How to solve the puzzles?!

[genesiset]

I can't understand the concept of the freaking puzzles. I never felt so stupid. But they don't explain how to solve it. I tried to google, but all the dumb articles just give you the answer to every puzzle.
So, the first puzzle, the door. I get that I need to pick the animals in the right order. I read the first story. It's just about a frog. Does this game want me to read ALL the stories at once?! All 80 pages? Just to solve the first puzzle?

Then I talked to the sister and asked for a help, and instead of explaining anything, I have 3 dialog choices: Torch, sword, money bag. And they just talk like "hmm I wonder what animal would give money? Or maybe it means something else". Like what the actuall hell. I don't understand where these "torch, sword, money" even came from. They didn't even talk about these items before, there're no pictures of these on the door, nor in the book's first page, nowhere. I can't see it. So where did it came from? I'm so confused, what is happening? Maybe there was a bugg and I didn't get the right dialog, I don't know.

All I know is that this is their book of fairytails and I need to use it to solve the puzzles. As I said, I've read the first story about the big frog and it didn't help. I don't want to read the whole book in one go because it's huge and I'm a slow reader since the game is not in my native language.

I gave up and have read the asnwer to the first puzzle and the article says "you find the answer to this puzzle by reading the Pricness Party story". Are you kidding me? How was I supposed to know which story should I read to get the answer? There are no signs for that. I swear to god...

[Bealla Donna]

I agree, I believe puzzles aren't Dontnods strongest features.

[genesiset]

Originally posted by Kaliliyah:

I agree, I believe puzzles aren't Dontnods strongest features.

I watched a walkthrough on youtube and the sitster said which tale I should read, but she said it way before the puzzle, so I forgot lol. She said it when we first found the book. And I spent a lot of time walking all over the house examining every detail after that. So of course I forgot which tale I should read and didn't pay attention to what she said in the first place because I didn't know there will be some puzzles

[Oz Gaming]

Some of the Puzzles in the attic above the barn are beyond me. I just gave up and haven't played the game since. Also looks like the game doesn't Save after you complete each puzzle in the attic above the barn either which is really annoying. If I leave the game and come back later I have to start all those puzzles again. Nope !!

[Dave Mongoose]

With the door puzzle, you need to match the animal to what gift they gave the princess. If you read the related story for each animal, you learn that the pelican gave her food (for example).

In general, the characters in the stories each represent someone in Mary-Ann's life (e.g. the bear is Sam) and the stories reflect the relationship they had. Most of the puzzles either need you to read the right story or make the right connection between character and person.

[ShurikMur]

Agreed - that one is an example of very bad and lazy game design. It gives me an impression I was playing some interactive book. It also makes me feel like the developers trying to force blobs of data directly into my head. Are they afraid I may interpret the game in some "wrong" way without that additional reading?!

While I embrace the fact the exploration was always being part of the series, that one is above my threshold. It is not like exploring the room and read a couple sentences on a photos.

[pax]

Originally posted by genesiset:

Originally posted by Kaliliyah:

I agree, I believe puzzles aren't Dontnods strongest features.

I watched a walkthrough on youtube and the sitster said which tale I should read, but she said it way before the puzzle, so I forgot lol. She said it when we first found the book. And I spent a lot of time walking all over the house examining every detail after that. So of course I forgot which tale I should read and didn't pay attention to what she said in the first place because I didn't know there will be some puzzles

same here, when i was about to solve the riddle, i had forgot what story it was. it would have been nice when choosing "sister help me" she would just tell again which story i should read.