Friday 31 August, 2018

After playing the game for another hour. I am now stuck in a room with Long arms. He chased me down a hallway passed closing doors. When I got through the last door there was a cage below it that stopped it form closing all of the way. Long arms is currently reaching his arms under the door trying to grab me. I am stuck in there because I have no clue what to do. There is a latch and a box of what appears to be rags, and then two cage stacked on top of each other. I am unable to move either cage nor the box of rags, and I am far too short to reach the latch. I have been jumping around the room for about 15 minutes now, trying every possible thing. I've tried pulling the cage from under the door to try and crush his arms. That didn't work. I tried jumping from on top of the 2 cages and grabbing the latch to open it, and that didn't work either. I will give it some more attempts.

After many more attempts I have finally escaped that room. I tried a couple more time to move the cage from under the door and finally succeed. It turns out you had to carefully sneak past his arms and take apart the cage without being grabbed. It took some time but it was well worth it! The door slammed shut and long arms, is not quite long arms anymore, as both his arms were cut off when the door slammed!

Earlier when I was playing I forgot to mention I found another one of Long arm's rooms. It was an odd looking room, and he seemed to have a collection of toys in there. All the toys looked like little people like my character. It is starting to make more sense now, maybe the little people are not meant to be eaten or anything like that, maybe we are being taken to be used as play toys? Still not entirely sure yet!

My experience with this game so far has been great! Being almost 3 hours into the game now, I am really enjoying it. I love playing horror, mystery, and plat former games, so it's a nice fit for me.

Good job Marcelo! You touch on a couple of interesting topics in your logs. For example, you make the distinction that you are playing as a "smaller and lesser" species; do you think that makes a difference in the ethical nature of the conflict being portrayed? That is, is the violence and imprisonment better, the same, or worse when directed towards a different species than the same actions would be if directed towards a smaller or younger member of the same species? You also describe escaping the room as "well worth it!" when you managed to remove Long Arms's long arms; was that satisfaction because you managed to solve a puzzle you were stuck on, because you managed to hurt someone who wanted to hurt you, a mix of both, or something else entirely?