I finally got my own copy of Secret of the Scarlet Hand and started playing it for the first time since my library stopped checking out computer games years ago. And wow I forgot how bad this museum is.
If you can't use stairs you can't see the museum.
There are no handrails or guardrails anywhere.
You have to be able to both read the signs and listen to the audio guide in order to get all the information.
Half the artifacts aren't labeled at all.
The only water fountain I've seen is behind the employees only door.
There are apparently no restrooms.
It's dimly lit meaning that it's hard to read the signs or look at the artifacts.
There's only one place to play each game, and you need to play each game to progress through the museum, which definitely causes backups.
What if a computer goes down?
The maze game would probably be a challenge for people like my dad who get motion sick.
There are no fire exits and half the pyramid relies on keycards to move on. In a fire, going all the way back up from the bottom just to go back down would be really time consuming.
Somebody's gonna accidentally leave their kid stuck on the wrong floor of the pyramid, I just know it.
There's not even any doors leading outside besides the front door and the loading dock. There should be an emergency exit in the garden at least.
The stairs where you need to use a glow stick to see are an accident waiting to happen. On my play-through Nancy DID fall down those stairs.
There's probably other things I've forgotten and I'm sure I'm not the first to point any of this out but seriously what is this museum but a problem waiting to happen?
I literally never know what the fuck is happening in this garden. What are these animal noises? Where are the animals? Who’s taking care of them? Sometimes it sounds like people are yelling or chanting in the background? it’s just so damn loud
Ok I have several questions about this absolute wild ending:
How did they come up with this poem/speech? Did they already know it was Taylor? Or was this a miracle of improvisation?
Did they seriously watch Nancy get trapped in a centuries old monolith and did absolutely nothing to help? Were they scared to get trapped? Or did they hide in the shadows and let Nancy get almost killed because they knew she’d get it done?
How would they have waited outside for Nancy to emerge? Like I can absolutely imagine them camping out.
And how did Henrik, who days prior had fallen dozen of steps and suffered a traumatic brain injury which resulted in memory loss, get out of the hospital so quickly? Did he take a field trip just for this occasion?