Guilty Confession of a BossaNova wannabe....

[jedvorak]

I know there is still a glitch in the Bossa Nova achievement, but I still went out and did it. I killed Ferdy. It was terrible. I felt so guilty. I had to go back to an old saved game to do the dirty deed because once I'd talked to him the option to fight was gone.

The game sequence in which I committed the crime lives in a box, called "test" and it is like a scarlet letter in my "Saved Games" folder.

Only posting my confession because it is a tribute to the game itself. The characters and the story are so affecting that I really was emotionally upset about the deed. Killing a monster is one thing, but killing a sweet, kind tortured soul like Ferdy? Painful. Of course, if I or another game player had simply approached him in his lair without ever trying to talk to him, there would be no way to know he was a good guy. You could simply "avenge" the ghost children, get the locket, ahd later sell his nose ring to Fester without a second thought. He is, however, a "monster" with a story, unlike the rest of the Bosses in the game--a truly sympathetic character.

The other "monster" is the adorable sea serpent. I kiiled him/her one experimenal run through when I blew up the floor in the sea cave. Glad I got rid of that game too. I much prefer blowing up the damn dam.

[vtots]

I did a runthrough trying for the achievement, before reading that they were going to patch out Ferdy and the sea serpent as requirements. It felt so wrong to attack them both, especially the sea serpent since we already knew it was trapped and hungry by the time we could drop rocks on it.

Imagine my angst when I went through all of that and still didn't get the achievement! :,(

[jedvorak]

I know the feeling. Glad those two were left out of the achievement. Killing either one really makes me sad. Just had to try it out to see what happened. Fortunately, my "good games" leave out those nefarious deeds.

[transolar]

Yes, what were we thinking? :-) Fortunately, we came to our senses. We're waiting on posting a patch with the achievement fix because we want to fix more than one thing in a patch. Patch 1 already removed Ferdy and the Sea Serpent, but there is a bug where you don't get credit for destroying the Wraith Sorcerer. Trivial fix, unfortunately releasing a patch is not trivial.

[jedvorak]

It's OK. As long as we know Ferdy and the Serpent are not on the Bossa Nova chopping block. Neither one of them deserves it. ;)

[Patriot]

I actually don't think you should patch it out. Struggling with those emtions weighing them against the acheivement. I think there is value in that. Alternatively you could have an alternate achievement. "Big hearted boss" or something like that.

[jurah]

Or maybe killing Ferdy and Flippers should be part of the "Bad to the Bone" achievement.

[Anhaga]

Oh, thank goodness they were removed. I was honestly a bit torn, as I figured we'd have to kill those two. I had fun feeding the serpent fish for a while before letting it loose. It could be good to have killing them as part of a different "naughty" achievement, though, like "Bad to the Bone."

[transolar]

Originally posted by jurah:

Or maybe killing Ferdy and Flippers should be part of the "Bad to the Bone" achievement.

I like that idea, but not sure we should change it at this point.