Honestly, I built my answer on one puzzle.
The basement broken speaker puzzle. Technically that is also a symmetry puzzle so that foundation is what I built my answer on.
Overthinking it slightly, but not really. That probably doesn't help lol.
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Fractology
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Thanks. I'll get it eventually. I appreciate the feedback. My brain is just going a prick. I'll have to go for a walk and shake it off before cracking at it again.
I've been stumped on pervious puzzles that were much more simple. I'm just being stubborn because I feel like I'm SO CLOSE!!
I've been stumped on pervious puzzles that were much more simple. I'm just being stubborn because I feel like I'm SO CLOSE!!
RoadHazard
Gold Member
But then there's also
somehow a color element to it. There's one puzzle series where one solution works for one panel but doesn't for the next, even though the only difference is the color of the "fan" and the other symbols. That I still don't get.
dickgumshoe
Member
I beat the regular end game at 25h with about 430+60, cheating on one sound puzzle panel (no regrets), and taking a hint for one of the
Now I'm at the challenge stuff, there's some pretty tricky panels. I skipped one tetris puzzle that I just couldn't get the solution for, will try again tomorrow.
I certainly don't want this game to end...
distorted panels in the big empty room inside the mountain.
Didn't care for much of the distortion stuff, but the connected panels that redrawing so you need to solve several at once was mind blowingly great, and the tetris meta tetris puzzle right before leaving the mountain. Nice work, Jonathan.
Didn't care for much of the distortion stuff, but the connected panels that redrawing so you need to solve several at once was mind blowingly great, and the tetris meta tetris puzzle right before leaving the mountain. Nice work, Jonathan.
Now I'm at the challenge stuff, there's some pretty tricky panels. I skipped one tetris puzzle that I just couldn't get the solution for, will try again tomorrow.
I certainly don't want this game to end...
dickgumshoe
Member
Remembrance
Member
Zomba13
Member
Mine was
right as I left the first tunnel. I turned around because it wouldn't let me as I was leaving it and I saw the semi-circle bit on the door frame and lined it up and though "That looks like a line thing" but I didn't know you could enter "puzzle mode" outside of a screen at that point. Then I saw the path just outside of the starting area (from up on the ramparts).
The first one I actually activated was the one in the symmetry area where you see the line on the pottery house. I clicked on the circle not expecting anything to happen and it went all "bwwwoooooom" and then I drew the line and my mind was blown. Then I saw the sparkles went to the obelisk and then I went back and got the ones I saw before.
The first one I actually activated was the one in the symmetry area where you see the line on the pottery house. I clicked on the circle not expecting anything to happen and it went all "bwwwoooooom" and then I drew the line and my mind was blown. Then I saw the sparkles went to the obelisk and then I went back and got the ones I saw before.
Definitely one of the bigger mind blowing moments in the game and it changes the way you look at the world.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
This place. Seems like I have to
.
Still don't get it. Color means different things for different symbols. What does it mean for this one? ¯\_(ツ
_/¯
draw the path through the big box in the center to solve the panel, but then I can't get across
Still don't get it. Color means different things for different symbols. What does it mean for this one? ¯\_(ツ
_/¯If it helps when I first started that puzzle my thought process was exactly the same as yours. Sometimes it's very hard to disagree with the obvious I guess is the best way to refer to that process.
TimeEffect
Member
Hint for the final maze puzzle on top of the tower please? The one with the tetris, black and white, and dots?
Nvm got it!
Nvm got it!
hydrophilic attack
Member
Got the damn third hedge maze in the end. The funny thing is
I hadn't even listened to music before. I just hadn't been perceptive enough to pick up the changes in the sound of the footsteps.
So a few pages back I described all of the different things I did to try to solve this puzzle. But I forgot about one. The craziest of all. So I went back to the first maze and saw the gates blocking the path off. I figured maybe there had once been gates like these in the third maze that had since been removed. So I started searching the stones on on the ground around the hedges for pits and other marks of a gate that had once stood there. I spent like 20 minutes meticulously going through the textures. God that was a waste of time. Can't believe the solution was that simple.
So a few pages back I described all of the different things I did to try to solve this puzzle. But I forgot about one. The craziest of all. So I went back to the first maze and saw the gates blocking the path off. I figured maybe there had once been gates like these in the third maze that had since been removed. So I started searching the stones on on the ground around the hedges for pits and other marks of a gate that had once stood there. I spent like 20 minutes meticulously going through the textures. God that was a waste of time. Can't believe the solution was that simple.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
The real bitch was (don't read if you haven't completed all the mazes)
solving the multi-maze. I took photos of the individual solutions, don't know how anyone could do that from memory. And then solving it did NOTHING: Thanks, game. (Is it a thing where you can solve either one at the top of the tower? I did the other one first, and that activated the laser. Then I did the other, and it did nothing.)
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Pls help. This is impossible.
There's a tutorial for that somewhere. Use the
to find out where.
There's a tutorial for that somewhere. Use the
map on the boat
runningjoke
Member
I did the
mazes before the tiles and it activated the lazer,
the multimaze from memory I made 1 small error, then went back and made pictures
Remembrance
Member
This place. Seems like I have to.draw the path through the big box in the center to solve the panel, but then I can't get across
Still don't get it. Color means different things for different symbols. What does it mean for this one? ¯\_(ツ
First question:
Look more closely at the big box.
Second question:
What will happen if you group that symbol with another symbol of a non-matching color?
zer0blivion
Member
Try solving it in different ways that allow you to hint:
examine the obsactle from all sides.
ashecitism
Member
Started it today, feel like I always need to go back once I quit. Got to the part
near the sawmill. It's a mine or whatever and I'm on a platform doing those puzzles with the black hexagons and upside down y and as I look up I see the naked tree has formed a pair of yes with its branches and it's staring at you through the window. Creepy!
hydrophilic attack
Member
Well, just did the fourth hedge maze. That was easy. It is something I thought they would do earlier, so the method that led to the solution was the first one I tested.
sandkiller
Member
Hey guys,
Stated playing this afternoon but had to stop due to migraines and dizziness.
Nevermind that, i made it as far as
puzzles... So far I've found the game to be very easy and straightforward so 2 questions:
1 - how far along am I?
2 - when does it start getting challenging?
Thanks!
Stated playing this afternoon but had to stop due to migraines and dizziness.
Nevermind that, i made it as far as
the blue and yellow
1 - how far along am I?
2 - when does it start getting challenging?
Thanks!
441+66 IIRC... First clear after 9 hours (was in the final room at 7 hours but got too annoyed by the pillars since you can't see the whole puzzle at once so I did some other stuff for 2 hours, so far the only notes I took were to visualize puzzles that aren't fully visible on the screen). Didn't they say about 20 hours for the first clear?
I still haven't finished a single obelisk and I feel like that's going to exceed my ability to spot secrets. Solved all the grey panels I've found lying around but no idea if that does anything...
I still haven't finished a single obelisk and I feel like that's going to exceed my ability to spot secrets. Solved all the grey panels I've found lying around but no idea if that does anything...
You are at the very beginning of the game still.
theepicoftyler
Member
There is an area that introduces them very basically and builds their difficulty.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
I don't know if this is giving too much away, but:
grouping
pairing
You're in the treehouse area? Take note that the number of stars you enclose is important. Also, stars can be paired with non star shapes. And they're okay mingling with other colors...
Hmm. I'll keep searching. The area labeled with a Tetris symbol on the boat map doesn't seem to help me. But maybe I'm at the wrong entrance side.
I came very close about 5 times before beating it. The music got louder and more dramatic, I panicked and those stupid rotating pillars didn't make sense anymore. I almost quit because I just regressed after that. Then I took a break and got it immediately after.I came soooooooooooo close to completing "The Challenge" very last puzzle and I thought I had it but of course, me being stupid and panicking I didn't check thoroughly and missed something. It was the closest I've gotten
Gold_Loot
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hydrophilic attack
Member
I just got the
multi-maz. With all the notes I had from all the overthinking I did before, I got it first try easily. It lit up the laser for me, and I haven't finished the other side yet, so I think you're right that whichever you do first will activate the laser.
RepairmanJack
Member
Had to get help with the sound part, I just couldn't tell that big of a difference.
Finished my 5th area,
. Easily one of my favourites so far, I liked
. Not sure which areas will be my last 2, maybe
and
I don't think I'll stop after reaching the ending anyway, I think I'll keep plugging away at the puzzles regardless. I might use the internets help a bit more though, after I've beaten it.
the mazes
how it switched up it's mechanics throughout.
the Quarry
the Treetops.
So a couple of things, vague hints would be appreciated if possible without spoiling too much.
Sunken Ship
Under the Windmill
Hexagonal Puzzles
Sunken Ship
I'm absolutely TERRIBLE at sound puzzles and there's the simmetry stuff as well, I don't even know where to begin
Under the Windmill
There's a passage higher up that I can't reach and a door I can't open from my side. I think it might be linked to another locked door beyond the elevator at the end of the Desert Temple but I don't how to open that as well
Hexagonal Puzzles
I've found 4 so far: starting area, mountain, jungle, near the desert temple. So two left. I suppose one could be inside the Sunken Ship since it's not a "laser" area but I've no idea where the last one might be. Maybe in the endgame area? I've "opened" the mountain but I've yet to explore it.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
edit Sunken ship does need symmetry from an invidible line! The mechanics involved is to do with something you should understand from the bamboo jungle place with pink panels and from the floral place next to the cathedral in the town
The windmill pathways can't be opened till much later on when you have completed all the lasers and some other stuff
You have found all the hexagon stuff that it seems you are able to do. There is no surprise that the ship holds the other. The final one is part of a bigger set of things you can do if you have all the lasers sorted. It is also partially connected to the windmill areas you can't get to.
The windmill pathways can't be opened till much later on when you have completed all the lasers and some other stuff
You have found all the hexagon stuff that it seems you are able to do. There is no surprise that the ship holds the other. The final one is part of a bigger set of things you can do if you have all the lasers sorted. It is also partially connected to the windmill areas you can't get to.
Remembrance
Member
First question:
don't even try doing anything until you have definitely matched up sounds to the symbols. Take as long as you need to listen.
Second question:
you won't get in there by looking for the entrance. You'll know it when you see it.
Third question: I actually don't know yet!
No, it does need
symmetry
RoadHazard
Gold Member
FUCK. Someone help, please. I've looked at this thing from every angle, and there's nothing more I can do. (I've
solved two panels inside the thing
EDIT: Oh shit, I'm dumb! Didn't realize
I could just walk right through the thing
Edit - I stand corrected! I managed to do it without realising there is an invisible line working along side it is indeed going to be symmetrical
zer0blivion
Member
Remembrance
Member
You passed through the other hexagons without realizing it with the invisible line from the other side!
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Realization: the ship puzzle is related to *both* my most-struggled with puzzle types.
I don't know how people are even getting to the ship. I can't get there.