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It was kinda scary for me while playing. The zebra scared me because a sentence popped out saying: THEY ARE ALWAYS WATCHING YOU. I thought they were watching me right at that moment through the zebras eye.
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The fact that you can beat the game without the scanner is an analogy for going through life with out questioning, or perhaps the scanner represent introspection? In either case it really is ingenious to allow the player to beat the game without it. Just like real life.
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"IT IS ALL A LIE." "YOU'RE NOT A PERSON YOU'RE A SUBJECT." "SOME PEOPLE ARE MORE FREE THAN OTHERS." "THEY'RE ALWAYS WATCHING YOU." "I'm not hungry I think I'll leave the hotplate off..."
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Needs a badge for scanning all the barcodes... Or maybe something else. Anyway, I think this game needs a way of making people scan the barcodes. People who don't are really missing out :)
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wait, where is my barcode scanner? i just got out, but now i realize that i ended the game with 0/30 barcodes scanned? where is my scanner?
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Odd little game. I like how you can go through the whole thing without the scanner (it's only use is in letting you know the weak point in the wall - which is only weak if the light shines on it!).
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I see. Same way you solve the puzzle to get the key, you do the same on the computer, and get the scanner. If you break the wall before getting the scanner you won't get 30/30.
Think about the ending, and the meaning of the bars becomes clear. Alas, given the Stone's quote, I wonder if this isn't just as the ending implies, but rather deeper than that: hell. It would seem that 'The man of wealth and taste' could well be tormenting your soul with bar codes and lies. The deceiver, right? Everything I tell you is a lie?
Wow, great game! Timely too.
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For those who don't understand the ending the man insane. the point is the he sees the world in black and white bars. I think with saying that the rest is pretty self-explanatory.
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A DVD by the name of “Wholphin” ? And I thought _Zombeavers_ was already top of the list…
Whaaat? There’s a toilet seat and you can’t even look what’s inside it (and find a nut)?
Ok, I scanned the couch. And the bathroom tiles. Don’t judge me.
Most of the real looking barcodes actually read 06991982 (naaah, don’t ask how I did that)
(possible spoiler:) I’m sorry but using the knife on the… Animal and the pills on the… plastic shape made much MUCH more sense.
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to find the barcode scanner go to the computer then click red,green,blue,cyan,magenta then yellow then look at the door
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Ahhh, I love these games, the escape games, they make you think, and just in the puzzle itself but, the character and the backstory. The genre is brilliant as it is. And this hit my top 5!
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I am blown away, the setting is very impressive. One of the few actual surprise endings I've ever seen from a game; at no point in time did I suspect that there was anything going on, but an uncouth youth such as myself lazying his way through life, not knowing when the last time he'd gotten off of the couch was. Also a lot to explore so you can actually play it without seeing everything the first time, unlike most point and clicks.
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@2342 you have to beat the game on the computer first before you get mail. click on the colored circles in order: red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, and yellow. the first letter of each color in correct sequence is on a sheet of paper next to the computer.
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You know, a lot of these messages remind me of the book 1984. Particularly the ones involving the mind. "THE BRAIN IS THE CENTER OF ALL REBELLION." in particular makes me think of thoughtcrimes.
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Startlingly beautiful and at the same time, horrifically saddening. A single man, kept prisoner against his will or knowledge, suddenly led astray by the introduction of a single, tiny little anomaly; the barcode reader. Just one little change and his entire world is turned upside down... and proven to be nothing but a figment of his imagination. Gorgeous. Really, really well executed.
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I've played this game for god knows how long, and just now I figured out how to get all 30 bar codes. For all of you wondering, when you enter the tunnel that leads you to the mental house, turn left/right and you'll be facing the wall, allowing you to scan the barcodes.
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Found this through a 'favourited game' link in someones profile, had to read the comments on how to complete; thankfully the combination for the wall/vault was the same as the computer screen as although the triangular symbol was the same, for me an identical combination would have been too obvious to be likely. psychological undertones embeded in visually minimal immersive/interactive point & click 3D experience, high impact ending, again made clearer with comments :-)