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Finished the second part of section two. Took me 38 minutes, I’m now at 2 hours 43.

Most time was spent at the triangle puzzle. Needed 6 or 7 attempts, despite having solved similar puzzles lots of times before. They never get easier…

I kept getting distracted when I was doing the triangle puzzle (phone ringing, dogs barking, stomach growling), so it took me at least 10 tries to solve it.

Becky - 27 February 2019 09:52 AM

Questions:

How did Julia’s family continue to produce a next generation when they were all stuck down in these caves and never escaped?

Why didn’t Julia and the little helper need the same protection we did when walking through the green poisonous gas? I liked the solution with the little helper and the chain—so THAT’S what the stick was used for—to balance. Quite creative I thought.

I’m enjoying the riddles a lot. I also like the fact that the puzzles aren’t always solved in a precisely traditional manner.

Is anyone else risking the little helper by trying to plunk him into the hot vat and the aquarium with savage fish?

The less said about the triangle puzzle the better. I finally peeked at the in-game walkthrough. I had gotten about half of it right on my own.

Only my thoughts. With the exception of Julia, no other female members of the Fox family are found. So I assume that the Men Foxes did what they needed to do to insure the family line would go on before they left for the Game. Had Julia died in the Game the Fox family line would end. I think the little helper did have a mask like you and Julia. I think you found the parts for three gas masks in the HO scene.

I try the little guy everywhere. Fortunately the game won’t let me kill him.

OK! Since everyone except furgotten has finished section three, or whatever section we’re on, it means that you all have reached this point:

My plan was to have everyone play to the next portal which is here:

But I played from the above portal last night, and there are really only 15 minutes or so from this point until you finish the game. So I say go for it.

For anyone, furgotten?, keep playing. I’m sure this thread will stay on the first page for awhile. There might also be a lurker or two who are following the thread. Their input, if they care to share it, is welcome too.

Plus, I think Lady K, chrissie and TimovieMan purchased the CE version of the game.
I have seen a YouTube video of the bonus game, but seeing it and playing it are two different things. So I’m interested in seeing what their impressions of it are.

Becky - 27 February 2019 09:52 AM

Ditto on the alchemy puzzle, though I did try to rearrange the books when I first saw them (before I had acquired the other jars), and the game wouldn’t let me do it then. So it didn’t occur to me to try it again until the jar sequence failed.

Yeah, either the game didn’t let me do it at first either, or I wasn’t doing it correctly.

Why didn’t Julia and the little helper need the same protection we did when walking through the green poisonous gas? I liked the solution with the little helper and the chain—so THAT’S what the stick was used for—to balance. Quite creative I thought.

That was mentioned when trying to send the little helper over the chain. I think the game specifically mentioned needing something to balance, so as soon as I found the stick, I knew how and why to use it.

rtrooney - 27 February 2019 03:44 PM

OK! Since everyone except furgotten has finished section three, or whatever section we’re on, it means that you all have reached this point:

Reached it now. Took me just over 1 hour. I’m now at 3 hours 45 minutes.

Took me a while to figure out how the triangle puzzle worked, but found it eventually.

Becky - 27 February 2019 06:32 PM

So the fellow we encounter from time to time in the game—the poison dart guy—how does it make it through all these areas without solving any of the puzzles that we have to? Do the masked gamesters controlling the game somehow give him access we don’t have? And is that fair? Is the game rigged? I think we should go around destroying all those green crystal balls so the masked gamestars have no idea what’s going on once we reach an area.

The basic answer to your question about Mads is “I don’t know.”

Although one possible answer is that the game/puzzle resets to its original state once it has been solved. The “watchers” certainly seem to have the power to do something like that. So if Mads was ahead of us, as he seemed to be when we first encountered him when he got us with the darts, we had to solve the puzzles he already solved before we got there. Pure speculation, but I can’t come up with a better solution.

But there is another possibility. At one point in the game I think he thanks us for clearing the path for him to get to the next portal. Perhaps he is hiding ion the wings every step of the way, and capitalizes on our deductive reasoning. Until ... he seizes an opportunity to jump ahead of us.

Welcome back! You will be caught up in no time.

rtrooney - 27 February 2019 08:32 PM

The basic answer to your question about Mads is “I don’t know.”

Although one possible answer is that the game/puzzle resets to its original state once it has been solved. The “watchers” certainly seem to have the power to do something like that. So if Mads was ahead of us, as he seemed to be when we first encountered him when he got us with the darts, we had to solve the puzzles he already solved before we got there. Pure speculation, but I can’t come up with a better solution.

But there is another possibility. At one point in the game I think he thanks us for clearing the path for him to get to the next portal. Perhaps he is hiding ion the wings every step of the way, and capitalizes on our deductive reasoning. Until ... he seizes an opportunity to jump ahead of us.

We have been separated from our redheaded companion on a few occasions, and made it to the same places regardless.
That probably means that the path we’re following isn’t the only possible one. There’s a good chance that Mads is occasionally capitalising on our progress, but is also often taking a different path (which could explain why we can suddenly get ahead of him at one point - he took a detour).

I agree with Becky that destroying the green balls should have been a priority.




I finished the game last night. I had missed two of the owls at the end, because the endgame was approaching and frankly, I forgot about them.
I’ve completed all collections now, though. And I’ve got all the in-game achievements except for the “speed emblem” (finding five HOG items in five seconds). I only managed one out of three notches there.
Took me 50 minutes to finish the game. Final tally for the main game: 4 hours 35 minutes.


I really liked the final puzzle (“overloading” the cleansing program) - felt intuitive to solve.

The story was overall decent, and I liked the variety in the puzzles throughout. It’s a shame that we don’t get to catch the Watchers, but that was to be expected in a series like this.

I’ve started the bonus chapter, but haven’t finished yet. It’s a case where everybody in a town has been magically changed to look like the pharmacist (including you). It’s your job to find out what’s happened, and to identify the actual pharmacist among the lookalikes. And it’s hinted that the Watchers are involved.
Curious to see where it leads.

I kind of like your theory. Except…I consider the player and Julia to be playing as a team. So, once we team up we are solving the puzzles as a team to the benefit of both of us. So, when we reach the lake, for example, I’m doing the puzzles on the main street while Julia is finding things that will help me while she is travelling to the same destination on a parallel alleyway. However, that doesn’t explain Mags.

Boy! You have me stumped. I am in the process of replaying the game just for fun. I don’t remember any timed puzzle. Maybe it’s a CE thing. If you’re talking about the puzzle where you have to break each jewel in a triangle of jewels by rotating mini-jewels until the triangle is surrounded by three of the same color ... that puzzle was not timed in the SE version. (Maybe post a screenshot if that’s not the puzzle.)

I think the animation is surprisingly good for a casual game. (Of course the opening cut scene in Angelica Weaver is the standard to which all casual game animations will be measured.) The blend of the 3D animation into the 2D background was done very well. One scene I can think of is the beginning of the Lake section. There is a rowboat in the middle of the lake in 2D. You use the crook to pull it to the shore, and it cuts to a 3D animation that brings it to the edge of the pier. And then it seamlessly goes back to 2D before you get to explore it. Very good stuff.

It makes me wonder why so many “Adventure” developers think “retro pixel” is the way to go.