Curious item in Ween: The Prophecy

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KainXVIII
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Curious item in Ween: The Prophecy

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Just wondering, why do you need a bolt in this game? (you can't take it in your inventory, but you can hold it in hands)
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To this day, I remain unaware of any actual gameplay purpose for that bolt. Surprisingly, I'm pretty sure it even remains in some of the stripped-down version of the game.

Best as I can figure, it was either part of an older puzzle which they subsequently removed, or was put in as a sort of red-herring - something in the first area, to perhaps coax the player into believing that not everything 'usable' is important.

Of course, I haven't looked at the game scripts - for all I know, it could have some obscure use that just never comes up during normal play, or be part of an easter-egg nobody's noticed.
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WNivek wrote: Of course, I haven't looked at the game scripts - for all I know, it could have some obscure use that just never comes up during normal play, or be part of an easter-egg nobody's noticed.
Yeah, i think about that too (but nobody interested in research, unfortunately :) )
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