Yeah The Swapper is a truly excellent game. It's got great mechanics, challenging puzzles where the solutions become apparent right when you are about to get frustrated, and some good story and world stuff. It's kind of a perfect package.
Can someone please help me. I'm not just stuck on a hard puzzle but I think I literally got myself trapped with no way out by seemingly lowering a lift I was standing on in the marsh area with no way to get back up.
I'm looking for a little guidance on two panels that are thwarting me. Basically just want to check if I have the right concept in my head, or if I'm going in the wrong direction.
This is one of a series of tetris panels in a row, in town:
I need to form a sideways T or L shape, with one going over and the other going down. I can't for the life of me figure out how to path that, but is that at least the right idea?
The other one is a color dot pairing puzzle in the greenhouse. I've figured out that I need to
look through the colored glass to show the real colors of the squares - there are three colors, not the 4-5 if you just look at the panel. Do I need to solve it using those three colors that I can see through the glass? Again, I'm stuck at trying, but I want to make sure I at least have the right idea. This is in the ground floor, the first panel once you open up the second room in the greenhouse.
I figured out what the area under the lighthouse was for.
Played two videos tonight. I've found a 3rd map somewhere but now need to remember where it was. :lol
I'm looking for a little guidance on two panels that are thwarting me. Basically just want to check if I have the right concept in my head, or if I'm going in the wrong direction.
This is one of a series of tetris panels in a row, in town:
I need to form a sideways T or L shape, with one going over and the other going down. I can't for the life of me figure out how to path that, but is that at least the right idea?
The other one is a color dot pairing puzzle in the greenhouse. I've figured out that I need to
look through the colored glass to show the real colors of the squares - there are three colors, not the 4-5 if you just look at the panel. Do I need to solve it using those three colors that I can see through the glass? Again, I'm stuck at trying, but I want to make sure I at least have the right idea. This is in the ground floor, the first panel once you open up the second room in the greenhouse.
I figured out what the area under the lighthouse was for.
Played two videos tonight. I've found a 3rd map somewhere but now need to remember where it was. :lol
The other one is a color dot pairing puzzle in the greenhouse. I've figured out that I need to
look through the colored glass to show the real colors of the squares - there are three colors, not the 4-5 if you just look at the panel. Do I need to solve it using those three colors that I can see through the glass? Again, I'm stuck at trying, but I want to make sure I at least have the right idea. This is in the ground floor, the first panel once you open up the second room in the greenhouse.
Yes, you've got the right idea. It took a lot of time for me to realize this! I must have come back to it 2-3 times to fully deduce that it is
impossible
on the
clear view
of the panel. That's when I realized I need to change my way of
looking at it.
Solution spoiler:
You may need to change the way you are looking at a panel for different panels.
You'll really go wow when you realize what the game expects you to do on the elevator part, though. That's where I'm at, need to get some paper and maybe
some colored pencils
, lol
Disclaimer: Spoilers, if not otherwise noted, do not spoil the solutions for GhaleonEB.
I still would have preferred this as a general discussion thread though, the helpline thread didn't take off. (People have spoken. )
You'll really go wow when you realize what the game expects you to do on the elevator part, though. That's where I'm at, need to get some paper and maybe
colored pencils would be just to have a diagram for what colour becomes what colour under certain lighting. Light is additive and indeed it acts differently than colouring over each other
I think you need to approach the game with a mindset of scientific enquiry. What you're terming guesswork - which, to be fair, isn't an unreasonable statement - I would instead call "experimentation"; you should be approaching it with a sense of ordered testing of hypotheses, not through arbitrary guesswork trying to spot anything that might stick. When a rule is tested in a way that doesn't fit what you know, the player - the scientist - needs to experiment with what's available to try to rearrange their previous hypothesis into something that fits with the new information.
This is pretty much what I do. On the "teaching" panels, I try not only the solution, but what also doesn't work, along with what also would work. That lays out a nice set of rules, better than rushing in and lining out the obvious.
Finished the game. I really enjoyed it but the lack of making me care about the world and some of the pretentiousness didn't really make me love it as much as I did Fez where not only the puzzles had purpose on the world but the character and the world itself were all tied into one great package with a stunning soundtrack to boot.
Still, it's worth every dollar for people who enjoy puzzle games.
I'm looking for a little guidance on two panels that are thwarting me. Basically just want to check if I have the right concept in my head, or if I'm going in the wrong direction.
This is one of a series of tetris panels in a row, in town:
I need to form a sideways T or L shape, with one going over and the other going down. I can't for the life of me figure out how to path that, but is that at least the right idea?
The other one is a color dot pairing puzzle in the greenhouse. I've figured out that I need to
look through the colored glass to show the real colors of the squares - there are three colors, not the 4-5 if you just look at the panel. Do I need to solve it using those three colors that I can see through the glass? Again, I'm stuck at trying, but I want to make sure I at least have the right idea. This is in the ground floor, the first panel once you open up the second room in the greenhouse.
I figured out what the area under the lighthouse was for.
Played two videos tonight. I've found a 3rd map somewhere but now need to remember where it was. :lol
About a switch in the treehouse area, the one that
opens a door on another treehouse for a brief period of time
.
Is there some trick to being be able to get to the door before it closes? I've tried several times and have never even come close to it. I'd been hoping that finishing everything else in that area would make it stay open longer or something, but no.
About a switch in the treehouse area, the one that
opens a door on another treehouse for a brief period of time
.
Is there some trick to being be able to get to the door before it closes? I've tried several times and have never even come close to it. I'd been hoping that finishing everything else in that area would make it stay open longer or something, but no.
About a switch in the treehouse area, the one that
opens a door on another treehouse for a brief period of time
.
Is there some trick to being be able to get to the door before it closes? I've tried several times and have never even come close to it. I'd been hoping that finishing everything else in that area would make it stay open longer or something, but no.
I'm looking for a little guidance on two panels that are thwarting me. Basically just want to check if I have the right concept in my head, or if I'm going in the wrong direction.
This is one of a series of tetris panels in a row, in town:
I need to form a sideways T or L shape, with one going over and the other going down. I can't for the life of me figure out how to path that, but is that at least the right idea?
please don't read unless you've seen absolutely everything in the game. You've been warned
ok so i have just seen a video of the entrance to the hotel and then the piss bottle. What i want to know is can you go back and see that area if you've already opened that opening gate??
please don't read unless you've seen absolutely everything in the game. You've been warned
ok so i have just seen a video of the entrance to the hotel and then the piss bottle. What i want to know is can you go back and see that area if you've already opened that opening gate??
This is one of those puzzles that I thought was literally impossible and I looked it up and the answer was nothing special. I was mad at myself.
My tip is
to pick the shape you want to trace and then approach it from every possible angle. I had become fixated with trying to trace it a particular way to no avail.
At a glance, this one looks fairly easy, there's a nice cluster of dots at the top that only have one way a line can travel through it.
It's worth bearing in mind when you're working on reflection puzzles that any place where you know a line must be, you also know the reflected line must exist
That said, I haven't actually tried to solve it, so it might be a bit tougher than that glance suggested!
So, wait, how does the cinema one you're mentioning work? I already watched that movie and figured there was probably some kind of puzzle associated with it, but if I have to pull off something stupid to make it work I'm really not interested in the trial and error.
So, wait, how does the cinema one you're mentioning work? I already watched that movie and figured there was probably some kind of puzzle associated with it, but if I have to pull off something stupid to make it work I'm really not interested in the trial and error.
What?! You came back to the game? I thought we both had quit.
I only came in to say bravo to anyone who has the patience and brains to complete most to all the puzzles on their own. Good lord I was watching some walkthroughs and I just could not for the life of me figure out some of the rules. If they were explained verbally then I
probably would have got much further.
I know this already, having already solved the puzzle at the end of the third video (Tartovsky's Nostalghia). I'm just wondering how it works for the fifth video. We're talking about the fifth video, correct? The one from the ship, with the guy talking about your consciousness in the present being the only thing that exists? People are talking as if it's not really as easy as skipping to a particular segment once you know the trick that needs to be done (the video is really long and so it's hard to trace the timestamp using the interface, so I believe this), so I'd appreciate not having to waste a lot of time going through the whole video again.
I know this already, having already solved the puzzle at the end of the third video (Tartovsky's Nostalghia). I'm just wondering how it works for the fifth video. We're talking about the fifth video, correct? The one from the ship, with the guy talking about your consciousness in the present being the only thing that exists? People are talking as if it's not really as easy as skipping to a particular segment (the video is really long and so it's hard to trace the timestamp using the interface, so I believe this).
For as much as the game stumped me, I couldn't stop thinking about. So in the end I decided I might not be able to solve everything - and that's okay. So I'm just kind of ping ponging around the map seeing what I can do. I don't solve more than a small handful of puzzles each day, but I'm advancing. Pretty sure I solved <40 puzzles all week. But every one is a victory.
I opened a door on the desert beach the other night. That one panel was all I got done in entire evening, but solving it was a pretty great feeling. It was like clearing a raid.
I opened a door on the desert beach the other night. That one panel was all I got done in entire evening, but solving it was a pretty great feeling. It was like clearing a raid.
Hah, I worked it on graph paper. I realized pretty quickly
that I needed to "erase" the object on the left by grouping it with the hollow objects, and that meant I had to trace the other one out. So once I knew how I had to finish (tracing the vertical piece), I worked backward to find a way to group the others.
So what are these + puzzles everyone's been talking about? I apparently didn't find a single one. I did find some random grey puzzles with triangles on them though that didn't seem to have anything to do with anything.
So what are these + puzzles everyone's been talking about? I apparently didn't find a single one. I did find some random grey puzzles with triangles on them though that didn't seem to have anything to do with anything.
So what are these + puzzles everyone's been talking about? I apparently didn't find a single one. I did find some random grey puzzles with triangles on them though that didn't seem to have anything to do with anything.
So what are these + puzzles everyone's been talking about? I apparently didn't find a single one. I did find some random grey puzzles with triangles on them though that didn't seem to have anything to do with anything.
Did you ever stop to wonder why you can to into puzzle solving mode - pulling the cursor out - when not facing a panel? Look at your surroundings carefully.
