Hi seb2314.
I have a request which I really hope you are both willing and able to do.
Make a demonstration explaining how you navigate the house. Also demonstrate how you make sure you walk through the door. Please do that without turning the character, but only make the 180 de grease turn.
I would like to hear a demo of how you know what room you are in, and if possible, how you navigate the house when it's raining and thundering outside. It's difficult to hear the foot steps.
I have absolutely no idea on where I am in the house, what room I'm in, if I have walked through the door, or if I just have opened or closed the door without walking through it.
I've just spend one more hour playing the game, where I loaded from the save point where I have to find the fuse, which I couldn't do because I have no idea on where the kitchen is. I did that before just by luck which took me three hours.
So, I hope it'll make more sense for me if you would make a demonstration telling how you navigate the house, how to make sure you walk through the doors, where the kitchen is, the living room and all the other rooms. It might help others in the future as well.

Hi.
I'm finally at the boss part in chapter one. There is something totally weird going on, which I don't understand:
If I don't grab the gun, Mia shows up very quickly in the first room. But if I grab the gun, I can only make her appear by pure luck.
Any clue on why is happening? How do I make her appear for sure after I have grabbed the gun?

@SLJ sorry for the late reply. I've edited this part of the walkthrough a few weeks ago and described what I do. Make sure you download the guide again and if you're still having problems let me know. I'll be honest with you, the part you're dealing with is the most frustrating one.

Hi Seb.
I'm still stuck at the same part. I do the following:
1. Get Jack to chase me.
2. Run into the living room.
Where do I need to stand to get the table destroyed, and is that a requirement?
Jack get me all the time and I have no idea on where to run.
I think I have to run into the kitchen, but I can't do it before I get cought.

Hi.
I don't know what I previously messed up regarding downloading the latest version of your guide. I downloaded it a week ago, but I must have replaced the wrong file or whatever.
Thanks a lot. I finally got passed Jack and through the trap door. I played with him the whole night, and i found an easier way to do it:
Please note the following:
1. Crouching does not seem to make any difference. What really matters is if you turn towards him, or if you turn away from him. He doesn't chase you that much if you turn your back to him.
2. He does not go into the garage and back to the area where you pick up the key very often. Especially not if you turn the back to him.
Here is how I do it:
1. Go to the locked door, turn around and walk forward until he appears.
2. Turn around and walk forward back to the locked door.
3. Walk left and forward into the garage, and stay in the north east connor, phasing the wall.
4. Wait until he opens and smash the door twice.
5. Back out of the garage, and do not turn around yet.
6. Walk to the right back to the locked door.
7. Turn around, point the camera down a bit and then walk forward and pick up the key.
8. Walk backwards, walk right until you reach the right wall, and continue to walk backwards until you find the opening to the right.
9. Now you have to react fast as hell. Run right while smashing the A button very quickly. Then you'll open the kitchen door.
10. When you open the kitchen door, run in zikzak forward to make sure you walk through the door, and to throw off Jack if he is too close.
11. Run forward and run through the next door.
12. run north west to the trap door to escape.
That sounds more complicated, but I find it much easier in this way. Why? Because when I enter the garage after I have picked up the key from the table, Jack waits right outside in the hall, and I find it difficult to hear when he walks away, to hear if the path is clear or not.
I'm now in the weird room with the ringing phone and the other strange sounds. For some reason, I am not able to pick up the phone. No matter what I do, I can't pick it up when turning towards it. I have loaded from the chasing savepoint three times because I thought I messed up the camera, but I can't do it which I find weird.
There is also a strange area, where it sounds like I'm walking outside. I'm not sure if I jumped out of the window, because I was not able to get in again. I picked up an item out there, which I don't know what is.
I tried to find the tape recorder to save the progress, but I didn't found it. I have spend a lot of time searching this room.
It seems like I can walk out in the rest of the house, also before picking up the phone. Then the phone can be used as a sound source. But it feels like this is the wrong thing to do.
1. Do you have any clue on why I'm not able to pick up the phone?
2. I wander why I can't find the tape recorder to save the game. I can only find the place where I can store things from my inventory, or I assume this is what I have found.
Maybe I'm just really good at messing things up, or find things which aren't mentioned in the walkthrough.
I'm sorry that I constantly need to ask for help, but I find this quite confusing..

Awesome. Thanks for your reply.
Regarding the chasing part: If I don't fully understand how things works, then I start to experiment with things in many combinations until I finally figure out something which makes sense. It doesn't seems like many people actually have experimented that much with this part. I look very much forward to hear what you figure out, and if you come to the same conclusion than me. My strategy does not work all the time for some reason, but it works for me more than half of the times I do it.
Feel free to use the strategy in your guide. I'm just glad if it helps, and if you also find this strategy easier. I think it will turn into interesting results that I sometimes play the game differently than you, where I might find more different strategies in the future.
Regarding the tape recorder and picking up the phone: I will pay more attention to the camera angle. Yes you might be right that it might point down. My camera controls are still very difficult to use. I tried a few times that the character turned, when I would point the camera up or down.
Regarding the out side area: No it is not back in the trapdoor, unless the sound invirements has changed a lot. The walking steps sounds like when walking on the path outside the house, and the sound invirements are totally different. I wander why this place isn't mentioned in the walkthrough. Maybe it's a new area which has been added in an update, or maybe it is an area which is not that much important. There are some noisy doors in the area as well, which I can't go through.
I will hopefully get time to play the game some more tonight.

CAN THIS game also be played  on windows? or is it locked to X box only? i'm interested but do not have a X box.

Hi SLJ, glad you started to play this game again. Here are the answers to your questions:
1. How do you manage your inventory and make sure you don't drop the wrong items? I'm also worried about not having enough space for keys and other important items.

The first time I completed the game, I had issues with this. You probably know by now that each item has its own sounds when you pick one up, and it gets put into your last unused inventory slot. I had to make a list on notepad to keep track of this, but luckily, this game works well with OCR, so when you're positioned on an item while navigating the inventory you'll get a description of the item in question, so you don't need to take notes anymore.

2. How do you make sure you have enough bullets for the gun? I especially think about the small enemies which pops up multiple times. I don't remember
what they are called. I could just imagine myself using all the shots on those, or need to reload from the last save point, and have to play a lot of the
chapter again because I either forgot to save, or because I'm far away from the save point.

What you can do is use the knife on these if you don't have a lot of ammo, but I don't recall it being a major issue. If you make sure the enemy is centered when you shoot you shouldn't have a problem.

Let me know if you have other questions

Hi.
I'm still playing the game from time to time, making some small progress.
I'm stuck again, and I might have messed up something. I'm at the door where I have to use the key to the Ox Statuette. The thing is: I don't have the key. None of my items works, and I don't see it when using OCR. Even worse: I remember I unscrewed the box while I climbed the latter. I have been up there multiple times, but I don't find anything up there.
I might have dropped the ox statuette in the storage box by accident while looking for the savepoint. The thing is: I don't know exactly how to find the storage box, and if I do, then I don't know how to use it. I don't hope I have thrown the key away.

You are awesome. Thank you very much. Then I think I didn't grabbed the key, because I didn't knew you have to use the right analog stick to unscrew the frame. I'll see if I can find the frame again without turning Ethan, because that mess up the angle for me. However, there is an automatically savepoint right at the door where you have to insert the key, also if you don't have it. I'm surprised how nice this game is, and I'm great that you can't mess it up.
Thanks a lot as well for the instructions on the storage box. I look forward to give this a try. I'll let you know when I got the key.

Hi.
@Simba:
The guide in the first post should contain text files for all 7 levels.
@seb:
The key is behind the frame. I found out that it was indeed the freaking camera issue which plays a trick on me again. I seriously hate the camera feature in this game.
I had to load my saved game after I figured this out because I messed up my camera again. Now, I'm trying to figure out if I have to look up or down when I load the game to focus on the frame.
If I could rip out that freaking annoying and frustrating camera issue from the game, then I might have completed the game long time ago. It took me around three hours to figure that one out, because the instructions on turning right which works in the pc version doesn't work in the Xbox version.
When I get more time to play the game, I'll try to reset all the settings to see if that makes the camera settings better.
Again, thanks for your help. Now I at leased know what's wrong. It just takes forever for me to find the frame again because of the camera.