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I posted my review of Al Emmo on my Blog

http://www.jeffryhouser.com/index.cfm/2 ... ine-Review

 In short:

 I enjoyed it, but it was rough around the edges.  I'll buy a sequel.

The shovel dissapeared from my inventory in Chapter 8.  I walk out of the cabin while night is falling and have it.  Then Al goes to the X spot.  All is good, I still have the shovel.

 Then I leave the 'X' spot to go to town.  When I reach the town screen, the shovel has vanished from inventory.

 Do I need the shovel later in the game?  

 Perhaps at the place I'm stuck in Chapter 9?

 This appears to the be the show stopper for me.

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 And while I'm talking about bugs, there is an odd thing.  I have a Dell 20 inch flat screen monitor hooked up to the VGA out of a laptop.  I usually have this set up so that the laptop screen is off, and the secondary screen is primary.

 When I play the game in this setting, the right corner of the screen is cut off.  As an example, the bartender never shows up on the screen.  The pop in the top right corner will never show up.  ( etc.. etc.. )

 ( My solution was to mirror the monitors, since the laptop screen will correctly display the game without cutting off)

I got my copy in the mail today.

 Looks like I wasn't in the first 100 and didn't qualify for the extra goodies.  My invoice was 1145 so I kind of expected that.  I assume I was 45 orders late from being in the first 100.  The first 100 must have went fast, cause I ordered immediately upon receipt (but was sleeping when the e-mail was actually sent).  

 Based on what I'd heard [somewhere] I was expecting it in a box box akin to what the old Sierra games came in.  Instead it was just a DVD jewel case.  But the packaging was professionally done.  

 I probably won't get to install the game until the weekend (damm clients).