Showing posts with label one-chance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label one-chance. Show all posts

Saturday, December 17, 2011

How can I prevent the untimely demise of John's wife?

Question

So far the only "happy" end I found was the one where John and Molly are cured and sit in the park. Unfortunately, that involves

having to go to work on every occasion, which results in

John's wife comitting suicide.

The only path that did not let John find his wife dead

cheating on her so she leaves for her mother with Molly

is not very satisfying. Is there happier ending for all of them?

Answer

There's a few videos on this page that go over the various endings. Although it's possible there's a perfect ending where everything is fine, I highly doubt it.

The entire game is a meditation on making tough choices - you can put aside your own happiness and needs in order to save the planet, or you can spend a few more hours with your family, thereby sacrificing everyone's future.

The game wants to put you in a terrible situation and make you think about how you'd choose. Feeling the effects of those choices is central to the experience. Having an ending where everything works out fine for everyone is kind of counter to the message the game is trying to send, so I find it highly unlikely that one exists.

Saturday, November 26, 2011

What are the choices you can make to stay alive in One Chance?

Question

In the game One Chance at Newgrounds, you're given a single chance to play through the game**. In mine, I didn't make it through alive because of a likely dumb decision at the start.

I assume there is at least one path that will allow you to live. If so, what is it? Are there other paths and choices that you can make that will allow you to make it through alive? If there are multiple paths, will any allow you to survive with other people?

** Yes, there are ways to go back and play through it again, just curious if others had tried it and if they found the one chance in their playthrough.

Answer

Yes, it is possible to discover the cure.

To discover it, you...

...just go to work every day that you can. Don't take Molly to park, don't stay home, don't celebrate, just work.

As far as I know, there's only one path, and the people that survive will be...

...just you and Molly as far as it shows. Although I guess that more could too that it doesn't show.

btw, you don't have to clear your cache to replay. I think that you can just use Private Browsing in Firefox, Incognito for Chrome, InPrivate in IE(ick), or a private tab/window in Opera. I only tested this with Firefox's, but I there tested it a lot. :P I got like every ending possible.