No Ending?

[Rivereyes]

Ok, I made it to the very last "Home" stage, where I'm awake, not dreaming, and the Monster She is upon the house. I hit the clock, it's morning, I go out, boom, game over. Is there something I'm missing? The little white lightning bolt/sanity bar I used to have has all disappeared by now.

I suspect this ties to me just dying upon exiting the house.

Any ideas?

[malek86]

If it's the last home stage, you will get the ending simply by hitting the clock. If the door still opens, that means there's one more dream stage.

But you must have at least a little bit of bar left, before you leave the house for the last time, or you'll have to restart the game.

[Rivereyes]

♥♥♥♥ that, I'm not restarting anything, I'll accept madness and death :)

(Many thanks for your help though!)

[(not active) linux-mint-sir]

thanks, this helped me too ^_^

[Cybolic]

I'm in the same situation. Do I really have to restart the game and redo 3 hours of gameplay to get the ending? This can't be right; surely this must be a bug?

[Kordesh]

Originally posted by Cybolic:

I'm in the same situation. Do I really have to restart the game and redo 3 hours of gameplay to get the ending? This can't be right; surely this must be a bug?

Sadly no, it's pretty par for the course with Ice-Pick Lodge games which is unfortunate as, while it's a valid design choice, it's not one many are going to want o embrace, especially as the game isn't particularly engaging the 2nd time around as you've already unraveled everything.

[Rivereyes]

Let's see, I've found and seen the face of the weeping woman in the house, got about 7 "Glimpses of Truth" (love those by the way, one of the most inspired design choices in the game) and discovered that some rooms, gradually show more and more items inside as you progress towards the end.

Still, the sanity bar chipping away almost out of our control and how it robs us of a proper ending (Madness and death are all very Lovecraft and cool, but come on, I want a finale :) really puts a damper on proceedings.

[Paul]

Originally posted by Cybolic:

I'm in the same situation. Do I really have to restart the game and redo 3 hours of gameplay to get the ending? This can't be right; surely this must be a bug?

No, it's just a horribly misguided design choice. Typical for Russian games, unfortunately. They still haven't quite mastered the art.

It would have been nice to at least give people an achievement for getting the "game over" ending. Make it a legit ending rather than an "lol u just wasted 3 hours" troll ending.

[angrias]

Originally posted by Borracho:

Still, the sanity bar chipping away almost out of our control and how it robs us of a proper ending (Madness and death are all very Lovecraft and cool, but come on, I want a finale :) really puts a damper on proceedings.

Agreed. Especially when at times it's like there's no option but to get caught. Argh. This just happened to me for the second time!

[Cybolic]

Originally posted by Killer Tampon:

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It would have been nice to at least give people an achievement for getting the "game over" ending. Make it a legit ending rather than an "lol u just wasted 3 hours" troll ending.

Originally posted by SazzyRainah:

So its an ending to the game when you go out the house and it says game over?

Yeah, this is exactly how it feels. The game keeps telling you that "it's time to go outside", "maybe you should check the front door again", etc.; but when you finally do the only option the game will give you, it will promptly laugh at you for falling for that old trick.
Honestly it feels somewhere between a game-state bug and a "made you look" joke from an annoying child.

I guess I'll redo it again at some point, but I think I'll wait until Knock-knock stops smirking at me like that ;)

[Panic]

That's not true. I managed to finish the game in the same situation with normal ending. It was in his diary, I think, about the game you should play an hour before dawn.
You should pay more attention to what he says and what he writes. That's the only way to finish this game. And I think, it's awesome :)

[DocRask]

there should be no reward for game over

[Paul]

Originally posted by DocRask:

there should be no reward for game over

There should be no reward for developers that troll their customers and design bad games.

[Cybolic]

Originally posted by wanttofly88:

That's not true. I managed to finish the game in the same situation with normal ending. It was in his diary, I think, about the game you should play an hour before dawn.
You should pay more attention to what he says and what he writes. That's the only way to finish this game. And I think, it's awesome :)

How did you manage this? The only way I could make time move in the last stage was by using the clock - and there's only the one clock.

[greay]

Originally posted by wanttofly88:

That's not true. I managed to finish the game in the same situation with normal ending. It was in his diary, I think, about the game you should play an hour before dawn.
You should pay more attention to what he says and what he writes. That's the only way to finish this game. And I think, it's awesome :)

I've tried to recall all the game rules from the journal, and I think I know the one you're talking about – but I have no idea how to actually do it. I'm completely at a loss.

[CheshireCatMoonSmile]

so you have to find the diary to get the proper ending?