Re: Fatal Hearts
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 8:17 pm
I was about to answer more or less the same thing as Papillon - you might also forgive two of those puzzles if you presume the player has a working knowledge of German - mine's pretty dodgy but it was enough for the rune sheet, for example.
Not to mention that
That puzzle amused me for many reasons, though. Firstly because I knew too many people at university even who didn't know how to cook pasta, so I wondered how many players would need to do extra research to find out how to stop it boiling over; secondly because having a graphics tablet makes grating the cheese a fairly quick affair, and I really wish it was that simple in real life...
The weird thing is that the wolf branches
Not to mention that
observant players might even have noticed that the password's actually engraved into the front of the short table halfway up the stairs in the entrance hall... which is a huge security no-no. Bastian is totally not getting his certification.
But yeah, the safe is pretty definitely pretty fourth-wall-breaking, particularly since in-game the girls mention that they can't get at the bookshelves full of occult books 'cause they're downstairs. I'd have wondered about the viability of making the player rely on Internet resources, but I guess you need an internet connection to buy the game...The last two symbols I just guessed, and tried both ways around.BellosTheMighty wrote:the last two runes on the safe I had some trouble determining, because they're too obscure.
No? I got the distinct impression in the non-wolf branches (the lower two on the gallery chart, IIRC) that Bastian was (as I think he says, more or less) definitely in love with Kirsten, but misguided and allowed his followers too much of a free reign; he seemed fairly remorseful and respectful of Christina's individual choice - I mean, he let her leave unmolested if that's what she chose, right? To me, the kitchen scene was just an illustration of that - that he's just some guy who doesn't think of Christina as an object, and just happens to be a vampire.BellosTheMighty wrote:The cooking puzzle seems like an odd digression- Papillion was probably trying to say something about Bastian, but it didn't quite come off. Actually, that my be a problem with the plotline as a whole- I don't get much of a sense for Bastian. I'm not getting the idea that his affection for Kirsten is genuine, which is why the Bastian endings didn't grab me.
That puzzle amused me for many reasons, though. Firstly because I knew too many people at university even who didn't know how to cook pasta, so I wondered how many players would need to do extra research to find out how to stop it boiling over; secondly because having a graphics tablet makes grating the cheese a fairly quick affair, and I really wish it was that simple in real life...
The weird thing is that the wolf branches
make him out to be much more malevolent and nastier. I seem to recall hints that it was him and not the Wolfriemen who had killed Kirsten in the first place, even...