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, game finished. I'd estimate around 15 hours, unless there's an accurate clock somewhere. Certainly not as long as some people were expecting for base completion, although don't take that to mean I feel cheated; I've absolutely got my money's worth.
No external help deliberately, although I did hit an unspoilered hint for one puzzle (
). I do suspect I would have figured it out myself, anyway; I had little trouble with the others.
Still missing a few mysteries, so I'm not going to wind it up just yet:
(No actual endgame spoilers, here, but lots of comments on things I encountered on the way through the game that I didn't resolve)
I seem to remember Blow mentioned that there was one puzzle he wasn't sure if anyone would get. Has he since said which puzzle that is?
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No external help deliberately, although I did hit an unspoilered hint for one puzzle (
the third hedge maze
Still missing a few mysteries, so I'm not going to wind it up just yet:
(No actual endgame spoilers, here, but lots of comments on things I encountered on the way through the game that I didn't resolve)
I've only got ten lasers. I'm not even particularly sure where the eleventh is. I may have miscounted!
There's a few panels that I'm sure what they triggered (if anything) when I finished:
The translucent-panel puzzles downwards from the reflection section
The two panels in the coloured-light room in the town
The *other* panel atop the Keep's tower (although that might reasonably simply be an alternate route to the laser)
One of the areas in the swamp underground (A chamber with two bonus lines in it) has a panel that I didn't get clear feedback from.
I'm missing three film panels
I never found an area that used the triangle-symbol puzzles. I solved lots of the sample panels, though, and understand the premise!
I only found one panel available on the ship, and I couldn't solve it at the time.
There's a section of the underground - behind the lift the laser goes up on in the Sun Temple, or the left junction when heading from the windmill to the film room - that I've not found my way into. I do note that overhead on the corridor to the film room there appears to be another pathway.
I'd also mention that I sort-of stumbled on the solution to the 'sound' puzzle in the town (in the soundproof room without a speaker); I guessed that you were meant to deduce what the tones might be from what the grid version of the puzzle suggests is a possibility. That may have been incorrect.
Another puzzle I wasn't happy with my answer on was the final puzzle in the flooded room in the sun temple - the long thin grid. I couldn't find an angle to see the left-hand side of it, but it did strike me that there were only a few options at that point. For all I know, that might have been the intention, just to have the user try a couple!
Not sure I can face finding all the bonus lines for total total completion, but we'll see. It'd be nice to complete at least one black column
There's a few panels that I'm sure what they triggered (if anything) when I finished:
The translucent-panel puzzles downwards from the reflection section
The two panels in the coloured-light room in the town
The *other* panel atop the Keep's tower (although that might reasonably simply be an alternate route to the laser)
One of the areas in the swamp underground (A chamber with two bonus lines in it) has a panel that I didn't get clear feedback from.
I'm missing three film panels
I never found an area that used the triangle-symbol puzzles. I solved lots of the sample panels, though, and understand the premise!
I only found one panel available on the ship, and I couldn't solve it at the time.
There's a section of the underground - behind the lift the laser goes up on in the Sun Temple, or the left junction when heading from the windmill to the film room - that I've not found my way into. I do note that overhead on the corridor to the film room there appears to be another pathway.
I'd also mention that I sort-of stumbled on the solution to the 'sound' puzzle in the town (in the soundproof room without a speaker); I guessed that you were meant to deduce what the tones might be from what the grid version of the puzzle suggests is a possibility. That may have been incorrect.
Another puzzle I wasn't happy with my answer on was the final puzzle in the flooded room in the sun temple - the long thin grid. I couldn't find an angle to see the left-hand side of it, but it did strike me that there were only a few options at that point. For all I know, that might have been the intention, just to have the user try a couple!
Not sure I can face finding all the bonus lines for total total completion, but we'll see. It'd be nice to complete at least one black column
I seem to remember Blow mentioned that there was one puzzle he wasn't sure if anyone would get. Has he since said which puzzle that is?
The music box puzzle almost destroyed me. So many close call I didn't make
