Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders playthrough and hints

So while all the others are on the Travel thread… I’m the only one here waiting for Katie’s post…
#supporting

Status report:

Made friends with a :dolphin: and found a glowing object.
Things for three: learnt a :dancer: and found three platforms (sea, Mexico maze, eye in Peru).
Guard in London is cold but I can’t find a solution.
And two people are still stuck on Mars.

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well… you’ll have to put that :dancer: to good use and heat up things a bit near Heat-hrow (ha!)

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Remember: each character has his own abilities. If Zak can’t bribe the guard, maybe Annie… *wink* *wink*
I believe this little puzzle was designed by David Fox!

Spoiler Alarm! :wink:

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Aha! I think I know what I need to do! Zak already tried it and got a funny response :grin:

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Well, you can’t do too much, until you solve the dancing puzzle

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Ran out of likes again. Thanks for the tips :grin:

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That was one of the tougher ones for me. You can imagine how surprised I was when I discovered this after a looong time.

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I certainly can :grinning: I tried breaking in through the door with various objects at one point. I knew I needed that bread and I also noticed that Annie refuses to even ring the bell, which made me think that wasn’t the answer.

Agreed.

Eheh, maybe because I was a little rascal back then, but this was one of the first solved puzzles for me! :laughing:

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I got this really early on. I’m used to bugging people because of Telltale Sam & Max:

Do you have any…?

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Yesterday I broke the game again. :upside_down_face:

I loaded a save point with Zak in the water, shortly before he is due to say that he can’t wait for much longer. After mindlinking with the dolphin and swimming around underwater for a few seconds, this happened.

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Wow, you would be a great tester!

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Anyone can test with Ctrl+D. :stuck_out_tongue:

You really should look out for a job as a lead tester. :wink:

But wasn’t there indeed an easter egg or an odd behavior with/in that scene? :thinking:

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Including the error message? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Oh heh, I overlooked that. I’m guessing @tasse-tee may not have the airplane cushion thus reaching a more or less untested scenario?

I did have that object. When Zak first lands in the water, he says that he should last for about an hour because of the cushion.

I left my laptop on one morning while I was getting ready for work, to see what would happen next. I saved the game a few minutes before the time was up.

About a minute later, Zak says something like “I can’t wait for much longer!”
In yesterday’s scenario, he mindlinked with the dolphin and swam around before he had the chance to say that line.

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