You could say I'm the raccoon of the JIG staff. Whereas everyone else spends their time with the new games that come out, I scour the garbage cans and dumpsters for the old but good games that missed their time in the spotlight for whatever reason. This time around I scavenged up a pair of small but entertaining room escape packages from a Japanese developer called No1Game. Don't worry, the games are fully translated.
The first, Emergency Exit Sign, tells the story of a Japanese all-night worker who just about lives at his office, which becomes a problem when a monster traps him inside. Apparently there's a huge demand for room escape games, and he's just supplying it where it's demanded. Needless to say you've got to help our hapless workaholic drive the monster away by exploiting its one weakness: emergency exit signs.
The second, Game in Game in Game, shows us a rather obsessed escape fanatic who plays a room escape game every day before bed, only to wake up one morning trapped in one. He spends some time reading about his own game on the forums of a website with the ultimate goal of getting out of his own room.
Analysis: Neither Emergency Exit Sign nor Game in Game in Game are particularly remarkable in any category but one, the exception being humor. Both games go out of their way to point out the illogicalities that pop up in room escape games everywhere. (Of course you can't just take some paper out of the copier and put it in the printer; what made you think you could?) Parody has always been one of my favorite varieties of humor, so these games touch my heart.
Aside from the humor factor, both games are fairly standard. The puzzles are logical but creative and match the games' respective themes, there's no pixel-hunting (I'll bet some of you are still complaining about that screwdriver from Purism), and the games themselves are relatively short but enjoyable while they last.
One word of warning: you'll need a bit of knowledge of geography to solve one puzzle in Emergency Exit Sign. Bring up Google if you have to; the monster won't notice.
Walkthrough Guide
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Emergency Exit Walkthrough
Grab the flashlight
Turn right
Open the bottom right drawer, and look at the flags. Note Japan is 19.
Turn right twice.
Check the box again and note the order of the flags, and use the times to decode the password.
The password is:
171205
Use the key to open the cupboard, and get the printer paper.
Turn right
Open the top drawer on the left desk, and get the marker and the scissors
Turn right
Place a sheet of paper in the printer.
Turn left.
Grab the tape on the desk
Look in the mug, note his daughters name
Turn on the computer and enter the password
The password is kumi
Open internet explorer
Click on favorites
Note the emergency exit sign
Click on file
Click print.
Show the sign to the ghost.
Turn left twice
Take the lid off the sushi
Turn right.
Click on the cellophane and use the scissors.
Examine the print out, and place the cellophane over it.
Trace it with the marker.
Use the scissors on the cellophane.
Examine the sushi lid
use the cellophane on the lid, and tape it down.
Use the flashlight on the lid, and it will scare away the ghost.
Freedom!?
Posted by: Kero
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October 7, 2009 4:44 PM
Game in Game in Game walkthrough
The password for the computer is Elizabeth
Click favorites, and go to the web page.
Read the cut scene
Go look for the items listed in your room.
The items are a scoop, a wrench, a pink comb.
The wrench is in the desk drawer
The scoop is in the left drawer of the tv stand.
The pink comb is in the drawer of the vanity.
Go back to the computer and read the posts.
Go to the headboard on your bed, and pull out tissues until you get a red paper
Lift up the blanket. Read the sheet.
The blanket is telling you to
close the left curtain, close the right curtain, open the right curtain, open the left curtain, close the right curtain.
Pick up the blue paper
Turn on the tv, and click play on the dvd player.
Note the order of hitting the dresser.
Punch the top, Kick the left, Punch the front, karate shop the right.
Do this to the top drawer of your dresser to get the spatula.
Use the spatula on the top drawer in the desk.
Check the forum again
It says to check the LAST page of the encyclopedia
Go to the encyclopedia in your bookshelf, and go to the LAST page.
Look at the Tamil numerals, and the traffic light.
The code you are solving here is for the lock on the desser, the code is:
483
Get the key
Use the key on the door.
It was all a dream!... Right?
Posted by: Kero
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October 7, 2009 5:11 PM