“A cryptic message. A hidden artifact. An ancient mystery.”
All part of the blurb describing Dark Fall: The Journal, a point and click adventure game that I was playing last night.
The should have added “A pissy PDA.” to that blurb as well.
You play the brother of an architect whom is redeveloping an, as you soon discover, haunted hotel and train station. He leaves you a troublesome voice mail, and filled with fear for your sibling, you rush off to help him.
But he is nowhere to be found. *cue spooky music*
After bumbling around for a bit you do stumble across his PDA. Fiddling around with it you get this error message (click for a larger version):
Perhaps he didn’t meet a grisly end at the spectral hands of some nasty otherworldy spooks after all…
If his PDA knows what it is talking about, maybe his debt collectors finally caught up with him.
HAHAHA. I love how adventure games find different ways to communicate with the player; backpacks, cell phones, journals, etc. But even with as many adventure games as I have played, I have never seen a “communication device” that gave such snarky advice. Is working hard and acquiring peripheral devices even an option in the game? If not, it’s even funnier.
BTW, those Dark Fall games look freakin scary.
As far as I have been able to discern so far, there is no way to obtain peripheral devices to hook up to the PDA, although there is apparently paranormal detection devises you are supposed to discover – I don’t think the Pissy PDA will be involved with them.
Yes, there is a high level of Paranormal Activity in these games… heee!
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