Once Jojo is in your inventory, he kind of looks like a spanner, but to get him into your inventory, it'll take a huge leap of logic that players in all language versions will have to make. To my knowledge, the US players struggled with quite a few puzzles as well, they were in part ridiculously absurd just to sell walkthroughs, which back then made up a significant percentage of LucasArts' revenue. Vainamoinen: (LeChuck's Revenge spoilers, but. If such a "DRM-free region lock" actually exists, it is obviously a very serious form of DRM, and such games don't belong in any DRM-free catalogue.Īnyway, if that thing actually exists, it has been created after the whole scandal played out, so I don't think GOG could have used that excuse back then. Region locking it in a store for purchase would be easy, and even adding some control features to the client would be a relatively simple thing.Īnd I would 100% oppose GOG taking such games into their catalogue. Region locking a game, at least on PC, would not be an easy task to accomplish. First, I seriously wonder if that information is correct. Unfortunately, they had to go with the bogus "many messages from gamers" bullshit. Interesting! If gog had used this as the excuse not to sell this game, I'd support their decision 100%. " I'll use this petrified monkey to fasten that screw" feels more logical to me than " I'll plant this banana on the metronome to hypnotize that monkey".įronzelneekburm: PS: While searching for that news post I came across this bit of info on PCGamingwiki: "Later releases of the game are region-locked and cannot be played in China (including DRM-free releases)." It's not that no one has ever heard the term monkey wrench here, but it's not something that would spring to mind as easily as it would for an American. My name is anime catte: Count yourselves lucky! The monkey wrench puzzle arguably doesn't work in British English as it's just called an adjustable spanner here but we obviously got the completely unaltered US script. Count yourselves lucky! The monkey wrench puzzle arguably doesn't work in British English as it's just called an adjustable spanner here but we obviously got the completely unaltered US script. What Boris did to soften the puzzle was to let Guybrush utter the line "This monkey's play is so stiff, you could loosen a screw with it" when looking at Jojo. So Boris asked Ron to program an Englishman complete with umbrella and melon hat to put at that piano. It still would have been a reach, but a translation for a similar kind of wrench, at the time, was "ein Engländer", literally, "an Englishman". The "monkey wrench" pun was completely intranslatible. Things got really wild for LeChuck's Revenge though. He translated 'pieces'o'eight' with "Goldstücke", but I guess Ron would have protested against the accurate "spanische Silberdollar". Boris mostly just did his own thing, which made the translation better in some parts, but worse in others. You see that I actually played that game even more than once.Vainamoinen: Probably not. The only real situations where one could screw up badly were starting the rocket-car too early in the game without having Bernard and/or Wendy in the team or just ripping the envelope open without having Bernard and/or Michael in the team. Hell, there was even a cutscene explaining what would happen if you had the power switched off for too long. And it's also logical not to let the water back into the pool while someone is down there. It's also quite logical not to give the exploded remains of his beloved hamster to Ed. I mean, it's quite logical not to give a tape-recording of the tentacle mating-call to a tentacle. Normally, you either had to beat a game by yourself or forget about it.Īnd I'm sorry to say that, but actually, you'd have to be pretty stupid in order to die in that game. Back when you couldn't just log on to the internet and search some sites for a guide. Son, I played this game when it was NEW, at the age of eight. It's almost impossible not to die once in that game, or complete in a reasonable amount of time without screaming in frustration. Oh, now I really doubt you played Maniac Mansion. This commemorates Lucas Art's first breakthrough in popular gaming.īTW: "Sales" does in no way equal "quality".
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