No Advancing When No Anomaly. Normal?

[EtherealAvian]

I just want to make sure that this is what it's supposed to be like, and I'm not missing tiny anomalies every time there appears to be nothing.

[ngwoo]

I ended up refunding it because half the time I couldn't tell if the game was broken or if I was just missing something. It's incredibly unclear what you're supposed to actually do unlike Exit 8.

[Magnus]

Originally posted by EtherealAvian:

I just want to make sure that this is what it's supposed to be like, and I'm not missing tiny anomalies every time there appears to be nothing.

The counter only advances when you successfully pass an anomaly. Moving through a car with no anomaly doesn't advance the count.

Failure is pretty explicit in this game. It'll fade to black after whatever happens and you'll start back sitting on the bench. Otherwise you're moving forward. You have to successfully get past 8 anomalies to reach the end.

[Magnus]

Originally posted by ngwoo:

I ended up refunding it because half the time I couldn't tell if the game was broken or if I was just missing something. It's incredibly unclear what you're supposed to actually do unlike Exit 8.

The game confused me at first too. I tried to play it like Exit 8 or Shinkansen 0 where you go back if you encounter an anomaly and go forward if you don't. This game is not like that!

You can only go forward in Platform 8. If there's an anomaly in a room your goal is to get past it. Sometimes there's instructions on the digital screen telling you what to do to win. Sometimes there's a sticker on the door saying not to proceed until the anomaly is gone (find it and look at it for a bit and it'll disappear). This kind with the sticker on the door are like The Exit 8, but you have to look at them to make them go away instead of going back. This kind always have the sticker on the door.

Otherwise you just need to get through the room avoiding any danger or following instructions on the digital signs.

[maburney1]

It seems that you just go through the door whenever you can UNTIL you see an anomaly, even if it doesn't look like it progresses forward; when you see an anomaly, you have to solve a puzzle, or simply survive/dodge the anomaly, and then get to the door. If you can't get past the door, you have to solve the puzzle/survive first

I was confused too, but this seems to be the answer to that question

[sh20000sh]

Basically, this game is not 'find an anomaly' game anymore like exit 8 or its copied variants. All anomalies are obvious basically and not finding does not means failure.

[jm_]

More of that, sometimes an advancing happens if you didn't even notice the anomaly. I was disappointed by the number of dull cases where you can just walk through, open the door and get +1. Perhaps this is only normal for flood level.
If Exit 8 was a perception check puzzle game (even there, I believe, "normal" levels shouldn't increment the exit number), this one is more of a walking simulator