Hi all,

Thanks for the feedback! Especially you Argyle...You flatter me!...Mulholland Drive is my favourite Lynch movie. If I wasn't making games, I would be the MC at Club Silencio.

As for inventory...there are around 115 items, altogether, from booze to bones...but, thankfully, you don't carry them all at once! On average, you'll have about 15 items at any one time. That includes 'Bonus Items' hidden in the gameplay.

Enjoy, and DO have nightmares.
Jonathan

oh..can hardly wait until Interact can ship!!! Got my Constant Comment tea, spam, split pea soup and cheese and crackers all laid in.....to get ready for a nice longggg wonderful time!!! Yes...i too like to take my time and sometimes force myself to stop when a game is really good so it will last longer. Have had to do it on each and every one of Mr Boakes' games...(and the last half of darkness last 2 as well!!)..They're like that first bite of your fave dessert..you want to really savour it!

Thanks, Jonathan
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That sounds like a good size inventory...

With regard to the queries about whether you need to have played through the original Dark Fall, I'd have to back up the statements that you don't need any experience with the first game to appreciate this one. However, as one who has played the first game multiple times, I will say that familiarity with the environment has had a real impact on my experience thus far. There are definitely points where you have the sense that, "I've walked these halls before", but as you take in the pervasive decay of the place and the myriad signs of supernatural manifestations, you recognize that in some fundamental respects, it isn't the same place at all. For myself, the changes communicated that the darkness that had been in Dowerton during my first visit had grown far stronger and that its corruption now tainted every corner of the place. As a result, the whole environment was much more frightening than it was in the first game and there's almost a constant sense of being threatened. Nowhere is safe.

This is not your mother's Station Hotel.

That said, I can completely relate to others who don't want to rush through the game. Eager as I am to solve the mystery, there are very, very few games that conjure up an atmosphere that is this frightening and effective. So far, it's been an outstanding experience.

I've just finished with help from MAGS wonderful walkthrou' and I think this will be voted as the best game of 2009. I loved all of the previous of his games but this is the best ever. atmospheric, creepy, puzzling and challangeing.
Like Lost Crown there are bits that brought tears to my eyes and other bits which made me feel happy that I had suceed in my tasks.
I liked the little hints on the phone and the unlimited saves. In fact I do not think I could find anything I did not like about it. :holidays:

I'm curious.... I do know that this game comes after the events of the first game, but does anybody have an idea as to how many years in the game world have passed since those preveious events? Because it really is drastically different now as Pathfinder stated above. If that question was already addressed, sorry for the repeat. :-)

Dawn

The suicides and closing of the hotel is in 1947.

Dark Fall 1 happened in 2002, when your brother left you a message about somehing hunting them.

Dark Fall 3 is in 2010.

I just finished Lost Souls a couple of nights ago and am still in the process of mulling over the experience. Truly an outstanding game. I'd be inclined to agree with old lady...probably my top game of 2009. I'm hoping at some point soon I can discuss some of the plot points with others that have completed the game. It was very thought provoking, more so (at least for me) than any of Boakes' previous titles.

Like MaG, I was under the impression that both games were set in the "present day", coniciding with the years they were released. Which would make for almost an additional decade's worth of decay on Dowerton Station and the Station Hotel.

That said...

Read everyone's comments here... I'm having big trouble resisting temptation......mine is sitting on the shelf waiting for Christmas Day, after all the family have gone home and left me alone with just the cat for company and looking forward to being scared...very scared... but can I wait that long, keep busy...keep busy...

After reading all of this, I am DYING to get this game. It's on my "to buy" agenda for January - too many Christmas expenses this month. Cannot wait to play!

Thanks MaG!! I couldn't remember if the first game took place the same year it was actually released.... It's so amazing how different and in worse condition the hotel and surrounding areas look in only 8 years!!

I'm playing it now, but since it's so scary, I am only playing when husband is home LOL!!! I'm on vacation this week with plenty of time to play, but since he works nights, he's not home when I'm up and ready to play!! I played for a couple of hours the other night when he was at work and I kept looking behind me!

Dawn

That Mulholland Drive comparison is going to make it hard to resist. Would like to see a review first if possible.