Chapter 5 Giant gadon fight

[F3L0S3PHY]

you'ree suppose to hit the divine fruit light ball, but the mouse icon never seem to appear. I've been stuck in this loop for the last 20 tries to beat the gadon. Feeling a little frustrated rn :( Any solutions?

[thanatol74]

You must use the directional movement keys to make the half-moon shape on the screen transform into a complete circle in order to count as a successful hit.

[F3L0S3PHY]

Thanks for the reply! I’ll try it out on my next run :)

[Oddzilla]

Thanks for the tricks, I was stuck there as well !

[McJollyD]

Originally posted by thanatol74:

You must use the directional movement keys to make the half-moon shape on the screen transform into a complete circle in order to count as a successful hit.

Legendary. Thank you I must have missed how that little wave thing worked.

[sparky_lurkdragon]

This is OBNOXIOUSLY uninuitive; I'm still not sure what the hell the game wants. I'm button mashing and joystick swirling. I got a B prompt to appear once.

[sparky_lurkdragon]

Ugh, finally past it. Low point of the game so far.

Which I suppose is saying something positive. I suppose every game with puzzles has to have at least one totally bullcrap one, and as bullcrap puzzles go this isn't the worst.

[HQRDà]

Thank you !

[Cathy]

Even with the explanation it took me a bit to figure out what you meant... we have to used WASD keys to move the circular marker over the fruit and then click on it.

Yes, this puzzle seriously sucks. The game would be more enjoyable if they offered a "skip" option after five attempts for scenes like this. If you can't solve it, your only option is to resort to a saved game and decide not to proceed with the main story line.

Honestly, I would never have gotten this without your explanation.

[Cathy]

Pulling the stake out immediately after also had me stuck. The trick is to not let up on the directional keys as you're hitting the spacebar. If you let up for a moment, you lose.

[Jhaeme]

Omfg; it took me so long to figure out the first part, that I thought it was totally bugged and just eventually started the whole section from scratch. Every time I hit restart, it was the immediate back-up dings death knell. Finally realised I had to move either up or down at the precise microsecond (rather than just press/hold the D key whilst loading) to dodge enough, ffs. The fruit is what made me pull my hair out the second time, as the usual way of interacting with them was just taken right off the table. I mean, even the initial start to this game, first dive, I was hopelessly stuck with the "£$%^ hovering pink arrow, the constant prompting bell, and the obvious space key icon...what wasn't obvious was the ''long press'', argh. Even a tiny, simple down-pointing arrow above the icon would have been helpful. I don't know what is worse: the terrible, non-inclusiveaccessible controls and counter-intuitive mechanics, or the fact that it's probably the most addictive game I've played since Terraria dropped. This game causes me actual, real-world physical pain, and yet, here I am. It's taking me probably ten times longer than a normally-functioned person, but I have to get through the story because I've paid for it, and d@mn it, I love Dave and his quirky band of customers/friends. Controls and mechanics aside, it really is clever and funny and pays homage/takes the p*ss out of so many sources. Waiting for the Switch version; at least I should have an easier time with controls.

TLDR; thank you for the hint!

[??]

isnt this just the attack animation for sharks? when u can dodge and if u have knife a curve appears u can move it with wasd and so u move it to dot and get it?

[Lod101]

Originally posted by <#301934>Space:

isnt this just the attack animation for sharks? when u can dodge and if u have knife a curve appears u can move it with wasd and so u move it to dot and get it?

yup its the same with the shark

[josh]

THIS WAS THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE - I almost quit the game, I tried so many times, game also crashed a few times through this so I had to redo the puzzles. I never worked out how I actually did it, but after over 40 tries I somehow got it.

I'm enjoying the game, but this one section needs clear instructions very counter intuitive for me at least, normally you stab a divine light fruit, easy... not this one.

[Vågmästaren]

weird to introduce a totally new game mechanic in the middle of a boss scene, wouldnt have got it without googling it and finding the answer here.

[MadameHardy]

Originally posted by Cathy:

Even with the explanation it took me a bit to figure out what you meant... we have to used WASD keys to move the circular marker over the fruit and then click on it.

Yes, this puzzle seriously sucks. The game would be more enjoyable if they offered a "skip" option after five attempts for scenes like this. If you can't solve it, your only option is to resort to a saved game and decide not to proceed with the main story line.

Honestly, I would never have gotten this without your explanation.

Oh, please. I'd love this for all the boss fights. 99% of the game doesn't require you to dodge somebody shooting at you, and I hate being gated by the 1% that does.