Where are the tutorial panels that teach you how the center symbol works?
Reading this thread makes me feel sloooowww. I'm a bit over 9 hours in and I've completed a bit over 100 puzzles.
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Where are the tutorial panels that teach you how the center symbol works?
Reading this thread makes me feel sloooowww. I'm a bit over 9 hours in and I've completed a bit over 100 puzzles.
TheSlySoul
Member
Anyone beat
yet? Stuck at that and
tree house
windmill
Saiyan-Rox
Member
Yep I see that now lol
How're you supposed to know when a block should be touching and when it shouldn't? It's that last tutorial block all over again ><
Still at least I know more than I did an hour ago.
Still at least I know more than I did an hour ago.
toythatkills
Member
In a quarry-like area, right by a windmill
TheSlySoul
Member
I cannot praise the quarry enough, best area.
kinaesthete
Member
It doesn't directly, but having them be in two separate squares instead of two inside of one set me up to expect that the arrangement inside the square mattered, like they did for all the other
tetris pieces.
Belgian Dude
Member
It depends on the puzzle!
Half the challenge is finding out which pieces you're grouping together, and it gets more complicated when you can change their order - in this case the middle HAS to touch someone otherwise you can't reach it.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Just started. Is it smart to bang your head against a puzzle you cannot solve/don't know what to do on or to wander around and do what you can?
Tainted
Member
Awesome, thanks for the clarification
GwyndolinCinder
Member
No it doesn't, you made the assumption.... Which is good for the designer, since the game clearly wants you to make multiple wrong assumptions whilst learning the blue block puzzles.
That feel after 200 puzzles solved you discover the '+' scoring people have been referring to, alongside their puzzle completion count.
The very end of this video is me realizing that (obviously, spoilers if you haven't had your mind blown yet): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKPCzYyAxaA
TheSlySoul
Member
I am on the other side of the island, but should not take long on the boat.
I remember that one took me 10 minutes.
Edit:
Isolate the two horizontal lines
sabertoothzombie
Member
I'm stuck trying to leave the swamp 
So yeah, if I'm thinking of the right bridge puzzle, if you've solved it once you should have a solution that's effectively symmetrical, so you can have the middle piece pointing out of either side. Solving the puzzle with it attached to one side or the other will change the state of the bridge.
Digital Limit
Member
I beat the entire
area except for the very last puzzle which activates the
. You start in
but the exit is in
... do I have to come back here at
?
lines were
,
lines were
... this is yellow,
?
#redacted
tree shadow
laser
light
shadow
a different time of day
Blue
stay in shadow
red
avoid shadow
which doesn't have any rules I know about
#redacted
Remembrance
Member
Don't get too hung up on any one thing. Go everywhere and try everything.
Load game
Finished the game. Dear god, that ending was pretentious.
Quite enjoyed the game, but not sure if I'd really recommend it to anyone
For the first few hours I kept waiting for the twist to happen. I hadn't really followed the development and went in nearly blind, but surely the game couldn't just be about walking around and solving logic/maze puzzles on panels I thought, especially after the brilliant mechanics in Braid. That never really came but eventually the puzzles got pretty fun and sometimes brutally difficult. But running around on the island got pretty old and the game failed completely to make me care about the world. After some initial exploration trying to find out what what was going on revealed very little, and when all the audiologs and videos are just random old texts with existential musings about art and science, I stopped caring and it just became a hunt for puzzle panels.
Some of the puzzles were just annoying though, like the
The things that does make the game interesting though is it's approach to learning. That is quite brillaint
Quite enjoyed the game, but not sure if I'd really recommend it to anyone
For the first few hours I kept waiting for the twist to happen. I hadn't really followed the development and went in nearly blind, but surely the game couldn't just be about walking around and solving logic/maze puzzles on panels I thought, especially after the brilliant mechanics in Braid. That never really came but eventually the puzzles got pretty fun and sometimes brutally difficult. But running around on the island got pretty old and the game failed completely to make me care about the world. After some initial exploration trying to find out what what was going on revealed very little, and when all the audiologs and videos are just random old texts with existential musings about art and science, I stopped caring and it just became a hunt for puzzle panels.
Some of the puzzles were just annoying though, like the
spot the specmat bullshit in the Desert Ruin and the broken screens in the final area
The things that does make the game interesting though is it's approach to learning. That is quite brillaint
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
I'm stuck again at what seems like a simple puzzle but I can't work out the logic. It's one of the ones required enter the quarry.
Any tips?
It's a tetris symbol puzzle where there is a block on the bottom right with a shape that goes 3 blocks up and one to the right, whereas obviously you can't go to the right with it being I the corner.
Oh, duh. Thanks!
Saiyan-Rox
Member
These Tetris puzzles man
They don't even tell you where the peices need to make contact if they even do ><
Hmmm.... did you solve any of the + puzzles?
I just went over to the dev blog, and seeing the island overview used as the preview image of the video there, realized I've been to less than 1/4 of the island so far.
My god.
My god.
Digital Limit
Member
I'd recommend moving past this section if you can't hash it out yourself -- you haven't found the
tetris
Hot Coldman
Banned
never mind lol
SPOILERS for the post-endgame - with the caveat that we don't have this all figured out yet, and some is speculation. We're on the bleeding edge, here:
The pond in the middle near the town appears to be a map/visual representation of your completion %. The lanterns in the pond turn on when you activate a laser, and the closed clams open when you unlock a vault that contains one of the theater hexagons. And the fountains seem to correspond to the black obelisks.
Lastly, in a early-game save, there are no orange triangular leafs in the pond. In a late-game save, there are. It's assumed that these correspond to finding the triangle puzzle panels, but we aren't sure. And this is a little outside of the pond's M.O., since everything else in it gives you a location hint, and those leafs don't.
Finally, in the beginning, all the white flowers are wrapped tightly and not in bloom. But in our end-game save, many of the flowers are blooming. There are many around the lake, but others on other seemingly important spots around the island. We don't know what triggers them blooming or whether there is any deeper meaning there.
Lastly, in a early-game save, there are no orange triangular leafs in the pond. In a late-game save, there are. It's assumed that these correspond to finding the triangle puzzle panels, but we aren't sure. And this is a little outside of the pond's M.O., since everything else in it gives you a location hint, and those leafs don't.
Finally, in the beginning, all the white flowers are wrapped tightly and not in bloom. But in our end-game save, many of the flowers are blooming. There are many around the lake, but others on other seemingly important spots around the island. We don't know what triggers them blooming or whether there is any deeper meaning there.
Edit: Oh yeah I also forgot -
In the lake there is a submerged statue of a woman. Later game saves show her emerging from the water, and finally almost completely out in a late-game save. But the actual FORM of the statue is changing - she isn't in the same pose. It's like she's climbing out of the water slowly.
And even post-endgame, we aren't sure how to get into the tunnel you can see at the bottom of the desert temple. It only opens from the other side.
And even post-endgame, we aren't sure how to get into the tunnel you can see at the bottom of the desert temple. It only opens from the other side.
Theodoricos
Member
I'm at the same puzzle as you right now. I really want to do at least one full puzzle sequence without help, and I managed to do all the puzzles leading up to this one, but I still can't figure it out.
About the puzzle:
as far as I can tell, the shadows remain static, so I don't think you need to wait for a different time of day or anything like that. Maybe something to do with the pattern of the door ornaments?
No tips for that puzzle, but you can enter the quarry without solving it, btw
On my end, I've made it through most of (I think) the Desert area, and once again I'm stumped.
I'm way far underground and now I've got a reflecting pool that I can raise and lower the water level of, and make use of the reflections to complete the (blue) panels. The third one is giving me hell though, because I just can't seem to capture the right angle. I feel like I've tried every angle and I just can't seem to find a spot where it will reflect/shine.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
I've done most of the tutorial for it I just can't figure out how to deal with the limitation of moving to the right. I'm guessing there's another behaviour in the blocks that I've not noticed but I can't seem to figure it out.
TheSlySoul
Member
i tried that but it fails the purple ones. another hint?
the two right purples will be isolated in a vertical line
Edit: Emotional Rollercoaster when you solve a puzzle and it creates just a shortcut.
Benzychenz
Member
So does a physical release for PS4 seem pretty likely in the coming months?
Because if there's a chance of a physical release there's no way I'm spending $56 AU on digital.
Because if there's a chance of a physical release there's no way I'm spending $56 AU on digital.
Chairmanchuck
Member
Digital Limit
Member
No tips for that puzzle, but you can enter the quarry without solving it, btw
On my end, I've made it through most of (I think) the Desert area, and once again I'm stumped.
I'm way far underground and now I've got a reflecting pool that I can raise and lower the water level of, and make use of the reflections to complete the (blue) panels. The third one is giving me hell though, because I just can't seem to capture the right angle. I feel like I've tried every angle and I just can't seem to find a spot where it will reflect/shine.
That may be the one that's only visible from a certain angle while it's actually in motion.
SomedayTheFire
Member
If you still want to know,
walk back about 10 metres and look up. It's on a tall piece of wood.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
If those are the only
audiologs
You should have also have found some audiologs from the fictional people that made the island, too.
oh fuck, got it haha. thanks you so much!
Good luckThat may be the one that's only visible from a certain angle while it's actually in motion.
*throws his controller out the window*
Belgian Dude
Member
For this one
I've "tested" and it's the same tunnel that runs to the windmill, also locked from the other side. There's a walkway above (that comes from somewhere above the theatre chamber) that I also don't know how to get to, but I'm imagining it's from somewhere in the cave you can get from inside the mountain. However, that one is ALSO locked from the inside, so...
my save file says 425 +9
Are the + puzzles the ones in the environment?
No I have certainly not found everything; as I said stopped caring about the world/story pretty quickly because it just didn't give me anything to keep me interested. I can enjoy some sparse and minimalistic storytelling, but it has to give me something to get me interested in the first place or I'm not going to run around looking everywhere for tiny clues.
GwyndolinCinder
Member
Thats really simple, so if you dont know how to do it, go back to it later when you know how.
Digital Limit
Member
I likely didn't realize I was opening both doors separately... I came back to this area after "doing puzzles" and found both halves of the tree gate open wide.
But yeah, dot in the upper right-ish is in light, and the bottom left exit overlaps with part of a branch. Feel like I'm missing something.
SomedayTheFire
Member
The 5 vertical blocks inside the yellows are the 4 vertical tetrino and single tetrino. The top right two are the 2 horizontal tetrino.
The starting position is the top right, correct? My mind is fried.
Left x2, down, left, up, left (you are now in the corner, correct?)