You just need to pitch match. When you have the right path all of the sounds will meld together. If you have to, close your eyes and if there's any dissonance swipe on.
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Year Walk |OT| First Person Swedish Swiping Horror
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Relaxed Muscle
Member
I'm a huge fan of Another Code and Hotel Dusk. The former was especially a big inspiration for Year Walk. RIP CiNG
I don't have an iOS device, but your cool on my book for this.
Respect +100.
EleventhDoctor
Banned
Similar to how the GB guys did it in the QL, I found that if I hummed along I was less tone deaf!
superrobot
Member
Great game.
Just seen my wife leap up and shriek when
She's nervous about playing it alone.
Just seen my wife leap up and shriek when
the scary thing happens after beating the aaaaaaaaahs in the owl cave
Ninjagorilla
Member
We're starting to throw around ideas for the next thing, so not sure actually...
The ambition is to be able to continue to make more non-traditional things like Year Walk.
I didn't meant that
that was easy for me.I was talking about the
cave with the blue flame - there were symbols with different numbers of dots at each other- I touched them in order and looked for the symbols outside of the cave and touched them in order. I also touched them with the dots representing the
number of fingers to use
number of fingers to use
superrobot
Member
I didn't meant that
I was talking about thecave with the blue flame - there were symbols with different numbers of dots at each other- I touched them in order and looked for the symbols outside of the cave and touched them in order. I also touched them with the dots representing the
number of fingers to use
dots: good, but is there anything else in there?
PittaGAF
Member
Can't freaking wait then.
Can you toss us a hint if
there is more after the second ending? A new year to input in the companion? A new set of shapes to use in the wooden box? Or are vedtorp.se and the like just for the setting?
(Even in private, please...I just need a nudge to decide if continuing or stopping (perfectly satisfied).
Anyway, one of the best game (but even more than a sole game) I ever played.
I hope you guys will have all the credits (and money) you deserve.
Yeah... those symbols next to the dots... I found several of them out in the wild and touched them
superrobot
Member
Yeah... those symbols next to the dots... I found several of them out in the wild and touched them
Ignore the dots for now. Have another poke around in that cave
EleventhDoctor
Banned
EleventhDoctor
Banned
essentially the writer of the book was so upset about the events of the game he Year Walked back to place the note and the knife in the box to urge the player to end their life before the ending so that history would change.
Buttonbasher
Member
I was already going to buy this tonight, but this sentence is seriously the best way to sell me anything ever. I'm so excited to play!I'm a huge fan of Another Code and Hotel Dusk. The former was especially a big inspiration for Year Walk. RIP CiNG
EDIT:
Eurogamer said:
Seriously, did you guys develop this just for me?
Aptos
Member
But it doesn't show you the results of history changing? Whenever I open the box and scroll through the papers it just zooms in on the knife and credits roll, then asks me to "walk again?" Am I missing something?
EleventhDoctor
Banned
Yes you have seen the second ending.
Ninjagorilla
Member
I can say this much: there is no "third" ending. And actually we only consider the game to have one ending... We don't see the endings as alternate endings, but rather as an exploration in difference of interactive narrative as opposed to passive narrative. "The End" is pretty definite, don't you think?
PittaGAF
Member
Yeah absolutely.
And, do not get me wrong, I was absolutely satisfied with everything.
In particular...
...I also thought there aren't 'different' endings, it was just for the sake of clarity.
I LOVED that the 'first' one is open to many interpretations...and I freaking loved that the 'second' one explained everything better (but not in a absolutely definitive way...so it's still open for some interpretations...which is cool).
Everything around the game itself, like the websites and such, enahnce the whole thing to another level...and had me talk about the game with friends a LOT these days...something that never happened in long while.
Part of me was secretely hoping to see or read something more....like another set of shapes that clarify better The Watchers or...who knows?
I LOVED that the 'first' one is open to many interpretations...and I freaking loved that the 'second' one explained everything better (but not in a absolutely definitive way...so it's still open for some interpretations...which is cool).
Everything around the game itself, like the websites and such, enahnce the whole thing to another level...and had me talk about the game with friends a LOT these days...something that never happened in long while.
Part of me was secretely hoping to see or read something more....like another set of shapes that clarify better The Watchers or...who knows?
The truth is simply I do not want to part from this incredible experience I had.
Year Walk is storytelling at its finest.
Anyway thank you for the answer (and the game obviously)!!!
An imagination!
Ninjagorilla
Member
And thank you for playing. Hearing things like this really warms our heart.
The interpretation aspect was very important for us. Very few games do this today. I love any kind of art that stimulates your mind and stays, so it's especially good to hear words like this. Thanks again.
DigitalRicket
Member
Finished the game earlier this morning and loved it from start to finish. Great job! Can't wait to see if there's more to the mystery than meets the eye!
Father_Brain
Banned
Okay, is there a game-killing bug here?
Church door will not open. Have checked multiple walkthroughs to verify that I'm rotating in the correct sequence.
PittaGAF
Member
Anything is possible but
be sure to wait for the symbol above the door to blink at each rotation
Father_Brain
Banned
Figured it out. Apparently, I was supposed to rotate by swiping in the opposite direction of the arrows.
Great game, though.
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
This thing, I'm hesitant to call it just a game, is simply in-freaking-credible. It's criminal that this thread has so few posts in it.
IMO, this was a work of genius - If you have iphone you owe it to yourself to experience it.
IMO, this was a work of genius - If you have iphone you owe it to yourself to experience it.
NoirVisage
Banned
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
It's got good puzzles. It's also really not the same if you wouldn't control your own movement in this. It's really not comparable to Walking Dead IMO, which had practically no puzzles and hardly any gameplay really.
Yeah, the arrows point the direction in which you're supposed to walk
NoirVisage
Banned
i very rarely care for puzzles in games, so an all puzzle "game" wouldn't hold me too long.. i'd rather watch someone else bang their head against a wall, and laugh at them until they figure it out..probably because of the work i do -__-
That's a perfect analogy. If you simply want to see how the story plays out, that's fine though.
NoirVisage
Banned
piratepwnsninja
Member
Absolutely amazing. Loved it.
also love how the end ending still leaves things open. I mean, at no point do you actually find yourself stabbing her. You have no weapon...until you are given one from the future. Did he actually change the past by sending the knife back? Or did he ensure that what happened, happened?
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
All I'm going to say is, pay attention to that.
It's fantastic how they use those sparsely but it makes you nervous for every new place you move. Especially when you're in that one place.
Yes, the knife there was very convenient. I believe that part of story is somewhat explained in various texts. That last scene you see of her dead, that's his vision of the future. It's explained somewhere that you first "touch the stars" or something like that, before you see the vision of the next year. So it could have been some kind of nasty conflict between two of them, which resulted with him killing her, and it could have happened some time after that vision. He sees in the vision that she says she doesn't love him, and he also probably has gone a bit crazy after all that he's seen. First time you walk he definitely won't have that knife, and he won't have it for the events after either, but I guess time did rewind the 2nd time around when you're able to open that box.
Yeah I ended up beating the game on that day too but this thread hadn't gotten any replies (which is criminal!), anyway, Year Walk got a 9 from EDGE:
http://www.edge-online.com/review/year-walk-review/
Ninjagorilla
Member
We did not! Well. (At least some of us didn't, hmm!)
superrobot
Member
you should be able to use the fire to look around...have a poke around in there
thanks just beat it and got in the box.
should not have played so late at night.
great game.
AuthenticM
Member
This game needs to come to Android.