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savage2011-02-02 23:36:05

Okay Christ is this guy unrelenting.

I honestly don't know how many times he's killed me anymore, just that I triggered him in a room with a piano (and I wasn't even stupid enough to touch it!) and he has been chasing me ever since. And there is no place to hide. None.

I thought I'd be clever and go back to the bathroom where I locked myself in and evade him there... He busted in the door. I really, really shoulda seen that coming◊.

I found another, well-lit bathroom with a similar door... which doesn't lock. After standing in there for about 15 seconds, I felt like an idiot, ran out and kept running.

A library near the piano room seemed to have a spot for me to hide between the bookshelves against the wall. Scissors Man BUSTED THROUGH THE BOOKCASE BEHIND ME. I was so surprised I didn't even think to make a Kool-Aid Man joke until just now.

I thought I'd found a faint glimmer of hope when I entered a room I'd been in before and found an interact there that hadn't been there when I had visited before, on the other side of a dresser. Unfortunately the only way to get on the other side seems to be to climb OVER the dresser, and Jennifer seems to have zero ranks in Climb and Acrobatics. There doesn't seem to be a way to improve this standing, button mashing doesn't seem to do much (if anything) while grappling with Scissors Man or while Jennifer attempts anything at all.

I have no clue how to get away from this guy. ...Which is kind of the point, I guess.

I have admittedly not played much of the Survival Horror genre, but I've never played a game where it was this hard to evade pursuit. And Jennifer seems to have no weapons, no way to fight back against this guy, not even to slow him down.

Before all this I had intended to make a post regarding things like how the items I picked up just seem to fall into my inventory where I can't see them and get used automatically and how this annoyed me slightly, but now all I care about is figuring out how to get the hell away from Scissors Man. And I no longer think he is silly. At all.

Comments

BonsaiForest Since: Dec, 1969

Feb 3rd 2011 at 6:19:01 AM

It is possible to access your inventory. I think you have to hold a certain button, but it's possible, and also required at some points to use certain items certain ways.

savage Since: Dec, 1969

Feb 3rd 2011 at 8:12:03 AM

Shadow Warden already messaged me about inventory, I'm addressing it in my next installment. Thank you though!

EndarkCuli Since: Dec, 1969

Feb 3rd 2011 at 11:04:40 AM

Well, about your Scissors Man problem, I think I recall a few tricks from that video LP I mentioned. I think that you can hide under one of the beds in the room with the parrot, though you'll have to let the little bugger free and catch him with one of the sheets so he won't yelp when that abomination walks in. I think there's also a garage with an upper level that Scissors Man can't climb up...