Finally beat it, using a walkthrough after a few honest attempts.
It's pretty good for an FMV game, but it can't overcome the issues of the genre. Mainly that the forced structure of these games ensures that you get Game Overs through no fault of your own. You're given three valid courses of action, 2 of them will lead to death. You can't really formulate a plan, at best the game's result will reflect how you acted in accordance to the writer's imagined plan in this scenario. I guess for genres that are already heavily story based, like adventure/detective games it makes sense; you can't or couldn't make these kind of games without writing out extensive interactions between humans, so FMV doesn't really detract. But a submarine game is just a weird one to do as an an FMV adventure game.
It's a weird subject to make an FMV game of, considering when that came out you could also make convincing submarine simulators (Sierra's Fast Attack came out the year after and is pretty much as complete a single platform simulator you can reasonably ask for).
It's like they made a SubLogic/Microsoft Flight Simulator the Movie The Game.
@coolboymew@Leaflord@MasterSimper@Tadano Metro station nearby is a tough ask. I had to settle for a short bus ride to the metro and a 1100$ lease, and even then I think what I got is pretty good.
@coolboymew@Leaflord@MasterSimper@Tadano I'm right next to Anjou now, in Louis-Riel, and it's definitely a bit harder to manage without a car than my previous apartment in Hochelaga, but I do have a giga-mall at 5 minutes walk which is nice. The neighborhood has good and bad spots.
@coolboymew@Leaflord@MasterSimper@Tadano Looks decent tbh. Be careful about this though: > immeuble impeccable offrant plusieurs services (gym, squash, piscine, sauna, salle familiale et terrasse sur le toit)
These services in condos are "free" the way our healthcare is "free". You might have high condo fees to deal with on top of your taxes and of your mortgage.
@MasterSimper@Tadano@Leaflord@coolboymew I have a French friend who had moved to Montreal years ago, who ended up having issues living in Montreal and then visited PEI during summer and fell in love with it. He decided to move there at the end of autumn. My friends and I warned him, Eastern Quebec and the Maritimes provinces are beautiful during touristic seasons, but living there and especially through winter is a different thing entirely.
He lasted less than two months iirc. It was making his drinking problem worse. The people who manage in those places have roots there or are exceptionally good at rooting themselves. Most people just end up going Jack Torrance when they attempt to transplant themselves there.
@coolboymew I'm gonna wait until Mitsu has an income before buying. Current market still needs to cool down a bit too. I'm not thinking things are going to turn around quickly, but the simple maths of it is that I have a very decent middle-class salary and I'm not insisting on living in a highly desired urban environment and there are plenty of houses and of space for houses to be built in Quebec. At some point we'll figure how to unfuck this.
@kaia I don't know how it compares to your BF's appetite, but I always found the portions generous enough. They aren't the bullshit "recommended portion" on dietary information on meals that are set too small to make food look less bad than it is (like the box of Kraft Dinner that I can easily eat on my own being supposedly "4 portions"). One meal kit portion for me was a decent portion I was always fine with.
@kaia I used to be on an equivalent, GoodFood, that had comparable prices. While it'll definitely come out more expensive than thoughtfully planned meals from the grocery store, I found it cheaper than mindlessly buying things at the grocery store and not knowing what I'll do with them, healthier than frozen meals and cheaper and healthier than ordering from restaurants. It's also nice to cook some things you might not have tried otherwise, learn some new cooking tricks (I learned to oven bake breaded chicken with mayo to make some amazing quasi-fried chicken). You keep the recipies after, and unlike the recipies from a cooking book, you've made and tasted them all. If HelloFresh is like the one I was on, their "DRM", their attempt to lock you out of making their recipies outside of their kits is gonna be their spice mixes, which all the recipies will require one of, but honestly if you have a little bit of cooking experience you'll be able to replace them easily (I think some people publish their recreations of the blends online too)