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Return of the Obra Dinn (PC) Status: Playing I started playing this game on Sunday 27 October, 2024
Current opinion of this game
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October 27, 2024 05:55:32 PM
So far, which is only 30 mins or so into the game, this is not what I was expecting! It's more "interactive" than I thought - with the 3D frozen-in-time scenes a particularly surprising stand out for me so far. I'm currently on the 2nd "scene" (chapter?) and I'm not sure I understand how the pocketwatch is meant to work - sometimes within a scene it'll be vibrating - and then I'll press X on some other part and it'll flash and then you'll see a trail of "smoke" - and I'm kind of confused as to what it's all supposed to mean. I think for now I'll just continue to play along until I get horribly stuck? I'm just worried that it's a key mechanic of sorts that has some meaning that helps fill out the blanks in the case. I liked the "fill in the blanks" in Curse of the Golden Idol - and this is similar (though earlier!) - but harder in a way? I just need to identify who died, how, and by whom. The names seems to be the hardest thing so far. We'll see how it goes.