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Thank you for talking with me about that!

Glad to be of assistance ; ) Game's great and deserves feedback. Maybe you can some of this mumbling working on your next project ; )

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"Still, what's the point of summoning agressive demon he can't control and even protect himself and his lover (even when I gave him the necklace, demon didn't seem to be bothered)? He seems to know a lot about the ritual, and yet he makes basic mistakes.
Just saying Romero's desire for destruction and self-destruction could've been presented with little more depth, making him more interesting and belivable chatacter."

I was thinking whether not to make something different when he does have GB, but it seemed to me to work in this way, too -- it is love which is his destruction, as it clouded his mind. Donna asked Milena to "use" the necklace, to show it; JR forgot all about it seeing his loved one's head devoured ;-)

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That makes sense, but still: GB on his head is pretty visible and the demon probably even touches it while chewing his head off. Romero shouldn't be surprised - he didn't prepare any protection for Ernest, so what did he expect?
Milena seen her loved one turn into flesh-eating monstrocity, witnessed two people heads beein' devoured and what's most important she - contrary to Romero and Ernest - wasn't even expecting to see anything supernatural.

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Romero is believeable to me in that somewhere inside I share his sentiments, that is: I understand that a person may be angry and dissilusioned with the world of No Great Ideas, No Symbols and believing the Magical Destruction to be a better fate, or at least: more glorious.
In constructing Romero I was often thinking about the leader of Death In June, Douglas Pearce. Gay Nazi making beautiful music -- here's something for you if you like paradoxes ;-) I've never felt disoriented whether I do have a moral right to enjoy music before ;-)

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My point is, it's rather rare in the world to meet a man beeing evil just for the sake of beeing evil and wishing destruction. Most common examples: Hitler only wanted to make the world a better place and get rid of people who - in his messed up head - hurt him and his nation. Lenin wanted to build an utopian world. Bin Laden did what he belived God wanted him to do. None of them seen those deeds as evil.
Note that at one point Romero and his supporters gained enough social and political support to actually CHANGE something in the world and yet they still wanted to preform the ritual and send it all to hell.

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Maybe you can use it as a bait to get something more... alive?

Check your skills.
You'll need some blood first. Is there something that can provide you with a drop?

Use your charm...

Goldmund

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- All true, but from where I stand going to bed isn't the highest point of serious relationship (I know, that's just a personal opinion : ). Going to bed in their situation looks more like physical attraction combined with fear and maybe compensation after Christian's death for Donna. Just not serious enough for them to be willing to sacrifice themselves for each other.
Or that's just my moaning ; )

- For what I know of pagans, they treated their gods more pragmatic and instrumentally than modern monotheistic religions. More of preforming rituals to gain something, less of "love of god". I get it:
NCR - national socialistic party more interested in power than occult,
CS - messed up guys blindly following Romero with all his paganism, fascination in III Reich, maybe following patch of Thule brotherhood.
Romero himself - a self-proclaimed pagan priest.
Still, what's the point of summoning agressive demon he can't control and even protect himself and his lover (even when I gave him the necklace, demon didn't seem to be bothered)? He seems to know a lot about the ritual, and yet he makes basic mistakes.
Just saying Romero's desire for destruction and self-destruction could've been presented with little more depth, making him more interesting and belivable chatacter.

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Goldmund, check your mailbox : )

I've already beaten the game, so it's fully playable.
Never encountered the bug you described - do you use lighter from the hotel? Worked well for me.

Way to skip the bug:

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hidden message: honour39

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It contains nudity, sexuality, drug use, smoking, lesbianism, violence, politics, metapsychical questions, and vampires...

I belive you forgot

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GAY NAZIS!!!!111 And their little diaries.

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Urpney:

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Haha, do you really have problems with hearing or are just lazy? You're right, it's the skipping that breaks it. Thanks for the bug report!
But wait, if you skipped the scrambler puzzle, the gate to the base should be open, so you can't "pass through" it? I see the problem with the base's door, but not the gate...

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Urpney, are you able to continue the game? If you send me your saved game,

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I can give you the pickgun

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Lazy. And hate music puzzles ; ) You can call me "musically impaired".

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The gate was still on it's place, visible and locked. As soon as I clicked on the sensor, girls just went through the gate in a ghostly manner : )

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If you need a save for testing, I have one, but after having a smoke I realized I missed something and loaded earlier save, took what I needed and infiltrated whole complex.
Czy Ernest to Poseł Wojtek Wierzejski? : )

My final thoughs.

Pros:
- Graphic style. Loved it!
- Gabriel Knight-esque moments (like repeating the same dream at the end of chapter, forest puzzle at the end etc.)
- Cypher Puzzles!
- Overall plot (with some minor details)
- Hint system!
- Something old polish gamers would call miodność. You probably know what I'm talking about : )

Cons:

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Really, minor detalis.
- Relationship between Donna and Milena. It's just too fast - we have a "damsel in distress" situation, one meeting in a cafee and when they meet next time they just go to bed. They didn't really had time to meet each other so it looks more like a physical afection than love - which I belive wasn't your intention. The relationship lacks solid buildup.
- Villains motivations - we know they are nazis, so they want to rule the world, have strong military industry and eliminate everyone they find inferior. Why do they want to summon antient, dangerous but pretty useless demon? They have something to protect one person, but they have no means of controlling the thing, co what's the point?

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Overall, game of commertial quality ; ) Well done.

Bug Report:

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I was able to enter CS headquaters without C's delicatessen - gate: clicked on the sensor with "walk" cursor and girls just went through the gate, door - clicked on the door with "walk" cursor.
Gamebreaker, as girls won't leave the building and without C's lockpick I can't enter Rightwell's office.
Might have something to do with skipping music puzzle.

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How comes?
a1
b2
c3
d4
e5
f6
g7
h8
i9
j10
k11
l12
m13
n14
o15
p16
r17
Sure, in mine (and Blaze's) language there's an extra letter between L and M, but the game's in English...
Argh, I know I'm missing something obvious, I feel so dumb : )

EDIT.
I KNEW it! Removed polish "ł", but forgot about "q", which isn't used in polsih alphabet! Stupid, stupid, stupid!
Thanks, Chrille!

Hi all,
I'm stuck with password-breaking riddle. What I have:
Name: Bander + instruction to translate it to numeric code, which gives:
B-2, A-1, N=14, D=4, E=5, R=17 - so whole name is: 12144517.
Instruction also states that the final password is 8-digits numeric code (well, states 8 digits, strongly suggests numeric).

Cypher key:
C.K.131211 [of which i guess: "Cypher Key (?) 131211"]

Additional info:
patt.: - + loop (of which i guess "Pattern: minus \ plus loop - so -+-+-+ etc.)

Easiest way:
Take all of translated "Bander" numbers and use the cypher code in -\+ loop:
2-1=1, 1+2=4, 14-1=13, 4+2=6, 5-1=4, 17+1=18
Final code: 14146418.
Right? Well, wrong.

Using the same method but starting with + [so, 2+1=3, 1-2=(-1), etc.] gives me negative numbers, which I guess is wrong.

Any other ideas on decyphering this pass?

PS. Excellent game, Błażeju : )