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...And I'm stuck in the sequel/parody, as well. 

The last thing I did was to get the picture of granny's late husband. Now I can't seem to figure out what to do next.

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This post is about chapter 2.

I enjoyed the new chapter. As usual, there is a clever puzzle design and a contraption which the player has to work out how to use. It was cool to be able to switch characters, and I'm instantly fond of the poor ghost fellow.

I was stuck for a while hunting for the glasses.

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I couldn't find them and was sure I had to fan the fire to light up some other space in order to find them. 

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I guess that there's another place other players may get stuck, but I lucked out and got it. 

The game also deserves some applause for using music themes connected to the character who is the focal point at that time, much like movies do. However, my personal music taste doesn't quite match, especially the long vibrato tones (the ghost music). I'm impressed that you composed this and play it, it's just not my genre. I did like the music in the "this has happened" segment, though!

This is shaping up to be a really nice multiple chapter escape game. I'm very much looking forward to the next installment. Perhaps it's time for a more sympathetic female character then? Count Bumbley can get away with some mysogonistic remarks, given his somewhat poor choice of girlfriend, but you don't want to overuse the trope of nagging or stupid woman without balancing it, either with stupid male characters or positive female ones. (This comes after playing most of your games.)

EDIT: If someone's wondering why I'm not commenting on part 1, I did so already when it was a MAGS entry a while back.

Another gamification of the episode: https://monsterjail.itch.io/steamedhams

Here are some more games with broken links:

FBI Quest is available at http://www.mediafire.com/download/6rzai7w1tvxozgc/FBI_Quest_(ENG).rar

Trash Quest can be found at http://www.mediafire.com/file/436a5swqebea5l0/Trash+Quest+%28ENG%29.rar

Yoda can be found at https://archive.org/details/yoda-2009

Battle Warriors: Rovendale Tactics (alpha) is at https://archive.org/details/battle-warriors-rovendale-tactics_alpha

Legend of Rovendale 1 can be found at https://archive.org/details/legend-of-rovendale-1

Dangerous Lands is at https://archive.org/details/dangerous-lands

Turtles Ninja in Time can be found at https://archive.org/details/turtles-ninja-in-time

The Journey Down: Over The Edge is at https://archive.org/details/the-journey-down-over-the-edge

..but is the cult all dead?

Well,

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I think not. The tower and especially the shed hints at maintenance, while the ruins do not. If the evil entity makes people insane and destructive when it enters their mind, there must be some true believer(s) who are still calm and organized, and whom the entity has no interest in killing.

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I got the amulet and travelled back in time, but now there seems to be no more to do in the game. Is there an ending? Is there more, or is that the "end" of the story?

Big congratulations to the nominees! There are some very good games on that list (and not one that doesn't deserve it).

However, I'm disappointed that Pedro's Adventures in Spanish wasn't nominated in anything, not even voice work. This was the year a full length game was released as a language learning device, and the failure to acknowledge that is unfortunate. One could simply watch one of the commercials to check out the voice work, but I guess it must mean it didn't have enough players from this community to receive the five nomination votes it deserved.

As for A Curious Pastime, which I nominated in almost every category possible, I would simply guess that first person games aren't as popular as 3rd. Oh well, it wasn't mentioned in the FYC thread either.

And...I just realized that there's a (probably unintentional) Zappa song reference hidden in one of the rooms!

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The party room, in which you can experience

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Titties & Beer.

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That was some beautiful art and a seriously messed-up timeline! 

I liked:

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Chugging a lot of beer! And death's shadow when trying to enter the cemetery! And the Kola Queen! And walking on the water (please don't take that out)! 

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Looks great! But you ought to put a zip file on itch for download. That's more convenient than four downloads, and it avoids the firewall triggers. My system had to be convinced about three of the four files that they were really safe.

Did someone spot which game Batman's playing?

If you like those action sequences, check out ukz's other games as well! 

I've been playing this for some days now. While the first game in this series was more traditional in build-up and interface, this one plays more like a movie with interactive segments. Voice acting, music and graphics is very well done, making the game look and sound very appealing.

The game is divided into segments where you have to perform some actions or solve some puzzles before progressing. This means that the story is somewhat on rails, but for Lovecraft fans, the content and details make up for that. The cutscenes are long and essential to the story. Frequently, they use another graphic style than the game proper, which was odd at first, but grew on me. This segmentation obviously lead to a non-open world, so some players will feel that's a loss. An upside to that is that if you are stuck in one location, you know that you have all you need to solve the necessary puzzle right there. That won't help if you get stuck, of course. A lot of the puzzles have to do with breaking codes and guessing the order you need to perform something. There are also some action sequences. I admit that I prefer the investigative puzzles, often combined with dialogue puzzles, and the ones that have to do with your inventory. My least favourite puzzle was the church puzzle.

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The problem was that one bench was marked "III-I", which I thought had to be two. But no, it was

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"Three - start here".

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While I'm not totally sold on the puzzles front, I still would recommend the game to fans of Lovecraft or horror in general. It's quite a grisly story with graphic mutilation, so be warned. The game can be confusing if not played for a while, as there are many names and characters , and even sequences where you play as another person. The confusion will be notably less if you know your Lovecraft.

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Also, please check if you did your votes for Best Character correctly - you need to select a game and write down the character name. We can fix typos and stuff later on, but you have to make sure that game and character match.

I don't know if it's a bug or whether I did something, but I discovered that my nominations in this category was thrown out of order. One name was set two times, and the other suggestions were pushed one place down the list, making the characters match the game directly above. I believe this must have happened during one of my (frequent) updates of the list, as my last suggestions have not been altered. (And by now I have played all the games, so I won't change it any further.)

In case there is a bug in the update function, I advice people to check if their votes match correctly.

Hi guys,

I'm playing Content, an adventure with nice graphics and an unusual horror/sci-fi plot.
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=58987.0

When I go to Mathew's house, there is a monster's egg on the floor but if I touch it, a monster appears on the window and kills me. I don't find much else to do there. Any hint that you can give me?

Thanks,
Tomags

Isn't there a tutorial or instructions? You have to be fast and click in the circle that appears to avoid the monster.

Yes, I tried to convince my son that we were on the same team against the sharks, but he was quick to point it out when he got a higher score than me! 

Thanks for the comment and for playing, mate! Really I designed this mainly as a game to play with my own daughters (my 7 year-old was my main play-tester and advisor  ) so I'm glad your child(ren) enjoyed it too (I'm assuming from your comment that they did, hopefully I'm right!  )

Oh yes! But we've had to quit out of the program and restart some times to avoid the one player getting too much of a headstart when starting with a bigger shoal than the other. Especially when more than two take turns. But it's fast, so no problem. One of my daughters asked for a high score table (yeah, that's the one with an insane score in single player...). I told her it would only read DAD on the top spots anyway. As if. 

Yeah, I firmly believe that an allegory only works if the story (game) is functional on the "first floor of reality", then the interpretations and symbolism can come as a bonus. Also, it's kind of cool to see some of the quotes in English and hear how they sound, when I'm familiar with them only in Nordic languages.

This game is decent fun in single player, but really, it's the two-player action that's the real deal here! I can heartily recommend snapping that fish right under the nose of your daughter's or son's fish! 

There is an easy way to pass a TRS file through google translate.
What I do is copy the entire file and paste it into a .html file and open it, then get Google Translate to translate the entire page. Then copy that and paste it into a new TRS file and then combine it with the original TRS file using a special tool. It tends to work brilliantly. It can mess up with the special string character though, likes %s for example. But it usually works. (It's allowed me to play a whole bunch of untrasnalted Maniac Mansion Mania games)
Now if only there was a tool that could reliably extract ALL of the text from AGS games. In my experience, they ignore certain hyphenated characters, don't extract dialogs at all, and don't even work at all on some versions of AGS. Right now, the only reliable way to extract all of the text, is if it's already got a translation in it that you can decompile.

Can you share what "special tool" you use for this? This may even be interesting to the authors of the MMM games...I'm sure most wouldn't mind to see their games in English, too.