Do you know what to do with the information you got?
Nope, haven’t made the connection yet. I’m hoping as I open up a few more and get a few more documents, it will help me put it together.
Guess we won’t be getting a sequel:
Annapurna has a fantastic track record. Just the ones I’ve played have all been solid: Donut County, Gone Home, Outer Wilds, Kentucky Route Zero, Stray, and Lorelei. There aren’t too many publishers where I’ve played as many games as that.
I saw this. Sucks. I wasn’t expecting a sequel, but I was hoping they’d make another adventure game.
Bummer. I am enjoying Lorelei and I also enjoyed Stray quite a bit. Maybe they will all form another company since they resigned en masse 
Agreed. I suppose it’s possible that they resigned en masse because they already had some future plan in mind.
Though it does look like most of their work has been through external developers, with them as publisher. I suppose they aren’t quite so critical in that role, though they do seem to have a great record in picking quirky indie games that nevertheless sell well.
I finally had a chance to get back to this today and made some solid progress. I opened the cafe door and got the espresso cup, freed the man a couple times and got 2 videotapes that show what appears to be a direction code of some kind, though I don’t know yet where to use it. I finished getting all the bug crash codes from the LASER-I games; I think those will be related to the supercomputer downstairs, but I haven’t been back there in ages so I don’t remember what’s required there. (A pitfall of taking so much time between playing sessions.) I also opened two more puzzle boxes and got two more book pages - up to four now I think. I still don’t know yet what use they will be, despite your encouragement, Mahaloth. (No problem, I’ll figure it out eventually).
The game says I am over 80% done. Hopefully I’ll have some more time to play tomorrow - almost done!
Cool. By the time you get to the super computer, which is kind of a big end-game puzzle, you will have the information you need.
Keep updating!
I have been cranking today and making excellent progress; it feels like I got a series of clues that all led one to the next thing, so I had a ton of momentum. I finished off the rest of the puzzle boxes and was not sure where to go next, but then I remembered the mannequins in the attic and connected that with the videotaped sequences, which led to FINALLY opening the journal and the astronomical clock (man, I’ve been waiting to do those forever). All of which led to the headstone key - that was a super easy solve once the key was in hand. And I blasted through the first two levels of the mausoleum aaaaaaaaaaand I am completely stumped by the third level. I feel like I know exactly what to do and I am doing it, but no dice. At first I didn’t realize the years flipped as well as rotated, so then I thought AHA! that’s all it is, but I still can’t get it. I drew out the maze patterns on pieces of paper so I could rotate them and flip them the correct way and I am 100% certain I’ve got the rotations and flips correct, but it’s not working, so I must be missing something else.
But I feel I am at the end of my rope there, so I’m taking a break to post this and marinate on it. So close!!!
They drove me nuts, too. You’ll get it, though. It’s one of those puzzles that doesn’t tell you if any of the three are set right, so you have to have all three right for the door to open. Never knowing which one might be wrong.
Yeah, I finally got it, but mostly by luck. I flipped one of them around 180 degrees from where I had it and it opened. I still don’t know why that worked, but it did, so hooray. With that, I got the second eye and finished the red maze, got the code and answered the minotaur’s question in the quiz maze, so now I have access to whatever is on the other size of that mirror. But I’m out of time, so done for today, sadly.
In the meantime, I also went and talked with the old woman in bed (i.e. me). I thought I was going to give her the two eyes to help her see, but nope, it was the puzzle box pages coming in handy at last! So I answered all her “questions” and got a whole slew of various shapes that I don’t know what to do with, but I presume will become clear at some point. Possibly this is helpful for the supercomputer, since I was wrong about what the bug report codes were for. I have to get down there and inspect that again as soon as I’m back to the hotel.
All in all, a highly productive weekend, I’m at about 92% done and must be pretty much at the end game soon.
I spoke to her and actually drew out the shapes she responded with. Recommended.
There was one set that went by that looked like numbers with the tops and bottoms shifted, but I haven’t spent any time studying them yet. T’will have to wait until later this week, sadly…
OK, I snuck in a little time last night and I can tell I am definitely in the endgame now. I spent most of my time decoding the visions from the old woman (they were pretty easy once I knew what I was looking for), so now I have the third layer of security on the supercomputer solved.
Just the password left and I assume the answer is supplied by the red and white mirror rooms inside the Quiz Maze (which seems to be the only remaining puzzle to solve), but I don’t know how. I had time to map out how the reflections correspond to each other, but that’s about it. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to be doing or how it all corresponds to the password shapes. But I didn’t have a lot of time, so hopefully with a little contemplation I will figure it out shortly.
You are definitely approaching the super-computer and the final puzzle related to that.
Welp, I figured out the red mirror password and confidently went to the supercomputer to enter the three layers of answers, ready to finish the game. Aaaaaaaand, no. It says I got it wrong. So I went back to double-check everything and I did get one of the shapes in the password wrong… Phew! Now I had it. Back to the supercomputer aaaaaaand no, still wrong. I triple-checked everything and I’m sure I’ve got everything right now, but the game disagrees. So I’m stuck at the very end. Grrrrr.
I remember having to triple-check everything; it’s easy to mess up e.g. the red mirror shapes, or anything else, really, and there is no individual feedback.
Yeah, and it is a long puzzle to enter and gives you zero feedback after each segment if you were correct or not.
I was incredibly lucky. I had taken a lot of notes and I got the puzzle in the supercomputer right my first real try. I was extremely nervous pushing the enter button.
When it worked, I was relieved. A genuine fist-pump from me. I did not want to have to deal with it again.
Yeah, that’s my problem - I already did triple-check everything and I am confident that I have it right. But my confidence is clearly misplaced I think I’m going to have to step away for a bit and come back to quadruple-check when I am less frustrated.
I commend the game makers for having the courage to make such a long input with no feedback, but boy was it nerve-wracking.
I was actually very surprised(I gasped) when the login worked and she got signed in. I was glad to not have to do it again, for sure.
I keep saying this, but man, what a game! I needed a brain-break after it.