Interesting game

As it’s been getting too cold to spend much time outside, I’ve been trying out some new online roleplaying games. One of them, The Secret World, has an interesting story with voice-acted cutscenes, similar to Star Wars: The Old Republic. One of its unusual features is puzzle quests, where you have to figure out something from clues. For example, one I just did involved breaking into a doctor’s files on his computer. The password hint was “music of the seasons,” and there is a framed photograph on the floor next to the computer with a handwritten note about “listening to music by our favorite composer.” As it happens, I know that The Four Seasons was written by a composer named Vivaldi, so I tried that as the password–and sure enough, it worked.

Note all of the puzzles are things I can figure out, though. One of them required extensive knowledge of Christian mythology, and I had to Google the answer to that one.