,--------,--------, | Austra | Lomond |------------------------------------------------------ :--------"-----,--' |Impulse Charge| | (Homebrew) | :--------------: | Tape | '--------------' This is escentially the tutorial world of the game. If the tips are set off, you can turn them back on from the PDA (Hit d and press s on Game instructions [Off]. Start by going left. On the first screen over you will find a code engraved in the ground. Hold s, and move the box over to the code. While still holding s, press a to capture a photo. On the next screen over is a save point. It says to use d to save, but I find it much easier with down arrow. Go a few more screens and you will come to the first puzzle. Use the arrow keys to manuver the * through the maze, to the W. ------- Up 3, left 3, down 4, left 2, up 2, left 3, down 3, left 2, up 13, right 13, down 4, left 2, up 2 ------- Press escape to close it. You will notice the laser turns off as soon as you do this. Climb up to the opening. There are a number of ways to do this. Most people initially jump up, grab the edge, and jump once more. You can also hold up and jump onto the wall to climb it. Go over to the next puzzle. Remember that code you took a picture of earlier? Well you have to go get it back now. Press d while the password box is still open to get another window. The selector should be on Photos. Press s. If you only have one photo in this menu, that will be the one you want. For sake of space, I will now refer to the process of selecting as arrowing over to it and hitting s to select. If you have more than one picture, cycle through them by slecting the left/right arrow buttons. Instead of closing the photo window once you've got it, hit tab to switch back to the password box. Enter the numbers by slecting them one by one then select ok. If you mess up, select the C. ------- 321654000 ------- Escape your way out of both windows, and save past the laser. Moving on to the next screen, you'll see another code. Get a snapshot and move on. In the puzzle that follows, open up the two windows side by side again. This time, you will have to select the correct photo. Enter the symbols in any order and exit back to the game. ------- |/ __ --| |-| / -X-- | 'X | Middle right symbol (5,2), top right symbol (5,1) /|___ L_____| | | Symbol one left of center (2,2) ------- Aha. A jumping puzzle. This one is pretty easy as they go, actually. Jump up to the lowest wall. Note that if you release everything you will slide down and hang onto the small niche. Hold right and jump. Note: if you hold right too long you will dismount the wall completely. You can also jump up from here to the platform, and from there jump onto the wall. Now simply jumping without any other keys pressed will get you up to the next niche. Repeat again for the third. Hold left and jump. Alternatively, you can hold jump and hit left. Both work. Fall down to the lower level of the next room. There, in the bottom right, you should find an object. This is not necessary for the best ending, but you can pick it up anyway. Climb out of the room. Wall jumping is the fastest way out the final chute, but you can use the niches as well. Once up, head left. What's this? A wall! Calm down. It's not as big as the wall to the right. Hold up as you jump onto the wall and you'll be able to scale it. The up velocity you get on a wall is the same regardless: jumping up, running into the wall, dropping from a great height. The best place to hit it, therefore, is at the peak on your jump. Run into the left room and save. Look at the puddle over there. It's acid; one touch and you die. Or so I thought when I first played the game. Any puddle the looks like this, any color, is flight fluid. Step in and you will notice a white bar appear above your head. This is the amount of time you have before you flight ability wears off. Run out of the puddle and continue on right. Try to go as fast as you can to the right side wall. Once you're 10 or so tiles away, jump and hit a to fly. When flying, you are a white glowing ball controlled with the arrow keys. You come out of flight when your time runs up or when you hit a wall. Like wall climbs, your flight time has no corelation to the amount in your white bar when you take off. Go into the right room and pick up the circle on the floor. Press d again to open your menu. This time, go down one and select Items. If you picked up the first item, it will show Impulse Charge (Homebrew). Go left one from this. Now (or if you didn't get the impulse charge) it will display tape. Select Exit to do back to the SprunkelBox menu. At the very bottom it says teleport to ship. Select this option and close. Notice the small opening on the right side of your ship. Move over to it and press d. It will show you a broken engine. When you press s, the engine is fixed and you can be on your merry way. Escape out and walk over to your ship. By now, you must've noticed that interactable items are marked with and arrow. Press d to go to the space map. Notice the r-type almost pi reference in the cutscene, another one of Nifflas's games. You can also check out the teleporter to the left if you like. If you have at least on of each required part (fuse, targeting unit, impulse charge) you can put them in the teleporter, climb on top, and hit d. ,--------,--------, | Austra | Sekkei |------------------------------------------------------ :--------"-----,--' |Battery charge| | + 250 | '--------------' The reason you'd be here is most likely because you ship doesn't have enough power to reach Polvere, am I right? Whatever the cause, start out by going right. It is my philosophy in this game to always start with the high routes. Especially if the planets are open, you can get down from up but not always up from down. Anyway, here is our first encounter with deadly creatures. You don't need to look at a photo to see that. But if you did, you'd notice they're marked with orange triangles. If you continue right, you'll notice the path ends abruptly. Istead, go up to save and perform a series of jumps and wall climbs to the right. Stop once you see a hole in the ground below you. This is not absolutely necessary, but it is helpful if you intend on returning to this solar system. Go into this hole using the down arrow (it's easier this way) and look at the ground. There should be a four letter word on it. Remember the word, photograph it if need be, but don't save on the save point. Go to the PDA and select Teleport to last checkpoint. Thi will but you back on the upper leve when you exit. Go left, this time ignoring the hole, and jump over the wall. On the next screen, you should notice a strange circular device. When you d it, you'll find out it's a ship's battery charger. Hit s and wait. You batteries will be charged to 250. If you got the word from underground, head down the hole in the left of the screen. If not, you can teleport to the ship and skip the rest of this. In the next puzzle, you will perceive a black screen. Then suddenly, letters will appear out of nowhere and attack you! Don't panic. Don't try to dodge the letters for all eternity because it won't work. Remember the four letter word into the snow? You need to use those letters here. Use the arrow keys to maneuver your X around. When it touches a letter, it will be added to the white "word." Hit s at any time to reset the string. When the string reads the four letter word you found, the letters will disappear and the word will turn blue. You can predict the letters (they go in alphabetic order) but it gets pretty hectic anyway. ------- MOZO ------- Turn off the puzzle and the laser will go out as well. You can now select Teleport to ship on your PDA. Make sure you move off the puzzle, or d will simply re-open that. Go into you ship and leave. Remeber: to go to another system of planets, simply move the selector outside the screen. ,------,----------, | Cham | Hoffmann |------------------------------------------------------ :------"--------,-' |Fuse (Standard)| '---------------' Welcome to Hoffmann. If this is the first planet you've visited besides those on Austria, have a look around the ship cockpit. In the bottom right you'll notice a few options and a TAB symbol. Press tab to switch between them. You can read up on the planet your visiting. Tune in to the planet you're visiting. Or for those really long and boring flights, play a game to pass the time. Start off by going left. Make a note of the two white flowers. When you find a device, you will neither know the question, nor the answer, but make a note of the possible answers to number 5. ------- ERROR, zero, MEDIBOT ------- Back at the ship, head on over to the right. Skip over the first two ground holes and save. On the next screen over will be two jumping enemies (yes the pink one can kill you.) Wait for the first to jump and jump over it. It is easier to go under the second. Keep going to find.. wiat for it.. nothing! Well, not quite nothing. Take a pic of the clock and select return to last checkpoint in the PDA. ------- 12:15 ------- If you already saved, simply head back through the enemies. this time go down the with two hole on the screen with the save. A giant head in the background? Remember that now. Keep going down. Continue down and right. There should be a small device on the ground. When you d it, it presents you with 7 questions. Write them down somewhere. Exit the device and head left. It is not necessary to note the light blue sequence on the ground here, but it can be helpful on the other planet to have it. A few more screens to the left is a large megalith with some flight liquid on the other side. Remember that nothing is without a purpose, especially flight liquid. With a full white bar, head up. To do this, you must perform some fancy jumps. Jump out to at least the first ledge of the blue tower. Then wallclimb and perform a walljump to the ceiling spike. Walljump back to the pilar, hopefully up one more level. Perform the same routine to get on top. You needn't stop in the middle on the two, however. You can do four walljumps in a row to climb it. Hopefully you did not loose too much of your white bar doing this, because now you must climb the shaft. Jump from wall to wall and out. Once your in the clear, fly stright up and to either side. On the right are some puzzle hints. On the left is another. You must go to each side one by one with the flight. RIGHT SIDE: Note the pretty white flower as you jump over the bugs. The third flower, as it were. On the other side, there should be a giant stone head. That makes two. LEFT SIDE: Here you will find a computer. When you boot it up, it seems to be in pretty bad shape. If you got the answers to number 5, try and make them display by pressing the arrow keys. Make a note of the one of the three you can't. ------- 3 white flowers 2 mega stone faces Left + right = ERROR Down + right = (division by) zero MEDIBOT can't be displayed. ------- Unfortunately, this is all you can do here at the moment. Head on over to the other planet, Claymore. If you have already gone through Claymore, read on. This time, you should have all seven question answers. Simply imput them and the laser will go off. ------- three, 12:15, Bird, x-1526, MEDIBOT, two, nine ------- Slide down into the hole and you can find the standard fuse. Teleport back to the ship; you have finished this planetary system. ,------,----------, | Cham | Claymore |------------------------------------------------------ :------"-------,--' |Battery charge| | + 250 | '--------------' The major part of this planet is one big speed run. You will find the clock starter two screens down from your ship. If you didn't photograph the sequence on Hoffmann, have a look at where all the checkpoint letters are. Even if you did, however, you may want to get a good feel of the level before starting. Also, take note of the 9 EYED Clamorian pitfall in the bottom left. All ready for the race? Good. open the device, hit s, and go for it. You can do this anyway you want, but here's what I do. Remember that you can pause at a checkpoint to gather your wits. bge fah d*c Go left and wall jump up the tower, then jump right. Activate A and use the liquid to fly out the hole in the ceiling. Run over to B, activate it, and continue right. Slide down the hole just after the spaceship, and straight down to C. After activating C, run right and jump to get D. Get up to E somehow (liquid). Once there, you may need to walljump up. Run right to F. Go back to the liquid again, and fly straight up to G. Go back down to the liquid, and fly straight across to H. Tadaa. Now before you ask: My first time: 1:53:31 My best time: 1:50:30 As you can see, there is plenty of time to acomplish this. Save and head right into the evil pink polka dot room. Do a triple walljump up the first part. Make sure you don't jump of the wall strait into the pink when you finish. Another wall climb and jump, some basic platforming, and you should be at the edge of the top left pit. Get a running start, for the previous platform if you need to, and jump to the opposite wall. then, just wall jump out. In this next room, there is a very lerge gap between the walls, but it is possible. When you walljump, hold up, reardless of how much you have climbed already, you will get a boost up the wall. At the peak of this boost, when you begin to slow down you climb and are about to go back down the wall, jump across. This should sucessfully get you up. Now that you have finally made it, prepare for the big reward in the screen to the right. It's.. an impassible jump. Have a look around, though. There are two clues here. ------- BIRD Game X-1526 ------- Run back to the left and save if you didn't already. Aha. Here's the reward: a 250 battery booster. It was looking over you the whole time. Charge up, and teleport back to the ship. Head on over to Hoffmann. ,------,--------, | Liuz | Ashoun |-------------------------------------------------------- :------"--------' |Battery charge| | + 350 | '--------------' By now you should have noticed that you cannot get to any planets when you deplete your battery power. For this reason, each system of planets has a charging station. This one, incidentally enough, is on the planet, not the space station. Go ahead and head left, but stay on the surface. You should come to a large wall obstructing your progression. In the same screen, on the right side, you should notice a bit of rubble. Go over to it and press d when you see the arrow designating interaction. It's Confuso@Mail! Yay. Read the message. What the heck? Control room? Dodgesquare2? What is all this? Hold on. It will all become clear on the orbiting satelite. Take a photo of the email in any case. Head back to the hole leading underground. To the left is an evil chrystal room. (Actually, there's one to the right as well, but you needn't worry about that yet.) In the room to the left, your health drops very quickly when you're close to chrystals. Run and jump over the first to gaps. To avoid the next two sets of chrystals, go underneath. Don't bother walljumping back up yet. Instead, go into the next screen on the lower path. When your health is refilled, go back and walljump up to the upper path. Save. Jump on the platforms above the white creatures and exit the cave. You should now be on the other side of the wall earlier. Use the niches in the wall to the right to climb up. Head left and save. Then, go back into the cave. The wall on the right should be in three segments. Slide down to the middle one, and then walljump to the left and run out. Save and go left. In the Confuso Mail you find just outside, will be another important clue. Photograph the mail, why don't you. Teleport back to the ship. There are two ways to get to the next part. You can go right from the ship and avoid the green things that are shot, or you can go back in the caves and run underneath the chrystals. Either way, walljump up and save. One screen to the right is a battery charger. Charge up and teleport back to the ship. You may now leave. ,------,---------------, | Liuz | Explorer XLII |------------------------------------------------- :------"-------,-------' |Impulse Charge| | (Regular) | '---------------' Oh lovely, lasers. The right one's easier; start out there. In these puzzles, you use the up and down arrow keys to select a row, and the left and right arrow keys to move it. Push the numbers into their corresponding white numbers. ------- Up, 2 left, 2 right, 4 left, down, 4 left, down, 2 right, up, 6 right, left, down, 2 right, 2 up, 2 left, 7 right, down, 3 right ------- When the laser goes off, you may enter the corridor. Go to the right. There is nothing interesting on top of the tower. Not even a giant telescope, as is stereotypical of giant domes. Head down, save, and to the left instead. This is a rather hard room, but don't get discouraged. Wait for an open spot, climb over the block and run through. Same with the next room, except there aren't as many shooters. You can save if you think it unlikely you'll be unable to make it up the left wall in one try. Yes, climb up into the corridor on the left. If you want to take a rather complex way of completely avoiding the first of these rooms, simply solve the puzzle to the left. Whenever you need to get from one side of that room to the other, teleport back to the ship and take the appropriate passage. ------- 2 left, up, right, 2 down, right, up, 4 right, 3*(2 left, down, 2 left, up), 2 left, down, right, left, 2 up, 2 left, down, 3*(2 right, down, 2 right, up), 2 right, down, left ------- In the next room over, go down, not up. go back to the right and open the puzzle there. It may seem confusing at first, but it really isn't. The number colomn is constant. It represents the numbers 1-5. The count colomn tells you how many of each number you currently have. (they should all be at 0) Finally, the target column is also constant and tells you how many you want to have. When you turn a cell on, it displays the number of adjacent cells that are also on. ------- 22-11 341-- and all it's rotations and reflections 22--0 ------- Oh no. It didn't work. I'm still locked out of the room. Yes, that's right. It only opened that one laser. You can now, however take a photo of the symbol on the wall. Teleport back to the last checkpoint. This time, enter the sparkly corridor to the right. Open the puzzle. My my, where have I seen those shapes before? Open the PDA photos and flip through to the right one. Up and down keys to select shapes. Left/right to rotate them. When you're done, hit s. ------- Triangle points up, diameter line is horizontal with triangle on right, other triangle is in bottom right, not touching any other shapes. ------- Do you see the blue wire on the ground? I wonder where that goes. Would you look at that? It goes right to the laser doors you were just trying to get through. Have a look at the computers. You may want to take a printscreen of the Dodgesquare2 scores. Now, you can return to where you were before and enter the top corridor of the three-way intersection. Walljump up the shaft and save. When you enter the room with the control room, wait for the laser to move away and enter the username and password. ------- BOB CANNON 1110 ------- Slide down behind the laser when the door is open, and enter the control room. Grab the regular impulse charge and teleport back to the ship. ,-----------,--------, | Josephine | Mihika |--------------------------------------------------- '-----------"--------' Mihika: Most well known planet in the Jospephine system. It is a beautiful, foggy planet rich in life and vegetation. Start off by heading right. It is a good idea to get into the habit of taking the upper path, not to mention it avoids a jumper. Leap over the gap and off the cliff. If you don't jump off the cliff, you'll have to go back up and jump again. Take a shot of the three circles and teleport back to the ship. This time go right. This planet, I must say, is not a very good example of upper path. Still, you can save up at the top for later uses. If you do, jump down but don't save. d the laser puzzle box. You will notice three available buttons. Each one controls a different laser. When you press the button, if not already active, the laser will span the full width of the box. It then contracts at a certain speed. The goal is to get all three lasers in between the two vertical lines. ------- Hit the first laser. When it's getting close to the first line, quickly do the other two. ------- Close the puzzle. If you saved on the upper path, teleport back there. If not, teleport back to the ship (or run back) and go up. Take a leap of faith from the last floating platform and hold up. You should make it onto the laser platform. Take the upper path, above the cave. You should notice some wires coming out of the cave, and on the upper path. They lead into a puzzle. On the far left screen, save and open the puzzle. Controls: s. Oh well that's easy. Hit s. Hmm, maybe if we hit it again.. Well that's not working. Take a photo of the puzzle and move down the hole. Drat. Another laser. This puzzle isn't too bad, however. The red Xs, when selected, turn on themselves and the four adjacent ones. The blue turn on themselves and the four adjacent diagonally. You must turn them all on. ------- The four red edge Xs, and the center blue. ------- Go past the former laser and right. Aha! So that's where the wires lead. Open the puzzle and you should notice four arrows. Before you fiddle around with the arrow keys, open the other puzzle's picture. Notice a connection? ------- Up, up, up, right, right, up, right right, down, down, right, down, down, right If you already fiddled around with the arrows: Left, up, left 2, up 4, down 2, right 2, up, right 4, left 2, down 2, right, down 2, right ------- Teleport back to the last check point, or simply climb back up if you already saved. This time, the x should rest on top of the o. Press s and the laser goes away. Walljump up. You needn't get on top of these floating platforms, however. Photograph the three greek letters and teleport back to the ship. Then leave. Remember, you can delete photos that are no longer needed. ,-----------,--------, | Josephine | Hulton |--------------------------------------------------- :-----------"-----,--' | Targeting Unit | |(Extra Precision)| :-----------------: | Battery charge | | + 500 | '-----------------' Okay start off on the planet's lower path to the left. The upper path way look pefectly clear, but the super-heated steam will fry you in an instant. Open the puzzle and you should see three dials marked with a C. Look familiar? The easiest way to do this puzzle is to match the first dail and then focus on the other two. That, or try the 32 possiblilities. ------- Each button adds different amounts to the three dials. Use 1, 4, and 5. A B C .--.--.--. 1|10|20|40| :--:--:--: 2|00|60|30| :--:--:--: 3|60|00|40| :--:--:--: 4|20|10|10| :--:--:--: 5|20|10|10| '--'--'--' ------- When you select key and close the puzzle, the smoke will turn off. Now go to the upper path. Take the upper path to start out with. Do you notice the six letters with lines coming out of them? Try and remember which one is which as you follow the letter lines to six numbers. ------- 1=F 2=E 3=C 4=D 5=B 6=A ------- When you come to a room with seven flying bugs in it, go into the alcove underneath the plaform and form there jump across. In the next room is a battery charger. Here we go. A whopping 500.. device locked? Darn. Maybe if we FOLLOW THE WIRES.. The next room over is one of the more annoying, but possible. Drop down on the left. Run across, avoiding the red dots and climb up the opposite wall. Unlock the battery charger from the next room and return to last save. After charging up, go back the way you came, but this time take the downwards path in the room with the six letters. Wut? I didn't know those drops were deadly. -_- Well, if you accidentally wlakied into one you'd know for sure they're deadly. Take this room nice and slowly. You can't turn on a dime in this game. When you get to the other side, unlock terminal 1 and Teleport to last checkpoint. Follow the wires back out and to the left into the mad gear room. Setting the wire problem aside, jump through the gears and unlock terminal 2. Now you can Teleport back to your last checkpoint and follow the wires up from the gear room. You can go down from this room if you want, but it just leads to some kind of large room. When you open terminal 1, you will be asked to imput the correct sequence (think back to following the wires). Use the arrow keys to select a slot and select to place the number there. ------- F, E, C, D, B, A ------- In the next screen over, you should notice the wires comming in from terminal 2's unlocker. This time you must enter the greek letters you found on Mihika. ------- Bnp ------- At the end of the room is the Extra Precision Targeting Unit. Pick it up and teleport back to the ship to leave. ,--------,-------------, | Ninian | Dragon Noir |------------------------------------------------- :--------"-----,-------' |Impulse Charge| | (High Power) | :--------------: |Battery Charge| | + 250 | '--------------' RED GENERAOTR: You walk left one screen. Wow. Could it really be that easy? The battery charger right there? Nope, guess not. Go down a screen and right. By now, you should have noticed the wires connecting the red boxes. Follow them down to the generator. Once you s it, a light will turn on indicating the lines are now functional. Furthermore, when you exit out, more lights will light up along them. You may now do the red puzzles, or proceed to the blue generator. BLUE GENERATOR: Take the tunnel out of the generato room to the right. You'll know you're going the right way when you see the black mega monsters. Don't fret, as these will not harm you. Wall jump up three screens until you come to the surface. Turn on the blue generator there. Now follow the blue puzzles back to the sign, solving each one as you go. GREEN GENERATOR: Once again, go down, but this time, head left as soon as you can. When you reach a room with flight liquid, jump in. Then, go as fast as you can through the curvy tunnel room to the right. When you come out onto the surface again, use the flight to continue following the wires. To the generator! NOTE: If you go up the left side of the screen with flight instead of the right, you fill find a large statue of some woman. This is not important, however, so don't go out of your way to find it. But that's not all the flight liquid does. There's some other useless stuff around here. Apply the same technique but go one screen right and climb up before flying. Fly up, hugging the left wall, but don't touch it until you run out of flight. As soon as you enter the screen above the one where you applied flight, hold left and up and hope. If you make it, jump off the edge to the left. You should land on a ledge with a weird machine playing a faint tune. To the extent of my knowledge, there is nothing over to the right. ,-------,--,--,--,--,--,--,--,--,--,--,--,--, |Puzzles| NOTE: There may be other answers. | |-------' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' |____________ ||Red Puzzles |:----------- ||Select two pieces to swap them. || ||#1: This circuit makes a loop. Like a 'q' Easy enough ||#2: ,-X || ,+, || |'' || X ||#3: ,-, || |,+X || ''| || X ||#4: ,X || ,,', || ,'','-, || ',,+,,' || ''|'' || X |' | |_____________ ||Blue Puzzles |:------------ ||Select a switch to flip it. Switches will channel the current in a ||certain dircetion. Based on the last puzzle in another Nifflas ||game, Riddle. About nodes: Nodes may have one or more numbers on them. ||The numbers indicate how many lines are allowed to be powering it at ||any given time. || ||#1: Flip the switches one by one from the bottom right to the top || left ||#2: Flip the blue one leading to the 0, then flip the top, then the || leftmost. ||#3: Flip the two non-active switches. Then the two actives, lowest || first. Finish off by flipping the one closest to the Power this. ||The battery charger should now be active. ||#4: Flip the lowest switch. Then flip and unflip each of the other || three actives in turn. Flip the lowest, then one row above that, || and finish with the one one row above that. |' | |______________ ||Green Puzzles |:------------- ||Use the arrow keys to move the orange circle. When it goes over a ||purple circle, the circle becomes green. When it goes over a green ||circle, the circle becomes white and will reset the puzzle if you ||return to it. You must turn all the circles white. || ||#1: 2 down, left, down, 2 right, 4 down, 2 right, 2 up, 4 left, || 3 down, up, down, 3 up, 2 left, 3 up, 6 down ||#2: right, 3 down, right, down, 3 left, up, right, up, down, right, || down, left, down, right, 2 down ||You must fly out the hole in the liquid room to reach #3. ||#3: 2 down, right, down, 2 left, down, 2 left, down, up, down, right, || down, right, up, right, up, 2 right, 3 down, right, up, 3 left, || 2 down ||#4: up, right, left, 3 right, left, 2 right, down, up, 3 down, left, || up, 4 left, 2 right, 2 down, 3 right, 2 down, 3 left, 2 down, || 6 right, 2 up, 4 left, 2 down, 2 right, up, 2 left, 2 right, up |' | |======================================================================== You must feel very acomplised, having lit up that sign. Fortunately for you, that's where the colony, in their infinite wisdom, decided to put the password to the laser door. Procced to the blue generator again, and head right. ------- Aikotoba ------- And that's it. Grab the high power impulse charge, and you've completed Dragon Noir. ,---------,--------, | Polvere | Haakon |----------------------------------------------------- :---------"--,-----' | Targeting | |Unit (Basic)| '------------' Welcome to Haakon, the extremely foggy planet with a lava lake everywhere. It orbits the gas giant, Gass Lividus, which would obliterate you and your ship in an instant. First and foremost, were going to need some orange arrows. Use the flight puddle right underneath the starting screen to make it up the cliff to the right. In the 'center' of the cave, with the save point, take the upper left path going out the left side of the screen. Light up the chrystal by using d as if it were a puzzle. Close the chrystal and head back. If you already got the to chrystals, however, take the right path. This time, take the upper left path going out the TOP of the screen. Up at the top is flight liquid. First, light up the chrystal next to it. Then, head back to the flight liquid. Jump in and then fall down three screens. Oh crap, magma! Before you fall two far down, use your flight to enter the small tunnel to the left, where another chrystal resides. Light this one up as well and continue right. Walljump on top of the large pillar in the middle of the screen and slide down the other side. Walljump just as you're about to hit the first level of magma and hold up to climb the opposite side. Up won't be quite enough to make it though, so at the peak of your climb, start walljumping again. The next room over has three platforms. They look (and are) pretty easy to cross. Just don't get cocky. The easiest method here is to hold right and up. When you get to the last platform, jump. Make sure you can see all the arrows when you take a picture. Then, teleport back to the ship. It is recomended you get the two chrystals on Bormine before coming back. If you have already lit up the two chrystals, head left from the ship. If you follow the 'go as high as you can philosophy,' good. It will show you where another chrystal is. Anyway, you only really need to go up one screen at this point before entering the cave. Drop down in the cave, and light up the chrystal by the two giant walnuts. Take some flight power with you, and head back to the check point. From there, fly up and left to the chrystal. Light it up and drop back down to the lava level. (Outside the cave.) Enter the lowest level of the cave. Save, and jump across the platform. If you missed any chrystals, the machine will know. (Orange lights for Bormine, green for here.) Simply open and close the device if you have all the chrystals lit up. You'll get the basic targeting unit. Teleport back to the ship and leave. This component, while superfluous, is necessary for the Knytt ending. ,---------,---------, | Polvere | Bormine |---------------------------------------------------- :---------"----,----' |Battery charge| | + 500 | '--------------' This is the only planet from which you can get to Goldschmidt. To the right is a battery charge. If that's all you came for then great! Recharge and head out. Oh right. The puzzle. Select a slot with the arrow keys. Press s to fire. If your shot hits an arrow, it will be placed in that position. Enter the sequence you found on Haakon. Note: You cannot overwrite an arrow. ------- ^>v^>v<^v>^> ------- Alright: the actual reason you came to this planet. To get the two chrystals, am I right? Thought so. Run one screen left from the ship to the second blue flower left of the ship. Wait until your health is refilled, then continue left. To do this quickly, jump right before the first wall, and walljump off it to the second. That you are holding up will be assumed from now on. Jump onto the inner right wall, and propel yourself off it the the ledge. On the next screen, take a flying jump to the central platform and fly out ot the left. From there, it's the home stretch. Remember the pink flowers expedite health loss. Heal at the blue flowers and get ready for the next part. Climb out and jump onto the left wall. From there, to the floating platorm and then to the right wall. When you get into the next screen, walljump to the higher of the two floating platforms and jump from it to the left ground. Jump over the pink flowers and activate the chrystal. By now, you should be lowish on health, so teleport back to the checkpoint. (The chrystal remains active. Save. Perform the same routine, but head right at the top. Jump over the first pink flower. The pit filled with them is pretty much un-avoidable, but there are less on the top, so jump over it. Save and heal. It the gap on the right screen, jump from atop the bump. If you try to jump from closer, you will inevitably fall down. Climb the tower. Jump over a few more gaps and walljump/climb up. This one cuts it close, but it's completely possible to make it to the blue flowers if you walljump fast enough. Save and heal. Jump over the last six gaps and activate the chrystal. You can go to the last checkpoint if you want, or you can simply teleport back to the ship and leave. ,-------------,---------------, | Goldschmidt | Nyquist-Meyer |------------------------------------------ :-------------"---------------' |Battery charge| | + 700 | '--------------' See that puny star down in the bottom right? Yup. That's Goldschmidt. Nyquist-meyer is named after the two adventurures who recently incovered its existence. It displays the remnants of a once great civilization, including, you guessed it, their puzzles. There are four puzzles you must find and solve. Use the arrow keys to select a slot. Press 's' to cycle throught the options. Arrows move the block. FUNC runs one Func cycle. LAST MAIN moves the last direction moved in the MAIN sequence. Run runs the sequence. Light the blue, avoit the red. Just right of the start is the first puzzle. It is very easy. ------- Note: these are just the first solutions I found. There may be others. MAIN: Up, up, right, right, down, down, down, left, down, left, FUNC FUNC: Left, left 4 lights up when you beat it. ------- When you beat it, a character will light up in the circle. Remember it, or take a picture.Continue right, and jump down the hole past the green jumper. Another easy puzzle awaits at the end. It's a pretty good one. Remember the LAST MAIN command. ------- MAIN: Left, right, FUNC, up, up, left, FUNC, FUNC, down, down, right FUNC: LAST MAIN, LAST MAIN, LAST MAIN, LAST MAIN, LAST MAIN, LAST MAIN 7 ------- Another puzzle, another hint. The next puzzle is in a hole over to the right, but it's a bit tricky, so skip over it for now. Save and open the cliff's edge puzzle. Not too bad of a puzzle either. ------- MAIN: Up, FUNC, FUNC, FUNC, FUNC, FUNC, FUNC FUNC: Down, down, up, left, left, up b ------- Jump off the cliff and head right. There is a green enemy on the ground here. Wait in one place. When he jumps, jump over him. Otherwise, you'll jump into his jump. Save and climb the cliff to the right as far as you can. Use this height to wall jump to the platforms. Jump under the large rectangular one, and then climb on top of it from the left to make the next jump. Do the next puzzle. Now they start to get harder. ------- MAIN: Left, up, right, right, down, FUNC, up, FUNC, right, up, FUNC FUNC: LAST MAIN, LAST MAIN, LAST MAIN, LAST MAIN, LAST MAIN, right 9 ------- Return to where I told you the last puzzle was. Sit at the edge of the corridor and lure the second green guy out. Wait until he's almost upon you. Then, jump out to the protruding ground and walljump back. He should follow you and fall down with the other. You can either do this or try the other method, but with a three tile corridor. Anyway, open the last puzzle. Awwww. It's a heart. Nifflas does care. ------- MAIN: Down, up, up, right, up, left, FUNC, FUNC, left, down, down FUNC: Left, up, left, down, left e ------- There are now three ways to get back to the ship. You can go out past the now deactive laser and back up the cliff. You can go back the way you came (this works better if you got the two green guys together). Or finally, you can teleport there. Go left from the ship and enter the five characters in the puzzle box you find there. Charge your batteries and leave. ,-------------,------------, | Goldschmidt | Gass Umbra |--------------------------------------------- :----------,--"------------' |Ship Drive| |Extension | :----------: |Fuse (High| | Power) | '----------' What? You call this a gas giant? No. I don't. It's a station positioned in the troposphere of a gas giant. Unfortunately, the people operating the station liked to challenge visitors to races. There's really not much to say about these. Be as fast as you can. Hold the up arrow. Scope it out before you start, etc. _______________ v' Race 1: Gears 'v 30 seconds. Wallclimb the left wall and jump out. Maneuver through the gears and jump off to the right. Press d on the finish flag for level 1. First: 00:17.01 Best: 00:13.90 _________________ v' Race 2: Passage 'v 20 seconds. The first part is easy. Hold right and up. Note the laser door at the end. It will open after level 5, but you needn't use it. Walljump up and you barely even need to worry about the next set of gears. First: 00:16.38 Best: 00:14.25 ____________________ v' Race 3: Simplicity 'v 20 seconds. Remember. Scope it out. Jump up and wallclimb. Take the passage to the flight room and fall out the bottom of the room. Fly over to the otherwise unreachable right spot. That's it. Simple, no? First: 00:16.18 Best: 00:14.73 __________________ v' Race 4: Electric 'v 22 seconds. Wait for a clear spot in the zappy balls before tunring on the challenge starter. That way you can do it faster. There's not much to say about this one either. First: 00:14.38 Best: 00:11.75 Ah. The final race. Notice the big arrow clearly indicating we have to go right. So what are we going to do? That's right. We're going to go left. Walljump up and enter the next screen left. There you should see a powerup. Slide down the right wall. It may help you face the right wall if you jump onto the left vertical platform and fall over to the right, thereby switching directions. At the bottom of the wall, perform a triple walljump to the safe platform in the middle. Climb the next two vertical platforms by wall jumping to the other one. Grab the part and Teleport back to last checkpoint. Note the tutorial hint: "The ship drive extension lets you travel faster between stars." ___________________ v' Race 5: Underside 'v 43 seconds. A few gaps in the beginning, and a room you have to fly across. Nothing new. In the third room, the last two gaps are best crossed with right and up held down, nothing else. Two rooms further to the right has flight liquid. You can actually make all the jumps without it, though. Note: Jump from the [ platform to the highest of the three square platforms. First: 00:32:70 Best: 00:31.15 See the laser door that just went out? Climb out there and save if you wish. Walljump from the left wall to the platform in the middle of the room. Grab the high power fuse. If you continue left, you'll come out the laser door I pointed out from level 2. But I'd rather use the Teleport to ship function. Beign so far away, this is probably the last place you visited. Head back to Lomond on Austra.