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04-25-2007, 09:51 PM
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The Neverhood

An old, old game created from claymation. I've got it around in my house, somewhere. Anyway, after seeing Ziggy's avatar for the hundreth time, I finally remembered where it was from, and I re-discovered the brilliance of this game.

It's a mind-bender, and really tests your patience sometimes. For example, one way to complete the story of The Neverhood is to find tablets that you insert into a machine periodically located throughout the game. The brilliance of this is that you get the tablets so out of order that it makes you want to watch all of them in sequence. It's very difficult to find them all, and some take forever to get to.

One of them is aquired by walking past a countless number of screens, until you get to the end. But located on these walls you walk by is a complete, thorough timeline of every event in the game's history.

Other puzzles are hilarious, like making a dummy of yourself out of dynamite while a man-eating giant dog thing attempts to break into the room you're cowering in. It falls for the dummy, only to explode seconds later from it.

Another memorable moment is the Burp Tree. You pull down a fruit from the branch, take a huge bite, and burp for a second. If the player takes another, you burp longer. You take another, you go longer, until it starts to shorten up. On the last one, however, you burp for almost 5 minutes straight.

It's kind of an underground game, so I'm not expecting most of you to know about it, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Ziggy can probably recount more than me, since I haven't played it in years.
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04-25-2007, 10:25 PM
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Actually, Mitsur, I don't even have it anymore! I completely forgot what happened to it. I really want to find a copy and play it again so bad, but it seems to be really hard to find. It's a bummer. Skullmonkeys, the sequel (sort of), is pretty fun too. Although it has no creative puzzles, it's mostly jumping around. They're both funny and goofy games which is why I like them. Plus the music of the game is so iconic!
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04-26-2007, 12:43 PM
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Neverhood... one of my first pc games... I still have my neverhood cd, but I can't run it with my windows xp... well, neverhood is good game only if you play it first time. Second time you know what to do and its more boring...
And what do you think about the long hall behind H door?
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04-26-2007, 10:01 PM
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hmm I heard it is possible to run on XP, but I might be wrong. They should have released it on the Playstation later.
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Neverhood would've sucked like shit on the PS1.

I have the Imaginarium on my mp3 as we speak.
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04-27-2007, 03:47 AM
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Heh. I still have that game, and in fact it is installed on this computer, that runs XP. It surely would have been one of the first computer games I've ever played. Oh, great days they were.
You HAD to get all of the discs to complete the game, though. I always liked the little Chain Rock, keeping the two parts of the land apart.
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The Neverhood was one of the best adventure games I've ever played (next to Woodruff & The Schnibble of Azimuth, Runaway and Monkey Island). The music was really entertaining and varied, and so were the characters. The FMVs were hilarious, my favourite was Big Robot Bil's battle with the Clockwork Beast. I also can't manage to get Willie's story out of my head, I remember the whole script...

I tried to run it on XP once, but I couldn't reload the progress I saved. All that walking in the Cronicle Hall, blew into nothingness...

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do you guys know how i can get it now?
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