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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?


Thank you for the nice comment. I do know the game is very hard and unforgiving, so do not feel ashamed to look up a thing or two if you are really stuck.

Yes, those sound effects are there to add atmosphere, they don't really "do" anything else. Here's a little bit of a trivia for you, the silhouette in the garden is Lavinia's character sprite.

That is an error on my part. I've fixed it, but I'll probably hold on updating the game just yet, so the next time I do upload a new update, this will be fixed.

My last name is not Fawn no, all the names are taken from somewhere, or made up.
Small trivia spoiler:
Felix is a nod to pewdiepie (we are both Swedes), Robin, Lucas, Marcus, Oscar are my friends, Lavinia was a name I got from googling "First female serial killer" or something like that, Emelie is a variation on Emma, a childhood friend of mine. Omir, Felix's last name in the game, is a variation on Imre, which is another friend of mine. The Daniel on the gravestone doesn't necessarily mean me, because I have a friend whose name is also Daniel, but having 2 Daniels would only be confusing. The Derek and Alex in the Brothers story are actually a nod to the HVGN (Derek Alexander).


Yes that is a markiplier reference. I think you are the first to point that one out actually :)

Thank you so much for liking the game, even though it has a lot of flaws.

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


You didn't even save once xD so manly

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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.


Maybe, but I never got an answer from rose, so I don't know what he meant.

Hm, that doesn't sound right. Forgetful is NOT a secret ending, it's the worst ending, which you shouldn't be able to get if you did all those things.

Did you get forgetful when trying to leave as dark felix after you've saved emelie and marcus + the other things? I need more info, please send me a private message detailing as much info as you can, and I will look into this myself too.

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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.


Yes, no I understood what you meant. The randomness may suck, but it's kinda there for replayability and to enhance the scariness. It's there to mess with the player. Now it might not be implemented in a good way, like you've said, so maybe random is not what I should've gone with, but like I said, in that case I had to redo the whole game, or at least half of it.

When I played through the game, I actually didn't think it would be longer than 15-30min (if you skip side stuff), and that you would maybe figure out one or two of the side things at a time if the player wanted to replay the game. Can't say more than that. Thanks for still playing the game as much as you have, and I hope I do a better job next time, if there is a next time.

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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?


You took too long, sorry. She is on a timer, if you get the batteries to her, you get some more time. Here's a spoiler:
Her timer stops in her hallway and some other places, like safe rooms if I don't remember it wrongly. Since she doesn't talk to you anymore, that means it's already too late, but if you walk away and come back later, you can even enter her room and get a cutscene of Felix finding her body.


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


Oh now I see what you meant. Well, the puzzle and clue are confusing, but I actually thought the puzzle was a neat idea at the time, since it uses the lighting effect to solve. Might just be me though...

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.


The text box saying the thing about the axes hanging on the wall behind you are broken. The text goes outside of the message box so you do not get all the info, sorry.

I don't really have much to say about this, I guess it comes down to opinion. Some will like it, some will not. You can't please everyone. I made this game alone, so for me it all kinda made sense and I tried to make a game that I would like to play. If I had worked with other people that could give me input and ideas all the way through, then yes it would've probably been a better experience overall. But unfortunately, that's not the case. I can understand it's maddening for you, but what do you want me to do? Go back and redo the whole game? All I can do is take what you and everyone else have said and take it with me if I ever make another game.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm very happy that you write long posts about this to me, I don't believe in bad critic. It sucks that the game is un-fun for you, but some people seemed to like it, with flaws and all, so like I said before, you can't please everyone.

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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?


I'll give you a list. The key in the hallway to the garden is not there when you are too scared, the same with the medkit box outside of the stone room. These 2 are the only ones effected by scaredness.

Keys:
Felix's Room on the bed (after Lucas' cutscene)
You get one when you save Emelie (She gives it to you before leaving)
In the little garden outside Mother's Room
Inside the crack in the basement (First room to the left when entering)
Under the flower pot after finding Lucas
Hallway to the maze garden (Only when not too scared)
In the kitchen sink (Doesn't matter if its full of blood or not)

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.


The game is design like that, it's a survival game. Think of it like this, if you play Silent Hill 2 and by the end of the game you used up all your health and ammo and can't find anymore, then yes you would have to start over cause you're kinda fucked. I'm not trying to be an asshole here, it's just how the game is designed. Yes, it is unforgiving, but I bet if you make a new run through the game, you will do it with ease cause you already know where to go, the solutions to most of the puzzles, which will make you do less running around. Running around blindly is how some of the scares get you. However, I will admit that since there are scares that are random, maybe you just have shitty ass luck, but I'm amazed that you haven't been able to at least reach the exit yet, since you said you found 5 keys, and if you know where the Axe Key is, getting to the exit doesn't take that long. If you are trying to find everything on your first run, then I'd say that's impossible, cause the game is not designed that way.

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.


Here's a picture: The corners

What am I doing in these pictures that you are not? There is a hint next to the box that want the 3 digit combination, but I did notice that the wall is very dark so it is miss-able, but the hint itself might not be the best anyways.



I hope this helps, even if you still don't like the game.

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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.


I could do that. I have been thinking of releasing a new update with some fixes on text and such, and changing the color on yellow to purple wouldn't take that long.

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?


There are keys for every medkit. You might be screwed, but wait, shed or basement? Aren't those scares random? Idunno which keys you have collected so I can't really help you with that.

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.


I literally just tested this, and you must be doing something wrong. Idunno what else to say, this puzzle works as it should for me.

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


I've heard this before, it seems like everyone has different opinions on what a primary color is, and that is why I changed the hint to light spectrum long ago.
If you still think that light spectrum isn't right then I don't really know what to tell you. I've always thought that red green and blue were the main colors, mainly cause those are the 3 colors you talk about (at least for me).
I've only seen RGB being a thing in things like photoshop, so I don't really know what to tell you. I've admitted that I was wrong, hence why I changed the hint, but any more than that, what else can I do?

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I made a mistake on how to get Special Ending 1 in my previous comment, it should be correct now.

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I've been away for so long, I hardly remember where things are, but I hope I can still be of help to some of you.

author=deeno
1. Skull room. I dont have key or so
2. Painting rooms. After I got into painting rooms in basement, i realize that there's something behind the bar, and maybe I should press some button to open the bar. But which one?
3. Room with some mechanics in the door. I dunno what should I put on the hole. Orbs? Nah, not working..
ALSO, the piano. I don't have any clue which tempo I should play.
4. A silver chest in Golden room

You get the Skull Key from the dragon statue upstairs in the little room on the balcony from Mother's Room. You need 2 Red Gems to get it, one of the gems is located in the basement hall behind the spikes, the other is the the painting room behind the bars.

Painting room. This is a nod/ripoff from Resident Evil painting puzzle. You are to press the paintings in the right order, the order is telling the story from start to finish.
Solution to the painting puzzle:
Little boy > Young man > Man and woman > A couple and a group of people > Man decapitating woman > Man covering his face > Hanging man


Is this the same room with the silver chest? I'm guessing so, so ive combined them into one answer: To open the silver chest, you need to insert the orbs into the holes, but you need all 6 orbs and in the right hole to complete this puzzle.

Piano room. When Felix is scared enough, the shelves changes into long and small bookcases, that's the tempo.

author=roseangel
So, I have all the endings 'cept the middle 2, endings 3 and 4 I'm guessing. . . no matter what I tried I can't seem to get them, can you give a little guidance please?

That's really good actually, I'm impressed. The 2 middle ones are the special endings. Here is how you get them:
Special Ending 1:
First up: Don't save Emelie or Marcus.
You need to Lie about Robin to Marcus. (Lying to Marcus will make him no longer appear in the game, i.e, he won't be in Robin's room.)
You need to have entered Emelie's room. (Emelie's life is on a timer, so just don't do any of her things, do other stuff until finally her door no longer is closed.)

You need to find Lucas. (You'll find him in the secret room in the basement.)

You also need to do at least 2 of the following, this is so that you don't get the worst ending.
Finding Mother.
Confronting Levi (Tips: Confronting her means talking to her at the attic after meeting her in the caverns.)
Finding Research Data.

In the eastern rooms in the basement, there is a mask hanging on a wall. Inspect the mask and then go down some so you can't see the mask anymore. The mask is now gone.

Lastly, you need to read the open book in the library.

Now all you have to do is leave like normal and the special ending should play.


Special Ending 2:
This one is a lot easier. Go and save Emelie and Marcus (If you don't know when they are 'saved', Emelie is saved after you've given her the rope and she leaves her room. Marcus is saved when he says "Fine... I get it..." when being straight with him in Robin's Room.

After saving both of them, go to the exit BUT DON'T LEAVE YET. You need to have Felix dripping blood from his eyes. This is something that might happen when Felix is at max scare (meaning one more scare will kill him).

As another tip: After using Medicine, Felix heartbeat is at 0, you need to get to 5 to try and activate the eyes. 6 is death. The easiest way is to go to the last save room in the caverns, save, and then use energy drinks to try and activate it. Use a medicine and then 5 drinks, if the eyes don't show, reload and try again.

I know this is a pain, but it is a special ending after all.


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?