gagaplex wrote:Well, you do have those Bible quotes ("Why have you forsaken me?") and even a Latin Bible in there.
I think that's a bit odd as well, with the latin bible, the verse scrawled on the wall, the wallpaper that I thought was crosses but you pointed out are actually daggers, and the praying doll that looks like a nun in Lost Child, I assumed that religion played
some part in it. Of course, I don't know the themes and whatnot either, but I can spot the recurring motif of arms and the harming thereof, so here are some bible verses about arms and hands and whatnots for shits and giggles:
"And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm" -Isaiah 9:20
"His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me." -Song of Solomon 2:6
"Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." -Genesis 13:9 (I know that these aren't literal hands, but it is about telling someone to go away, so eh...)
"Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour." -Proverbs 3:16
"On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him" -Job 23:9
"But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth" -Matthew 6:3
"Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame." -Song of Solomon 8:6
Anyways. I like the staircases as well, but perhaps that first staircase leading to the basement could be not as well lit? From the hallway, the staircase is unlit and goes into pitch blackness, but the staircase itself is well-lit with lanterns lining the wall. Perhaps the top of the stairs could be lit with light suffusing in from the hallway, and it could get darker and darker as it goes down, until they reach the pitch blackness of the basement? And, if there's an ascending staircase at the end when you go to the attic, since the lights in the hallway go out as you walk by them, have the light at the foot of the stairs go out as you walk up the stairs like the last light in the hallway just went out?
Also, perhaps making the bars on the cell doors colored to indicate that you can look into them? Maybe like oxidized bronze or rusty iron, something so they stand out without looking out of place, or without looking like someone went around painting the bars. I'm thinking something away from the red part of the color spectrum, since there's plenty of blood in that level and you can't interact with any of it, so if you make them bloody, or some other reddish color, it'll likely blend in with the background and get overlooked.
Also, it didn't occur to me until just now that the creepy man in the picture you replaced the slendermannish man with is holding an axe, and you find a bloody axe at the end of the level...awesome attention to detail!
I'm personally okay with the grandfather clock only chiming once. I know it's a dream and all, but unless something is different the second time, having it chime a second time doesn't really add anything, not unless you're confident that not enough people are seeing it the first time. I know you only intended for it to chime once, I'm just defending your decision.
I'm glad that you're still doing art passes and doing little tweaks to details like this! I assumed you were still in 'bigger picture' mode and this stuff was on the "if there's time" pile.
