Things that "Don't do Anything" [SPOILERS]

[jfryk]

I've cleared much of the game and I'm pretty much down to obelisk puzzles, but there are several things in the game that I haven't found the purpose for... yet.

I assume most of these lead to obelisk puzzles so don't read on if you don't want spoilers.

Here are the puzzles/area I haven't found a purpose for:

1) Additional mirror puzzles that only power themselves:

http://i.imgur.com/U1DbXEu.png

Possibly just an area to teach you to look at your environment.

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2) Drawings are the reward for the apples puzzles:

http://i.imgur.com/HRfplRT.png

Possibly only a story/theme area.

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3) A panel in the tomb which seemingly powers nothing:

http://i.imgur.com/Uf0ZEEx.png

No theories on this one, maybe obelisk related.

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4) This empty shack in the treehouse area:

http://i.imgur.com/8HnTqdT.jpg

Probably perspective for an obelisk puzzle but I couldn't find it.

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5) Underwater puzzle in the tetrimino swamp:

http://i.imgur.com/bGGsfkH.png

I got the two obelisk puzzles on the sides, but solving the puzzle didn't seem to be required.

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6) Color absorption-based puzzles in the town:

http://i.imgur.com/KKm7LZW.png

I haven't completed the pictured one yet, even though I looked at it in all lights, solved the left one, and changed the room red to get the obelisk puzzle from the opposite roof.

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Any tips on these? Have you found your own puzzles/area that seemingly do nothing?

[jfryk]

I just figured out #4.

[jfryk]

Just completed the puzzle in #6 but I still can't see it doing anything.

[Soüp]

I can assure you that 1-3 do not lead to obelisk puzzles. I have completed the obelisks in those areas and none of them were related to these panels that I could tell.

[jfryk]

Messaggio originale di Soüp® Classic:

I can assure you that 1-3 do not lead to obelisk puzzles. I have completed the obelisks in those areas and none of them were related to these panels that I could tell.

Yeah, I'm seeing the same thing in my game.

[Soüp]

I finally figured out 4 as well. That was the last item on that obelisk for me.

[em]

also: people are suspicious of the vases, people are suspicious of a certain environmental puzzle that you haven't gotten to I assume which stays active after the environmental puzzle completes (seemingly for no reason), and there were multiple questions on reddit as to the purpose of the pulsing lasers

also also: lady in the lake with a flickering lamp, and some suspiciously easy floor puzzles in a post-late game section

personally: recurring theme of being watched which seemingly is separate from other story elements in the game, the presence sound effects, I'm very curious still

[jfryk]

Messaggio originale di emhere:

also: people are suspicious of the vases, people are suspicious of a certain environmental puzzle that you haven't gotten to I assume which stays active after the environmental puzzle completes (seemingly for no reason), and there were multiple questions on reddit as to the purpose of the pulsing lasers

also also: lady in the lake with a flickering lamp, and some suspiciously easy floor puzzles in a post-late game section

personally: recurring theme of being watched which seemingly is separate from other story elements in the game, the presence sound effects, I'm very curious still

I believe I know the explanation for all of those except for the pulsing lasers, but I like your theory of being watched. Even more interesting if you've seen a particular ending.

They might be reading too much into the lasers though, I assumed they started pulsing once you solve 7 of them.

I left out all the stuff inside the mountain due to the sheer number of puzzles that "don't do anything."

[Soüp]

I thought the pulsing lasers meant that you had completed every puzzle in that particular area, even ones that "don't do anything." I could be wrong, last I checked all but 2 lasers were pulsing in my save.

I believe the flickering lamp is supposed to be a hint. Its meaning is known.

[mpeijzel]

Number 5: that puzzle in the tetris area: I literally solved it less than an hour ago, because someone got stuck in that area. It seemed I missed that puzzle on my first round over the island - I was able to get the laser out without ever touching that puzzle, and I was able to finish the game with all 11 lasers (and get both endings) without ever touching it.
So that puzzle is obsolete, except for maybe a "100%" ending on PS4, if they have that one.

My first laser was cyan (workshop/boat repair house, near spawn), my second laser was cyan and yellow, both visible. If that is what they mean with pulsing, then it already happened for me when my second laser got activated (it was the one in the tree/water area, next to the workshop/boat area, you get there first while following the left wall and then the coastline, once outside the starting area. The puzzles had cyan and yellow in them (especially the six next to the laser machine).
Worth noting is that I did not solve all puzzles in that area - a few puzzles were too difficult at that time, so I skipped them after I got the laser working. So the pulsing should not be a marker for having solved everything, as I already got it with still multiple unsolved puzzles.
I think the colour of the laser is related to the area.

By the way: I also think that the "tutorial" series (blue screens, green screens, near entrance) do not power anything else, and are only to help the player. The same is true for tetris tutorial, and perhaps other tutorials as well.

[YannFromFrance]

Secret area puzzles:

what is up with that?

[em]

Messaggio originale di Soüp® Classic:

I thought the pulsing lasers meant that you had completed every puzzle in that particular area, even ones that "don't do anything." I could be wrong, last I checked all but 2 lasers were pulsing in my save.

I believe the flickering lamp is supposed to be a hint. Its meaning is known.

the lasers don't all pulse, and I believe they exist like that from when they're first activated, though also not sure on the second detail

[Aslan7147]

I can confirm that a laser pulses only when all puzzles in it's area are solved. As an example, in Maze Castle solving the set of raised glass platform puzzles and solving the board on top of the central tower will activate the laser. There are 4 hedge mazes and another puzzle board at the top of the central tower that must be solved to make this laser pulse.

[Innocentive]

Don't know if this thread is still active but I can provide some further ideas:

1. The symmetry puzzles may just serve as a tutorial for the symmetry puzzles in the town.
   
2. The apple puzzles may just serve as a tutorial for the apple puzzle in the town.
   
3. No clue.
   
4. If you access that shack you can complete a perspective puzzle.
   
5. No clue. In fact, until reading this thread I thought it was required for the marsh laser.
   
6. I think these two puzzle may just be there so that the light switch puzzle has a purpose other than completing two environmental puzzles.

I made a guide covering all the puzzles on the island and their respective purpose as far as i could figure it out. Also, I created a guide for the solution of the light puzzles in the town. Check them out if you're still interested.