When obtaining the music box

[Zarken]

So when getting the protection talisman and the music box, and it tells you to burn the music box. The woman shows up in the hallway when you open the door effectively blocking your path instantly. There is no way to get around her to burn the artifact. Is this a bug or am i missing something here? A watched a playthrough of this part and when the dude was at this part, after using the talisman she didnt come back for awhile. Why is she spawning instantly after the cutscene???!!!

[Sotomar0]

So that the frustrated players just don't get to the next save room. That's the biggest annoyance in this game and it happens very often. A checkpoint save system would have made the game much more pleasant.

[Metalraiser]

Originally posted by Anatolia's Mercenary:

So when getting the protection talisman and the music box, and it tells you to burn the music box. The woman shows up in the hallway when you open the door effectively blocking your path instantly. There is no way to get around her to burn the artifact. Is this a bug or am i missing something here? A watched a playthrough of this part and when the dude was at this part, after using the talisman she didnt come back for awhile. Why is she spawning instantly after the cutscene???!!!

So you do not have a talisman and have no way to outrun / take a different path around her somehow? However it is really important to use the save rooms as often as possible.

If you do not have a talisman try obtaining one before getting the music box.

She will however appear after the cutscene inevitably. She will appear at that point because you got one of the key artifacts needed to destroy her i would say. She will do so on other key findings as well. I think save rooms will also be blocked until you outran her and reached a fireplace.

I am not sure anymore but one talisman was in a drawer of some furniture in the room. There is also a map with locations of most of the items in game which you might want to use. Because they are really scattered across the whole place which indeed makes things a bit tedious from time to time.

[Zarken]

Originally posted by The Metal:

Originally posted by Anatolia's Mercenary:

So when getting the protection talisman and the music box, and it tells you to burn the music box. The woman shows up in the hallway when you open the door effectively blocking your path instantly. There is no way to get around her to burn the artifact. Is this a bug or am i missing something here? A watched a playthrough of this part and when the dude was at this part, after using the talisman she didnt come back for awhile. Why is she spawning instantly after the cutscene???!!!

So you do not have a talisman and have no way to outrun / take a different path around her somehow? However it is really important to use the save rooms as often as possible.

If you do not have a talisman try obtaining one before getting the music box.

She will however appear after the cutscene inevitably. She will appear at that point because you got one of the key artifacts needed to destroy her i would say. She will do so on other key findings as well. I think save rooms will also be blocked until you outran her and reached a fireplace.

I am not sure anymore but one talisman was in a drawer of some furniture in the room. There is also a map with locations of most of the items in game which you might want to use. Because they are really scattered across the whole place which indeed makes things a bit tedious from time to time.

The talisman was used in the cutscene to drive her away, it was used automatically. There were no talisman anywhere in the mansion up to this point, i checked every drawer in every room twice just to make sure. Turns out this is a bug, she isn't supposed to spawn in the hallway blocking your only exit to get out as that would make the game unplayable any further than getting the first artifact.

I loaded a previous save about 30 minutes back and it fixed the bug, she didn't spawn right away in the hallway blocking my only path, but instead spawned in the other half of the hallway letting be take a right and outrun her to get to a fireplace. The talisman don't spawn until after the first artifact is found and the talisman spawns in with it, thus showing the player that the talisman can be used to ward her off for a time.

Since getting past this bugged area i've found 4 talisman and was in the upper upstairs part of the mansion using a key obtained from burning the first artifact.

[Metalraiser]

Sorry on that misinformation then probably my memory mixed that up a little with the Talisman. However glad you made it.

I would still advise you to save as often as you can - literally every time you got something or about to go and get something. It might be a bit annoying but you get used to it and it will make your like a lot easier when something goes wrong. Also the save rooms are a good anchor in navigation and are placed in fair locations for almost all tasks in the game.

Best of luck with the game.

[Zarken]

Originally posted by The Metal:

Sorry on that misinformation then probably my memory mixed that up a little with the Talisman. :lunar2019deadpanpig: However glad you made it.

I would still advise you to save as often as you can - literally every time you got something or about to go and get something. It might be a bit annoying but you get used to it and it will make your like a lot easier when something goes wrong. Also the save rooms are a good anchor in navigation and are placed in fair locations for almost all tasks in the game.

Best of luck with the game.

I do save all the time, i was saved just down the hall from this part of the game, but now i make 2 save files as with other old school games you always saved 2 files so if one was corrupted or you saved past a part you couldnt get back to and needed an item effectively screwing yourself over you could go back 30 mins and redo what you did wrong. I,m using that same technique in this game so that doesnt happen.