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I hate to admit it, but I got LOST during this latest episode. At some point the objective screen will say something like Fix the Marionette. Well I hadn’t seen any, so I went searching. Nothing! So I went backtracking. I went all the way back to the screen before you enter the Library. (BTW, Lady K, during my search of the library I did run across the candle puzzle clue you mentioned. Don’t know how I missed it. Maybe it was a latent memory that allowed me to solve it without that clue.) Anyway, I decided to go back and I forgot how to do that. I missed the down arrow by the pop-up book in the Library. I thought I was going to have to start the game from scratch. Very unsettling. Turns out I also missed the second left that takes you from the cart alley to the marionette stage. Much walking around for nothing.

I don’t know if the puzzle you are referring to is the “Create the Cello” puzzle. I found that one very frustrating. It wasn’t particularly hard, but I ended up skipping it because I apparently misunderstood the directions. The hint says that there are clues that will help you align the pieces. One of which is the outline of a fish that appears on the background and on the scrap of paper that shows the cello stand. Another, or so I presumed was the outline of the cello’s tuning pegs which I lined up with the same found on another scrap of paper. Then I proceeded to fill in everything in between. The problem, which I found out after skipping, was that [spoiler]the tuning pegs on the paper scrap actually were supposed to be on the opposite side of the neck than those seen on the background.[/spoiler] Which is different from the instructions as I understood them. Made me mad that I had to skip a puzzle because the instructions were unclear.

Note to Becky: I think your interpretation of what the two battling figures represent is correct based on what will be seen in a cut scene towards the end of this episode.

More later.

For the cello puzzle, I used the outline of the rectangles as a guide, then just flipped the remaining pieces around until they fit.  It was a bit frustrating because many of the creatures and faces on the pieces were upside down or sideways.  I gradually realized that I had to concentrate on the cello shape and ignore the rest.

Being an old guitar player I am familiar with tuning pegs and necks and S cutouts. Throw in basic curvature, bridge placement, etc. I thought I had it nailed. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that one piece of paper was misplaced.

I made the same mistake that Tim made, but I quickly realized that placing the tuning peg poster over the already present tuning pegs didn’t fit the poster outlines.

I didn’t have any problems with that puzzle at all. In fact, I thought it was a shame that the game automatically placed the posters in their correct overlapping order. I wished we had to place them correctly ourselves, so a new poster could obscure parts of the one below it and mess up the cello image if you didn’t get their order right.

I’ve just opened those big gates. Will finish the game this evening.

Btw, I loved how that play not only summarized the entire backstory of these games, but also seemed to add significance to our actions…

Drawn 2 will come to a close on Monday 3/16. We all know that we can multitask and discuss/play game simultaneously. So I am going to open play of D3 on Wednesday, 3/18.

FWIW, TimovieMan made a very appropriate comment regarding the Casual Game thread. I responded in a way that affirmed his observation. I would like everyone to take a look at his, and my response, and voice their comments. If we want to keep a Casual Game commentary alive, we can’t do it by playing endless playthroughs.

TimovieMan - 11 March 2015 05:10 AM

I’ve just opened those big gates. Will finish the game this evening.

Silly me, stopping the game one second before the final cutscene…

Finished the game and the bonus content. Boy, was that bonus chapter about the worst thing in two games! Nothing but backtracking and trying to remember every single screen you could visit in the game.
I think I’ve used Franklin’s advice and even that hint button that I’d been avoiding more times than I can count…
Still, only missed three of the shards (two shards, one star), so my treasure hunt without hints wasn’t so catastrophical.

My least favourite part of both games…

Anyway, finished the game, and apart from the bonus chapter, I liked it more than the first game, but they really count as one single bigger game, if you ask me.
Great music, absolutely amazing artwork, decent-if-simple story, good game.

Now onto part three, which as far as I have seen has one of the coolest menu screens ever!


Edit: hey, achievements! 11 out if 15, but I’m not going for the remaining 4 (no speed demon, cat burglar, welcome to the team or drawncore for me).

rtrooney - 12 March 2015 09:26 PM

I would like everyone to take a look at his, and my response, and voice their comments. If we want to keep a Casual Game commentary alive, we can’t do it by playing endless playthroughs.

I’m very much in favour of having a couple of weeks ‘off’ between playthroughs.

It could lead to me actually playing something that’s NOT part of a community playthrough.

Still haven’t started the last part yet. My Let’s Play and the release of Book 2 of Dreamfall Chapters is eating up all my playtime, but I expect to have time for it and finish it before Monday.

As for some pauses between the Casual Playthroughs, that’s fine with me.

Finished the game now, it turned out to be much easier and faster than I had expected.

I must admit that I skip the Violin Poster puzzle, not matter what I did then there were some pieces that I simply couldn’t figure out where they belonged, though if I had know that it would be the only difficult puzzle in this part, then I probably would have persevered.

As for the ending: I quite liked turning Iris into a firebird, and having her battle the evil king, in the form of a shadow dragon, herself, instead of having to do all the hard work for her all the time.

But id does confuses me a bit, I thought that there would also be a REAL dragon. The story we were told earlier in the game, clearly showed the king riding on a fire-breathing dragon, and not just some shadow thing that he can turn himself into. Perhaps that is the objective in the next game, to defeat the Dragon?

Anyway, Iris is now queen and everybody lived happily ever after.
** The End! **


On a side note, I just now realised that the game actually has Danish subtitles! This is not something seen often in games, and had I realised it before, then I would probably have used it, but I’m so used to just selecting English without even checking the other possibilities that I only discovered it now.

There’s one thing that puzzles me about this game in relation to the first one: the theme in the first game was very much dragon vs. gryphon, but here it seems to be dragon vs. phoenix. Why this difference?

Is the gryphon the symbol of Iris’ family/kingdom and the phoenix the symbol of Iris herself, and does that explain the difference?



Oh, and I’m very curious to find out what the story in the third game is going to be, as this story feels finished after two games…

I think the phoenix represents Iris because she is the light in the darkenss.  I remember in the first game that we used Iris’ phoenix to light the fireplace.

And so brave Iris, wise beyond her years,

faces the evil king and his dark shadows

and lights the final beacon to bring to restore her kingdom.

But what of Franklin, Iris’ beloved friend, who was turned to stone and broken?

In the bonus section, we help the new queen restore her dear friend, the only father she has ever known,

and, we hope, they will live happily ever after.