jiansonz on 11/3/2009 at 13:11

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I´ve just played the remade version of The Love Thief for the second time, and it has joined the ranks of my all-time favourites. I think it´s amazing in every way: mood, gameplay, layout, story, etc. :thumb:

(I still have not upgraded to v1.2 - I kind of like the 'lich' in the catacombs...
But I like my compass, so I´ll upgrade before I move on to part 2)

For this replay of the whole series, I am more devoted to loot hunting than before, so I make loot lists for myself as I go. The Darkthrone and Bathory parts 2 and 3 are the only of Sensut´s missions where I found all the loot on my second playthrough. In most of the Dracula missions I miss quite a bit (several hundred (!) in some cases). For The Love Thief, my missing loot amounts to 425 this time. The first time I played the remade version, I also missed out on 425, but that time I did not find one of the secrets: the one in Heroes Memorial. The loot there is worth 300, so I must have missed 300 loot from other places compared to last time. It´s both weird and annoying that I missed that, since I spend more time looking this time around...:p

IIRC, Sensut made a little application with loot lists, etc. that was available for download on his website. The website seems to be down at this time.
Is there somewhere else I can get it?


Some other questions:

* In the area with the Air Talisman, a golden skull on a ledge and a spider on another ledge, I see a window up high. Is this the same window I can see from inside Dracula´s throne room?

* In the narrow passage from the Soulscale "elevator" to the shrine, I hear some spider sounds in one spot. Is this sound just for setting the mood? (because the "spider" does not go on higher alert if I make a lot of noise here)

* In the shrine, can the door on the wall to the right be opened?

* Is there any loot to be found in the throne room, other than what´s in Mina´s cell? There are so many supernatural beings there now, that I am too scared to take a closer look in that part of the room! :o

clearing on 11/3/2009 at 14:56

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Found (http://gellert.cjb.hu/downloads/lootlist_demo.zip)

SinisterShadow on 11/3/2009 at 22:48

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Speaking of this tool ...

ClamAV reports a worm in this program:


I guess this is a false positive, but I thought to let you know.

mobius on 12/3/2009 at 04:56

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Sensut, I am in awe of this series. I have my own list of quirks and critiques, but they are trifling compared to what you've achieved with this.

What a breathtaking, professional job all the way around.

Thanks for doing it and releasing it, I had a blast.

jiansonz on 13/3/2009 at 12:05

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Ah, web site is back. I really like your loot lists, Sensut. :thumb:


Here is how my loot hunt has been going:

The Love Thief: I gave up 50g short. What I had missed was a very well hidden flute in the water passage from fort to castle. I can´t say that I would have never found it if I had continued to search, but it would probably have taken hours.

(Interesting thing about my return to this place: I thought I would be able to just flip the lever on the wall to get out. Turns out that the portcullis that closed when I rescued Mina was not the one I opened earlier - it´s another one, parallel to it. I got out by getting the haunts by the torture chamber to open the passage there...)

The Return: Gave up 130g short. 100 of this was a mask in the throne room secret I failed to find; the remaining 30 must be a silver nugget in the little lake in the clearing, that I still can´t find. The loot list mentions 5 silver nuggets here. My own loot lists has
- two silver nuggets (together with a gold nugget) in the little "cache" on the bottom of the lake, opposite to where you enter the clearing with the lake.
- two (separate) silver nuggets embedded in the walls of the water tunnel running alongside most of the lake.
I have not been able to find the 5th nugget, even after 40 minutes of searching and frobbing everywhere I can think of in the whole clearing. :p

Traitors of Poenari: In this one, I missed only 150 in my first playthrough of the Reloaded version. Once I had played through this time, I had missed 75. I started to "comb" the place from the end area and backwards. Turns out I had missed two items I found last time:
- Fine Wine in the Tombs of the Traitors. This time, I had failed to realize that there are in fact 10 tombs to open, not 8...
- Paper tray in the Library. I had taken three of them, and missed one. BTW, the loot list is wrong here. The sum is correct (100) but it says 2 x 25 when it should be 4 x 25.

Final Chapter: In progress. First time I played the Reloaded version, I missed a staggering 940 loot! How blind was I...:p

I´m at the campsite now, and I love it! Gorgeous, cozy, fun. But that archer in the tower sure is twitchy as hell! I had not even considered that there could be any danger when I happily strolled in that direction. Then an arrow came flying right next to me! Good for me that the archer has such lousy aim...:cheeky: