Hello Sirs & Madams,

How have you been playing the game? Do you wonder aimlessly as I do, or do you have a plan to collect the glowing things and evade your mechanical hunters?

I find the game to be pretty hard if I'm not paying a lot of attention to where I am. I just hope to see some black smoke to follow but if I get seen then it doesn't matter where I'm going because I'm just running. It seems like the robots have quite a free reign in where they go so they're regularly not where I expect them to be if I'm going back the way I came which ends up with me running and getting lost again.

@theodacourt: Yeah that's my experience. Some tend to patrol indefinitely the collectible things, while others roam the countryside hunting you out. The latter can avoided but I guess the former has to be shot. The lake monster is kind of scary too, and even shows in small areas of water which can be hard to get out of.

So my simplistic strategy so far is:

• Avoid all water, regardless of size.
• Shoot robots that are loitering around collectibles.
• Avoid scarecrows.
• Guess the movements of the air balloon.

Also, don't loot a city when they have a squire. I learned that the hard way.