I don’t press start. I press F9—quicksave. The game crashes to desktop. When I relaunch, the main menu has a new option: “Continue from the end.”
On it, one sentence in pencil:
> Run CHERYL.exe? (Y/N)
I don’t have disk 2. The PC version came on one CD.
I blink. The subtitle is normal again. “The seal of Metatron is the only way.”
The hospital. The Otherworld transition is brutal on PC. The frame rate drops to slideshow levels. Metal groans. The walls bleed rust in real-time, but the blood is just a palette swap of the water texture. You can see the seams. You can see the game lying to you.
Derby Drainage