How many verbs are perfect?

[Someone]

@Nor_Treblig

Btw. those were fixed a long time ago!

Really? I need to play the game again. However. There are still other red herrings like the clock in the bank or the real red herring. Have a look in this thread:

Red herrings - which ones did you enjoy?

I get the impression from the dev blog that the distinction between “red herring” and “unimplemented puzzle” is a little blurry and should be thought of as a continuum, but I have to say I actually enjoyed wasting time on all of these things: Trying to figure out what to do with the Betamax tape (it had been hinted at as important for the CCTV in an earlier conversation, but then the game denied all knowledge). I eventually decided I had misremembered the relevant CCTV system, and started tryi…

@Nor_Treblig

In the end there is no real difference if you use a spell like in Loom, or you use/read a magic scroll from your inventory or even use a master key from your inventory to open something.

The spells represents abstract concepts/verbs. The graphical representation or the position in the UI isn’t important. Even if I put them in the inventory, there is still a difference between verbs/actions and objects:

The master key is a key (= an object). If I see him in the inventory I know instantly that I can open a door with it. That isn’t the case if I see a spell named “hngl” or a sequence of notes in my inventory.

@Nor_Treblig

Such bottle can be opened with ANYTHING, like an eye socket

You do that regularly?

@ideal

Otherwise you’ll hear the statement(s) for trying out combinations which won’t work quite often.

“Edna & Harvey: The Breakout” did that: You can combine every object with every other object and each time you get a different comment. But I don’t want to be forced to implement that scheme in a game with 80 objects and up …