A puzzle platformer developed by Polytron that uses a 2D perspective shifting mechanic to solve puzzles and complete levels. The main character, a white creature named Gomez, wears a fez and is obsessed with collecting hats.
They haven't made a ton of progress but the letter frequencies of the whole tome has been ran and it matches up pretty closely to English letter frequencies so the tome most likely not encrypted. It seems that it is instead scrambled.
Can someone give me a hand with this one? I'm at 203% and this is basically it, save for the one that no one has figured out.
Be aware that this one has glitched on a lot of people, including me. Even if you were doing it correctly it may not have registered. It didn't for me. What did work was when I started over I rotated the world at one point causing a block to fall to the lower platform. I threw it off to get it to respawn and when it did the puzzle was solved even though the blocks were strewn about haphazardly.
@louiedog: Every time I try to lay down any cubes on top of each other, either they clip through the background or they just fall when I tilt the camera. Looks like it might be glitched for me.
Could someone help me with this? the owl in the cave (not the one in the cemetery) there's four pillars and I have looked around a bunch, but I can't find anything to do in here. What am I missing?
@KatanaSquirrel: I randomly solved that one too. But I do remember it is not one of the layouts shown on the block and it used both the levels at the base of the sculpture.
I can't figure out the stone throne room. The code that is on the wall doesn't seem to do anything.
Well, that throne exists in two places at once. One is in the past (the old world with all the dudes wandering around speaking in their language) and the other is the run-down looking one in the present.
There are different codes in each of the rooms. You have to put both codes in in an alternating fashion, starting with the room you're in. So your room's first input, other room's first input, your room's second input, other room's second, your third, other third, etc.
I had a kind of lunatic moment in the telescope room where, in the process of just moving about the room and seeing all the positions of the telescope, I /accidentally/ did the throne room code.
@DJJoeJoe: you dont need to solve the hard puzzles to clear the game. or see the credits. Just focus of platforming and use the map to find areas with items (mostly cube bits still in) and you'll be ok.
So it looks like someone else solved the monolith...but apparently with help from a dev.
According to him, all of his work deciphering the tome was for naught, because unless Phil put some encrypted message in it and didn't mention it to other devs it doesn't seem like there are any clues to the solution in-game.
If that's the case, either the key lies outside the game itself (more likely) or it's a matter of brute forcing your way to one of nearly 400,000 permutations (less likely).
I really hope that isn't true. I find it hard to believe the artifacts are completely useless. I'm almost certain the answer to the monolith lies in some combined use of them.
I got the super secret here, but I don't think I got the anti-cube. I tried putting in the combo from the constellations but nothing happens. I am missing one anti-cube and don't know where wlse it could be The room isn't marked with a ? but it also isnt gold either....
Observatory, Monolith, and the pyramid with the 64-door. For the observatory, I got the red cube, but I don't remember if I got an anticube. It doesn't have the ? symbol on the map, but I only have 31 anticubes. I tried inputting the red dot code and the constellation code again, nothing happens for either.
I don't know if I'm still missing something here or if there's something in the other two locations. I'm just one away from finishing this game, can anyone help?
Try inputting the constellation code 2 times in a row. I think the actual code starts in the middle of the sequence so if you input it twice in a row you will get it. At least that worked for me
I did the code and heard the chime (in the past room I believe), but couldn't find any trace of a cube to collect. Is there another step to this or am I just missing something completely?
@Phatmac: If it's a gold cube then the solution shouldn't be too hard. Just keep moving the pivots and look at all rotations to see if you can find a way up.
About the monolith and burnt map puzzle, I just noticed something interesting in the big waterfall stage :
http://i.stack.imgur.com/mQIxC.jpg
Not sure it helps though, but it doesn't seem connected to any other puzzle.
Aside from that, I'm stuck on the puzzle with complex Tetris shapes written on a stone. I noticed they all are templates for a cube, but it didn't help me much.
OK what's the key to figuring out the numbers. I'm in the classroom in the old village, but I can't see any rhyme or reason to the way the 'numbers' are presented
Think of the square as a little compass.
North is 1, East is 2, South is 3, West is 4
Any symbol other than those basic ones is actually a combination of two or more symbols.
So if you see a symbol with a straight line from north to south, it's actually adding 1 and 3...that symbol is also 4. A straight line from East to West is 6 because it's 4+2.
A better example, the symbol for 10 includes N, S, E, and W because 1+2+3+4=10
@Chaser324 said:
@gunstar:
Line Pointing Up = 1
Line Pointing Right = 2
Line Pointing Down = 3
Line Pointing Left = 4
If there are multiple lines, you add them together.
OK, I have to ask but how did you guys work that out? Just crazy puzzler skills or are there hints in the game that I've been too oblivious to notice? I NEVER would have thought to try something like that!
Yeah there are a few clues. Personally I used the counting cube, the notes in a house of the 16-cubes-village. Biggest help came through the Skull Puzzle though, as soon as I figured out numbers 1 to 4 the rest was easy.
About the monolith and burnt map puzzle, I just noticed something interesting in the big waterfall stage :
http://i.stack.imgur.com/mQIxC.jpg
Not sure it helps though, but it doesn't seem connected to any other puzzle.
Aside from that, I'm stuck on the puzzle with complex Tetris shapes written on a stone. I noticed they all are templates for a cube, but it didn't help me much.
There's a similar symbol on top of the bell, and one on top of your home floaty-island world. They all seem to have different numbers of rings.
Stuck in another level. Grass titles keep rotating and I'm not fast enough. I keep pressing A and everything! D: I use a time switch to wind it up while the tiles move back inside walls while a jingle plays. Could use some help.
@Phatmac Jump. Try and actually climb as little as possible. Jump, grab the grass again and then jump again. Climbing takes too much time. If you're where I think you are, shift your perspective once you're on the wall then jump up, then shift back. You should be on the top portion of the grass then
Looks like all I have left is the Bell, Observatory, Clock, and Candles before I can open the 64-cube door.
I don't think my chances are very good considering that several of the puzzles in this game I've completed by just randomly rotating my screen repeatedly.
The Candles (or Monolith) puzzle isn't related to anti-cubes, it's probably the third and last red cube since I have 62 cubes, waiting 2 from the clocktower, and did not used the glitch to get the 33rd anti-cube.
I've spent ages trying to figure this out and search around for hints but I can't do it. By the way no one has thought to ask or needed an answer I feel like a right tool. It's one of the very last anti cubes I have to get (I'm guessing) so any help is appreciated!
I've tried entering the code stood all over the place and tried it in reverse. It's already opened up the first path that it should to the password room, but there is another room off of this greater one and I'm assuming it's behind that glowy stuff.
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