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Woah! I just finished the game and I gotta say that some stupid dust got into my eyes.
People who didn't finish the game yet: don't uncover the text below!

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Part of me prefers the ending in which the story of Donna and Christian repeats again but this time the vampire is Donna and the mortal who fears death is Milena. Nevertheless, the end in which Donna wipe out all her enemies and make the ultimate sacrifice in order to defeat the eldritch abomination feels like the truer ending. It gives more closure to the story. And Mulkin foreshadows it, in a way:sometimes is better to left things unfinished. I like that a lot.

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Did you notice that you can switch the inventory to show the vampiric skills? One of these skills is the key to defeat the man with the gun, but you have to have enough blood in order to use it. Hint:

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If you don't have blood enough to use it, perhaps you could hunt some animal in the dark alley when you start, a rat or something like that, before you face the man with the gun.

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[Donna: blood avenger]

I have to congratulate the creator of the game Donna: blood avenger, for his persistence with his work, it's laudable that he finished the game even when for one thing or the other (that's life!) took him ten years. Kudos to Blaze Dzikowski. I think Donna is the amateur adventure game that I like the most beside the Yathzee’s Czho Mythos saga. I didn’t finished the game yet

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Unless one can count obtaining the “happy” ending as finishing the game

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I’m close to the end (I believe), though. And I have to say that the game is superb, not only the game programming (which seems hard-working) but the setting, the atmosphere… I can only describe it as beautiful, as they say this work has soul.  I truly empathize with the three main characters, in this regard Donna is probably superior to Czho Mythos. Thinking that the silly Twilight books have movie adaptations is infuriating to me while I play Donna. A movie based on this game would revitalize the true “vampire genre” (which is not the new and plain bad “supernatural romance” genre). I'm salivating to thinking of it, and I'm beating around the bushes, too. Anyways, the game is great the only thing I didn’t like

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The sound based puzzles which were to me more like annoying cacophonies, I solved the first one by dumb luck and the second one I just skipped it with the cheat for hearing impaired people, having two functional ears I have to say that I’m not very proud of it

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Then again, this is probably just me being clumsy.
Aside from the atmosphere and the most notable soundtrack, I would like to highlight that the "calm" and blood meters are a very, very, nice touch. They serve to differentiate the character of Donna in gameplay mechanics from the protagonist of other adventure games and they give the player the sensation that she is really a vampire and therefore is not only the plot telling us that she is a vampire. Moreover the "calm" and blood meters remid me a lot of the "bloodpool" and the "Frenzy" which are mechanics from Vampire: The Masquerade which is my favorite pen and paper RPG of all time (Did you know it by chance?).

To conclude: Donna is an amazing game, and I’ll recommend it to all my gamer friends.

I'm in what I believe is the last part of the game (or rather, the last night), and I'm stuck with a certain puzzle, involving a musical instrument...

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Ok, I'm inside of Joshua Romero's house and I think that I have to play the song written in the score on the piano, fine, the thing is I know nothing about music, luckily there's a music book for children in one of the shelves of the room. But I still fail to play the song properly. I played this: D c(first black key from the left) E F G B A f(third black key from the left) D c(first black key from the left) E F G G a(fifth black key from the left) B A a(fifth black key from the left, played twice this time), c. So, I'm begging you guys, someone can write the exact notes that Donna has to play according to the score. Thanks in advance!

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