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12 June 2005
I don't know where I am...I don't know what I'm doing here. I just know I have to get out.
The Doors is another one of those "find-your-way-out" Flash games like The Crimson Room. Not too hard, though I'm kind of stuck on the last little bit at the moment.
I thought this was pretty cool, actually. But now I'm at the part where V whfg ena vagb gur yvggyr tvey sebz gur "Evat" ivqrb naq abj fur'f gelvat gb xvyy zr...
Okay... I can give you guys the code to the safe, but the thing is that you have to go to other rooms to find the clue that leads to the safe-opening doodah... So if I give it to you when you've only started, not only will it not help you much, it might spoil your pleasure in the game. I'll give you two clues about the safe puzzle in super-small below (just copy it to a notepad kind of thing), or if you're going totally mad and just want the combination, I'll give it to you. Because I'm easy.
the safe combo is definitely five numbers
does the layout of numbers/symbols on the safe remind you of anything? Maybe something that you see/use several time a day?
But even if you use the clues above, you still need the "key" - which you will find in another room. So for everyone dealing with this element of the game, go forth and see if you can find the key before looking at the hint.
These clues don't actually help you find the key, just what to do with it once you have it (and posibly how to recognize it).
The keypad is still in room 0, it's just that it's a close-up when you click on it. There are several things that you have to find (and then, in some cases, use) in each room, and the little darkened spaces on the right show you what you have found, and what remains to be found, for each room.
deborah: you can drag objects from the side into the playing area
well i sorted out the safe (without taz's clues - honest) and i've got all the objects except the last letter fragment. now i haven't a clue what to do. gah!
I think my mouse is broken; I can't find the last cube bit in room O (the hallway with four doors) anywhere, and I've clicked every inch of every screen.
I hate these games. I always start thinking, ohhh this will be fun and then I just end up feeling stupid and bad about myself.
I have a cube, two cards with strange symbols, and two letter bits. I already knew you could drag stuff into the playing areas from the side. I have no idea how to sort out the keypad, or even how to begin looking for a solution to it. I'm clearly stupid and worthless.
deb, but thanks for the encouragement, but I've given up. It was litterally making me cry. By the time I found all the bits my mouse arm was killing me and I just frankly can't take any more failure at that.
Glad you sorted it out, though.
Taz: Thanks. I guess I'm just not good at those things. I've "tried" everything I can think of trying, and I'm at the point of trying the same thing over and over and over and hoping that *this time* it will work, because I can't think of anything else. I have no idea how the cube and the keypad (or whatever) interact, and (the big problem) no idea how to figure out what to try next.
anastasia - the most frustrating thing about these games is that they're rarely about logic at all. they work by obscuring things from the user which leaves you clicking five hundred things in the hope one of them will work. i suppose there's an element of elimination but that's about it.
anastasiav: I'm surprised I've gotten this far (room4, yay! - but I'm stuck again). I've usually given up long before now, but the husband is still in bed and I don't have much else to do (except for laundry, of course - hate it!). I can't tell you how much money I've wasted on these types of pc games (Myst, Alice, etc.). I've learned not to buy them.
Oh! Alice! I'm a Carroll junkie and was really looking forward to Alice. I got all the way to the end of Act I (where you have to kill the Duchess), and then spent an awful evening trying to kill her about 300 times before finally did it. I haven't picked the game up since, which is a shame, 'cause I thought it was beatifully done.
I couldn't even get that far in Alice. I loved the graphics and the dark theme, that's why I bought it. I didn't realize that it was a logic-puzzle-game-thingie. Ah well, there's $60 (CDN) down the drain.
aw. Anastasiav, it may be that this kind of puzzle just isn't your thing at all... which means less than nothing.
My opinion is that you could totally whip butt on some of these games (the ones that I'm partial to, especially), but this is kind of like crying because the seven-foot-tall guy doesn't feel like playing basketball.
You definitely have the raw power, but it takes a kind of twisted interest in meaningless labyrinthine puzzles (that, if they're good, make you totally want to pull your hair out). And do you really want to have that kind of weird, self-flagellating, ultimately pointless interest? Ickypoo. I recommend against. Unless, of course, it ends up you have some strange masochistic compulsion to pursue this kind of thing. In which case you should email me.
V unir rirelguvat rkprcg gur ynfg ovg bs yrggre. Nyfb, V xabj (guvax?) gur pneqf trg qenttrq gb gur bcra obk, ohg gura jung? V qb gung naq abguvat unccraf. Nf sne nf V pna gryy, lbh'ir tbg gb trg gur obk pybfrq naq hfr vg sbe gur xrl vagb gur ynfg ebbz. Uvagf, cyrnfr??
ok, someone tell me the safe combo...i have all the rubik's cube pieces and 2 of the cards, and 2 fragments of the letter but am stuck already (and i have laundry to do too)
TAAAAAZZZ!!! Utterly maddeningly, yet maddeningly addictive and the perfect excuse to move as little as possible after a long ass night at work. It took me an hour and a half, but mostly because I kept looking for the last piece of the letter in one of the rooms before assembling the cube.
anastasiav, as already pointed out, there's no real rhyme or reason here, and if you're having any mouse issues they could most definitely hamper your progress. Please don't feel badly!
Did not guess the ending at all, the creepy whispering girl had me fooled entirely.
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