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Originally Posted by Lena_P
If it had been that Sam and Max weren't just watching the story unfold, but actually inhabiting their ancestors and experiencing it for themselves I think it would have worked out better. Instead of Sammeth and Maximus experiencing puzzle-dependent amnesia when it came time to escape Kringle's attack in the tomb, it would have actually been Sam and Max going, "How did our great-grandpas get out of this one?" Sammeth and Maximus acted exactly like Sam and Max anyway, so it wouldn't have been that big of a change.
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This is what I thought was going on at first, but after playing through the rest of the game and thinking about it, I'm ... not sure. It almost feels like a bit of both were going on at the same time, but ... maybe not? I don't really know. Like you said, going with Option 1 (they relived it!) presents problems due to what looks like some weird instances of selective amnesia. Option 2 (body possession!) makes more sense overall, but there's little-to-nothing in the episode itself to support this. I end up wanting to say "all of the above," if only because it's never really explained. I kind of wish it was, even if Sam & Max by nature doesn't necessitate a tight and logically-consistent plot.
Aside from that, the jumbled timeline worked pretty well for me from both a puzzle and storytelling perspective.
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Originally Posted by Lena_P
Of course, I'm the anal-over-analyzer type, so I'm probably the only person bothered by this kind of narrative nitpickiness!  |
Hey, I resemble that remark!
But that aside, I think a touch of "
de gustibus non est disputandum" comes into play here along with nitpickiness. The former of which being both inevitable and good, and the latter being an admirable trait more often than most of us would like to believe.
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Originally Posted by Lena_P
And I still like that they decided to do something different with this episode. The fact that they're not content to just go with the same old, same old is one of the things I love best about Telltale after all.
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110% agreed.