The Trilby Series--Possible Improvements?

Started by HammerBlade, Thu 06/07/2006 21:56:17

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HammerBlade

Even though I have a fear in the pit of my gut that I'm going to be hated for starting a thread like this, I'm starting it anyway. 

Ever since I first stumbled upon the Adventure Game Studio about a half-year ago, I've been closely following the works of Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw.  I love his work, and am eagerly awaiting his last game which will conclude the mystery of the dark forces that revolve around Trilby's Life.

If I'm not mistaken, I believe that Yahtzee mentioned on his website somewhere that he's planning on, someday, creating a special edition of the four games in his series, and even selling them commercially.  After playing through Trilby's Notes (The last in the series of events revolving around Trilby), I'm convinced that Yahtzee is the Alfred Hitchcock of the AGS community, and as such his games would be well worth paying for.  (I swear, I didn't fall asleep unil 3:00 AM after my first night of playing that game)

For this reason, I think it's important that any plot-holes in his series are located and brought to light.  I definitely know of one plot-hole in particular that happens to be in the series, although it's so horribly obscure I'm not sure it could even be called that.  It's the following:

In Five Days a Stranger, one of the main characters is Simone Taylor.  In Seven Days a Skeptic, the last name of the doctor on the crew happens to be Taylor as well. 
In the README file included with the download of Seven Days a Stranger, Yahtzee mentions that the doctor is a descendant of Simones.  Personally, I see two problems with this:

1.  When a woman is married, her last name(usually) (EDIT: almost always) (EDIT: Doesn't it always?) becomes that of her husbands.  So it's extremely unlikely that this Dr. Taylor is her direct descendent.
2.  A certain event that happened at the beginning of the game Trilby's Notes (an event I can't mention for risk of spoiling the game) made such a form of leiniage (did I spell that right?) not possible. 

I had another comment about the series, but I can't remember what it was. >_< I'll probably edit later and add it in.  (Being obsessive-compulsive about what I post in forums these days, I tend to edit all of my posts 5 minutes after I post them)


Anybody else?  Improvements?  At all?

MrColossal

Why don't you start this thread on his forums?

I also do not think this is a critics lounge thing.
"This must be a good time to live in, since Eric bothers to stay here at all"-CJ also: ACHTUNG FRANZ!

HammerBlade

He has a forums?

Knew I shoulda  :-X up

Well, I guess I know where I'm off to now!


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