Saturn's Child
Walkthroughs folder readme.txt
July 15, 2014

I. Folder Contents

*** SPOILER ALERT ***

Stop here if you don't want the plot revealed yet.

The Walkthroughs folder contains 2 text files with walkthrough instructions 
for the Saturn's Child game.

The story is the same whether you play as male or female, but there are some key differences in implementation.

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Reading any further in this file will reveal plot spoilers. 

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There are two members of the deep space exploration team being sent to 
Saturn---one male, the other female.  You can choose which one you want the 
player character to be, during a gender selections scene at the beginning of 
the game.

When the female astronaut emerges from her hibernation chamber at the end of 
the two+ years journey to Saturn, she is pregnant, nearly full term (how can 
that be?  two years hibernation, nine months pregnant? Ah, that's part of the 
game. :)

She will deliver the baby before the Titan moon landing, and the male 
character will go down to Titan alone. Then, when they go on to Enceladus, 
there will be a shipboard emergency during which the male astronaut will 
be injured and unable to go down to the surface of Enceladus.

So, the male character---whether he is the player character or the other 
astronaut, goes to Titan, the female character goes to Enceladus.  Gameplay 
activities are the same on both moons, so regardless of which gender you play, 
you will go through the same experiences, just in different places, and with 
somewhat different perspectives.  

You also might try playing the game after selecting neither or both as gender 
in the preliminary, test chamber scene. (Tip:  This will result in an early 
termination of the game, since pregnancy is a key element in the plot.)

