Deadly Shadows: can't restart game - please help.

Tintin on 3/6/2006 at 08:08

I reinstalled Thief DS and then proceeded to copy my save files to the Save Game folder. All good. I went into the game and loaded an 'old' game slot. Still all good. But then I died. It gives me the option RESTART, I click it and instead of letting me restart the level Garret's body lies on the ground and the camera rotates around him, over and over again. I can't restart the level. Anyone know how to fix this? I'm in the Hammerite Cathedral level.

Thanks

Goldmoon Dawn on 3/6/2006 at 18:47

Not a clue, but surely thou must have a save presently before the death?!?!

Tintin on 4/6/2006 at 01:01

Yes, I have but I wish to restart the level as the High Priest doesn't leave his room when I sound the cathedral bell.

Goldmoon Dawn on 4/6/2006 at 01:50

OK, my memory of DS is pleasantly fading, but in Thief I, you could restart the Mission at *any* time during said Mission, not only after death.

Can you do that in DS as well? And if so, why not do that then?

Tintin on 4/6/2006 at 01:56

Pleasantly fading? Ha, ha, that's good. Thief DS isn't as good as Thief Gold and Thief 2 but it isn't too bad.

Normally I could restart a level like that but this doesn't seem to be the case. I restart the level and it just goes back to where Garrett is dead and the camera rotates on and on...
And no I didn't save the moment I died.

Goldmoon Dawn on 4/6/2006 at 02:09

Now that certainly is new information!

So, when you restart the Mission from any point, it reloads as Garrett dead?

If I never played Thief I, I would have surely loved DS. Unfortunately, I've been long tainted.

:ebil:

Tintin on 4/6/2006 at 04:26

You've got it in one.

My favourites are Thief 2: The Metal Age, then Thief Gold and then a way down the track Thief: DS.