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Karlok - 07 November 2022 01:19 PM

chrissie - 07 November 2022 11:11 AM

I did need bit of a nudge to complete the ’steps’ puzzle as I failed to connect the sound to that of the bell in Klayman’s flytrap room

Not sure what you mean? To the best of my knowledge the bell in the flytrap room (the fifth cord) only turns on the radio, nothing else.

I’d forgotten why I needed to sound the bell in the flytrap room & had got a hint from a text walkthrough at the time. I’d whizzed through part of a YT video before posting here to remind myself of the details & in the video a bell sounds when you are able to descend the model steps after using the cannon. I don’t remember hearing that in the actual game & don’t know how I missed that it is the sound from the radio you come across while travelling in the car that is the reference to the sound in the flytrap room Oops!

Played for a couple of hours tonight and I’m seriously stuck.

I must have spent an hour trying to solve the colored crystals puzzle in that small basement room. I think I have found clues for the puzzle at two places (one of which is pretty easy to miss btw) but I just can’t make sense of them.

Also, I have no idea what to do next with the cannon. And the symbols in the small orifice in the mountain wall makes no sense to me either. A sound is played after changing the symbols around a “whole turn”, but there’s no clue as to what it means or if and how it connects to something else. The sound may simply indicate that the “puzzle” is “reset”, I don’t know. And I can’t connect the symbols themselves to anything else in the game so far. This game certainly isn’t holding any hands.

I realize puzzle solving in this game revolves around observing audio and visual clues, so I’m sure I’m missing something simple. But I’ve reached the point of feeling that if I haven’t got it by now I’ll probably never get it.

So I’m not too happy about this game right now! But I guess I’ll give it another try later in the week.

Oh, and Isn’t there more to finding Willie’s bedroom than just peeking in? A bit of an anti-climax I thought.

Karlok - 07 November 2022 07:01 PM

Veovis - 07 November 2022 04:10 PM

I must have spent an hour trying to solve the colored crystals puzzle in that small basement room. I think I have found clues for the puzzle at two places (one of which is pretty easy to miss btw) but I just can’t make sense of them.

Do you want a hint for this puzzle?

I’m on my way to work and something struck me. Is the real clue the name written on the device with the crystals and the other ones red herrings? That was my idea before finding the other clues, but I didn’t make the possible connection to colors until now. I’m confident this must be it, but if not, yes please I would very much want a hint!

Edit: Made my post less spoilery (even though it’s within spoiler tags).

Charophycean - 07 November 2022 09:57 PM

Karlok - 07 November 2022 07:56 PM

@Charo: If the only puzzle you’ve found in this area is the cannon, try firing the cannon. It’s aimed at a cracked wall..

I have fired it several times. It hits the cracked wall, the wall stays cracked and nothing else happens.

Didn’t you notice the cutscene after firing the weapon the first time? Something should have happened, but you may need to do something with another puzzle nearby before being able to see it clearly.

Made some progress tonight. After wandering around and having tried everything without success i thought to go to the first screen to check the in game hints. And that did the trick. It seemed i had to pull the 5th ring to turn on the radio. After that i managed to get to a machine that need to change colours. i have found one tip or maybe two but the obvious combinations didnt work. I ll experiment more tomorrow.

Things have gone smoothly since I finally got the shrinking machine working. Just got back here, thinking I had reached the checkpoint. But reading back on the comments on this section I don’t recognize the part about writing down and entering symbols in order to open a door?

I’m in the room with the mouse + cheese and there’s a mouse/cheese puzzle blocking the way ahead. Don’t know if I was supposed to, but I solved the 8x6 square “memory” puzzle further into the room. Not sure what good it did me though…

I have unchained Hoborg’s (Klogg’s?) castle and gone back to check out the first areas of the game after they got reconnected with the castle part. Only found something (not sure what) at the end of that “rail” that begins in the monster’s cave.

Apart from that I found three symbols for the cannon (I think). Can’t really see what else there is to do before tackling the “mouse puzzle”. I found another display that seems to be connected to the symbols in the orifice near the cannon, but I can’t figure out what I’m meant to do with them. I have 15 of Willie’s tapes.

So, have I missed something big working my way up to the checkpoint? A gentle hint would be welcome if that’s the case!