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The specs on my old laptop:

• XP Service Pack 3
• Intel Pentium M 1.7GHz
• 248MB RAM
• Intel 915GM/GMS,910GML
• 1280x800x32
• Does not support OpenGL

Whenever I first encounter water after loading I get a couple frames of flickering lines. (See first 2 images.) It happens after starting the game and after dying. It's probable due to the low system specs, and it only lasts a moment. It only occurs in fullscreen mode. It does not happen if the initial screen contains water.

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I'd have to play through again from the start to know for certain. But, I'm fairly sure you can get stuck if you fall into the pit I've circled while carrying the Weight.


There's a physics anomaly on this screen (See final image.) If you have any rightward momentum when emerging from the water, you will suddenly accelerate to the right. You can land as far as the npc without the use of equipment. With the Shoe you can be flung over the house! The arrow I've drawn is an approximate flight path.

I still have to get Atrium nitrate or whatever its exact name is to Gallasteros, who will then hopefully give me the item I need to start a chain of item swaps to get lead.

I am guessing I need to make that stuff myself. Freiherre told me that the Bottle of Dew is needed for some recepie but I haven't found the tract for it (tract 5?).

When jumping down from fulcanelli's house for the first time at the start of the game, I managed to get on the right ledge. Because I went right then and not down, I got 'trapped' in the down portion of the Dew Mines before finding the Dew Mine map. This made the game really confusing at start. I restarted the game at this point because I thought that I did something that wasn't supposed to be done. I guess that's not really the case since you can get back up to Home, but only much later after you've done everything you can in the Dew Mines at that time.


I love what you did with the honey. When I found it at first I equipped it right away, mainly because I had thought that some creatures would otherwise not talk to me. It took me some time to figure out the hedgehog puzzle because only later I realized that the honey was the reason he dashed at me.

The music is amazing. The fact that the sun temple and moon temple have special songs that start playing, and that these songs have lyrics unlike anything I have heard in your game thus far, gave me goosebumps because of the contrast to the rest of the game.

At some point of looking at my inventory I saw that the Red Powder is cocaine-white(I don't know how else to say this). It was only then that I realized that all of the items were monochrome. I do wonder why the red powder is this white, and not a little more grey-ish. EDIT: After finishing the game I now realize why you made the monochrome choice =D.

About the weight puzzles: I found the bowling ball first. After I figured out that it limited your powers and made you walk underwater, I immediately tought that this would be the way to move against the currents. However, when carrying the bowling ball you won't be able to access the currents. When I gave it to Egidio, I was confused at first because I really tought that I would need it later. When I got the weight later, it all made sense again, but that was only much later in the game.

Which brings me to my next point. The level design is absolutely stunning. The way you are confined to visiting only certain areas while having certain power ups/power downs is done so extremely great. I realized that some parts of the level that I at first had thought were only there for aesthetic purposes made the game work in certain other aspects, for instance when you have the weights and you are going to have to walk underwater. I was and still am  stunned by the beauty of this.



About the inventory. At first I thought that the inventory was finite, and that you could only hold 15 items. I tried to manage my items by putting stuff in the Teleport Boxes, the furnace and the Home to ensure that I had space. Only much later I realized that when I grabbed more than 15 I would get another page of items.
I think I kind of liked the item management idea. Was it deliberate to not do this?

The only kind of issue I have in the game is that, unlike in Knytt Underground, there is no indication of where Nifflas is when he is in dark spaces or inside hidden tunnels. In some of them I really lost where Nifflas was. In the room below Champagne, I have spent a long time trying to swim trough the dark portion, because I thought that I had to find a way through there to get to his house, and wasn't sure if I made any progress because I couldn't see.

Tract 3 is the one for Ammonium Nitrate. Bottle of Dew + Sunlight