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Overclocked: A History Of Violence Hints
A note on the nature of the regressions...
The main protagonist of Overclocked: A History Of Violence is David McNamara, a psychiatrist from Washington DC. Over the course of the game you will speak with and hypnotize five patients at the Staten Island Psychiatric Hospital, and piece together their erased memories of a series of events that occurred previously. This happens through the form of flashbacks each character has. The flashbacks occur in a specific order and jump from patient to patient fairly often. During these regression sequences, you will control the patient as they recollect their actions and interactions with the other patients as you piece together exactly what happened. Your inventory will change each time this occurs to reflect the items that patient was carrying at the time, and the puzzles you need to solve often rely on knowing which items were in which places at what times.
The nature of the flashbacks means that they play out from front to back, as it were. Meaning that the first flashbacks you encounter are those which happened most recently, and as you work through the game towards its ENDING, you work those flashbacks towards their BEGINNINGS to find out what happening to the characters earlier on. It's an interesting gameplay mechanic, but what you need to remember is that a lot of the time you will already know which items you need to collect or what you need to do, because you will have already played out the result of those actions. For example, in one early scene you will find a knife behind a grating at one location. Then, in a previous scene, you will play as a different character in that same place with a knife in her inventory. You will need to make sure the knife is left behind the grating so that the other character can pick it up later. It's kind of like time-travel, only without all the paradoxical stuff :) If you think that's confusing, wait until the final act... things get a lot weirder :)
The hints that I have provided are all in order. The flashbacks will be activated in the same order and the same events will occur between them each time you play the game -- there is no randomly determined element, so if you haven't activated a certain flashback yet, looking further forward in the hints will not allow you to find what you require. Please do bear this in mind to avoid spoiling things for yourself!
