Which episode are you supposed to start with?

[Zadok Allen]

Trying this out from the free Amazon giveaway and wondering if I'm supposed to start with episode 1 or the "bonus" episode labeled episode 0?

[dexterteamgames]

Originally posted by BBQ BEER FREEDOM:

Trying this out from the free Amazon giveaway and wondering if I'm supposed to start with episode 1 or the "bonus" episode labeled episode 0?

Hey! Sorry I didn't see your comment here. Great question -- you can start from Episode 0. It's a bonus episode, kind of like a short demo. Let me know if you have any other questions. Enjoy and thanks for playing!

[Zadok Allen]

Thanks! I suggest you change that confusing interface that comes up when you select 'new game.' It seems bizarre to me that the default highlighted option on a 'new game' is episode 2. Why not just automatically start a new game at what you consider the first episode, episode 0 you inform me, and then have a separate 'chapter select' option to instead play them out of order?

[Zadok Allen]

Oh I guess I see now after playing chapter 0. Is it really impossible to just keep playing the game all the way through? You have to start a 'new game' for every chapter instead of just playing them in order automatically? Why would you do that? Another question, is the voice acting similar all the way through the other chapters as in the prologue? Because the English voice acting in chapter 0 is terrible. If it's consistent throughout, for the other chapters I think I'd prefer just setting the voice volume to 0 and using only subtitles.

[dexterteamgames]

Originally posted by BBQ BEER FREEDOM:

Oh I guess I see now after playing chapter 0. Is it really impossible to just keep playing the game all the way through? You have to start a 'new game' for every chapter instead of just playing them in order automatically? Why would you do that? Another question, is the voice acting similar all the way through the other chapters as in the prologue? Because the English voice acting in chapter 0 is terrible. If it's consistent throughout, for the other chapters I think I'd prefer just setting the voice volume to 0 and using only subtitles.

Thanks for getting back with me. First of all, yes, the voice acting is the same throughout. Sorry to hear it doesn't resonate with you. If you'd like, you can turn it down to zero.

As for the ending each episode on the menu screen - duly noted. The reason I chose to do this, was so people can choose to take a break. Play an episode, put the game down, go out enjoy something else, and come back to it to play another episode. I appreciate your feedback though and will consider it moving forward. Take care and I hope you enjoy playing the game. All the best.

[Slade]

I wanted to chime in here with a few thoughts, having, like the OP, received the game on Amazon Gaming as well.

I'll try to keep this brief, where I can.

- I really like point and click adventure games, and this one is (in my opinion), amazing.
- Visually, it's very much cartoon like, with excellent animation, backgrounds, locations and colours.
- The voice acting was, surprisingly, very good. I only had two grievances: 1/ A few lines that 'Aurora' speaks in Chapter 0 or early in Chapter 1 are completely different sounding, almost like they were recorded in a bathroom. There is significant echo in them. 2/ When the guard says 'Proverb", I could not understand him at all and it slowed my progress there for a bit.
- The story line falls back on familiar tropes, but still feels fresh, and it quite humorous. Congratulations for that. It's not easy to accomplish.
- I did use a hint / walkthrough in two places as I got stuck. Mostly my fault for not paying enough attention / remembering well enough. Although a few spoken clues might help push things along. Eg (spoilers) I'd completely forgotten the Roadie could tune the Ukulele, it would have been nice to be prompted when looking at the Ukulele in the inventory with something like "If only there was a roadie/someone to tune it". I also found you could pick up stuff without needing to know what it was for, which is both good and bad. I had the floating pig, but couldn't pick up the inflated giraffe, but didn't really know why. It just seemed odd. One last section that really stumped me, was trying to give the girl the wallet in Chapter 2(?). I knew what I had to do, but it seemed counterintuitive to hand it to her directly, only for Dexter to walk to the other window to put it down, when you couldn't do that directly.

And as per the OP's comment, yeah, being able to continue the game directly would have been good. Being dumped back to the main interface was annoying. Having a choice to either keep playing the next chapter or stop would have helped.

Overall though, I really look forward to, hopefully, more episodes of this series. If I had to score it, I'd give it an 8.5/10. Tremendous effort for a small indie team.

[dexterteamgames]

Originally posted by Slade:

I wanted to chime in here with a few thoughts, having, like the OP, received the game on Amazon Gaming as well.

I'll try to keep this brief, where I can.

- I really like point and click adventure games, and this one is (in my opinion), amazing.
- Visually, it's very much cartoon like, with excellent animation, backgrounds, locations and colours.
- The voice acting was, surprisingly, very good. I only had two grievances: 1/ A few lines that 'Aurora' speaks in Chapter 0 or early in Chapter 1 are completely different sounding, almost like they were recorded in a bathroom. There is significant echo in them. 2/ When the guard says 'Proverb", I could not understand him at all and it slowed my progress there for a bit.
- The story line falls back on familiar tropes, but still feels fresh, and it quite humorous. Congratulations for that. It's not easy to accomplish.
- I did use a hint / walkthrough in two places as I got stuck. Mostly my fault for not paying enough attention / remembering well enough. Although a few spoken clues might help push things along. Eg (spoilers) I'd completely forgotten the Roadie could tune the Ukulele, it would have been nice to be prompted when looking at the Ukulele in the inventory with something like "If only there was a roadie/someone to tune it". I also found you could pick up stuff without needing to know what it was for, which is both good and bad. I had the floating pig, but couldn't pick up the inflated giraffe, but didn't really know why. It just seemed odd. One last section that really stumped me, was trying to give the girl the wallet in Chapter 2(?). I knew what I had to do, but it seemed counterintuitive to hand it to her directly, only for Dexter to walk to the other window to put it down, when you couldn't do that directly.

And as per the OP's comment, yeah, being able to continue the game directly would have been good. Being dumped back to the main interface was annoying. Having a choice to either keep playing the next chapter or stop would have helped.

Overall though, I really look forward to, hopefully, more episodes of this series. If I had to score it, I'd give it an 8.5/10. Tremendous effort for a small indie team.

Thanks for playing and providing that feedback. That's tremendously helpful. As I'm working on the sequels to this game, I want to make sure not to repeat the same mistakes (although, I'll likely make new ones lol). With the next installments, the voice over will definitely be more consistent and I'll make sure not to commit that main menu mistake. Thanks for taking the time to let me know your thoughts! - Jeremy