Comments on: Grimm Episode 3 – “Fishwife”

By: American

American — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:31:10 +0000

JarenP, Thanks for the comments.

Regarding the religious content contained in this episode – it was difficult to avoid, as the story itself revolves around a central character who asks to be pope, and then God.

Still, we didn’t actively “defile” anything – even though you may “buttstomp” a religious statue, the intent isn’t to insult any religion, either through Grimm’s actions or dialog.

And, if you do manage to play through to the end, you’ll see Grimm has reason to maintain a healthy respect for God, as should other characters, a theme that runs through many episodes of the game.

Truth is, whatever your religious standing, God, the devil, and other heavenly creatures play a very large role in the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Grimm, being as obsessed as he is with right and wrong, justice, and just desserts, interacts with the “ultimate judge” quite a lot.

As such it makes sense that he respect their place in the cosmos.

Hope you enjoy the coming episodes!

By: jarenp

jarenp — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:18:10 +0000

My wife and I have quite enjoyed playing grimm so far and look forward to the new episode each Thursday.

We’ve generally been reading the Brother’s Grimm version of the tales before we play and this has made it even more fun.

In general we’ve been fine with the content so far. We were both uncomfortable with the goal of the avatar being to defile the religious likeness in chapter 5 of week 3 and thus we turned it off.

Sorry, I usually wouldn’t post something like this, but after reading your blog post asking for comments I thought I’d let you know how we felt about it.

Don’t worry, we’re still looking forward to more episodes and hoping they’ll stay friendly to all.

By: American

American — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:54:45 +0000

Glad to hear you liked it! Sorry to hear it was slightly irritating. Did you try turning down some of the visual quality sliders in the Options Menu? This helps a lot on lower-end machines.

As for the whirlpool – ironic that the thing the hardcore guys keep screaming about is exactly what drives the casual audience batty. Add more platforming! Platforming is too challenging! Ahhh!

Anyway, did you try using the Pee Indicator? There’s actually a reason WHY Grimm is peeing all the time – it shows you where he’s going to land when he executes a jump. And it even works in a whacky level like the Whirlpool. Point it where you want to land, then click the jump button (without moving). Grimm should go where you want.

I know the area you’re talking about, and I remember tuning that to be easier. You SHOULD be able to make the jump. Let me know how it goes.

By: aJanuary

aJanuary — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:33:03 +0000

I enjoyed this episode a lot, though I found the last level to be slightly irritating. The poor spec of my machine means the game slows down the more the level goes dark, making the platform elements more difficult. This in of itself isn’t a complaint, so much as the bizaar difficulty curve. I can easily navigate to the edge of the boxes in the whirlpool, but keep missing the last jump. This spawns me back into the middle of the whirlpool and the boxes somehow seem harder to navigate and I end up having to restart the game just to get to be able to do it (once I restart it’s a walk in the park to get to the end of the boxes again). If I fail the first few times it should be getting subtly easier, not harder.