Cardiophobia

author=Omega3000
I really love this game. It´s replay value is amazing and here is why: When I finshed the game I could rewind game to collect other endings. "Cool!" - I thought. But the amazing part is that when I was replaying it and did things differently, it activated new scares in places where nothing happened on my first playthrough, scaring the s*** out of me. I end up finding something new everytime I rewind game and that is what I call a replay value.

I am trying really hard to find all things and unlock all endings without any help and I am doing a great job at it, but some items and secrets just keep eluding me.

I do have few questions: At some points in the game when I do certain things I hear doors opening or closing (like when I get red gem). Are these sounds meaningful in some way or just there to scare me (which, by the way, are one of scariest things in this game for me, making me think that someone came in the room, or was there the whole time)? I did notice silhouette running in the garden, so... yeah.

Another question of mine is when I pick up item in the water, when I click again it say that there is something shinning in the water. Is this some error or something I haven´t figured out yet?

I like how I lose sanity and see horrifying images when I lose my "health".

All in all, game is excellent. Congratulations, Daniel_B!

Is your last name Fawn? Saw a grave in the game with Daniel Fawn written on it. And is that a Markiplier reference I spy with my little eye?

author=Miryafa
If anyone's interested (or stuck), I put a 100% playthrough on youtube here: https://youtu.be/II881LjuKZ8

author=Miryafa

author=Daniel_B

author=roseangel
Also, perhaps you can make something that collects all the texts you receive?

You mean the notes? In your inventory, you should have all the texts you collect so that you can re-read them, or am I misunderstanding what you mean?

I assume roseangel meant the text messages you get on the phone, like "Have you seen my energy drink pack?"

On another note, is secret ending 2 supposed to be the Forgetful ending? (And how is it forgetful when I 100%'d the game, rescuing both Emelie and Marcus, confronting Levi, finding Mother and finding the research data?) If not, I have a bug to report. And it took about 10 resets to even get bloody eyes too - it may be simpler than secret ending 1, but I'd say it's not easier to do.

author=Miryafa
I think you're misunderstanding some of what I'm writing. I enjoyed some parts of the game a lot. But others are maddeningly frustrating. Randomness is one of those things, and for me personally so are missable things. I hate putting a lot of time and energy into a game just to find out I can't get an ending or do something 2-3 hours in because I missed something within the hour, and am now past the point of no return. That sort of stuff is fine in 5 minute games and roguelikes, which have high re-playability, but just stink in a game that's the same on your 2nd, 3rd, and 10th attempt as on your first.

author=Miryafa
Wait, how do you save Emelie? I just checked the let's play, and what happened for him was completely different than what happened for me. As soon as I got the batteries, I rushed back upstairs to give them to Emelie, but when I talked to her door, I got no response - he just said "where did she go?". How did the LPer and I get completely different responses when we did the same thing?

author=Miryafa
Aha, I found the hint after you pointed it out. Yes, it is completely missable, because that patch of wall looks the same as every other patch of wall. And now that I've seen your pictures, I understand what you were talking about. But here's what I was doing, which still makes sense even after seeing the note: https://imgur.com/a/f2C7u

author=Miryafa
As a matter of fact, I didn't know where the Axe Key was until I read the comments. "There's something behind me" is completely different from "there's something on the wall behind me." The former implies it's right behind me, like a ghost standing on the tile below my character, while the latter is what you actually meant.

And the thing about this game's unforgiving mechanics (and Silent Hill 2's as you describe it) is that they are terrible game design. And if you think about it, you'll understand why. This is a horror game, so you wanted to scare me right? And what reduces scariness? Isn't it familiarity, such as going through the same section again and again because I died the first time? Also annoyance, such as because I had to restart the game at the very end because of a mistake I made near the beginning. Familiarity and annoyance also reduce fun, so you've made a horror game in such a way that it's going to become un-fun and un-scary. And since fun and scariness are the reasons I play horror games, that means that while this game has a lot of good points, that "survival" mechanic makes the game far worse than it could have been. To end with, "survival horror" as I understand it means any type of game where there's scary stuff and your job is to get out alive, including Resident Evil, Amnesia, Outlast, Ib, Misao, Mad Father, and The Witch's House. But most if not all of those still let you finish the game even if you make some mistakes. Games that don't let you finish if you make mistakes are comparable to Touhou, which is an achievement-based experience rather than a horror- or fun- based one.

author=Miryafa
Is there a list of where to find keys or something? And how many of them only appear after a certain event is completed, like the one in the hall between the dining room and garden?

author=Miryafa
My impression so far is that I dislike having to find keys for the medicine boxes. The health-to-scares ratio already seems designed to make me fail, and forcing me to find keys to even get at medkits just seems like an unnecessary added burden, when just finding medkit boxes is rare enough. If the system is designed to force me to do multiple playthroughs, I hate that, because this is not a roguelike, and because I've put a bunch of time into my playthrough already, save-scumming to avoid as many scares as reasonably possible. I do not want to start a new game, even if it is the only way to see the ending.

author=Miryafa
Are you kidding me? "You must be doing something wrong"? You just said standing in the corners throws light on the correct numbers, and I just said I stood in the corners and it threw light on all the numbers. How is it even possible to do it right? And if there is a "right" way to do it, how would anyone ever figure it out? There's no clues that I can see, and the logic for this puzzle doesn't follow the logic of any other puzzles up to this point. After the S=19 puzzle, I thought the solution would be to add up all the numbers in the room, and only gave up when the total was >1000.

author=Miryafa
Before this I didn't read the comments, so I didn't know what was said before. But I'd change the puzzle so that instead of yellow one of the colors is purple. And so that the numbers follow the order of the colors (red, green, then blue) instead of being random.

author=Miryafa
On another note, the game seems to be impossible for me to complete now. I've used every med key I've found on a med kit box, and there are still 2 med kit boxes I don't have keys for. Advancing the plot (with the shed or the basement) triggers a scare that kills me, and I'm out of medicines. Is there anything I can do, or am I just screwed?

author=Miryafa
No, this is not the case. I dunno what corners you stood in, but I tried all 6-7 corners in the room, and the lantern lights up literally every number except the 3 behind the wall's shadow.

author=Miryafa
Green is not a primary color and yellow is, so the hint for one of the puzzles is confusing =(