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Gabriella Knight - 22 June 2014 03:28 AM

Heh yeah, the graphics are a bit wonky - like when Sam carries it to the cage, and it looks like she’s just holding it by the ears.

It was a long time ago since I was at a farm, but I firmly remember that they carried their bunnies exactly that way - holding them just by their ears. I don’t know if that’s the best method, but I also remember that there was no expression of pain from their side….

OMG!!! At first I thought it was photoshop, but it is real!!!

Put THAT in your backpack Sam!! 

I finished GM on PC recently and liked it quite a lot.
Maybe slightly off topic, but - by accident I came upon some Xbox screens (10&11;): http://spong.com/game/screens/11046992/Gray-Matter-Xbox-360/315404
Does Xbox version have extra story, or are those screens just from early pre-build and got cut out at the end? (I’m suspecting later, if those shots are under right game at all)

lewuz - 22 June 2014 05:57 PM

I finished GM on PC recently and liked it quite a lot.
Maybe slightly off topic, but - by accident I came upon some Xbox screens (10&11;): http://spong.com/game/screens/11046992/Gray-Matter-Xbox-360/315404
Does Xbox version have extra story, or are those screens just from early pre-build and got cut out at the end? (I’m suspecting later, if those shots are under right game at all)

Definitely under the the wrong game, they have nothing to do with Gray Matter.

lewuz - 22 June 2014 05:57 PM

I finished GM on PC recently and liked it quite a lot.
Maybe slightly off topic, but - by accident I came upon some Xbox screens (10&11;): http://spong.com/game/screens/11046992/Gray-Matter-Xbox-360/315404
Does Xbox version have extra story, or are those screens just from early pre-build and got cut out at the end? (I’m suspecting later, if those shots are under right game at all)

Seems they put a screenshot from Black Mirror 2 under Gray Matter… 

I’ve just finished the 1st chapter & had forgotten how much there was to this game! 

Gabriella Knight - 21 June 2014 12:43 PM

 

The plot looks interesting enough, but there are already a few aspects that makes it hard for me to apply suspension of disbelief - such as the traveling pet rabbit?! Where did she keep it on the bike?
Also, I’m not sure I totally grasped how Sam came to be mistaken for the assistant in the first place - what happened to the other girl we saw at the door? I’m a bit confuzzled - the cutscenes were a bit too static for my taste.

The pet rabbit, you learn early on, travels in Sam’s backpack (I’ve just seen that you mentioned that already Sefir!) - I’m still wondering about the cage & guess it folds down to ‘flat-pack’ 

How Sam comes to be mistaken for the ‘bona-fide’ assistant without any kind of identification becomes clearer later in the chapter it just seems to be a casual student employment thing & anyone will do! I’ve watched the intro a few times & it does seem like the original girl is ‘whisked away’ in a similar atmosphere to the scene in the experiment scenario at the end of the chapter.

UPtimist - 22 June 2014 03:43 AM

Gabriella Knight - 21 June 2014 12:43 PM

......At this time, it’s a good moment to ask if people are aware of this short story Jane wrote about Sam before the events of Gray Matter? .......... 
http://kotaku.com/5113149/jane-jensens-christmas-story-twas-the-night-before
About Sam alone in Rome on Christmas Eve. It’s a nice peek into the character of Sam.

Thanks Uptimist - the story was interesting!

TimovieMan - 22 June 2014 07:02 AM

Karlok - 22 June 2014 06:45 AM

Bad Sam. The ears are not meant to carry the rabbit’s weight. Pick the rabbit up with one hand (NOT by the ears!), use the other hand to support the weight.

^ This.
It’s by the neck. A lot of animals have excess (extra thick) skin at the back of the neck precisely to be carried by the neck while still young. Once they grow bigger, the skin itself isn’t strong enough, so yeah, you have to support their weight with your other hand. Holding them from under the chest and upper paws is also an option, the safest one even. Holding them by the ears is animal cruelty.

Having owned a rabbit when I was a child & spending about a half-hour trying to catch a friends rabbit which I let out for ‘exercise’ when house-sitting a few years ago I can categorically tell you that you should not pick a rabbit up by it’s ears or by the scruff of it’s neck if it’s fully grown & you don’t need to! - would you pick your cat or dog up like that?

I didn’t mind the magic tricks the 1st time I played the game but this time I enjoyed their context in the game so much more! I’d also forgotten how wonderful the voice acting is & love the snippets of info that appear on screen but they flash too quickly for me to read some of them completely! I’m very intrigued by the significance of Samantha’s necklace which I’d also forgotten about!