Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders playthrough and hints

It just looks like a generic hall way. You won´t see anything else in the short time until your character either runs for the exist or…well…

Yup, exactly.

For the maze in question or for later?

So you have only used What is?

For later.

Memory and what is, but what is kept me from having to outsource my memory. Or rather I outsourced part of it to the game rather than to a piece of paper.

I’m reasonably sure that it’s simply a matter of going from largest to smallest. After the fact, while exiting that is, I realized there are also directional markers present (in the form of the mini-statues) but I’m not really sure how to sensibly use those without lighting some torches to see them without having to walk around in the dark like a maniac which basically leads to a 90% overlap anyway.

There’s also the lighter mechanic I discovered but that’s not really any different either. It looks kinda cool but is otherwise more annoying to me.

So I suppose you could say there are three pixel hunting methods I’ve found. Did I miss any? :stuck_out_tongue:

(Dad joke mode on)
Blur-post your map later and amaze us with your drawing skills!

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That actually makes a lot of sense! Never thought about it that way! Making a map tonight with that in mind.

I’m starting to wish I brought my laptop to the hairdresser. But that’d be weird.

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Ehrm… Is the name of your hairdresser Bob?

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So it was the sound of that buzzing neon sign none of us could place

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Oh yeah! Is that what it is?

Yeah, but I´m not sure if you can click the spoiler or not. Have you done anything special there, yet?

I’ve changed the screenshot to a non-spoiler version.

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Oh I’d clicked it already… But very quickly so can’t tell the difference.

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That was my last puzzle.
I remember that when I realized what I had to do, and why, the rest of the game was crystal clear to complete :slight_smile:

Hm, kinda stuck here for the moment. (No hints necessary yet.)

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Umm… more important, can characters die without you realizing it? Or can they be kidnapped like in TWP or something?

Edit: concretely, one moment (this is from my save when I got the crystal shard) it was like this:


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Then I took the plane, got out and started experimenting like you see in my previous post. I wanted to switch to her… and she was gone.

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No kidnapping, but just read what she is saying in this screenshot…

That’s why I posted it while reading the helmet to show the value. To show that I’m aware it’s a thing that (presumably) can happen and it’s not the case here at all.

It’s not? Is her name still available when pressing Switch?

I’m sure she must’ve died for that reason, but it makes absolutely no sense is what I’m saying. I was in Mexico and went straight to London. That takes 5 minutes tops.