Dagger of Amon Ra play! - Tawmis

[Collector]

Or NRS.

[Tawmis]

Okay - this is a pretty tough game... and I am in Act III - and I think I have found about six different ways to die so far.

[Collector]

You could do a YouTube "Let's Die" with Laura Bow.

[Tawmis]

You could do a YouTube "Let's Die" with Laura Bow.

Seriously. Act I and Act II - if there was a way to die, I didn't find it. Act III - I think I found three more ways to die, since that post. (And I keep getting wrapped up in the game, and forgetting to save, because Act III is where everyone starts dying left and right!)

[adeyke]

You could do a YouTube "Let's Die" with Laura Bow.

Like this one?

[Tawmis]

I had to stop watching the video - it was too graphic!

I kid, I kid! I stopped because it was showing something I hadn't got to yet.

[Tawmis]

Side note, I finally passed Act III and am now in Act IV.

Let me say, this game has some silly puzzles... for example (since I don't remember much of Dagger of Amon Ra, I was doing random things for example) - and one of the things I did (having just used it on the mouse trap) - was smash the bone against the mirror just outside that room... Which okay, might have made sense to do (to get maybe a piece of glass!) - but to discover that there's a hidden lamp behind the mirror? How does that even make sense? I knew what the lamp was for, because I had died previously in the dark hallway. Although, admittedly, I died again with the lamp in that hallway, because I didn't turn it on first. Figured I'd have time in the hallway to do so.

[BBP]

Oomph the hallway bugged me. When I played it, this one secret passage I found myself and I was so proud, thinking "PROGRESS!"... and then you die.

[Tawmis]

Oomph the hallway bugged me. When I played it, this one secret passage I found myself and I was so proud, thinking "PROGRESS!"... and then you die.

I know. I thought it'd be like Space Quest "put gem in mouth"

[Tawmis]

After discovering like another 10 to 15 ways to die I finally beat this game.

There's a couple of puzzles in this game that are pretty out there (like the one I mentioned above), and some that are painful (for example, using the snake oil on the snake in the office three times to catch it - then, not knowing you'd need it again, and failing to refill it later, and dying in the secret passage with the snakes!) Also, it was random clicking on a specific body that allowed me to find the Smelling Salts - otherwise, I would have never known they were there. But early on, I just began clicking all over the bodies, to see if there was anything hidden. Also, if you get this stuff before doing the refilling of the snake oil - it automatically kicks in Act V, which means you will dead end at that tunnel, because you won't have snake oil! And Laura pulls a move straight from LSL2, by putting an entire mummy inside her purse (Larry had put the super sized, giant, Goliath sized soda in his pocket! - Ouch! -)

I do wonder about something - in the game, there's two segments where it's using actual "speaking" audio - when the woman is singing in the Speakeasy, and then later when the followers of Ra are chanting "Amon Ra" repeatedly. Curious why more of this game wasn't made into a talkie version? And how they got those two audio files to play in what's technically not a "talkie" game?

[Tawmis]

Here's the save games, broken down by acts (each folder is an Act, labelled as such: ActI, ActII, ActIII, ActIV, ActV, and ActVI)

The end, I had made several attempts to guess who did what (I knew who the main murderer was) - but the reasons, I wasn't always sure of (a lot of "Covering up another crime") so I kept getting fumbled success... finally used my hint book to get the answers as to who (most of which I knew), but most of the why's I had wrong.

[Collector]

What game is next?

[BBP]

After discovering like another 10 to 15 ways to die I finally beat this game.

I do wonder about something - in the game, there's two segments where it's using actual "speaking" audio - when the woman is singing in the Speakeasy, and then later when the followers of Ra are chanting "Amon Ra" repeatedly. Curious why more of this game wasn't made into a talkie version? And how they got those two audio files to play in what's technically not a "talkie" game?

Congratulations on beating it - I failed miserably.

Laura Bow 2 is a talkie - a highly annoying talkie with the staff doing the voices. IIRC Jane Jensen voices the flapper in the women's lounge. Didn't you know that version?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M75v9RS ... C&index=16

[Tawmis]

What game is next?

Not sure. Going to have to see what I have installed - and what I don't remember (perhaps one of the Conquest games? I think I played both of those games once and beat them, never repeated on those...)

After discovering like another 10 to 15 ways to die I finally beat this game.
I do wonder about something - in the game, there's two segments where it's using actual "speaking" audio - when the woman is singing in the Speakeasy, and then later when the followers of Ra are chanting "Amon Ra" repeatedly. Curious why more of this game wasn't made into a talkie version? And how they got those two audio files to play in what's technically not a "talkie" game?

Congratulations on beating it - I failed miserably.

It is, definitely not an easy game! It's misleading too, because the first two acts (well, okay other than crossing the street without looking) - I didn't die. So it kind of gives a false sense of security. Act III rolls around and I felt like I died at every turn somehow!

Laura Bow 2 is a talkie - a highly annoying talkie with the staff doing the voices. IIRC Jane Jensen voices the flapper in the women's lounge. Didn't you know that version?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M75v9RS ... C&index=16

Weird. Because mine wasn't a talkie - nor do I have an option anywhere to say I want Text over Speech.

[adeyke]

There's both a talkie version and a non-talkie version.