John Shirley

Playing this on PS5. I've got the jump boots, though they don't jump very far. But they get me around. But what they don't do, is jump from to the crashed spaceship by the Vox island--I try from the nearest place, with a running start, jump, activate the boots-and they drop me into the water every time within inches of the ship. Whereupon I drown because I'm apparently too lame to swim. So I tried the other way into the Vox, bring the mangled arm to the woman guard at the entrance to the bridge, did that successfully; then went after Charlton, her cousin. I think that was his name. He blathered about this and that and refused to return to her with me. I was pretty careful in my selection of responses. Nothing worked. I went back to her to see if talking to him was good enough. No. I tried fulfilling his wishes of my talking to the Hogarth boss of the town but boss guy said, "What are you doing here?" Where oh where have I gone wrong. I enjoyed the first game and appreciate the visuals and characters in this one, but I do feel the pain of the person who said, in discussions here, that "this world is dead". It does have a deadness about it thus far. Still, I like RPG first person games. So trudging onward.