In the deduction game The Red Pearls of Borneo by Bushmonkey, you are a clairvoyant investigator in 1948 London, exploring a tragedy that occurred eight years prior on a remote plantation in Borneo.
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it was a fun game, i think i cheesed it tho - ol svthevat bhg gur bayl crbcyr jub jbhyq tb gb gur thrfg ubhfr jrer yhar naq yhpnf be plaguvn, naq rcvybthr cneg nobhg svaqvat gur anzrf bs gur fbyqvre jnf pbashfvat ohg, nsgre rabhtu vgrz pyvpxvat v sbhaq gurz - (rot13)
ReplyDeleteShockingly enough, "tho" has never been a word. Perhaps what you were looking for was "THOUGH", O Evidently Lazy One.
DeleteThey did a whole cipher I don't think they're lazy.(??) Besides, Tho is a well known short hand perfectly fine for a comment game blog. To claim you are better at English for no reason just kinda comes off as looking down on people unnecessarily and makes you look like the one who is out of touch. This might not be your intention and I wish you all the best
DeleteThere are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the word tho. This word is now obsolete. It is last recorded around the early 1600s. To say it has never been a word might be seen a lazy.
ReplyDeleteThey were just giving a tutorial for how to make enemies quickly, using the "snarky unprompted attack" strategy.
DeleteI got stuck at the end, I found a walkthrough that mentions the "cemetary". However, that line is missing for me in that scene, and I haven't been able to find another way to ID the folks at the end.
ReplyDeleteyou have to continue with the journey of Lucas, Lune and Rose, and then backtrack to the original story
DeleteInteresting game, but man - trying to track people from one place to another got a bit frustrating. And didn't realize that there could be such an abrupt ending without finding all of the locations/activities. Probably should give another attempt at some point knowing a bit more about things and how the system works.
ReplyDeleteHelpful tip: When you have completed the timelines on the location, the Mind's Eye screen will present a new option that will take you on to the next stage of the story
ReplyDeleteHelpful correction: When you have completed the timelines on the Plantation, the Mind's Eye screen will present a new option that will take you on to the next stage of the story
DeleteWell, finished as much as I could, but there's apparently one photo that never showed up and nothing to trigger names to identify that photo so a couple of locations are ... unfinished. Neat game, though. And yeah - you have to start the game again to see "more" and get more details.
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ReplyDeleteThat last picture is in the Colonies glossary. Delphine tells you as such when you find his name.
It’s also on Steam by the way. And still free on there too :)
What a great game! And it is very user-friendly, really convenient to make notes, well-structured options to check progress etc. I love it!
ReplyDeleteSolved it. Though I couldn't solve everything else. What became of Jiro, the Rajah, Dieter, Edward, his Russian girlfriend, the Hinduist, Kaban, Ainysha(I need to remember the spelling), Cynthia, and Harrow?
ReplyDeleteRemaining unlocked events: Jungle entrance(14:00), Railway(15:00)
ReplyDeleteCan summon echoes for the first one(but only with the lighter), not the second.