Black Spheres Puzzle - Restart Required?!?

[DeadPenguin]

So, I spent probably 20 minutes trying to figure out the black spheres puzzle, thinking it must be sound-based depending on the height of each sphere and the tone of each symbol, no luck. Tried multiple different combinations, no luck at all.

So, I quit for a while, restarted, and suddenly I'm holding the white orb in that room.

Not the most intuitive solution to a puzzle.

Either that or I shouldn't have been able to get in there without the white orb.

[Echoes of the Silk: Songpour]

You're not making any sense, how were you able to hear the tones without the white orb to begin with? Besides, the sigil on the floor makes it obvious the white orb needs to be brought there.

[DeadPenguin]

Again, I probably shouldn't have been able to get trapped in the black spheres room without the white orb, spending 20 minutes trying to figure out the puzzle. When I restarted I magically had the white orb, so I'm guessing the checkpoint system in the game was generous enough to solve that problem for me.

*shrug*

[Echoes of the Silk: Songpour]

Originally posted by DeadPenguin:

Again, I probably shouldn't have been able to get trapped in the black spheres room without the white orb, spending 20 minutes trying to figure out the puzzle. When I restarted I magically had the white orb, so I'm guessing the checkpoint system in the game was generous enough to solve that problem for me.

*shrug*

You can't get trapped in there to begin with dude, what are you saying?

[Echoes of the Silk: Songpour]

Wait, are you talking about the moon ancestor puzzle at 81%?

[Ouroboros]

I think he's talking about the room with the giant spheres inside it which need to be illuminated by an orb's light

[DeadPenguin]

In summary:

I somehow, no idea how, put myself into a situation it was impossible to progress from.

Restarting the game fixed the situation.

Good on the developer for not having the checkpoints leave you in a trapped situation with no way to progress.

Other games have had bugs where you could trap yourself with no way forward and forced you to restart from scratch (Observation, Edith Finch). This one fixed itself. Yay.

[Adeon]

Could you give more info on where you were stuck? I don't think you were actually stuck.

[Echoes of the Silk: Songpour]

Originally posted by DeadPenguin:

In summary:

I somehow, no idea how, put myself into a situation it was impossible to progress from.

Restarting the game fixed the situation.

Good on the developer for not having the checkpoints leave you in a trapped situation with no way to progress.

Other games have had bugs where you could trap yourself with no way forward and forced you to restart from scratch (Observation, Edith Finch). This one fixed itself. Yay.

Like someone else said, you were not actually softlocked there at all, in fact you *need* the orb to actually release the drone.