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It's pretty good. Only played it a little bit but the world map seems huge. It tells you if you've found everything in each area too which is great. Did a little bit of reading and there's supposed to be some very difficult and abstract puzzles later on so I'll document them if I ever get round to it.

The general design is excellent. It's 2D but you can rotate the camera around by 90 degrees, so you get the same 2D level viewed from 4 different 2D perspectives, which creates new pathways and all sorts of fun stuff.

Sounds like that one level in dynamite headdy.

Also i'm gonna guess this is on plus in the next two months. You should upload videos of gameplay and make the fish cry.

It's £4 currently (£3.60 for PS+) at the moment so I bought it. Usually that means it'll be on PS+ next month. Happened with Hotline Miami and some others.

I decided to get through the game without looking anything up. So I've been sat here for about an hour trying to decipher the language in this game. I took a bunch of pictures of speech bubbles and signs and got to work. Turns out I was incredibly lucky, as I happened to snap this particular speech bubble:



Working on the assumption that the language reads from top to bottom, and then left to right, there's only one thing the right-most column could say. "Ha ha ha". So I know what H and A are. Looking at some other speech bubbles I noticed that another symbol repeatedly appears in front of the H symbol. You can see it in the above picture, in the 5 letter word on the left. I knew that was almost definitely a T, and that meant the 5 letter word was almost definitely "there". Now I know the symbols for H, A, T, E, and R.

In another stroke of luck, I snapped this:



Lots of symbols I know here. The first column says "That hat". The last column has a word that looks like "there", but the first letter is different. It must be "where". Now I have a sentence that reads "That hat *** *et where ***". The word after "where" is 3 letters, and the first and last letter are the same. The most obvious choice was "did".

That's when it jumped out at me and I realised it reads from right to left. It says "Where did you get that hat". Using that and a few other bits of text I managed to get the nearly the whole alphabet. Still a couple letters missing, but they'll be easy to figure out when I see them. The first picture says "ha ha ha check out mr rectangle head over there".

That's pretty awesome, but you are legitimately insane.

Skipio wrote:

That's pretty awesome, but you are legitimately insane.

ill second that skip, deciphering gaming code without the use of the internet coupled with a profile pic of a man screaming just before locking his missus in a nuclear reactor equals insanity

It wasn't that hard actually. The most confusing part was realising that U and V use the same symbol.

Too bad it made by such a douchebag.

Haha, hey guys at least he doesn't try and type in it.

Doing this without any guides might have been too ambitious. I don't even know what the puzzle is in half of these rooms, let alone have any clue about the answer. I'm sure there's a number system similar to the letters, but I can't figure it out. I've got two keys but no rooms on the map with locked doors. I need 32 cubes to progress to a new area and I've only got about 25.

By the time you're finished that godzilla game should be out.

I'm stumped. There's these things dotted around the world that I think are coded musical scales made out of Tetris shaped that also correspond to other symbols that can tell me how to ring a bell properly because it has those symbols on it, but I just can't understand what the code actually is.

I just realised, Moose are you implying no one beats this game without a guide?

I know some people have. Apparently there's was one puzzle that was only solved by force, entering every possible answer until it worked. Don't know if it's true though.

But it turns out there was a very large and not at all secret part of the map that I missed.

I googled for your sanity's sake. The final puzzle sounds unsolvable. Some guy made a computer programme to give him all final answers possible and entered over 1300 of them before he got the answer. To even get to that point sounded stupid though.

There's a couple rooms that I solved by accident. Just messing around trying to figure out what the puzzle was and then suddenly a cube appears.

Well there are 64 cubes in the game, 32 cubes and 32 anti-cubes. But once you have a total of 32 cubes you can go through the door that turns the game into 2001 A Space Odyssey, and then it ends. After that you get new game +, which gives a new power, but I'm not sure if it'll solve anything. It's just a cool thing you can do.

Still haven't figured out the number system. There 3 or 4 different kinds of weird statue that I don't know how to use too. Then there's just a few rooms that I have absolutely no clue what to do in.

Ah, turns out there's a couple things you can only discover in new game+. The new ability is a first person view point, which means you can see the floor for the first time, and sometimes there's secret stuff written on the floor.

Screw it, I'm looking up the rest. I got to 171.5% completion, 31 cubes, 23 anti-cubes, found all the treasure maps and sacred artifacts.

171.5%?

That's what it says.

So the games about a hat and a cube that I shouldn't trust.

Game seems really easy I can see why Moose would've struggled with it.

It is pretty cute and platforms nice. Got it free today and it was pretty easy until I had to jump then switch views mid jump land and latch onto a wall. Game gets confusing its like a 2D portal.