ACCESS: Amazon: Guardians of Eden. In Chapter 3, items can be obtained by using "pick up Vault", including a microfilm. If you do it again after using up the microfilm, it will be impossible to finish Chapter 3

[Lyceus-es]

In Chapter 3 "Heavy-Metal Monster", itt is possible to get the content of the drawer in the vault by interacting with the wall (hotspot "vault") instead of opening it and getting it from the drawer. It can lead to an unwinnable state if you repeat the action after you've already used the microfilm.

If you use the "pick up" action on the "vault" hotspot itself (the stone wall), first you get a message saying "You can't take that", but just after that you get another message saying "You carefully remove the map, compass and the microfilm from the drawer". This isn't the way the game is intended to be played (you must open the doors with a switch and then use a crowbar to unlock the drawer).

You need to use the microfilm in a reader in order to advance the Chapter. To do that you need to turn on the lights of the librarian's car, lure her out telling her that she left the lights on, then getting on the library and use the reader machine. Later, once you have used the microfilm in the reader and seen its contents fully (one of the requirements to trigger the end of the chapter), if you haven't finished the other requirement, you can go back to the vault and perform "pick up vault" again. If you do that, you get the microfilm again (even if the drawer is obviously empty), but you cannot get rid of it because there is already one microfilm in the reader. The game will interpret your still having the microfilm in your inventory as not having seen the microfilm's content, so it won't trigger the message saying that you have done everything you need in preparation for the journey and asking you to get in your car to leave for the airport. Instead, the message won't appear and if you use your car, you will simply move to your apartment, as it usually does.

A savegame is attached which can be used to reproduce this bug.

This was first detected with ScummVM 2.8.0 and reproduced with 2.9.1.

The OS is Windows 10 64-bit.

The version of the game is Amazon: Guardians of Eden (DOS/CD/English) as obtained at GOG.