“it seems to fill my head with ideas–only I don’t exactly know what they are!” - Alice, Through the Looking Glass This lent itself well to group dynamics, where people naturally good at spatial arrangement, math, linguistics, or research could best employ their skills, but the logic is never so prohibitively difficult that you'd fail if your team lacked an accountant or philologist. One thing that particularly struck me about these latter two chapters is the breadth of disciplines involved in creating the puzzles, while not really reliant on the players knowledge of those disciplines to solve them. If chapters 1 and 2 made a promise, 3 and 4 delivered. That said completing chapter 4 was as satisfying of a narrative and tabletop gaming experience as I’ve ever had, immediately causing us to video call people and gush wildly while desperately trying not to spoil a single detail. I’m not going to spoil it, but the main obstacle, the ultimate finale of the game, is one of the most incredible, intricate, and mind-blowing components that has come across my table, and all the myriad of supporting documents in chapter 4 relate to it.Ĭhapter 4 also took two sessions, both because of the mental taxation, but also due to us being old fuddy-duddies who have a toddler, jobs, responsibilities, and too-often-ignored bedtimes. Suffice it to say, when we read the letter attached to chapter 4, Christina and I both said “No…” in disbelief. ![]() And that’s not even talking about why the envelope is so big. The challenges in chapter 4 are a robust, wholistic summary and progression of the whole adventure so far, that will have you recontextualizing and employing clues from each chapter before it. You know how in the best stories (and math classes) the final challenge is a summary of everything the hero has been learning up until that point, except cranked to 11? That’s what you’re looking at here. Except you won’t, because you’ll be so busy talking about what could possibly happen in the supersized chapter 4 envelope, given everything you’ve seen.Ĭhapter 4 is… well, it’s exactly what you want it to be. This was by far the most mentally exhausting of the chapters thrilling, yes, but you will feel like you need some sleep after making it through a session. When we finally decided to break into it, the objects within were stranger, the visuals were more esoteric, and the writing was more cryptic than ever.Ĭhapter 3 continues to defy your expectations with gusto by demanding that you unshackle your brain and begin interacting with physical objects more in the way that you approach building a lego set with no instructions if you haven’t bent, broken, torn, disassembled, and written on three quarters of the components by it’s completion, you did something wrong.įinally, after two long nights of scrutinizing every last detail like a content starved Song of Ice & Fire Fan searching for clues, we cracked the case and found our way through chapter 3. ![]() It’s no joke that solving the first two chapters was among Christina and I’s all-time favorite gaming experiences. We took some time off from chapters 1 & 2, largely because, well, life can get in the way of continuity, but also because we wanted to savor the experience. Inside the now-familiar sleek black box, the conclusive chapters of this narrative puzzle adventure lie in wait.
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