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BetrayedTangy posted...

Oh yeah a little bit ago, I used HowLongToBeat to get an approximate number of hours for each game

lol, so the majority of the year will be just Terraria and Minecraft apparently. Actually I was originally planning to just play them for two weeks, but maybe I was underthinking that because you're right that they do both have final bosses. I actually did make it past the Wall of Flesh in Terraria about 5 years ago but I have no idea how long it took. What I do remember is spending a really long time grinding for a bee costume.

ctesjbuvf posted...

You can definitely say the same thing for Skyrim.

For sure. I have a 50 hour file in Skyrim that isn't even close to finishing the main story. That game is all about how you approach it. I think Dark Souls also has a decent amount of variance in terms of how long a playthrough might take. I know it took me over 40 hours the first time but I think I've also beaten it in under 20. You get a lot faster when you aren't dying all the time.

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I played a little more Ghost Trick. After Sissel and Lynne part ways, the ghost tries to make his way back to the junkyard telephone and almost immediately overhears that Lynne has escaped from the superintendent's office where she was being held. He catches up with her in the basement - where she's been killed for a third time. The super is a strange little man with a bird on his head (perhaps he's doing an impression of Sazh) and he rigged a room in his basement to shoot anyone who opened the door. Lynne took that bullet while snooping around, so Sissel has to disable the elaborate trap and save her again. Afterward, she agrees to work with him on the condition that he find the work schedule for a "prisoner D99" at the nearby jail, whose actual name is "Detective Jowd." He's in the slammer for having killed his wife. Along with the rest of his amnesia, Sissel doesn't remember how to read, but luckily Jowd's work schedule is blank. He seems to be a peaceful man, quietly humming to himself while painting, and he tells a guard that he's painting portraits of the people he doesn't want to forget, before stepping away and revealing that the person he's painting is Sissel. Before he reunites with Lynne at the Chicken Kitchen, Sissel intercepts a phone call to this jail from Detective Cabanela, who has a video tape with evidence against Lynne. Sure enough, the footage shows that Lynne is Sissel's murderer. Cabanela starts talking about a place called "Point X" that they have surrounded, and where Lynne has shown up - this is the Chicken Kitchen.

Still enjoying the game. It's quite effective at making me want to play more. I had to rewind time a good few times to figure out how the save Lynne from the deathtrap. I wanted to post now because I'm prepared to make a couple guesses about what's going on in the story:

1. Detective Jowd is on death row, and is to be executed tomorrow morning. This is why his work schedule is blank. He was also being treated to a big meal in his cell (from the Chicken Kitchen, I think) which might be his last meal. The case that Lynne is investigating is the murder he's committed. She says that she's running out of time because she's trying to prove he's innocent before he gets killed. The police are talking about how tonight is an important night and that's because Jowd is about to be executed.

2. Sissel wanted to die. The biggest hint about this is just his body language during the footage of his death. He leans back and doesn't react even as Lynne misses her first shot. The "bad guys" also talked about making a deal with Sissel and acted as if this hadn't been invalidated yet. I think he somehow knew that he could become a ghost with supernatural powers and was trying consciously to use them for some purpose. He might have told Lynne that he could save the detective if she killed him.

If I am right, and Sissel really did kill himself on purpose, I don't know exactly what he was trying to accomplish, unless it was just to save the detective. I'm curious to see how everything comes together.

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I'm playing every game from GotD 2020! Games Completed: 14/129
Currently Playing: Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective