Hardlock in gardens?

[Violet Echoes]

I became the Sandwraith and when backtracking i went through a door that led to the gardens area, the one that has a chest behind a cracked wall, a life power up, and a crow dude. It is an open area, more of a large balcony sort of place... I thought I had to go here for the chest that you can not open without the late game sword.

The door closed behind me and there is noway out? The door has no switch and there is no other pathway.

[SpatKong]

hey! I know for sure it's too late (lol, thematically fitting with this game) but I'm having the same problem. If someone reads this thread could help us. I have a previous save, but not very willing to re-do about 3 or 4 hours in this game so glitched, bugged and... well, not so good gameplay-wise as I used to remember.

Btw, little venting: it's really really absurd what happened here: I and Gittons got hardlocked because at some point in this game you must do a backtracking that leads to a two possible roads: one road is the correct one which grants you to finish the game (well, if you won't get hardlocked by someother weird happening...); the other one hardlocks you, but if you go by it until the end, you will watch a cut-scene that cannot be seen other ways (in this one Shahdee refers to Kaileena that the ship with Prince is approaching the Island, so Kaileena orders to Shahdee to come back to the past and kill him).
Wtf should all this mean?! hahahah

[Damokles]

For anyone who's wandering as well :
While most life upgrades can be backtracked at a later stage of the game (before final boss)there are two of them that are impossible to obtain before turning into Sand Wraith,first one being at the bottom of the Mechanical Tower ,and the second being at Dark Gardens.

Which means you have to restart before the first fight with Kaileena ,and that's why the game asks you ''Do you want to save?'' after the fight....do not worry i had to go all my way back as well lmao,but the game is fun so no complains

[Justice]

Originally posted by Damokles:

For anyone who's wandering as well :
While most life upgrades can be backtracked at a later stage of the game (before final boss)there are two of them that are impossible to obtain before turning into Sand Wraith,first one being at the bottom of the Mechanical Tower ,and the second being at Dark Gardens.

Which means you have to restart before the first fight with Kaileena ,and that's why the game asks you ''Do you want to save?'' after the fight....do not worry i had to go all my way back as well lmao,but the game is fun so no complains

Prison and Library water upgrades are the ones that can't be revisited. They require scripted cutscenes in order to get those paths again.

[ItzOpu]

I hate the one where you have to break a cage and get a box to use it to get to the life upgrade corridor
It's so out of the way!

[Darkopolypse98]

i uh... water tower gardens section i believe, part where you move the box on top of button? yeah... button lasts for 1 second and then closes again, essentially hardlocking the game from progression... ive tried not using box, slowing down time and running for it, ive tried slowing down time with the box on the button, nothing works. i even accidentally broke the button permanently activated without using the box and had to kill myself bc i was stuck and now im REALLY stuck. any ideas?