Penal zone recap (MAJOR SPOILERS!)
So I just finished episode 1 in "the five part epic comedy saga" that is the devils playhouse.
I Freaking love it. LOVE IT! Well worth the wait.
(I said spoilers in the title so no need to discus the game in spoiler boxes. I sure as hell wont.)
I got worried when I got to the end and thought I would do the exact same thing as the beginning but they really surprised me when skunkape turned it around and changed the future.
Best moment for me... very hard but it was probably using future vision on everything and seeing things in no context
(Hey max wanna ground me?)
Next episode? I'm very curious as to what happens next. It looks like skunkape took the rhinoplasty and mind reading cards with him into the new dimension so it looks like their gone. But that would suck. They probably Really are gone because think about it, How many different different sceneries can you think of where you need a picture to transform into?
The twist at the end was really strange. Sam and max are dead?... Or is that sammun mak? In this episode, they made a huge deal of seeing the future and finding the events leading up to it, or changing the future. In episode two, I think the word tomb, and seeing Sam and max skeleton makes me think the big thing for episode 2 will be spending all the episode inside Sam and maxes building. Which would be cool, considering how we haven't been their since raving dead.
So what did you guys think of the penal zone? What do you think is going to happen?
I Freaking love it. LOVE IT! Well worth the wait.
(I said spoilers in the title so no need to discus the game in spoiler boxes. I sure as hell wont.)
I got worried when I got to the end and thought I would do the exact same thing as the beginning but they really surprised me when skunkape turned it around and changed the future.
Best moment for me... very hard but it was probably using future vision on everything and seeing things in no context
(Hey max wanna ground me?)
Next episode? I'm very curious as to what happens next. It looks like skunkape took the rhinoplasty and mind reading cards with him into the new dimension so it looks like their gone. But that would suck. They probably Really are gone because think about it, How many different different sceneries can you think of where you need a picture to transform into?
The twist at the end was really strange. Sam and max are dead?... Or is that sammun mak? In this episode, they made a huge deal of seeing the future and finding the events leading up to it, or changing the future. In episode two, I think the word tomb, and seeing Sam and max skeleton makes me think the big thing for episode 2 will be spending all the episode inside Sam and maxes building. Which would be cool, considering how we haven't been their since raving dead.
So what did you guys think of the penal zone? What do you think is going to happen?
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Other than that.. I can't say nothing bad about it. It's great! Definitely a good experience. It had a great atmoshpere, an atmosphere, a villain... Puzzles were great, futurevision is well executed and good to know that it'll last for 4 more episodes.
Kinda felt sad since I just beated the game in one day and now I have to wait for a month.
Time travel again? I wouldn't mind...
But I have to say, I am probably going to spend a lot of my replay time in Max Mode just to find all the Easter Eggs they hid, like one of Monty Muzzle's Chickens sitting in the Desoto, or Death's Boat from ToMI in the Subway/Sewers.
I'm definitely leaning towards the time travel/alternate timeline/dimension area, I'm starting to think that Sammun-mak is less an egyptian reference than just a catchy title. Also, is anyone starting to think that
The most obvious being Stinky on the phone to Skunkape and and the love letter and going to meet him. Yet at the end she finds him annoying and said she ditched her phone to get away.
So why did she go meet him then?
The second loophole that got me was if you could ring Meesta Pizza via COPS why couldn't same teleport Meesta Pizza?
I was wondering that too. Maybe Max doesn't know the phone number, but couldn't Sam tell him?
If you ask her about it when trapped in the cage in Skunkapes ship, she'll mention that she went to see her boyfriend when she was kidnapped by Skunkape.
I noticed that she's reluctant to mention her boyfriend, like she doesn't want Sam and Max to find out who he is (future episode plot point, probably), while she always refers to Skunkape by name.
I got the clear impression from that conversation that Skunkape isn't her boyfriend. She's only on the throne in the beginning of the game because of Sam and Max, just like the second time around.
I bet Flint Paper is her boyfriend, he disappeared awfully mysteriously from the diner if you ask me!
Yeah but the note was signed S, so it couldnt be. My money is on Satan.
It's Shugh Bliss!
wouldn't it be gross if it would be grandpa stinky?
If its Superball though Max should have him locked up for treason!
I'm kinda leaning towards Shambling Corporate Presence myself
I'd point out that Sal is a lady's name, but not only do we NOT know which way Stinky swings, she is also a Cake of the Damned, and who knows if "girl" even applies to 'her' beyond vague physical form?
Disturbing enough for TTG maybe though.
Sal can be a guy's name. Short of Salazar among other things.
So your saying she is pastry-sexual because she is a cake? So S... must be STRAWBERRY!
I really loved the Max' View and the Psychic powers, especially the times it gives false hints how to solve a puzzle ("Knocked them cold" or "oldes trick in the book")
The greatest downsides were technalaties and graphic glitches on the Mac Version, wich made it hard to play sometimes.
From a Plot consitency standpoint, the giveaway of the future-Vision was weird, if it had been stolen, it would have been more appropriate. The Tekephine was taken away, maybe because Skunkape didn't know max had it. (Since the palce where it is kept is NONE OF HIS DAMMED BUISINESS)
Some of the Teleporter Puzzles were really great, especially how to get rid of the goons at boscotec.
I am Looking forwanrd to the future episodes, but hopefully in a better mac Version.
And has anybody used future vision on Sam in the spaceship? His partner is going to die!
Well, his partner is going to become one with the infinity and destroy the whole universe, at least according to the Molemen.
Now, that thing baffle me, about they decided to put an incredible mysterious plot point in the very last puzzle. In fact, I was so concentrated in defeat Skun-ka'pe, I had to basically stop when we appear at the Molemen Shrine and start to eat more plot points. I was clicking everywhere to figure out what's going on there, and when I used all the dialog options with the molemen, I suddenly remember I had to stop Skun-ka'pe.
I wish that Shrine had more hot spots to still getting more information about Max's Powers and the Toybox prophesy, but, appart Max is destinated to destroy the universe, we doesn't know anymore about that psychic powers.
Anyway, I wonder what will happen when that Toybox is opened. And I'm talking in the sense of been the energy of the Rift Generator (In the other sense, we still have no idea appart of the Apocalypse). Skun-ka'pe will back? With the Rinoplasty and the Mind Reading? The Future Vision of they been in the office was just something that might happen or the guys will be back to office at the end of the season for sure?
But first the Huldufólk!
She acted rather guilty when Flint freaked out about the peanuts. I think it was her, trying to prevent the discovery of either the death of Sal or the possible fact that Sal is an inhuman, unhygienic creature, likely to be a cockroach.