Take notes

[Racketmensch]

Does anyone else feel like the ability to type in notes would be helpful? Sometimes I don't know a character's identity yet, but I've deduced their nationality, or I know they are are one of two brothers, etc. The majority of this game takes place in a literal notebook, it seems a bit silly not to simply stick a text box onto each page.

[DiegoKevin]

Maybe a third character object (a notebook) would be nice.
I feel that the book is more of a mixture between the passenger roster, the ships log, and the insurance company report; it feels like the documents of an accident, where all the afrementioned 3 documents are present, so in my opinion the character should have his own separate notebook for the investigation and leave the book clean for handing it later when the investigation is completed.

[Wisnoskij]

The lack of the ability to give fuzzy group answers (aka take notes) is very frustrating. You are given so much partial information, like 90% of the time you know who killed someone, but not their name. Or you know the guy is one of the peters or one of the two female passengers. So you enter one of the possible solutions because the game does not allow you to enter both and suddenly you have solved the mystery, but you feel hollow and cheated because it is just stupid game mechanics rewarding a random guess which bad designed forced you to make in the first place.

[Snarky McSne]

You could always buy a literal notebook. Like people used to do when playing adventure games.

(gets out cane and shakes it around widely "These darn kids and their new fangled computer games. Back in my day we had to figure out the truth with a notebook, grid paper, dictionary, encyclopedia, protrator and a calculator. And it still wasn't enough. Moon logic I tell you, Moon Logic!")

[Wisnoskij]

Originally posted by Snarky McSne:

You could always buy a literal notebook.

Considering how most notes would have to reference a portrait that is unnamed, unnumbered, un-anything it is a little more complicated than that.

[Racketmensch]

Originally posted by ;1748980761800464287:

You could always buy a literal notebook. Like people used to do when playing adventure games.

(gets out cane and shakes it around widely "These darn kids and their new fangled computer games. Back in my day we had to figure out the truth with a notebook, grid paper, dictionary, encyclopedia, protrator and a calculator. And it still wasn't enough. Moon logic I tell you, Moon Logic!")

I grew up using notebooks too, and still use them for other games! This game in particular, though, requires associating information with characters who might only be distinguishable by their appearance. If I learn that two characters are brothers, but I don't know which is which, it is hard to use a physical notebook to associate that information with the portraits in the game, short of trying to sketch the characters myself!

It is useful, for example, that I can label a character as 'unknown officer' before I learn the character's name, but I cannot label them as a Scotsman, or as having the last name Daniels, or as having pointy black shoes.

[GrandMasterFox]

I did something similar. I opened up photosop and started cutting out the image of all the crew and dragged people into groups. For example, I figured who were the mates and who were their stewards but not which is which.

So I just kept dragging and dropping and taking certain notes.

Yes, writing stuff down would have been super helpful.

Especially since you can't jump between memories and have to constantly scratch your head "what scene did I see that again?"

Considering that in many cases, you need vital clues that are far away from the death taking place so you can't see that in the diary panel.

[BioStats]

I wish you had the ability to pencil in a 'guess/placeholder' vs only enter it in pen.

[Secanho]

I guess writing down is old fashioned now

[BioStats]

or not practical if you are traveling and have limited space.

[Jabrwock]

I think it would have absolutely been an in-universe thing. Scribbles, tatoos, descriptions, notes, even stuff like "I know this guy wasn't Peter", or "bunk 40/41/42?"

[Ancalagon]

I didn't take notes even though I saw many people suggesting it, but it would have definitely made it easier for me.

I had to work hard to commit things to memory, like "this mate and this other mate were on the same side of the mutiny", etc.

I made it harder than it had to be by not keeping notes.