Btw, anything we should know about? There aren't any Guide Dang It! (part of a game that people would be extremely unlikely to figure out themselves or that hasn't been alluded to in any way) moments are there? If so, you should allude to them.
About the Guide:
- Concerning the User Interface: see my answers below.
- Concerning game tips / walk-through: none released yet.
I will help you a little bit on your way, though after the 'spoiler warning' at the end of this post.
Furthermore:
Feel free to help each other! If you are stuck at a certain point in the game (be sure to mention whether it's game mode A or B though!) write about it here and ask if anyone wants to give you a hint or tell you what you should be doing next.
EVERYTHING has a quite logical solution... but you have to try things. Sometimes you have to try something you have already tried once before. General tips regarding this:
- Revisit locations. Something may have changed because of something else you just did... or something you said/asked to another character in the game!
- Talk to the characters and check what they are saying. Their replies can contain important information or hints about what you might have to do next. ALSO: In the course of the game their conversations (and the things you can reply) will change. Finding out information from one character can mean that you can now talk about 'that subject' with another character...
- Explore the map when it feels like there's reason you should do so. If a character tells you that they 'saw something to the north-west' to name an example, it's probably worth exploring that area on the map.
- If you're stuck at the 'newspaper'... just click the 'talk' button again (button A). It continues your conversation. It's an exception, you can't click the newspaper article away by just clicking on it.
- Small walk-through of the beginning (just to get you on your way) at the end of this post.
Great job again! Just started playing and I'm already stuck
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I was wondering if there are instructions on the interface. I notice there's a hand icon that appears when you move the mouse to the upper left corner of the screen. What's that for? Also what does it mean when you see Jen's hand on an item in your inventory?
Post 17 in this thread (
LINK) tells a lot about the UI. And that should probably get you well on your way. If there are specific things (on how the game works) that are unclear, please ask here and I will explain.
The hand icon on the very top left of the display should not have been there. The hand icon is actually used in the mini-game (when you're tickling Jen... um... I mean...
) but indeed it appears there in the corner if you hover there. That's a glitch but don't worry, it doesn't negatively influence your game-play.
So...
For those who are hopelessly stuck at the start...
Going to give a little kick-start to your adventure, which should get you on your way. I'm not going to spoil the game too much, just get you 'out of the office' and into the shop, give a small hint after that.
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SPOILER WARNING
How to get through the beginning (walk-through)
Start the game. You'll see the title screen, saying "Jen" and "Nagas" in purple and blue. On the right of it you see the button A (talk) and button B (in/out).
- First you press button A (to start game mode A)
- Then you select either Censored or Uncensored.
- Press the button "Accept" on the screen.
- Now you are in the police office. There's your superior. And some text at the bottom of the screen which you can click away by clicking on it if you want.
- Press button A again ('talk').
- The Sup starts talking. She says: "Ah, Jen dear! Good to see you back in the office. Did you have a nice relaxing holiday?"
- Three answers appear at the bottom. Choose one of them (at this point in the game it does not matter which you choose, although her answer will be a bit different, but later it matters more).
- The Sup will react to your reply and say something about an uproar in the area.
- You choose another answer again.
- Continue talking to her till you see a newspaper article pop up.
- After you have skimmed over the article (that's optional though) you should press the 'talk' button again to talk more with the Superior.
- Read what she has to say and say something back. She will give you your assignment and tell you to remember your dress code and to sign out from the office.
- Now you get to explore the office a bit more. You can click on things (like the filing cabinet, the poster on the wall, etc.)
- Click on the blue cap on top of the cabinet. That's yours and you should put it on your head. Just click it, that will do the trick.
- Then click the little red marker on the presence board on the wall, the one that's right behind your name. That will mark you "out of the office".
- When you have done all that successfully, then you'll see a title screen telling you that "Act 1" starts. It is named "The Mystery of the Missing Women". You click on this screen to continue.
Now you are at the game map, and you need to use the red cross on the bottom right of the game module to move Jen around.
- Let's move her all the way west until she runs into something interesting (it'll be a shop). So just click the left part of the red cross (West) until Jen finds the shop and you see a note about that.
- Now you use button B to go inside. (Once inside you can also use it again to exit the shop again.)
- You see a lot of items... You can click them to see what Jen thinks about them... You can press button A (talk) to talk with the saleswoman. Note, that the last item in the shop you have clicked is what you will ask her about if you want to inquire about some item.
- Now press button A again (talk).
- There is an option that says "About that (item) you have there..."
- You can do other stuff in the shop now, click other items, talk about them or talk about other things...
- Let's talk with the shopkeeper and ask her if you could ask a couple of questions. (This seems a good part of your investigation...). Hey, you can ask her about her hair colour. Not what you came for... but let's do it! Is it real? After asking that... you see you can reply to her again... but the middle answer ("I will tickle you for that!") leads to you tickling her.
While tickling is going on (or often in cases where special scenes are shown) you'll find that the buttons A and B are locked and pressing them doesn't do anything till the scene is over. Then you can press them again.
- If the conversation ended, you can click button A again (talk), or if you want to start a new conversation you can stop the last one by pressing button A... and then press button A again to start anew.
- To exit the shop, just press button B again.
- Now you're back in the map mode and you can explore more. Note, that some areas you can't find unless you're specifically told to go there, or if you have done something that results into them becoming unlocked. Just follow the texts of the game well and make some guesses... you'll find out a thing or two.
Final hint: You see you don't yet have money. So you can't buy anything in the shop yet... You can already find out some useful information (a lead) on your investigation right now... but you will soon need a bit of money too. You can earn a few pounds if you are clever. You will somehow have to get something you can SELL. Now... First of all you need to find out what Betty (the shopkeeper) NEEDS, and then you have to go get it. That's all I say about it for now... Good luck!
