Blue prince

its all about that first playthrough

Blue Prince is the future of puzzle games. It's designed in such a way that you literally cannot get stuck on a puzzle. Simply spin the wheels some more and gamble away your time. Pure genius.

foundation

You didn't beat the game.

Where's my mom, Tonda? >:(

Proud to reach antechamber

You quite literally didn't beat the game.

Good but the RNG is a pain.
Got into room 46 in 4h.
Then i noticed everything else and how im at the chess puzzle and the sigil puzzle.

exploring for clues to solve puzzles = slot machine

impressively retarded shitpost, reminds me why i missed Anon Babble

slop

"Nothing will be stopping or blocking you from progressing."
He is actually just maliciously lying there.

I use SPSS for a living you moxenless dolt. Do not speak the deep magic to me. I was there when it was written. Imagine a magic the gathering game where you need RNG to read the cards.

have all the clues and figured out the solution

finally allowed to solve it 10 hours later

Good game design.

NTA but the game IS a slot machine. Solving the lab puzzle is piss easy. Getting electricity into the room is all just luck.
At every step it's your bad luck stopping you from progressing, not your puzzle solving skills. Meta progression to increase your odds is also behind RNG rolls.
Meta progression is the slot machine spitting out money so you can gamble more.

if you need to align random symbols (rooms) to get a reward (puzzles to solve) then you are playing a slot machine. Prove me wrong

flavor of the month slop. anybody who bought this wasted their money geg

i r8 r8m 8 8/8
The gallery can choke on my dick and i dont feel bad about just googling its answers.

Any non-linear puzzle game already allows you to not get hard roadblocked. Games he claims he's inspired by like the Myst series already have open exploration and different areas you can go to if you're not sure what to do in another. Even ones that are rigid and have distinct puzzle chambers don't always require you to solve every single one before you can move on to the next set. He's an idiot.

The safe puzzles are retarded hardy boys tier riddles that require some trial and error and stretches of logic to solve

because it's not just puzzle solving, but exploration and note taking in order to solve those puzzles. i simply do not see it as a negative thing to sprinkle the hints around the house so that you can make connections to go back to other things later. that's part of the fun, you're doing detective work.
where it does fall flat is in those puzzles as you said, the RNG really fucks you on certain puzzles and certainly near the endgame, it's conceptually flawed in that regard, but they certainly don't make up the majority of puzzles.
but to act like the game is simply a slot machine and doesn't require actually solving puzzles is just a shitpost.

It filters Anon Babble because they can't deal with any small amount of challenge through RNG (hold R until good item lol) and because journos like it, so it's GOTY for me

I figured out the Christmas combination the first time I went in that room and knew immediately the game was shit. The only one that was a slightly interesting puzzle was the time locked safe, and even then it wastes your time for an hour for no reason. However, even that puzzle is ruined once you realize there are rooms that just flat out tell you the date like the vault, drafting room, and library.

look at me, I'm explooring

next draft I'll get a clue for sure

From what I’ve seen it uses RNG to waste your time and doesn’t even have an actual ending. Doesn’t sound like something I’d be interested in

What are some better puzzle/mystery games I should look at? I’ve already played a lot of the majorly known ones like Outer Wilds, Obra Dinn, Tunic and the Golden Idol games

RNG

challenge

lmao

can't deal with any small amount of challenge through RNG

Why is this so true, though?
R-holding retards in BoI, restart-until-good-joker on Balatro, people seething at Darkest Dungeon's sanity checks, etc

Are you aware that exploration is also gated behind rng?

The only good puzzle games with RNG are the programming Zachtronics games that randomize the inputs to make sure you don't hard code the solutions.

I've played for a long time, it can feel quite grindy and a lot of the puzzles aren't delinated although thats intentional. Feels like i'm just randomly smashing my head into stuff hoping i find some clue to push me foward but then looking at stuff i've looked at 100 times is difficult. I'm trying to remove the crates from the tunnel and its a bother getting the experiments, unless i can pull the dig trash one i'm stuck at a couple crates a time

Then you hear about some other mental stuff and you wonder how much more there is.

But they do make up the majority of puzzles. Off the top of my head: Getting a powerhammer, getting electricity into the pump room, ascending the throne room, most trophies are RNG gambling and you need to have at least 8, lab puzzle, anything to do with the vault room, castling, getting stillwater, removing crates from the tunnel, lighting up the tomb, 9 levels of classrooms.
It's RNG gambling all the way through. I won't claim that there is 0 puzzle solving in this game, but I will claim that it is less important than getting lucky. I'd weigh it at 65% gambling and 35% puzzle solving skills. And I will call that a slot machine.

It has good puzzles, RNG can be annoying.
7.5/10

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Void Stranger, just because you didn't mention it.

I liked The Roottrees are Dead more than Golden Idol

I have about half the people identified in obra dinn and now i've reached the point where i can't see any way to deduct the remaining half
i can't even tell if it's my smooth brain problem or you're literally forced to brute force them

puzzle game

every streamer playing it

is it slop

Yeah, it's slop.

Void Stranger

This looks like a bog standard sokoban tho

It's not. Didn't you play ZeroRanger?

GOTD ludo
it's one of those games you'll remember ten or more years from now and there's not many like that

It's not but it's still slop. It's a bunch of meta stuff that makes you play the same boring puzzles over and over. I think you end learning about ways to skip levels but the base game is still boring as shit.

he isn't until you start talking about the very late shit
there's not a single puzzle you need to solve to beat the game

Void stranger is just a sokoban with a layer of the most absurd blue prince dream thoughts shit tacked on that you have to figure out while doing several hundred sokoban puzzles

find the secret garden key

find the secret to find the secret garden

find the secret garden

find the secret of the secret garden

find the secret of the secret of the secret garden

Is there anything to do with this bullshit garden that isn't secret? Should I start looking for braille in the apples?

I rage quit void stranger for the story. The clunky and repetitive gameplay and the fact that it turned out it tied into another game I had zero interest in playing didn't help though.

Also, fuck me, now I have to check all the rooms.

Yeah, and it was the thing that for some reason took me the longest to find out
It spreads fruit throughout the rooms

I genuinely didn't realize it for the longest time until I went to the room that gathers shit & there were like 6 apples & some oranges on a side table

Im fucking done doing the darts puzzle
Im so fucking sick of this shit
it takes so fucking long, both counting and with the calculator even longer
Im so fucking fed up with this shit im pretty sure I could just start new profile and get to the progression point im at currently faster just by virtue of having easier dart puzzles I spend so much fucking time in that room every time. it takes sooo fucking long every time I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT It just keeps getting longer and harder and worse for the same 2 keys or 1 special one every time

That wasn't what I was talking about. The room straight up tells you it does that.

Pic is an actual, honest to god, nobody found this bullshit, don't lie to me spoiler. Also, don't look at it. It probably doesn't matter and ignorance is a mercy. The implications are too horrifying. I fucking warned you.

Just get the upgrade that makes it easier, pussy.

I mean, I could have figured that out myself if I knew you could get outside there

That wasn't what I was talking about. The room straight up tells you it does that.

Yes, that's why I brought it up, you asked

"Is there anything to do with this bullshit garden that isn't secret? "

if I knew you could get outside there

If you're that early game, you shouldn't be looking at spoilers.

So what do you all think happened to Mary? Is she alive? Is she just waiting for Simon to find her? Did she ever plan on reuniting with Simon at all?

He's proud to reach room 46
The antechamber is the one before that

If you smash the wall you can find that without doing that.

oh wait it's just my retardation, I thought it was on the east side of the house because I've always opened my secret garden on the east side for some fucking reason
It's extremely obvious the device uses a rotating system, in case you missed that, you've missed another thing about the secret garden, and the game LOVES putting things accessible from the other side of the room so it's not a big surprise this is possible

My headcanon is that Mary is watching you but can't interact with you
Wumpus says someone is watching you as you fenagle with this shit and other than maybe Anne I can't imagine who it'd be

house inside a house meta shit

If you smash the wall

Well if I'd found a way to smash walls yet, that wouldn't be an issue, now fucking would it?

It's really obvious you can do it what with all the Zelda style breakable walls everywhere, but I'll be damned if I can find the item for it yet. Unfortunately my recipe crafting luck has been ass.

Hell, my item finding luck has been ass. I'm on like day 46 and literally just found a new normal item I've never seen before (the Telescope). I know different rooms have different item tables and spawn rates and my preferred room choices are fucking me there, but it's still a bitch.

amazing game but I cant be fucked with it. I'm not taking notes to figure out the bigger puzzles.

The fortune teller cutscenes are kino

other than maybe Anne I can't imagine who it'd be

The former groundskeeper?

I've gotten that one a few times
I recently found an item I had never seen before, namely the Hall Pass. It's a weird one too

you can still solve the game's introduction while ignoring the "bigger puzzles"

I know he was up to shenanigans but I haven't found anything to imply he'd be interested in you at all
did he have some hidden stash of shit somewhere in the house?

The fortune teller cutscenes are kino

Best thing in the game by far. Hope his next game is a linear narrative heavy puzzle game

Congratulations, you finished the tutorial.

my preferred room choices are fucking me there

You need to up your drafting game, anon.
And with more permanent upgrades, it becomes easier to choose different rooms than the usuals.

It would be nice if you got a letter from her. Maybe one of the doves. Surprised she didn't use those more to keep in contact with Herbert

I've only seen 3 doing the post-game "real" content so far.
All others were just jumping on bandwagon either for sponsored streams or because it was the flavor to get a bit more viewers for 2 days.

I don't mind tho.
I've thrown 2 dozen hours in this game with satisfying progress and results, and I'm happy to stop there.

uhh bros, I might be hallwaymaxxing a bit too much

Oh shit 4chang is back
So, can anyone give me a QRD on what secrets have been uncovered since pre-collapse threads? Spoil the shit out of it please

I know he was up to shenanigans but I haven't found anything to imply he'd be interested in you at all

You're trying to find Room 46. He's trying to find Room 46. I dunno. Seems like there might be some overlap.

did he have some hidden stash of shit somewhere in the house?

IIRC he was running a bootlegging operation out of the house too, but I might be confusing him with another employee. There's a couple stashes related to the bootlegging and also various notes relating to the former investigator looking into room 46. The biggest one is obviously that it's implied they singlehandedly created the various tunnel rooms trying to find it. Wish we could do that shit instead of just piggybacking off their work.

I wonder if anything happens if you were somehow able to recreate the "default" house layout. You should be able to see a lot of the starting room positions before they get shuffled around each day.

I also wonder if it would be possibly to do a room only run. That'd require some entrance math I haven't done yet.

lmao thats a funny good / bad upgrade you've got there

All three of those, funnily enough.

Keep going and fill the house orange, anon.

What is this? If you draft the Secret Garden and go behind the West Wing via the garage, the second lever is peeking out? I've only ever accessed it by using the third wheel thing.

Has the true ending to this game been datamined yet?

finally got to the antechamber last night via secret garden and opened the door in the drained fountain only to find there's more shit I need to do? change the pump room again? I moved a mine cart and couldnt do anything else so now I have teo play another 10 hours to hopefully get the rng to the antechamber again and then figure out waht to do in the basement w/ no hints whatsoever? yeah nah I think I'm done w/ this trash

There is no true ending. The game is unfinished.

Eh. It's alright. Definitely streamer bait though.

The first 2/3rds of the game are pretty solidly constructed but it starts falling apart near the end. The sanctum is a giga nothingburger and the tunnel is tedium for tedium's sake (unless you have an infinite). The second credits roll puzzle(s) are cool but the 'post-post-game' puzzles are so actively bad that it drags the rest of the game down with it.

there should have been a horror element to it

The Room 46 ending is marked as "THE-TRUE-ENDING" in the video files, actually. I think everyone's already figured out everything there is to the game and the only thing to do is wait for the Dirigiblocks update.

Depend on player. Path of Exile or Gacha fags will hate it for being too slow and too hard for their brainlet ADHD or coomer brains. Reddit Rick&Morty viewers will complain its too easy or random. In the end it's still one of the most umique and innovative games since Obra Dinn

Its a spiritual sequel to ESA jkjk

nigga open your eyes

what?

Wait wtf room 46 is the actual end?
Why even bother with the rest then

For your own curiosity, really. The game only gives an achievement for reaching Room 46 and not for ascending the throne or finding the atelier. And the whole spiral of stars mystery thing is the developer deliberately fucking with people who chose the there is no ending box. "You want it to never end? Well, go crazy looking for patterns that aren't there and chasing leads that don't exist then."

If the intro cutscene were called "ACTUAL-TRUE-END" in the game files, would you say there's no point playing the game after watching it?

And the whole spiral of stars mystery thing is the developer deliberately fucking with people who chose the there is no ending box. "You want it to never end? Well, go crazy looking for patterns that aren't there and chasing leads that don't exist then."

Really? The spiral is also in the lost & found, so it should mean something

I would say there is no point in playing this game regardless of what any cutscene is called.

the entire game is just red herrings

I kneel dogubomb

there's two things to do in the basement & they're both obvious

oooh a big reservoir of water with a boat I just barely can't reach & shit on the other side, I wonder what I need to do

and then after that is another very obvious "puzzle", that's all you need to do

Well, that's what I'm assuming until I'm proven wrong and people manage to find some finale to that plot thread. At the very least, it's supposed to drive you mad because it's a mystery where you need to assume every single thing you see is an anagram, acronym, number core, pattern and everything so that you can get to the bottom of it.
Does it never end?
Investor needed.
Denoted in verse.
This post-post-post-game shit just isn't healthy. I'm personally done with it until the update.

I'd say all ARG shit isn't healthy but some people like that shit so I'm all for a game having it in the postpostpostgame

the antechamber is not room 46

there should have been a horror element to it

There is. It's the robot.

he doesn't know about The Spider

Pretty sure the "Spiral of Stars" is just the name for the galaxy in universe. The classroom loredumps pretty heavily if you're willing to do basic research. You even learn a few words in the game's Latin equivalent.

For example, inn, aj, ja, and orr mean north, south, east, and west respectively.

having a great run where I bought out the bookshop -and- the gift shop (couldn't spawn showroom)

Someone suggests in an earlier thread to play with controller since you don't have to type swansong every fucking time and overall the cursor magnets to points of interest

give it a try, it's alright I guess

Game crashes for the first time in 35 hours

'Should be fine as long as the game automatically called it a da-'

Day is completely lost, gotta start same day

Whoever suggested that, fuck you

He tried the controller strat

Idea is cool. Execution of it is mid.

you have no clue what people are whining about. reaching room 46 is ultra easy.
some later puzzles require annoying levels of rng or setup

No, the spiral is a very prominent pattern shown in those three notes I mentioned, found in Her Ladyship's Chamber, Music Room and Lost and Found. There's also the constellation and the wood texture on the tunnel end room. It's not "just" an in-universe lore thing. It's a clear mystery the game wants you to follow.

knight is the only chess puzzle choice that doesn't really tell you exactly what you get unless you google the room name

actually allows you to buy the most broken item in the game

every other piece of essentially useless

I swear this game is actually designed bad on purpose just to see what the developer can get away with.

My impression is that it is basically a "Dave the Diver" situation, Mid Niche game with love it or hate it mechanics (The RNG/"Deck Building" aspect) propped up by industry connections getting Ecelebs to shill it as goty ludo, which is very apparent when considering how games of the genres it is "mixing" are usually received by that crowd.

some later puzzles require annoying levels of rng or setup

I'm really hoping I don't have to do what I think I have to do for the Clocktower. I haven't tried my easy solution and my hard solution seems like it will be ass.

Eh, bishop's got a use mid post game and rook and king have their uses. Queen's the only one that's an absolute complete waste of time.

Also that item has limited uses and once they're up, knight is probably worse than rook.

Real strat is go pawn just so you have a clear reminder to eat your dinner.

8/10 IMO, a hell of a lot better than I thought it was gonna turn out. Could be a 10/10 if they added some more mechanics to further mitigate RNG locks; ex: an item that lets you pick from any blueprint in the current pool, some more ways to bend the odds similar to how drafting from powerline rooms gives a better chance for more powerline rooms. I get that the roguelite(or like? IDK) mechanics are baked into the core concept, but there needs to be more of a balance between the randomized roguelite mechanics and the fixed metapuzzle mechanics.

Worldbuilding and overarching puzzles are 11/10, the fact that the only vidya he looked to for inspiration were Myst and Riven really shows.
thinkygames.com/features/interview-how-myst-riven-and-tabletop-games-built-the-foundation-of-blue-prince/

Before long, the first inkling of Blue Prince began to appear, inspired by Ros’s longtime fascination with Myst and Riven. The key concept “practically justified environmental puzzles.” Rather than solving isolated puzzles in sequence, what if the entire setting revolved around the process of puzzling, exploration, and discovery? From that point on, Ros did his best to avoid any other direct analogs that might cloud that initial vision. “I didn’t look to any other video games for inspiration,” he tells me. “Part of my process is to sequester myself and figure things out on my own, without research, reference, or tutorials.”

Worldbuilding and overarching puzzles

The worldbuilding and puzzles don't even make any fucking sense together what are you talking about. Burning the sundial makes absolutely no sense. The puzzles in Myst and Riven were deeply engrained into the world's lore, every book in Riven was directly about the world and how it worked. Half the books in Blue Prince are nonsense, especially the "New Clue" book.

The mysteries where fine until the Blue Door/Throne Room and the Atelier.
Shit like the 8 key to use in the vault or the whole thing that leads to drafting secret passage in the outer room are absolutely retarded. There isn't even real clues about it.
And that leaving aside absurd RNG requirements like the mechanarium room for the sanctum key.

Fuck you you yellow rat if I hope you get red rooms only you shit

Half the books in Blue Prince are nonsense, especially the "New Clue" book.

especially the "New Clue" book.

drafting from powerline rooms gives a better chance for more powerline rooms

Is this actually a thing? I did notice that powering up the line before you draft the room shows the energy flowing, and straightaway tells you if the room has a power line but does it actually increase odds?

Huge potential waist by not adding stairs Imagine the bullshit you could get up to with multiple floors.

Point? A New Clue only exists to give you hints about puzzles, so yes it's nonsense in relation to the story of the game. The journals in Myst are actually written to be books where the writer did not even think about them being used as a solution to a puzzle for a video game.

And that leaving aside absurd RNG requirements like the mechanarium room for the sanctum key.

Just spam aquariums, lmao.

Game could do with some DLC

The major hints for the Throne Room and the Atelier are from the blue memos from the Blue Tents. It's extremely fucking time consuming drafting all the blue rooms in rank 8 and number cores are annoying to do, but the leads are fairly clear on it.

If people manage to find anything new, it's probably by reusing the Aries key, the clock and the country board in Room 46 again since the fact that they reset seems to suggest some other second use like how you reuse the Room 8 Key.

"A New Clue only exists to give you hints about puzzles"

he doesn't the author's motivation to write it in relation to events that happened in the backstory

It's mid. No idea why it was so hyped up

game has a T-Pain reference

if I hope you get red rooms only you shit

I believe they meant "I hope you get red rooms only, you shit"

Explain how the image on this page fits into the story and why the author would draw a hint to the location of the computer chip

oh wait never mind I get it. the "it" wasn't supposed to be there.
yeah I figured out like 5 seconds after I replied

been in the mood for puzzle games recently, finished this but don't wanna bother with the endgame puzzles because the roguelite rng just pisses me off too much. any other games like it (i.e., not pure puzzle games like zachtronics games or baba is you)? already played tunic and fez and loved them both. oh and not the witness, i know already but i don't feel like playing it yet

Lingo if you like word puzzles and being lost. Antichamber if you like acid and being lost and think portal could have used less physics bullshit.

CrossCode is a pretty good game thats about 50% combat and 50% puzzles. Very different game though.

people in thread referencing rooms I haven't even drafted yet on day 40~

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes if you enjoyed the puzzle mansion vibes of Blue Prince. It's a much tighter package too and doesn't overstay its welcome.

Margaret Marigold's real name is Mary Matthew Jones, aka Herbert Sinclair's daughter and the MC Simon's lost mother. Getting all three computer chips and the correct admin name from the book clues lets you access logs showing that the suspect names in the book were moles in the Blackbridge team. They figured out that Mary was getting suspicious of them and intended to kill her. She wrote clues into the book which were intended for Simon to solve once he had inherited the manor, submitted the manuscript to her publisher, and disappeared from the public eye before the moles could kill her.

day 40

You are like a little baby. Stay away from these threads until you're at day 150-250.

my foundation was literally smack dab in the middle of the house, at (3,5), which i thought was just normal for every playthrough and made sense. color me surprised when i see a bunch of other people having foundations in the corners of their houses and shit. that sucks lol

I'm not sure I like some of the implications of shit I've seen in the house, e.g. the millennium old family crest implying the noble houses the MC is descended from used to be a single line or all the shit under the mansion that definitely predates the ownership by the current family (which only goes back like 80 fucking years) and which implies some sort of illuminati bullshit.

Kinda makes the MC's family look more like revanchist nobles butthurt their pet royal line died out and less like earnest revolutionaries against a totalitarian government.

you just proved his point retard lmao

has anybody figured out what all the alzara bullshit is? those cutscenes made me feel uneasy when i first saw them, especially the one that hints at you being watched, and i thought something would come out of them later, but they seem like giant nothingburgers aside from the 8 red letters tidbit

Kinda makes the MC's family look more like revanchist nobles butthurt their pet royal line died out

But's ultimately what they are? Their years in the making grand plan was stealing their old crown lmao.

What I typed:

Margaret Marigold's real name is Mary Matthew Jones, aka Herbert Sinclair's daughter and the MC Simon's lost mother. Getting all three computer chips and the correct admin name from the book clues lets you access logs showing that the suspect names in the book were moles in the Blackbridge team. They figured out that Mary was getting suspicious of them and intended to kill her. She wrote clues into the book which were intended for Simon to solve once he had inherited the manor, submitted the manuscript to her publisher, and disappeared from the public eye before the moles could kill her.

What (you) read:

She wrote clues into the book which were intended for Simon to solve

the Clocktower

let's just say a speedhack makes some puzzles of the game tolerable
I also have the bug where any time based solutions don't work because i don't have windows region format set to US and I have to switch to it and restart the game every time, very fucking annoying

but that's the truth? you just listed all the lore that we already knew prior to a new clue. none of it is actually relevant or new information. the book exists explicitly for simon to solve some puzzles. if it was published to the real world, people would read it and wonder what the fuck is this garbage. it's not like the red prince or swim bird. you just got tangled up in your own elitist bullshit spewing from your mouth lol

The LeeB admin password is a red herring for the detective to find, there's another password that shows those logs are fake.

Herbert Sinclair's daughter

Niece unless I'm missing some lore. It is a little off-putting how little Simon's brother is mentioned in game relative his sister-in-law though.

Albeit I chalk that up to social reasons. The plot revolves heavily around the MC's mom, the mansion's chief of staff is a woman, Herbert's mom was the one that actually secured the estate for the family in the first place, the oldest relative explicitly honored in the house is a woman, Herbert's sister-in-law married his brother in the first place to keep up family ties between the branches of the Marigold noble line, the family is heavily tied to Eraja which was founded by the daughter of the ancestral king that divided Orinda Aries and is depicted as the least corrupt of the 3 descendant nations, Orinda herself is the chief goddess of a female pantheon, and even the continent's name obviously derives from Orinda. It's abundantly obvious that women are held in high regard and play an important role in the traditional social structures of the setting.

Game's woke as fuck is what I'm saying.

That said I do think the uncle was totally banging his sister-in-law. Possibly alongside his brother.

Quite frankly, if it weren't for the title's pun, I expect we'd be playing as a girl.

In fairness, they also engaged in some light terrorism.

Was "make the ending less political" just the publishers being dumb and not being able to see the red/blue metaphor or we're they trying to take power away from her?

as a treat

they explicitly saw the red/blue metaphor, dumbass. why else would they ask her to change the ending so he still likes red

It was the publishers going "hey great ending but can you kinda change it because we really don't want the Fenn Aries government raiding us and taking us down thanks"

The spiral is the movement of planets according to the world map in the school and "the largest planet" is veila or whatever, one of the gods. It could be a tomb puzzle but i don't think there's enough gods

I'm pretty sure they got the metaphor exactly which is why she is forced to change the ending. They didn't want the state coming down on them for obvious bullshit.

I'm frankly shocked she got away with Swim Bird given it's obviously about political suppression of Eraja by Fenn Aries, Arch Aries, and Nuance.

Their years in the making grand plan was stealing their old crown lmao.

Is there any significance to the crown outside of being symbolic? Like they steal the crown, but what does that actually do for them? They are still hunted by the government.

swim bird is a lot less obvious. if you don't know about mary then it's pretty difficult to interpret it politically. it has a very typical moral lesson that you see in children's books

the whole game has a bunch of clever and interesting puzzles

penultimate puzzles are playing word association

one uses a solution that you've already employed at least two times now

Definitely feels like he was running out of gas there.

Kinda makes the MC's family look more like revanchist nobles butthurt their pet royal line died out and less like earnest revolutionaries against a totalitarian government.

I thought there was going to be some magic and counter revolutionairy shenanigans in the plot, i don't think it will go that way. I thought you would metaphorically kill Fenn and replace it with a blue country, since there's no blue sigil using dark magics that live in the basement. It could be a metaphor for Mary leaving the country because she went to a country with a lot of water and lakes

i really fucking wanted to continue with the post-game after room 46. WHY on EARTH does this game have a roguelite mechanic. why couldn't they just make one giant mansion that shifts around like the clockwork mansion

game casually breaks if you spawn a terrace or patio next to the garage.

pseud-slop

I mean that's like saying you'll never fail a test if you keep flicking through the questions.

Yeah, and they turned that crown blue and now you're wearing it. In the true-true-true ending of the game, you probably do something with them to fully overthrow the government.

who the fuck thought create/crate was good

Do we though? We are literally just a kid. And the government surely won't be impressed by our ability to remove a red room once per day.

If that annoyed you, wait until you find the discount crossword with the map.

King DSP said it was bad

Red Prince was literal political propaganda aimed a children.
It's unreal how Mary feels like the victim for that.

We are literally just a kid

With access to secret rail lines under the entire continent, unlimited money, and nuclear material.

I'm not saying, I'm just saying.

Don't underestimate autistic kids.

It's unreal how Mary feels like the victim for that.

It's unreal how Mary feels like the victim for being unable to publish material as quaint as "it's okay to question the government" because she lives in a totalitarian police state where even high ranking nobles and business elites don't have free speech?

Your liberal democracy is lame, gay, and Jewish, Redditor.
Fascism is the future.

Should have picked a different color then.

Not him but

Your New Home

Fenn are communists and Blue Prince is a monarchist game. In a just world the Fenn Bolshevics would hang, General Teskin must pay for his crimes

Fascism

The government is pretty explicitly not fascist.

Not expansionist

Not hyper-sexist

No mention of the suppression of minorities

Strong ties with nearby neighbors

Built entirely around erasing ancestral ties to the land to establish new ones rather than focusing on reclaiming some lost pseudo-heritage

Seemingly no purging of the nobility from power

It's just an absolute monarchy. I'm not even sure the politics of the setting has even progressed enough to contemplate fascism. They've never even seen democracy.

Frankly the setting's kinda weird. You've got effectively druid tier religion alongside pre-magna carta politics alongside 1900s technology alongside a stable modern imperial structure that has seemingly lasted for thousands of years worldwide and throw in some prohibition and atlantis bullshit too while you're at it. Also it seems like tech's been frozen or at the least developing very slowly for literal ages.

Oh, and to top it all off we're probably thousands of years past whatever was the age of exploration equivalent with it being heavily implied civilization developed in Corarica and radiated out from there, effectively making the game set in the fucking New World.

It is smooth brain, but don't be too hard on yourself. Some of the characters can only be identified through maritime knowledge, identifying accents, or noticing tiny details that are easily missed. You need a pretty rough brain to get through the game with no guesswork at one point or another.

fenn is also a monarchy

Exploring for more rooms

You really haven't played the game.
The 'end game' puzzle requires you to roll 3 specific rooms (which you don't know in advance) out a group of around 46+ rooms) within 5 specific slots of the manor.
That's the only way without looking up a guide to start working through the line of hints the game lays out to start the puzzle.

Obra Din plays a lot better if you take account of when identities become deducable.
Cause having to scour that whole ship for the 1 or 2 clues some people have can take you make you look around each room several times.

Oh, also the moon seems to orbit north to south. Or south to north, not sure which. Point is, the start of an eclipse is called a "north eclipse" which suggests that shit's not in line with how the planet rotates.

atlantis

did i miss something

The house is less than 80 years old. All the shit below it predates it.

What the hell is ludo

draining the reservoir drained my will to live

oh. yea that's just the ruins from the old monarchy and whatnot. they built the house on top specifically because it's the location of their heritage

a bit better than mid but not to ludo levels IF you can look past the RNG frustrations

first ten hours are complete trash on purpose, as a joke filter

it becomes the best game ever made 100 hours in

Strong ties with nearby neighbors

They literally destroyed the railroads that connected them to their sister kingdoms.