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Illogical, not to mention, NOBODY in their right mind would stick a wrench in a pool of electrified water BEFORE you get to drain it. I agree with the rest ... the logic behind this game wasn't there. Without the walkthrough I never would have hit upon the right answers to solve the problems such as sticking a coin in a light socket then putting the bulb back. I love escape games but this one gets a low rating from me because of the nonsensical logic needed to finish it!
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For an established genre of game (where items you pick up are usually combined *from* your inventory (i.e. you grab an item and click it where it is supposed to go), this deviates in a most unusual and annoying way, with no clear reasoning behind why things would have to go in a specific order. Most of it seems rather pointless and completely illogical. I have to say, I much prefer the standard type, and something that actually makes you think instead of click all over the screen at random until the next ridiculous step is attained.
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3 wires, all look exactly the same, yet each one has to go in it's proper spot in its proper order with no explanation as to what when were why or how
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Quinn's Review: I love to sit down and have a bit of a think. A good escape-the-room fires up my logic circuits and I'm away. Therein lies my problem with Live Escape Basement: I was trying to apply logic to it. In any good puzzler you know what you need to achieve and you know what items you have available, and the challenge is making those two spectra of information talk to each other in a meaningful manner. This game has no logic. I didn't know my battery needed charging. I don't know why I would put car headlights on the ground. I can't fathom why a stand-alone motor was related to a pipe in the wall, or why I would want to 'pump' it. I can only speculate as to why I put a coin in the light socket. If I could simply spanner the drain open, why didn't I do that first and save all the messing about with batteries and lights and wiring? These things make no sense. There is no internal logic to this game, and in a genre that revolves around nothing but logic this is a serious problem.
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I seems to be stuck, I have been able to collect a lot of items but I'm not able to do anything.
Why can't I just connect my wires as I want to?