyways? Sounds like an improbable gamble...

I finished the game without destroying the idol. Wouldn't this have grave implications for a sequel???

Also, you can destroy the idol multiple times, as it never leaves your inventory.

At the end, I'm assuming that the hand that comes out of the box is from the body that WIlliam stitched together. If that's the case, where did the physical body of the welder that I killed come from?

Confusing...

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[Redwall]

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I didn't see any hand come out of the box at the end? And when I tried to enter the ship without destroying the idol he turned into the Welder when I clicked on the uniform in the airlock. (which was very spooky, because I thought you had to destroy it inside...)

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[Moox]

Ben should kill his betatesters lol

[edmundito]

Ben should kill his betatesters lol

No one should ever rush into releasing a game. It's bound to have bugs. The famous Rob Blanc II "Nowhere! I don't know where to go!" bug was there until I went back and fixed it before the Windows version re-release.

But then again, who am I to speak? It take me years to release a game, and then it's less than perfect. I'm definitely going to do this, though: Before I add the game to my site and raise all the hype about it, it will be pre-released on the AGS forums, so you guys can play it and bitch about the bugs my team of game-testing monkeys did not find. I did have betas for the Rob Blanc Trilogy on windows if anyone remembers.

[Babar]

great game but the ending was just obscure. it really made no sense

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what was the point of having him holding a false identity? he didn't do anything wrong did he? daFOe was the killer... If he wasn't then what was the point li nking the two games up?? Bah.

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It made perfect sense! Well...not really, but I can see where it is coming from:

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GATTACA!!!11!
I think.... I don't even know if I spelt it right. It was still kind of mean to have all the blame put on him though...

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[Sutebi]

My thoughts on the ending:

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The welder was the killer. It was the spirit that killed the people with the help of the ship's doctor. The reason that the security team blamed you in the end wasn't to draw attention from the box, it was because there was no other evidence to suggestion someone else did the killings.

I think the biggest reason to make this man have a false identity was so that no one would believe him about the spirit. Trilby said in the letter that you should not try to destroy the idol, because the spirit would not be destroyed. That's what happened at the end. The security officer said there is nothing in the box and then we see a hand come out. Obviously leaving it open for a sequel.

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My opinion on the game in general:
I liked it. A tad buggy, but I just played it and it seemed some of the aforementioned problems were gone, so maybe Yahtzee read these posts and fixed the bugs, but who knows. It was spooky, I liked the music but I felt more would have added to the game. All in all, I thought this was a very well done game by a clever kid. Sad that he was such an arse at times.

I could see another game in the series and would probably play it, but the impression I got of this game was that of a horror movie where they keep reincarnating the villian (Like Friday the 13th when they went into space for Jason X, that wasn't necessary). 5 Days and 7 Days were nice, but I just hope this does not form into a silly series where most of the games lack a good plot.

Also, did any one else feel that the seven day concept took away from the game, because the days seemed to go by oddly?

[Redwall]

If you look at his site, it seems he's obsessed with the horries series like Friday the 13th, although he gives scathing reviews for each one. The thing he raves about is the characters that get killed rather than the killer itself though, so I guess this is his ideal series.

[Confused1]

I liked the game, just finished it meself. I thought the ending was kinda funny.

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The part I thought was funny was ''I JUST WANTED TO GO INTO SPACE!''

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I didn't catch the hand coming out of the box though.

[Al_Ninio]

Yes, I liked that part too.
But please, next time you post two spoilers, make sure to hide _both_.
Thankyou.

[Confused1]

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I just replayed the ending, it doesn't really look like a hand to me, more like some skintone goo, but whatever. Plus the V I'm playing doesn't have a lot of the bugs listed here.

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[llamaman]

yahtzee, come on.  shamelessly ripping off the game Live a Live, and even putting a reference to, as I recall, Watanabe, at the beginning?  you had to have thought there were some other Underdogs afficianados here as well.  oh well, your game is still cool, even without the captain square game.

[Layabout]

Please keep posting any bugs you find in this thread as Yahtzee is reading it.

I should direct you to this thread. He explains his Sekret IDENTITY for all who care...

http://www.chefelf.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1116

[viktor]

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How do I pick up the dang idol?

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oh and a bug. I don't know if it was already posted.

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When I tryed to loer the welder in to the air lock he didn't show up. Then I wen't back in to the ship. But the welder started to folow me again. That's not what's wierd. The wierd thing is that he came out of the air lock where I just came out...

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[Sam.]

just a thought i had last night

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When at the end, he syas "i didn't mean to hurt him, does this mean he killed the real doctor ude back on earth? and thats why they're blaming all of the other murders on him?

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Just a thought

[Al_Ninio]

Well, one word replies are a no-no, so I added those.
But, the answer must be:
"Yes".
(Unless I'm wrong).