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[trinityvixen]

I forgot how bad I am at video games.

I'm pretty sure I screwed up pretty bad already in Dead Rising. Suddenly, the "case files" were now dismissed or disengaged or something. I think I let some guy die. Whatever--he told me to go protect this other guy from zombies and I did. Is it really MY fault he got shot up by some pyscho? Obviously not!

Anyway, it was an excuse to turn the game into a zombie version of Dynasty Warriors. I went down to the local 2x4, lead pipe, sledgehammer, and chainsaw emporium and just kept slaughtering zombies. I went from 200 dead to 1600. I'm pretty sure I can't even end the game properly at this point, so I guess I'll just monkey around on achievements and start over when I don't successfully escape or whatever. I'll be a higher level when I play through the first part AGAIN. ::rolls eyes::

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[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I take it there's some sort of New Game+ feature, then? (Kinda like Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, in which you were expected to get partway through the game and then have to restart?)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Dead Rising has only the one save. When you die, you are presented with two options: Load or Save and Restart. If you Load, you go back to the last time you saved. If you Save and Restart, you keep your current level, any skills you learned, your increased item slots, etc. when you start the story over.

It's really an awful system with just the one save, but it is handy that you can take your progress back with you. I guess that's what I should have done when I failed to save the guy, but I didn't care enough about the story. It's interesting, but interesting enough to tear me away from hundreds of zombies and a hungry chainsaw? I think not.

(Hedge clippers. I used hedge clippers on the undead. It was awesome.)