Let's Play Malcolm's Revenge Extra #05: Back to the Island
76We’ve just about shown all we can show here in the beginning stages of the game that I know about after some experimenting, though there’s a couple more minor things yet to reveal. The rest of the game has its own secrets and tricks and from this point on, what’s most important are the ways to bypass the padding. From the Isle of Cats onwards, nearly every stage of the game is lengthened by the need to collect an arbitrary number of things to progress the plot. These things can be gained often by doing something slow, repetitive and sometimes based on luck. They can also be done by something a little less unintuitive but often more rewarding in that it shaves down the time you need to spend doing the item collection. Sometimes it entirely eliminates it, avoiding the lengthy extension of the game in favour of something quite silly that lets you carry on the story.
Some of these you methods could be stumbled on by mistake, whereas others would need you to apply some serious lateral thing and in some cases, moon logic levels of deduction. While it’s not surprising I didn’t encounter them on my first playthrough it’s time to go through them now, starting with the Isle of Cats.
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