The story of this amazing game, am i right ?! [spoilers]

[CalinTM]

So there are two sisters. One is Sam, 17 years old, and the other one (player) is Kaitlin who is 22 years. I guess she is living on her own, and came to her parents house to spend the summer with them ?

Samantha, her sister, has made a new friend on her new school, named Yolanda(Lonnie) who i think has some kind of school problems, the girl is a typical teenage rebel and she is older than Sam,i think she is about 1-2 school years older than Sam, she wants and prepare to go to army school and Sam adopted her behavior, having a favorite soft rock/punk band, writing to each other typical girlish teenage stuff, listening to Lonnie's proposed music, rock/punk.

And Sam's friend, Lonnie i think she is a lesbian !? And after this Sam started to like the girl's touch, and started to watch adult magazines ? Also Sam started smocking, because he saw Lonnie smocking and she has a pack of cigarettes on her own personal locker to keep away from the parents.
Also, Sam plays a lot ov early console nintendo video games.
And basically Sam was a good girl, until she met this Lonnie, and her parents starting to know something about the two girls.

So basically they both fell in love with each other, i saw only L+S writings on some stuff.

Her father writes books about JFK's assassination and has some affinity about watching many movies cassettes, typical 90' style...

And her mother is some kind of ranger ?!

So the short version, Sam when she moved in a new house with her parents, she met on her new school a little older girl, Lonnie, who was into a band thing, and that girl loved Sam very much Sam, turned to be a lesbian, Sam loved over Lonnie over time too, they were doying everything together, until Lonnie needed to ship away, and she called Sam to take the car and drive to Lonnie, because each other were in love.

And here i assume her mom and dad, went after Sam to find her. And Kaitlin found herself in the middle of all this mess. ? :)

Am i right ? This game was soooo awesome, the producers were able to create some real'ish characters from nothing, only from some writings found by the player in the house.

[Goober Peas]

More or less yeah. One thing though, Sam didn't "turn" into a lesbian. In one of her journal audios it makes it clear she knew she wasn't straight since She-Ra. She-Ra being He-Man's female counterpart. Since I'm roughly the same age as Sam, I remember He-Man stuff very well and how it was popular in the 80s. So Sam knew as a young kid that she was different.

Oh, and about the parents. They weren't looking for anyone. They were out of town on a "vacation." In reality it was couples counciling thing since Jan might've been banging Ranger Rick, a co-worker.

As for Kate, she was in Europe traveling for year. The house is completely new to her and she got a cheap ticket home at a weird time, which explains why no one was really ready and waiting for her to come home. I assume they knew she was coming home within a several day time frame, just not exactly when.

[CalinTM]

Yep, Sam wasn't a lesbian, or turn ? Lonnie "cracked" her affinity for lesbian stuff. Well, pardon me, english is not my primary language, but i think i managed to understand about 80% on what happened in this game, some words were kinda hard to understand in that context. :)

Ok, so they were still on that vacantion, i thought when Kaitlin arrived the parents had known about Sam and her lesbian friend and why she flew away.

[Goober Peas]

The parents knew that Sam was gay and knew that she was getting gay with Lonnie, yes. But no, the parents don't even know Sam is gone. They left her alone for that week while they were at counciling. That week Sam and Lonnie spent just about all of their time together at the house. That's why the ghost stuff was hidden in all of these little places, that's why there was a couch fort in the living room.

Kate arrived home at like 1 AM on June 7th. Lonnie shipped out either on the 5th or 6th, and called Sam the afternoon/night of the 6th and Sam stole some electronics from the house and left to find Lonnie later that night on the 6th. So Sam was "missing" for a few hours by the time Kate gets home. No one knows Sam is even really gone until you go up into the attic and find the journal Sam left for Kate. Before that, during the course of the day...based on some things Sam said towards the end...it seems Sam was thinking about suicide but Lonnie called and told her she couldn't go through with joining the Army and to come find her.

[[MGOT] Lewf]

Some of your story is very incomplete or not accurate, but you got the main idea, i guess. The game tells you a lot more about the dad and mom, for example

[CalinTM]

I know, i recently, found it out watching some youtube, as i said it's kinda hard for me, the game uses hand writing english, and i didn't understood most of the events in the game, mostly the mom and dad "issues". Her mom was cheating her dad with another guy ?

[CalinTM]

Also, where are the other two journals ? look at picture
http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/7624/6aay.jpg

[[MGOT] Lewf]

One of them (last one) is an easter egg. If you want to knwo how to get it:

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Go to the garage. Pick up a can from the recycling bin, go back to the garage door that goes into the house. Standing inside the garage, look up. You will see a tiny pink ball stuck in the ceiling. Throw the can against that ball and the ball will drop. Pick up the ball and go all the way to Sam's room. Throw the ball in the little basket behind her bedroom door.
Enjoy!!!

The last one is called "Nursery" - it's a pretty funny one too, at least at the end. To get it, close the folder in the east wing corridor and look at the torn tv listing
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There they are. No major story you missed on those ones, mainly easter eggs and extra stuff. What you really missed are the mom and dad stuff, really nothing to do with the romance but really add to the environment

[CalinTM]

Heey, worked, was a funny easter egg :D Please if you could tell me the last one too :)

[[MGOT] Lewf]

Originally posted by CalinTM:

Heey, worked, was a funny easter egg :D Please if you could tell me the last one too :)

I edited my comment. I found what the last journal was.

Also, you could try listening to the commentaries. Once you are done, you can start a new game (everything from before will be erased), then on the bottom left before you hit start, there will be a "modifiers" button. Just enable commentaries and start.

Walk around the house hitting the commentaries buttons. Some are quite boring, some are really cool to listen to, some even quite emotional, some just talk about tchnical aspects of the game, which can be cool. My favorite commentary was next to the kitchen, in a hidden compartment (that is open by default, for some reason). It's Sam's voice actress talking about how she felt when recording a journal. Very touching, and it makes you appreciate the game even more.

[CalinTM]

Yep, i found it, wasn't about missing something, i checked i had only 2 of them missins and i said, meh i must find them to have it complete. Well was a very awesome game, my words are almost as those in the gamespot review. Feeling that they are real persons and live their real life, they basically created some characters from nothing, you don't meet any person in the game, only thoughts written in papers. So well written and explained that you really think they are real. Other games like Witcher 1 and 2 had also very memorable characters, but this game makes some characters from scrap.

About mom and dad, yeah for me was a little jerky to "read" them, but i got my info about the second story from youtube.

[reeft]

I didn't know anything about the story before playing the game and I must confess that I am quite surprised. At first, I thought I was playing a ghost game and I'd be scared at some point but the journals soon became soothing and much more interesting than the house itself.

[CalinTM]

The core of the story is simple. The beauty if how this story is told, you need to blend into the game's story and characters, and because you don't see them, it really depends of your imagination to make up things, to imagine, this is all about. The game is not for everyone. You can't "robotic" play the game.

[TheFergmiester]

Not quite. Kaitlin is 21, Sam was already into video-games and punk rock and was already a lesbian before she met Lonnie. Lonnie is just the one who caused her to discover her sexuality.

Also, her parents aren't away trying to find her. They're on a vacation for their Anniversary because their marriage has been on the rocks.

[evilthing45]

Story was amazing and fun.

[CalinTM]

Originally posted by Muraz:

Not quite. Kaitlin is 21, Sam was already into video-games and punk rock and was already a lesbian before she met Lonnie. Lonnie is just the one who caused her to discover her sexuality.

Also, her parents aren't away trying to find her. They're on a vacation for their Anniversary because their marriage has been on the rocks.

Kinda, maybe she didn't had a friend who discovered her lesbian atraction before, until she met Lonnie. If she wasn't a lesbian when Lonnie got into her, she could refuse her, but she didn't. Guess this is some girlish typical behavior, on some girls at that age.

Also, about the change of life style, in one journal Sam says that Lonnie gave her some music to listen to, and Sam said she didn't stopped listening, you do this only when you like a type of music very much, or discover a new gender that you like.

So i guess this Lonnie came and "opened" Sam's "knowledge" about lesbian thing and changing behavior. And also i don't think Lonnie (who probably is 1//2 years older than Sam) knew something before, and wanted a partner for her lesbian attraction, i think both were just young girls, only that Lonnie made the first step, somehow. And Sam got nuts and wanted every bit of her live with Lonnie, probably because that was her first "in love" with someone, she still has a young age, though, so i think was a first for her.