Some quick questions. Please answer when you have finished the game

[Crusher]

1) What puzzles did you like the best? Why did you like them?

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I liked almost all the puzzles, mainly because they were logical and made sense, unlike other adventure games. The one in the computer room, the one to acces the cryo chamber and the one in the messhall were specially nice.

2) What puzzles where the hardest to solve? Why where they so hard and what kind of solutions did you try before finding the correct one?

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For me the hardest was the one in the kennels. While the idea of someone who turned into some sort of primal viscious animal is scary and works well, the puzzle itself was hard, there was not enough clues IMHO. I tried running, using the flashlight, flares, etc. At the end I needed to check a walkthrough.

3) How did you find the pacing in the game? Where there any particularly slow moments or some moments where too many things happened?

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The pace was right, the game kept me in tension most of the time, but there was a few places that felt secure, giving some rest.

4) How did you like the variation of events and gameplay elements? Could there have been more diversity or should there be more focus on the gameplay?

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The gameplay it's well balanced: puzzle solving, stealth and exploration perfectly mixed. For future games adding a bit of action could be good, but not too much: maybe giving a gun but a limited supply of ammo, using it as a limited and last resort to save your life, I dunno, just an idea.

5) How did you like the characters in the game? Was their voices fitting? Was the voice acting good? What character did you like best / worst?

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The characters are ok. By the end, when Clarence is messing with your head, after killing the Dr I started to hate him. Considering that it's a fiction character that's a remarkable achievement, a character well constructed. With the Dr it's different, I think that the player don't know enough of her to feel connected. Maybe if we got to actually see her or interact more with her before the end it would change. The voices were good.

6) How did you like the ending?

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I liked it, it was really like a Lovecraft tale. A happy ending would not fit with the rest of the story, so the Tuurngait trials and the ambiguous and dark ending were great.

And seeing that this is my first post I would like to thank everyone at Fricitional Games for Overture and Black Plague. I have been playing videogames for almost 20 years now and lately it's hard to find games as good as Penumbra, I'm looking forward to your next project. Oh, and please, continue the Penumbra story some day, the Philip storyline it's clearly over, but who knows what other projects may the Archaic be working on? It could make some interesting plots.