That was fun to follow! If Jonathan likes a timeline, he will love "The Watcher"!
@COOPFORTWO2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tip, emato! Noted! -jesse
@rosewilliams44128 ай бұрын
Great box!
@COOPFORTWO2 жыл бұрын
So the Deadbolt Mystery Society has a very active facebook group for discussing the cases and getting help -- that's another big plus in the Deadbolt company column -- it's an active, helpful, and friendly community (facebook.com/groups/1583623768418733)
@COOPFORTWO2 жыл бұрын
SPOILER COMMENT ABOUT OUR SOLUTION: I searched for comments about The Inheritance on the Deadbolt Facebook group and found quite a few talking about the elimination of Kyle and his fingerprints, and quite a few people had the same "complaint" we had about him not being sufficiently alibi'd with the timeline. The consensus seems clear though, that the "structure" of the game was to eliminate suspects one at a time, and that he should be eliminated because he was sabotaging the car near the time in question and thus could not have been stealing the medallion around that same time. It's not so much a matter of him actually not having time to do it as it is the simplified world of the game eliminating him because he was doing something else around that time. I do think it's the one real miss in this game, and if they make a revised edition (as they have with several other boxes) they'd be well advised to make a simple tweak to make his timeline alibi more definitive. All they would have to do is make it clear somehow that it would have taken him the entire time to sabotage the car, or have someone spot someone messing with the car for the entire window of time, or maybe even have his greasy fingerprints found throughout the path he takes in the house but NOT near the important rooms, etc.
@MrPrettyAwesome2 жыл бұрын
This is clearly a so much higher quality box than what I got last year from deadbolt mystery society that it almost seems like a completely different product... I think I played the Artist and personally found that envelope to be one of the worst mystery games I have ever played. Maybe I need to give their boxes another look.
@COOPFORTWO2 жыл бұрын
I do have a lingering fear that we have just lucked onto some of the better boxes from the company, and that there must be some duds in the collection. Maybe we'll eventually develop a more balanced opinion of the set as a whole. Here's the review website that I have been paying most attention to: escapeadventurer.com/ They actually rate The Inheritance as 10/10 and one of their very favorites, so their judgement so far has been spot on.
@COOPFORTWO2 жыл бұрын
Matt you should know that "The Artist"is listed as a cheaper "mini" mystery by Deadbolt, so that might explain why you didn't have the best time with it.
@MrPrettyAwesome2 жыл бұрын
@@COOPFORTWO Yeah... Unfortunately I have another one... Til Death... seems similar... to be fair though, I favor the Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective style. So these stories just seem ridiculous.
@COOPFORTWO2 жыл бұрын
@@MrPrettyAwesome I prefer the SHCD games as well, but sometimes I get the itch for a puzzle game and still want a little bit of narrative to help motivate it. But I will be avoiding the "mini" mysteries from deadbolt.. The full boxes feel like the right amount of gameplay for me. -jesse