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wallmasterz posted...

suspect, who was a delusional religious zealot whose apartment was covered in crucifixes from top to bottom.

I actually enjoyed this chapter. I had been waiting for the game to get more atmospheric, and this location had me intrigued.

I think a lot of this game's story can be kind of fun as long as you acknowledge how silly it is, and this scene kind of fits in with that. It's too exaggerated to really grab my attention, but it was fun for what it was.

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Today's session began with Ethan's first trial for the Origami Killer, which involved driving into oncoming traffic for a bit. I fucked up several of the QTEs, and the car ended up crashing and lighting on fire, but the game awarded me the "good driver" trophy in any case. It turns out the clue was in the locked glove compartment all along.

The way this works is that for each trial you pass, Ethan gets a few more letters out of the address to where Shaun is. I know it's possible for him to guess the correct location without passing every single trial. I think you can fail one or maybe two.

I had been wondering what the point of Madison as a player character was. Apparently it's to patch up Ethan after every single trial. Apart from the random dream sequence that introduced her, that's all she's done thus far. Ethan's car accident led to a few shattered ribs, and when he returns to the motel he's been staying at, he bumps into Madison, who helps him to his room and gives him some painkillers. After his second trial, which involved crawling over broken glass and climbing around electrical wires, she takes his shirt off to dress his wounds and apply ointment to the burns. This is probably in part because David Cage has a Holden Caulfield style fantasy about being cared for by a doting woman, if I had to speculate.

Next was the scene where Norman chases another suspect through a marketplace. I took Zen's advice and refrained from pressing any buttons for the first little while, which did make an already very silly chase sequence even funnier. The guy tries to give you the slip by scattering ice cubes on the ground and unlocking a chicken coop so the livestock flutter in your face as you try to run after him, and you corner him in a meat freezer for a dramatic fight scene. He turns out to be absolutely no one, and claims to have given Norman all this trouble because he had been violating his parole curfew and was afraid Norman was after him for that. Seems a little drastic, but okay.

Lauren, the prostitute Scott spoke to for his first chapter, showed up at his apartment and offered him some extra evidence in exchange for letting her partner with him. He accepted and brought her to a party where he was planning to interview some rich guy's suspicious son, but all she did was sit on the couch and complain about how much the party sucked! You're the one who insisted on coming, Lauren! Scott has to trick some bodyguards to get upstairs, where the guy throwing the party is sitting on his own watching another short loop of French animation. Makes you wonder why he bothered with a party in the first place. Perhaps he'd have more fun hanging out with Shaun, since they have shared interests. Scott questions the guy and he confesses to being the Origami Killer, and then sics his bodyguards on Scott. Naturally, the seasoned fighter takes them both down with no effort, but then he just leaves. Later the guy's dad invites Scott to golf, tries to bribe him into leaving his son alone, and then threatens him when that doesn't work.

Back at the police precinct, Ethan's wife comes in to tell the cops how suspicious Ethan is. Norman and his ornery partner, Carter Blake, then go out to interview a shrink we saw Ethan speak to earlier, who refuses to testify because of his oath of client confidentiality. Since Carter is a complete dick, he starts trying to beat the information out of the guy. I had Norman tell him to cut it out, whereupon the therapist just spilled his guts anyway. What he said basically boils down to "yeah, Ethan Mars is the Origami Killer, lol," so now the cops are after Ethan, and we have a direct conflict between two of our player characters. There's a scene in Detroit that parallels this very closely.

I'll probably play a little more soon.

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