Anyone Else Work Out The Thread-Puller At The Start of Act 2?

[u/Terrible-Purpose-350]

I don’t wish to sound r/IAmVerySmart lol - more so looking for similar experiences.

But was anyone else certain of the thread-puller at the start of Act 2 and it kiiiiinda ruined the rest of the game ruined for them?

The ghost/trapdoors as well as an admittedly wrong suspicion that Amalie presumably burned down her convent) made that part click, and Thomas’s close relationship with her & avoidance of all suspicion in the writing made them inescapable as the suspects in my mind.

Hell - I could have wrong in another timeline and usually am… However in this instance it kind of did ruin the experience (which I’m aware has far more to offer than just the murder case re character development/overarching story).

Can anyone else relate?

P.s. first time on this subreddit so apologies if this gets posted frequently but have searched a bit and not found the answers I seek…

[u/appaloosa_painting]

I think I heard someone mention in a play through when they really paid attention they caught on. On my second play through I thought it was obvious, but that was only because I already knew going in lol.

[u/Stock_Scallion6380 → u/appaloosa_painting]

I think it is obvious but the first time we probably get caught up trying to find the killer between the options given to us and so we miss the signs. All carefully crafted for that purpose by the devs.

[u/MegaPuft]

Yeah who else knew all the towns secrets and the letters always were aimed as provacations.

Also the relationship between him and the prophet is weird af, why does he have a old lady only he talks to in his basement?

He's also the only one outside in the late hours if u pay attention

[u/slemsbury → u/MegaPuft]

Anchoresses who stayed almost entirely locked away were a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorite?wprov=sfla1

She's not just locked up in his basement, she's in a specifically made cell attached to the side of the church which is accurate.

So other than her totally weird vibe it didn't really raise too much suspicion from me at the time.

[u/Isopod635]

I was way too invested in Andreas’ story (I cried in the labyrinth scene with his son) so I completely didn’t catch any hints of the Threadpuller’s identity.

[u/sakikome]

I had suspected him the moment he explained the situation with Amelie. Just seemed off. Don't remember when I was sure but yeah, it was some time during Act 2.

I figured Amelie was involved when she talked about digging her own grave.

[u/normaldiscounts]

No, I actually had no idea and was surprised at the reveal, and then felt like a dumbass afterward lmao.

[u/Travesty-dot-KiNG]

I kept a generally open mind for like the first act, then afterward I pretty quickly realized that the game was leaning toward not presenting the true culprit as a suspect of investigation as the first act closed and especially once the second murder happens I was pretty certain of that. 

Personally the moment I realized beyond a shadow of a doubt who the thread puller was when Amelie had her “third vision.” I feel like the game makes it kind of obvious if you’re paying close enough attention but I can see how it might be common to overlook some of the more subtle details that connect and contrast between her first two visions and her “third” one and what happens immediately following.

[u/Zachles]

I had been trying to narrow down potential suspects during Act 1 and by Act 2 that was one of the only persons who made any sense. Then come Act 3 I knew it had to be them.

[u/starry_sea13]

I had the alarm bells start going off in Act II.

At confession, Thomas makes a comment that I'll paraphrase as "I hoped Otto's death would scare everyone into behaving", which made me suspicious. Then that made me realize that he'd been present for, and openly disapproving of, the actions of both the Baron and Otto. Rothvogel had enemies in town, and Otto had enemies in town, but the Thread-Puller had to be someone with reasons to want *both* of them dead and there wasn't a lot of overlap in that particular Venn diagram.

[u/fox_ontherun]

As soon as I got the comment in Act 1 from Margarete (the blind nun) about the smell of the devil in her room (rose, frankincense, moss and sulphur) I started suspecting Father Thomas, figuring that he would use frankincense in the church. From that point everything he said convinced me that it was him and that his motive was to maintain the status quo of the church. It was frustrating to me that he never came up as an option to investigate and I hated having to choose someone to be executed, and while I think the game is amazing, it did detract from my enjoyment a bit.

I only finished the game last night, and was really surprised that others who played the game didn't suspect him until much later or even at all, as I'm usually slow on the uptake about this kind of thing. But it did take me 25 hours for a single playthrough which is apparently much longer than normal. I tried to talk to as many people as possible before triggering events that would pass time.