Dont Feed the Monkeys Game Guide to Cage 5

PLAYTHROUGH 1: ENDINGS AND HEALTHY PLANT

For your initial playthrough, we will be taking things easy. In fact, you aren't actually required to complete any of the scenarios in the game. But don't worry, you will actually be able to earn quite a few achievements during this playthrough, including some elusive ones.

When you start your game, you can get an achievement within about a minute. Follow the prompts until you start viewing your feeds. You can immediately use the on the feeds page to tab over to the 'Uninstall' tab. Select the box to uninstall the program (which you were instructed not to). As longs as you do this before noon on the first day, this will give you your first 'ending', as well as an achievement!

• Colobus express

  Now you see 'em, now you don't: these are the fastest monkeys in the jungle.

  

  

There are two more achievements for uninstalling, but we will address those later.

Now, start a new game. Pay attention to all instructions and start getting used to the controls. This playthrough is very relaxed and should allow you plenty of time to learn the controls and processes without requiring you to do too much work.

In fact, I urge you to refrain from getting too focused on any of the scenarios. It will be tempting, since you know there are achievements tied to them, but I think this is the best strategy.

Certainly explore the feeds and get a feel for how the game works. You will want to explore each and every feed you unlock and click on any highlighted item in the feed. This item will be counted as 'words' in your notebook. You will also be keeping an eye out for any highlighted text. When you see these highlighted words, you can press to add them to your notebook. You can then combine words in your notebook, or do a browser search on them, to find new words. This is pretty much the flow to how the game works. Even though we won't focus on completing the objectives of these scenarios right now, there is an achievement for simply collecting words in your notebook (190, in fact). Some scenario feeds allow for more key words than others. The voyeur photographer and the foreign couple for example have more available key words than others. Since you will need a total of 25 feeds to complete the game, you will have many opportunities to find 190 words. Don't get too distracted though, but 'collect' enough words during your game and you should easily be able to unlock:

• Ateles pencilianus

  Methodical and obsessive: they don't stop until their pencil is worn down to a stub.

  

  

Now, the MAIN FOCUS of this playthrough is to keep the Wylon Church plant alive and healthy. You will receive this plant on Day 2 (this interaction is not missable). What is missable is the chance to keep it healthy and earn a couple of achievements. The church members will explain the general process of taking care of the plant (good deeds keep it healthy, bad deeds make it unhealthy). So what does that mean exactly for you? Easy, just do good things!

One of the main reasons we will be avoiding completing scenarios (aside from the commitment it requires) is that many scenarios, even ones for achievements, have outcomes that are considered bad for the plant. Not completing scenarios won't hurt the plant. However, the are plenty of positive things we can do to keep it alive and well. Here are actions that affect the plant's status:

• Your Wellbeing. Keep yourself fed, rested and healthy. Easy to do. Work during the day using classified ads (don't get too distracted watching feeds), buy pizza and fruit as suggested in the tips section (hopefully when they go on sale), and sleep at night, 6-8 hours or so.
• Any time your neighbor comes by and asks for money, be sure to let him borrow it.
• Anytime you order from the delivery service, be sure to tip.
• Don't be late on your rent. This means that you must be around to answer the door when the landlord shows up. Your calendar on your computer tells you which days she shows up. She can show from about noon to 4 in the afternoon. Don't sleep, go to work, or go shopping at the store during this period.
• If the mailman comes by and has a package but has the wrong apartment number, do NOT accept it.

So to sum it up, you will want to work as much as you can to earn money. You will need to pay rent, stay fed, and buy new camera feeds to proceed in the game. You should be able to do this based solely on the money you earn from jobs, but you may be able to answer e-mail quests for additional money. These are typically not hard and you have plenty of time to answer them. Later in this guide (Playthrough 4+), I will give some answers to some of these, so feel free to skip ahead if you are stumped. They typically aren't tough, but require specific information that may be time sensitive.

It is all a learning experience, but that is why we are taking it easy on this playthrough.

Anyways, as soon as your plant becomes healthy for the first time (sprouts white flowers), you will earn:

• Lemur wylonii medus

  Good, caring, empathetic... These primates are morally acceptable.

  

  

If you keep it healthy by the end of the game (Day 15, if I am not mistaken), the churchgoers will collect the plant and you will earn:

• Lemur wylonii major

  Apes with unimpeachable morality. ABSOLUTELY unimpeachable.

  

  

Ok. So now we know what to do with the plant. The other focus now is being able to continue the game by purchasing the required number of feeds. I mentioned the requirements earlier in this guide, but try not and buy a new feed if it will make you late on rent. However, you will need to buy the required number of feeds by the deadline, which you will be reminded of each day at 9:00AM.

If you have the required number of feeds by each deadline, you will be allowed to continue through the game, as well as earn the associated achievements.

• Macaco amateurensis

  They belong to the Club's second level: "Amateur Zoologist".

  

  

• Macaco masteriensis

  They belong to the Club's third level: "Master in Primatology".

  

  

• Macaco doctoriensis

  They have reached the Club's highest level: "The Cage of the Great Primate".

  

  

Another thing we can knock out in the playthrough is an achievement for unloading a certain number of videos to Shock.tv. To access this feature, you must buy the record function ($50). Again, make sure you can afford this before you buy it. The idea behind shock.tv is that you take a clip of certain event-specific actions on your feeds, upload it to the site and get rewarded. Bad news is, there are very few things in game that are worthy of being accepted by the site. The good news, you can take any boring video and attempt to upload it. Even if it is rejected, it will count towards the achievement requirement. Just take 12 clips, try and upload each one, and you will unlock:

• Aotus televisibus

  They go crazy over the most extreme emotions on the boob tube.

  

  

The final achievements for this playthrough have to do with some endings that require you to uninstall. For these, you must wait until you are later in the game, after the FBI has moved in (the not-at-all-suspicious guy that moves in next door). By the time the churchgoers retrieve their plant, you are good to go for these.

Simply uninstall the software like you did for the first achievement.

When you do, the FBI will confront you. You will be given two choices, each offering you a different achievement. After you get one, simply reload your game from the most recent day and repeat the process with the other choice.

If you agree to collaborate with the FBI, you will be awarded:

• Propithecus molli

  Half ape, half mole: these primates cannot keep their mouths shut.

  

  

If you decide to keep quiet, you will get:

• Hylobates silensis

  The most faithful, loyal and discreet primates.

  

  

And, that does it for this playthrough!

You should now be familiar with the gameplay, the flow of the game and even familiar with some of the scenarios in the feeds. In later playthroughs, we will be focusing on solving many of these for achievements. But first, let's do a quick, partial game just to knock out another achievement that may interfere with the rest of goals...

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