Comments on: Downfall – Walkthrough (Harvester Games/2009)

By: Zach NotB

Zach NotB — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:51:18 +0000

Kelly: Wow, never, EVER play any game that way. You deserved your fate.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:01:38 +0000

Can someone please tell me how to save in this game?!

I just played through the majority of the game and, seeing no save options, assumed it autosaved and turned it off. Well imagine my surprise when I realized all my progress was gone. ):

By: ezoo

ezoo — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:14:39 +0000

hey i did everything in order but i can not find that manequin head!! where is it??

By: Hervé

Hervé — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:29:21 +0000

Caution: it’s a spoiler concerning Downfall’s various endings. (Please do not read if you not achieve the game completely.)

First, when Joe is in the tomb with the two undeads, there are two cases:

1) WAIT: Agnes lives during the whole adventure.
2) SHOOT: Agnes dies consequently she turns into a ghost. Nevertheless, she continues to run after you to haunt you.

These two cases make the end different concerning Agnes destiny.
You can save the game at this moment to see Agnes’ fate.

Secondly, with the receptionnist: you have two choices:

1) KISS HER: you decide to choose passion so you make love with her and cheats Ivy.

2) IGNORE HER: you decide to choose loyalty toward Ivy and not to kiss the receptionnist.

At the very end of the game, there are exceptionally three choices this time:

1) KILL YOURSELF: you decide to commit suicide putting an end to your killer’s life but Bill Hookway -the cop- prefers you to burn on the electric chair.

2) KILL BILLY HOOKWAY: if you decide to kill the cop the other agents come so must eliminate them. You are still alive with Ivy in front of the burning house.
3)SURRENDER: you decide to surrender yourself to the police but infortunately Bill Hookway is a tough cop who wants to revenge his friend psychiatrist Dr Frank Zellmann who have been killed during the adventure.

Here, there are two possibilities:

3a) If you kissed the receptionnist, Ivy your wife doesn’t help you because you cheat her so you will burn in hell. Her and Billy Hookway have their revenge.

3b) If you didn’t kiss the receptionnist, Ivy helps you and kills the cop. You and her gone to a hostel probably the Quiet Haven, I think.

About Agnes destiny:

Good Ending: first, if you wait, Agnes lives. You see her in her dark room in the morning. You understand very quickly that Agnes wears a wedding dress because she’s going to be married.

Bad End: the scene takes place in the Queen of the Dead’s house with many headless brides around you. Agnes and the Queen have a little chat. At the end of the speech, the Queen asks Agnes why is she wearing a wedding dress but she is definitively dead so there will be no marriage.

Thanks for reading

By: alex

alex — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:30:12 +0000

help plese.

i gave beer to mr.harris.but before that when i try to on the gas in the room on the right…our hero joe says [i will off it as nothing is happening]………..and who the hell is john wilson and where is he as i have to keep the pig’s brain into his?

By: alex

alex — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:55:56 +0000

anybody help me
i have opted wait option when joe is in the grave.and now iam with agnes.
i found the blanket but i couldnt find the sheets…where are they?

By: zhusidinuo

zhusidinuo — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 05:29:52 +0000

Hey, thanks for the walkthrough! I do need help though..
I’m at the point where Joe has to read the card and get out of the hotel to the town but, in my game, he just picks up the card and cannot leave the hotel. I did everything (not in the same order, but it still works) but I am wondering if there is a particular way to make him read the card?

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:56:28 +0000

I’m literally stuck at the point where we pay with young Joe.. I can’t move him or anything. When I press around items he still talks about the, but I just can’t get him to move. At older Save Games everything is OK, but here I just can’t move.. Help?

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:49:11 +0000

Just finished this game, not impressed. I don’t want to be a downer here, but it felt like Leisure Suit Larry. Which, actually, was kind of cool, back in the King’s QUest days.

The music in this game was… horrible. The “boom-chicka-wa-wa” music with the naked receptionist, the dead rock star music, the death-fattening-shake music, failed. Not atmospheric at all. It’s very easy for me to suspend belief, but the language (especially the faggot and the fucks) don’t add anything to the game

Even with the lights out, this was far from scary. Sadly, this was recommended as being one of the scariest adventure games ever by justadventure.com.

If anyone is really looking to be scared AND have a great adventure, there are amazingly better games out there. Prenumbra:Overture is good. Amber:Journeys Beyond is epic. Condemned: Criminal Origins is another one, and Darkfall :Journal (haven’t played the others yet) is good. Names might be a little off on those, it’s been a while.

Props to the maker of this game, they actually had a good story (albiet with a few odd writing flaws/continuity issues). A decent story can often preclude graphics, but again I found the graphics really… well, bad. For a hand-drawn game that really could have had great atmosphere and original art direction, it felt like King’s Quest from the 80′s.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:40:23 +0000

POSSIBLE GLITCH

Depending on what color stuff you use to kill the girl (with the syringe), she dies peaceful or painlessly. Well, I killed her with the blue stuff. I still had the empty syringe… I refilled it with red dye, then injected the girl again. She came back to life, then died again. THe mirror cracks again. YOu then go to the cutscene in the bathroom, where previously you were holding the bag with the dead cat in it. You are now stuck, as nothing happens, and there’s no way out, and nothing to click on.