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to take her away from Ted. After defeating
Pinstripe, Ted enters a dark room, and George sacrifices himself to let Ted pass. The ending sees that Ted is reunited with Bo in a sunny field. Dialogue options earlier in the game decide if George is reunited with Ted and Bo. They come across a woman on a bench, presumed to be Bo's mother. The game then ends.
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106,000, funding stretch goals that include a bonus level, voice acting and an extra mode. Brush created every aspect of the game himself, including the original score, artwork, programming, and writing, though several people did lend their voices to the game for various characters. The game finally
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Near the end of the game, clues collected by Ted imply that after his wife died, Ted began to drink, and soon after crashed his car, killing him and Bo, and also finds that
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follows Teddy, a disgraced ex-minister, who is on a train with his three-year-old daughter, Bo. Ted encounters
Pinstripe, a shadowy figure who is also on the train. After Bo is kidnapped by Pinstripe, and the train crashes into a town, Ted goes off to find Bo.
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awarded the game 5/10, criticising the narrative as pedestrian, and "failing to inspire emotional attachment in characters". For
Winslow, this, and flaws in its puzzle design, combat and platforming overpowered the game's rich atmosphere. At
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Exploring the town, Ted finds his dog, George, who gives him advice throughout the game, and Bo's slingshot, which acts as a weapon. Throughout the town, the residents are drunk off of Sack Juice, which
Pinstripe produces.
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was launched so Brush could quit his full-time job and focus on development, with a goal of $ 28,000. The project exceeded its funding goal by nearly $ 15,000 within two days, and in total, it raised
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was the third game created by Thomas Brush. He had been working on the game for four years, and it was originally slated for release on
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170:Linux, macOS, Windows
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1151:The Austin Chronicle
1003:"Pinstripe Review".
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472:XONE: 6/10
396:NS: 77/100
392:PC: 71/100
388:Metacritic
379:Aggregator
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