I'm sorry that DPX won't be joining us in the playthrough, but I'm happy you found the time to follow us!Maiandra wrote:I finished Chapter 1, but DPX didn't make it. Unfortunately, we have very different playing styles: he wanted to just do what needed to be done and I want to explore every nook and cranny of the game world.
Well, if I'm not mistaken, the only ones who have yet to complete Day 1 are Tawmis and MusicallyInspired. Let's hear from them and then we can go forth to Day 2.
In the meantime, how about a snippet from the Sins of the Fathers novelization?
Grace was always in a hurry, always thought something ought to be done about something, and was at a loss to hande only one thing -- free time. When she wasn't working here she was taking classes like tai chi and oil panting. And this summer was supposed to be her break from school. Gabriel, on the other hand, preferred to watch life, as if from a rocking chair on the porch in the middle of August. He figure if something really interesting went past (and if he felt up to it at the moment), he could always get up and jump in.
Jane Jensen, Sins of the Fathers, ROC 1997, p. 6
This excerpt is one of my favorite of the first novel. While Grace's description follows almost to the letter what we know about her from the game, the segment about Gabriel shed some interesting light on the character. The image of the rocking chair is the perfect metaphor to describe Gabriel's initial attitudine towards the Voodoo Murders case and towards life in general, at least before the major events which will occur later in the game.
I've always seen the Gabriel Knight trilogy as a Bildungsroman, which starts with Gabriel's "infancy" (GK1) - when he's almost always listless and slack and when he gets up from his rocking chair only to pursue his immediate interest, be it a novel to write or a woman to woo - and then moves to his adolescence (GK2) - a period of soul-searching, experimentation and exploration - and finally to his recalcitrant maturity (GK3). This is probably why Sins of the Fathers, whilst certainly a masterpiece, is my least favorite of the three adventures -- because I would like to grab him by the shoulders and shake him out of his rocking chair.
How about you? What do you think of Gabriel's attitude in this game? And what about his evolution in the other games? Do you like the rocking chair metaphor as much as I do?
I've got a lot happening in the next couple weeks...probably longer. I just don't have time to sit down and game. Maybe I'll catch up later.
