Escaping the Prison

good game. It doesn't branch very far, but that just makes it so you can explore every option.

Umm. "Opaque" means NOT transparent. The more opaque something is, the LESS light it lets through. Apparently, the game writers aren't as edumacated as they think they are.

This is indeed quite amusing!

The cell phone path won't make (as) much sense if you haven't seen the first video, "Breaking the Bank."

Also, really appreciated the sound effects from Worms. Very nice touch.

Discovering the truth about this game was like being informed that Verbal was really Keyser Soze. At first I felt gypped (or jipped, whichever you prefer) upon discovering that this was not really an escape-the-room game. However, this little gem delivered on an entirely different level. (No, I did not read the review or the analysis. I prefer to just jump in immediately. Much more fun that way. You should try it sometime.)

The first time I played it, I began to lose track of the plot, and I thought it was maybe because I'd played too many games today. Some of the other members of my family liked it, so when I played it again I came armed with a notepad and a determination not to let crucial plot points slip by me. Once again, my comprehension began to slip, and finally I wrote down: "To the degree that I do understand, I don't care." It was, however, somewhat reassuring that by the end I had, after all, understood everything I was intended to understand. It was just that there was less to understand than the game at first suggested.

The game begins "last night" in San Pedro, California, where someone has sent you, the prisoner, a mysterious package containing a cake. Who sent the cake? And why?

At first you get to choose what to get out of the cake. But then the main character starts telling a story so complicated that I finally gave up trying to keep track of it, and just filed further information under "More Complications." The story is told in flashback. We learn about a truck hijacking some weeks earlier, and the five suspects who were picked up by the police. They're a mixed bag of low-life characters, played by Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio Del Toro and Kevin Pollak, in addition to the main character (you) played by Kevin Spacey. I'm not sure if they were all involved in the hijacking, but the way Kevin Spacey tells it, in jail they began to plot a much larger crime, involving millions of dollars of cocaine.

The story builds up to a blinding revelation, which shifts the nature of all that has gone before, and the surprise filled me not with delight but with the feeling that the writers and game designers would have been better off unraveling their carefully knit sleeve of fiction and just telling us a story about their characters - those that are real, in any event. I prefer to be amazed by motivation, not manipulation.

The interrogation between the cop and Kevin Spacey falls into a monotonous pattern: friendliness, testiness, hostility, a big blow-up, threats, reconciliations and then full circle again. We hear amazing stories about Keyser Soze .....

Oh crap. Wait a minute....

GOD I'M SO CONFUSED!!!!

@exeterkered
I applaud your post

I second that applaud, if only for the fact that you've seen The Usual Suspects. None of my friends have and it drives me insane.

Loved the game, by the way. Got through it fast but it was delightful.

I think they got the definition of 'opaque' backwards o.0 ... cool game tho!

These are the 3 ways to win:

Option A:

Option B:

Option C:

Oh man the Phoenix Wright reference was brilliant.

any walkthroughs in the works?

lol phenix wright

Did anyone catch the Neverhood music reference when using the "Opacitator"?

This game could really, really use some volume controls. Even with my computer volume down as low as it will go, it's still too loud on my headphones.

I like how you get the donut medal. To do so:

Nobody caught the Ace Attorney reference? The defendant's attorney in the court scene has the exact same hairstyle as Phoenix Wright(the ace attorney) and he yells OBJECTION! the same way. And when you show the evidence, he says "Take that!" just like in ace attorney. XD

Everybody caught the Ace Attorney reference. The entire game after you click on the cell phone is an Ace Attorney reference.

Oops, I meant 'anybody else', not 'nobody'.

Man I make hweird typos.

I'm pretty sure everyone has, imposter. However, the first time I reached that part, I knew it'd be a refrence because before the list of Attorneys left, I saw Phoenix Wright listed. However, I was disappointed they didn't play the default song. You know, when they're not playing the crazy "Oh-yeah-I'm-about-to-OBJECTION!-you-to-death" music.

Oh my Gawd, I love this game!

How in the heck do you

I've clicked and used arrow keys neither have worked for me!

@a naughty mouse:
By the arrow keys do you mean keyboard keys or the on screen arrows? Because you have to click the on screen arrows. You need to click towards you (The lower arrow) first, then the arrow pointing towards the wall. You'll then do some awesome acrobatics and go to the final showdown XD

Ooh, Twist-A-Plot and Choose Your Own Adventure were my favorite types of book when I was a kid! I even tried to write a short one once for a Hypertext class I took in college. :-D

Fun game!!

Bullet time. Yeah.

BEST. FLASH. STICK. FIGURE. CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN-ADVENTURE. GAME. EVER. I love the lawyer thing, even if I didn't know what it referred to. I know all 3 endings!

Great game, I love the FAIL messages, like if you use the grenades! =D
Fantastic, I'd love to see a sequel made! ^-^

Hahahaha, Phoenix Wright. That was perfect.

I thought this was a terrible game, although maybe I expected a convention 'escape' game. Possibly list this game in another genre.

Think what is a good game, have good and funny atmoshpere and more beautifull things. Perfect electro music, graphic. The game is cool

Haha! I know all three endings! also, the Phoenix Wright reference was awesome! I have all available Phoenix Wright games on my DS!

For the sneaky ending:

For the bad--- ending:

For the lame ending:

*clicking with mouse, not arrow keys.

Heh. People not realizing that the "opacitator" gets turned DOWN, not UP. Lol.

COMPLETE FAIL LIST:

Other:

I did the Jet pack ending over and over, readign this two or three words at a tiem, until I got the complete message.

So, after playing through the first game, "Breaking the Bank", and this game, and the next one, "Stealing the Diamond" I have concluded the entire story. At least, I think so. I have no clue what exeterkered was talking about, it seems simple to me.

Sorry for the SUPER long post.

too-much-time, you do know about the key labeled PrtSc, correct? Because it makes that whole process far easier

have you clicked the sun in the sneaky ending?

@jim

Yes, super funny.

@ Too-Much-Time-on-my-hands

thanks, I looked here to find something that would tell me that.

I found a secret:

Just to get this cleared up, I have NEVER seen Breaking the Bank, so most of the storyline is just outta here for me. But after reading the storyline, (and the many anynomous comments about Phoenix Wright, lol) it dosen't make sense. I just make good work of failing. :3

I have come to a conclusion about the storyline:

In the first episode, Breaking the Bank, Henry, the main character, tries to rob a bank and beats himself up a lot in the process. When he finally does it, he (somehow) hides in a bag and gets dragged off to the bank. When there, he accidentally sets off the alarm and gets arrested.

In the current escapade, Henry is in prison. Finding the cake, he opens it. Using the Lame/Legal ending he calls his attorney (who happens to be Phoenix Wright) and goes to court. Phoenix shows the judge a docter's anyalisis from when Henry beat himself up and says that the cops were trying to kill him. They tied him up in a bank bag and brought him to the bank, where they thought nobody would find him because the bank is so large. They thought Henry was dead. However, Henry was alive and tried to escape. He shows the judge some footage from the bank vault and makes it look like Henry is trying to climb out of the vault. Phoenix lies that Henry was arrested innocently and should be returned to public. Phoenix gets away with it, and Henry is free.

THESE ARE ALL LIES.
Play Breaking the Bank and then push through the Lame/Legal Ending. It's crazy!

lol.failing and letting henry die is the best!
Phoenix reference was epic!:)

To complete it choose:Cellphone (the bag one just wait for a long time and you will see the money bag)The knife one (could file) Watch out there spotting you there's two enemy's!!!!! Now don't choose Belt of grenades Use the chair Now it says left or right Try right After that don't use These three sucky things use the Plungers then you win Last one' The drill use that Then you should have two good things (but one of them is bad) use the crowbar AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Dome.Ohh i need to tell you again Press down or left Then they shoot Run up the walls Then the door opens Think fast it say get ready When it says CLICK!! you have to click Thanks for my cheats

Hey guys i connot tell u more cheats about escaping the prison cause my letter(y) doesn't work anymore

There are 3 ways to complete the escaping the prison:

There are lots of ways to fail:

NrG Drink

Rocket launcher

File Then window

File then cell door. Do nothing

File then cell door. Hit the first police Wait

Drill Then Opacitator

Drill Then Crowbar. Do nothing

I will do more later

There are 3 ways to Complete Escaping the prison

1:
Cellphone choose the money bag

2:
File cell door left right to hit 2 police
Chair right plungers

3:
Drill Crowbar Then left up Get ready then CLICK!

Look:
Thanks for cheats

I'm trying to escape using the file, and every time the warning comes up, I try to click, but every time nothing happens and the guard kicks me. What gives? I'm clicking multiple times and it's not doing a thing.