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This is a gameplay review of The August Before: Chapter One.
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00:00 Intro
02:18 Language options
03:17 Rotate speed
03:54 Cassette
05:11 Item locations
05:51 Upper left icons
07:51 Multiple items
08:02 Multiple items limited
09:34 Room clutter
09:51 Notes confusion
11:01 Achievements
13:00 Cute and cozy
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0:00
Hello everyone. My name is K and this is
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a pros and cons review of the game The
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August Before chapter one on Not Now
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Mom, I'm gaming.
0:13
I
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bought this game a long time ago. I
0:17
actually didn't know that a the full
0:20
release of the game came out because
0:21
this is clearly chapter one. Doesn't go
0:24
any further than kind of like a single
0:27
room play through.
0:29
And it wasn't that bad of a game but it
0:32
did have its flaws to it. I
0:36
I kind of wondered if
0:38
they were actually going to put out the
0:39
full release of the game or if they're
0:41
just going to stall it because
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I know there is another game that I
0:46
played What Never Was. I had to go
0:50
through my whole Steam library to figure
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out what this game I was thinking of
0:54
was. It's in the W's. There were so many
0:57
games I had to go through
0:59
to get to where What Never Was for me to
1:02
figure out which game I was thinking of.
1:04
I thought it was Mary's Room at first
1:05
but no.
1:07
What Never Was is kind of like
1:10
same thing as I thought this was going
1:12
to be
1:13
where it was the first portion of a full
1:16
game
1:17
except I don't think What Never Was
1:19
actually became a full game.
1:23
There's a What Never Was. Yeah, What
1:25
Never Was chapter two
1:27
to be announced.
1:29
So it never came out.
1:31
And What Never Was came out in 2019.
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So yeah, I thought this was going to
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just be another game like that but it's
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not. It does have a full release game.
1:40
So this is kind of like a tease on what
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the full game's going to be like maybe.
1:45
I haven't played the full game, just the
1:47
chapter one.
1:49
The title screen's pretty cool. You have
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The August Before on a on a notebook
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wish list here. You got all these things
1:57
that would belong on a desk. Very arts
1:59
and crafts type of person with all the
2:01
buttons or maybe she just
2:04
pops her buttons all the time and she
2:06
knows how to sew because of it.
2:08
I don't know.
2:09
As far as the settings go, you have your
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graphics,
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controls,
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audio,
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and language.
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Actually, I could not click on language.
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So, apparently you don't have language.
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It's just there as a choice.
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First thing you're introduced to is your
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notebook. So, you can hold space in
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order to interact with your notebook.
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And this is all the stuff that you need
2:36
to get done before actually finishing
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this portion of the game.
2:41
And there are some things that you can
2:43
miss even if you completely finish this
2:46
game. Also, the bar will completely fill
2:49
out,
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but it won't go away. So,
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it makes you think that you haven't done
2:56
something yet
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since the bar is completely full, but
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you know, it's
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there's no recognition that hey, hey,
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you're good to go. But once it's
3:06
completely filled, you've pretty much
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done everything you can as far as
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cleaning your room goes
3:12
and packing up.
3:13
You can pick objects up and then rotate
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them around. The rotate is incredibly
3:19
slow for me. I don't know if I needed to
3:22
go into settings and fix that, but I
3:26
didn't. But
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I just had to like keep scrolling my
3:29
mouse over and over again just to get it
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to turn all the way behind it.
3:34
Use the mouse wheel to bring things
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closer and then
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push them farther away from you if
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they're too close to your face.
3:44
And then you can drop the cassette into
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the
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cassette player.
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There is clearly music to this game cuz
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there's like a cassette in there. This
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is the only good cassette of the game.
3:59
And it annoys me so much.
4:03
I think I played this on my speakers, so
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I didn't use headphones, but
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the first tape that you get, the audio
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is very clear, the soundtrack. You can
4:14
hear it just fine. Every other cassette
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that I found,
4:18
I could barely hear the audio to it. So,
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I don't know what kind of music it was.
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It was apparently music for
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deaf people
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or people with incredible hearing.
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Yeah, yeah. This is
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the first tape was the only good tape,
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in my opinion.
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The rest of the soundtrack just was it
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bombed.
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Bombed.
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And as you can see, by putting on some
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music, we have a check mark in the box.
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It's a backwards check mark. Does a
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backwards check mark Whatever.
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Sure.
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And then once you grab an item, it gives
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you this: Before leaving, the room needs
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to be cleaned. Move the items and place
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them in appropriate places to fill the
5:04
cleanliness scale in the daily planner.
5:08
When you pick up an item, the first item
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of an area that you pick up,
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where you need to put it will have a
5:15
white outline to it, but once you pick
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another item up that goes there, it
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won't have a white outline.
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So, you pick up a button, then the
5:25
little place you put the buttons will
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have a white outline, but when you pick
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up another button, the outline won't be
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there. So,
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I mean, in a way, I don't I don't really
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mind that.
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I know some people
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might mind it cuz
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you see an outline once, you expect to
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see it again.
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But it's kind of just pointing you,
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"Hey, this stuff goes here." And then
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it's it's one and done.
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As you clean your room, there are going
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to be some things that you'll be putting
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in the suitcase. When you pick up an
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item that needs to be placed in the
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suitcase, there will be an icon in the
6:01
upper left that will basically show you
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that
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with a little drawing.
6:07
You can either put them in the Sometimes
6:09
the suitcase or there's a
6:12
box for things that you want to leave
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behind. You have to leave some stuff
6:16
behind. Like there's there's no choice.
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So, if you try to put everything into
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the suitcase, it'll
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automatically take one of those items
6:24
out into the leave box, so
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it's whatever.
6:29
They clearly put some effort into
6:31
letting you do
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kind of a variety of things in this game
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because you can take the
6:37
posters off the wall and then reveal all
6:39
this writing. Also, you can paint over
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it,
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which will reveal numbers,
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which can then open a lock, of course.
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So, I mean, it's just it's not just a
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pick things up and put them in their
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proper place.
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They did kind of make it go a little
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above and beyond of what
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a normal person would do when moving
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out. Like you don't really see
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people picking up
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a paintbrush and
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painting the walls
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when there's writing on the walls. I
7:14
would have just left that alone.
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Someone else can deal with that.
7:17
But I don't know. Maybe you would kind
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of paint over it.
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I wouldn't. Sometimes we'll have
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photographs that will be placed in our
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memories book.
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You can check those out. The page turn
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is a little odd to me cuz sometimes I
7:31
was trying to turn it one way and it
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turned the other way. And then when I
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turned it
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the other way, it wanted to go that way
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just fine.
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It didn't go the way I wanted it to half
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the time. It's like
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it wants you to go to the very back and
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then once you're at the very back it's
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like, "Okay, now you can move forward."
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Just go in the direction I want.
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You don't have to pick up items one at
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one at a time like
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at a set point you're able to pick up
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maybe three or four of the same items.
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It depends on the items, I think. But
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you have to progress the bar up to a
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certain point, otherwise it's you do
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have to pick things up one at a time. I
8:11
don't really understand that. Like it's
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just our character
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just pick things up one at a time then
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realize, "Oh, I can pick up more than
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one."
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She has this
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revelation? I don't I don't know.
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I will say whenever I clean my room,
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which
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I don't do it very often,
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I make a complete mess and then slowly
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put it all in its rightful place.
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But everything is piled on my bed or on
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the floor and and I just have to
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single stuff out.
8:45
I can't clean my room in a clean way.
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It's very chaotic.
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Speaking of chaotic, I realize
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I realize she's packing up.
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We're packing up.
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And the room's a mess.
9:00
But you can't move the suitcase.
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And you can't move the box.
9:06
And you can move the chair.
9:08
Especially to stand it in front of the
9:10
closet cuz you'll need something at the
9:12
top of the closet.
9:14
But there's no specific area for the
9:17
chair.
9:18
Meanwhile, everything else kind of has
9:20
its own specific area. Found it weird
9:22
that's the case. Also, the chair gets in
9:25
the way. Like no matter where you put
9:27
it. You got to move around it. You got
9:29
to adjust your trajectory. Same with the
9:31
suitcase and the box that
9:34
Why can't we move the suitcase to like a
9:37
proper wall area where they're not
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sitting in the middle of the floor.
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And you get stuck on them when you're
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trying to move around. Remember this is
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a review.
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I get a little frustrated about certain
9:50
things.
9:51
The notes are a little odd.
9:54
Sometimes you'll want to keep them in
9:55
your keepsake box. Other times you toss
9:59
them in the trash. It's like
10:02
why not put the ripped things in the
10:05
trash
10:07
and have like full notes
10:10
in the keepsake.
10:12
It made it a little confusing.
10:15
Also, I did not know where to put this
10:16
teddy bear. This teddy bear had no
10:19
proper place for it to sit and it
10:22
it came a bit later.
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So, yeah, so you got to you got to pick
10:26
up the chair. You got to move to
10:27
specific place for the closet.
10:30
Grab the little box that has the code to
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it. Put the numbers in and then find
10:35
some stuff inside.
10:37
And only after you clean the bed, can
10:39
you put the teddy bear on top of the
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bed.
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I will say
10:45
I'm not sure in my first run through
10:46
this game that I completed everything to
10:48
the point where it would trigger all the
10:50
achievements.
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But I know I played it a second time and
10:53
did everything correctly and all the
10:55
trigger all the achievements did not
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trigger for me. The one specifically
10:59
avoided me.
11:01
It's really annoying having to go
11:03
through a game like several times just
11:06
to get that one stupid achievement that
11:08
does not want to commit. I had to I had
11:11
to play this game like
11:14
four four five times
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cuz I just wasn't understanding why I
11:19
wasn't getting this one achievement, but
11:22
apparently it's really finicky
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cuz I got all the it's it's the
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photographs. I got all the photographs
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to put into the diary.
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But it triggered another achievement.
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And I guess because that one achievement
11:39
triggered, the other one didn't want to.
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So it was I don't know, it was rather
11:43
stupid.
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I get annoyed when games have
11:46
achievements and
11:48
one of them doesn't work cuz then it
11:51
just ruins it. I did all this work for
11:54
all these achievements and that one
11:56
won't trigger?
11:58
I played several games where one
12:00
achievement or two achievements will not
12:02
trigger
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and it's it was a problem with a lot of
12:05
people. I mean, I'm not one of those
12:08
people that chases after achievements. I
12:09
don't want like 100% on everything. Lord
12:13
no.
12:14
But it's nice to have them when you can
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get them.
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Once you've completed the game, packed
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up your suitcase, there is a note on it
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that you can read.
12:24
And you can go to the board and it says
12:26
next room is not available in the
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prologue version. Proceed to finish
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[music] the game.
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You can say yes
12:33
and it'll take you back to the title
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screen.
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So yeah, I I like the game. It has some
12:40
flaws to it.
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Mainly my annoyance with the
12:43
achievements and the fact that some
12:45
things are just in the way and the floor
12:48
and you can't move them.
12:51
Also the soundtrack.
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There's one good soundtrack to listen to
12:55
and we have like what, four or five
12:57
cassette tapes?
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That was a little absurd.
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But yeah, other than that
13:03
wasn't that bad of a game. You get a
13:05
little storyline, get to look into the
13:08
characters' past, what they were like
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with the notes. Not really too in-depth.
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Yeah, I just I just give it three star.
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It's average.
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