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I’ve spent quite a few hours on chapter 5. Getting into Martin’s dream was fun and straightforward, but the puzzles in the dream itself are, like others have stated, pretty obscure and difficult. Felt stuck on several occasions and I especially spent a lot of time trying the same things repeatedly before realizing I could manipulate the size of the objects. Not sure it makes logical sense, but alright. A subtle hint or remark from our character would have helped here.

Again, the game makes things harder by not being clear on what things in the game are hot-spots before actually holding an item over them. In this case it was two of the possible places to put the crystal rod. Others have this problem too?

Now it seems I’ve accomplished everything possible in the dream so far, so I figure it’s time to try to get into Selma’s dream. When I quit playing yesterday I had ran out of ideas as to how to do it. I’m 99 percent sure it involves getting her to act on some loud noise, since she wishes to sleep. I’ve managed earlier to get her to Martin’s door by playing the stereo as loud as it gets but the same trick doesn’t seem to work twice. And I can’t play the guitar in the apartment under hers either. Hope I didn’t mess up anything by entering her apartment and making her upset with me…

So I’m pretty much stuck right now. Will give it another go tonight before checking some of the spoiler marked stuff in this thread. This is not an easy game.

Oh, I really liked the look and atmosphere of Martin’s apartment. Not so much his dream…

Still going here, I finished Chapter 4 over the weekend thanks to everyone’s tips.

Just getting going into Chapter 5 and already I’m not seeing much in the way of signposting.
Curious to see how the mailman showing up randomly somehow leads me into getting into more dreams.  At least the upstairs neighbors both seem like interesting characters.

Reading everyone’s comments here gives me some trepidation about finishing this next one by Saturday but I’ll do what I can.

Lady Kestrel - 22 April 2024 05:03 PM

Nico,
To get Selma to sleep, you need to get her annoyed 4 times.  The elevator alarm, Martin’s stereo, and entering her apartment to use the phone will get her to use the phone to call Mr. Morton or the police, then you can gas her from the basement.

Regarding blinding the eyes, you’ll need something that looks like a scepter.  (I think it’s called a staff.)  Have you created the red laser beam and made the gaps in both the right and left corners of the main portal room in Martin’s dream?

Didn’t notice any elevator alarm. That is the thing i m missing. I’ ll check it out later.

As far as Willard’s dream i have the prism mirror (the triangle thing that reflects the laser and the prism rod, which i can apply it to the passage from the first cube and on the cube at the starting room. Also i can adjust the size of those two. But when i get to the eyes it says its short to reach and i cant get large because there is no space there.

My problem with Willard’s dream is i don’t understand what i m supposed to do. I m supposed to blind the eyes but no idea how. I have found the small passages that you need to be tiny to enter.

Update: Managed to enter shelma’s dream. Also managed to blind some of the screens but not sure what to do after that in Martin’s dream. Anyway working on Shelma now. Thanks for the help.

Just a small update. Yesterday I more or less by luck finally triggered the response I needed so I’ve entered and explored a bit of the other dream in chapter 5. As a whole the puzzle to get into the dream is clever, but a tiny bit more direction from the game would have made it even better. IRL there would have been several more options to achieve what we’re supposed to achieve, but the game doesn’t let us.

This new dream looks interesting and has an intriguing premise, but to some extent the game has lost the grip it had on me after especially chapter 3. Still very much looking forward to continuing though. Hope to finish the chapter before the weekend.

After some troubleshooting issues that appeared out of nowhere (the game was crashing too frequently), I reinstalled it and played all 4 chapters from the begining. This gave me the chance to save the bartender by not sending the Bloody Mary in chapter 3. Mind you, this made the game far harder, since I didnt had the radio frequences and basically had to use all of them in all 3 rooms of interest.
But this is unimportant. My most important discovery was in chapter 4. In Eddie’s dream, I called the moving company from the phone. And the freeakin dream machine answered!! They basically told me that I should have never tried to connect two dreamers and now the dream machine has tentacles in the jackass Mover’s dream too!!!
OOPS!!!

This is huge.
I will start playing chapter 5 tonight.

Did reinstalling help @Sefir? I’ve had trouble with random crashes since especially chapter 4. The screen suddenly goes white with an exclamation point in the middle. Saving often works since the crashes are random, but it’s a bit annoying. I’m guessing some memory problem, since it seems to be triggered by changing locations a lot.

I agree the level of detail in the writing and graphics is fantastic in this game. Only exception; in Victor’s own apartment in chapter 5 many hot-spots only gives a “not defined” response. And for me some important hot-spots have given me nothing until pointing an object on them, but I seem to be the only one having this problem.

I’m probably (hopefully) near the end of chapter 5 but felt stuck when I quit last night. I’ve done a few things in Selma’s dream because they were possible to do but without really understanding why. Such as burying the knight and connecting the two dreamworlds with a string. And I find the pumpkin king thing puzzling and a bit overwhelming. No idea what the game expects me to to with it.Will give it another go tonight.

I had some progress last two days. I m at the part that the witch gave me the recipe to craft a potion (to enlarge myself and get on the huge stairs i guess). So I ll try to craft the potion tonight. Not sure how close the end of the chapter i m.

Finished the 5th chapter also. Seems i needed 1 hour more to play from where i had stopped.

That was the longest by far chapter, 3 or 4 times the length of the others. The puzzles were very involved this time and there were almost no tips for willards dream. I found the puzzles at Shelma’s dream a lot more accessible and traditional. While i was annoyed at the begining with lack of tips and direction i enjoyed the chapter a lot in the end. I think it was the best chapter so far. Only complain is that this chapters with the two dreams felt disjointed from the rest of the game but this is something that i noticed for the other chapters also. It feels to me that different people create the puzzles for each chapter. This creates variety which is a good thing but at the same time it weakens the theme of the game as puzzles are all over the place.

Maybe its just me but the skeleton somehow brought to memory this scene from monty python

I’m a little behind - it’s quite chaotic at home at the mo but hoping to catch up on Sunday.