Designer Cut?

[Bjørn]

Greetings.

I've started the original version with cut content, and in the options screen there is an option to checkmark 'DESIGNER CUT'. What does this do, please? Is that how you enable the cut content?

I played the original game when it was released, but don't remember much now, and read that it's recommended to try the old version instead of the Enhanced one. I don't remember if I had any cut content back then, but I doubt it. Big, boxed version...

[ShadowNate]

The "Designer Cut" in KIA options is an option that existed in the original game.
It is not related to restored content and, thus, will not enable or disable restored content.

This option was offered in order to skip some of McCoy's inner monologue and narration, and on a couple of occasions skip very small parts of dialogue (McCoy and Steele) or single dialogue cues (McCoy, Lucy).

If you're playing the game for the first time, it's recommended to have this option disabled (unchecked). This is the default state of this option's checkbox anyway.

More info:
Presumably this was done as a reference to the Blade Runner movie editions, whereby the theater version had inner monologue for Deckard (...), but the later Director's Cut removed it.

Or it was intended for the user to have the option to shorten the dialogue they'd hear repeating when playing for a second. third, or further subsequent playthroughs, since the game is designed to be played multiple times to experience different paths and branches of the story and different endings.

But, as it is, the option actually does not result to much of a difference in the game. Maybe due to time constraints on the road to release the original game, the developers could not afford to fully implement it. Then again, maybe it was always intended to be something of an "inside joke".

When it is *enabled*, the game will skip some of McCoy's inner monologues or parts of them (and also really small parts of other dialogues). So enabling it, *removes* content from the game.

There is *one* case when the Designers Cut mode (enabled) will modify a scene by adding something to it rather than removing from it -- it's still a really small difference. This happens towards the end of the game, for a specific ending branch path (...).

The Restored Content mode uses the Designers Cut option as the original game does. It is additionally used to affect a restored McCoy's inner monologue (to skip it if the Designers Cut is enabled). Maybe in its final version, Restored Content will do more with this option (Note: The Restored Content mode is *still* work in progress).

[Bjørn]

Many thanks for the thorough reply I'll turn it back on

I had forgotten most of the game, I noticed. I think I remember having some hardware issues when I first played it, and never finished it.

What struck me was how good it was! Good old point and click with no hand-holding, and a great setting and atmosphere, and the cases and characters dragged me in very quickly.

The first Blade Runner movie has been one of my favourite movies since it was released.

[Creeper]

For me, the “Restored Content” mode is the best version of the original mode that I was able to play even in the Steam or Gog versions. (I didn't know the mode otherwise), I've played it a few times now and I'll never miss playing it again.

-There are various innovations in dialogues with a few NPCs.
(On-board computer in the spinner speaks more, apartment elevator speaks more, you can really pet your dog Maggy and Mccoy then talks). There are many more beautiful things to discover...

-McCoy can find and examine multiple objects in the game world.

-You also meet special NPCs in unfamiliar places (Rachel in the elevator at McCoy's apartment, for example).

-McCoy can spend more money at the market and buy pointless things like a goldfish :).

- NPCs in the game world no longer disappear after a while if you progress. Because some police colleagues disappeared from the police station after a while, and that always bothered me back then.

I've never had any problems in this mode, even if it's somehow in test mode, or hasn't been fully finished... I always play my playthroughs in this mode now.

[Bjørn]

Thanks for the tips!

I've postponed playing it. I'm leaving for Portugal soon, where I'll probably be for a few months, and I'll only have my old laptop with me. I'm planning on playing this and other 'low spec' games while I'm there, so I'm looking forward to it