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it's not real-time.
i played for ~an hour tonight and the game clock went ahead about two or more.

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well, you also wouldn't know a good chunk of who's who/what's what on the map.

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uhh, you can feel however you want about it. of course there's room for improvement; but you have yet to explain how all of the flaws combine into an overall result of terribleness (regardless of how much you still like it), which is on the extreme end of things. i actually can't tell if some parts are the way they are purposefully or not -- like if i'm supposed to laugh every time york smiles -- and that's part of why it's sort of hard to make an absolute critical statement. as i said on the podcast, though, i'm leaning towards legitimately good. i'll explain this in a future post, i guess, since i don't have the time right now. also, was anyone else surprised by stuff like isaac and isaiah actually climbing into kaysen's car -- rather than standing next to it and being teleported inside -- to be driven off?

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i didn't know there was a fast-travel option.
i'm still going to drive everywhere. because fuck fast travel.

ronnoc: just go to your wardrobe menu and select the clean option on a suit.
before i realized you could clean suits, i was wondering what the deal with the flies was.

also: i'm growing a fierce bead.
if i'm not mistaken, even the hair on york's head thickens.

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a friend and i just started watching twin peaks because of this, and the similarities are blatant. d.p. even uses its music the same way (a very small handful of themes (including a cool jazzy tune) played over and over again). now i wonder which we should finish first, since there might be a common element shared in the identity of the murderer.

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enemies are pretty easy to take care of, and you're supplied with lots of healing packs, but yeah, you can easily get killed in several hits later on. i think most of my deaths were caused just by getting surrounded by enemies in a tight path and having no good way to deal with all of them at once. has anybody else noticed what happens when an enemy's set on fire?

guess i'm about to finish this!

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For a couple of months I've been unsure about watching the rest of Twin Peaks.

Adi, post something!

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Once you finish the game, you can access a small photographic library showing the places (must've been one town) the team visited to get an idea for Greenvale's layout and building-types. I wonder how familiar Suehiro is with North America; this might've actually been answered in WAHP's DP interview.

spoilers: I wasn't too keen on DP going all Resident Evil in the end -- having George turn into a silver-haired ogre and Kaysen being revealed as some sort of ancient force, the latter of which bothered me more, since the "evil because evil" explanation is the most boring one in the universe. My disappointment was somewhat similar to my disappointment with Twin Peaks, when it started to do the spiritual moral blame game.

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Adilegian, did you play more of this?

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If Adi hates DP with a passion incomprehensible I'm even more intrigued

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might as well

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Adilegian I do not think you are going to enjoy anything about the game's final moments, narratively and mechanically. I did not, anyway. So that's what you have to look forward to!

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oh god. you're almost at the point i'm talking about
but yeah that
i just

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Adi and I were discussing that in irc, and both of us were at a loss for the thread's respective enthusiasm. It was literally the most confusingly structured part in a 3D game I've ever experienced, and I don't even remember how I completed it.

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