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150 | Christian Wessely www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/2, 149–155 a strange building (is it a huge and labyrinthic house? A castle? A manor?), which is located in a literal “underworld” (consisting of vast spaces and other houses, even windmills in the distance), I notice that I am not alone: bulldogs that look strangely mechanical are guarding neuralgic points, and the first challenge is to find a way to get around them.2 It turns out, fortunately, that they are rather nocturnal – they avoid light, and they have reason to do so, because they transmute into nightstands when light falls on them unexpectedly.3 Is it possible to control the lights in the dim corridors I need to pass through? Is it possible to lower a drawbridge or to pull up a grate blocking a passageway? Yes, it is – floor plates, cranks, or power switches on the wall are helpful, and it comes in handy that the guarding creatures are not exactly intellectuals. They can be lured onto floor plates that switch on lamps, which, in turn, freeze them there (fig. 1). 2 The course of the game involves so much walking, jumping, and climbing up and down that one completely loses a sense of the dimensions of the game the designers built. Only in scene 55, when the hero takes an elevator together with his/her companion to get up to the very top of the mansion, does one grasp the multiple levels. 3 It should be mentioned that coat hangers may have special qualities, too, that jellyfish may not swim only in water, and that goats may not be as peaceful as they look. Just saying. Fig. 1: The mechanical watchdogs sleep in the upper corridors  … How can they be lured onto the floorplates which trigger the lights? (Creaks 2020).