On the verge of giving up. What should I do?

[Shazbut01]

I've played through the whole thing having lost all my lives (voided?) . I am now playing through the whole thing again trying not to lose all my lives so that I can get a proper ending.

I am crap at this and am having a miserable time. Should I quit? Does it get easier?

[Samantha Prezombie]

It does get easier.

start a new game by dying repeatedly as voided and waiting on the void screen or refuse to eat the fruit, and you can start a new game with infinite locusts and any unlocked items. You should have also discovered that the number of locusts you have is fairly easy to change in some levels, which lets you "refill" easily.

[Shazbut01]

That's interesting. Cheers!

[bcat]

Don't give up! The game has ways to make your burden a little lighter. The only spoiler-free advice I can give is to really try to think outside of the box, and talk to every npc you can for tips and hints.

Some general puzzling methodology I follow:

1. Try to solve puzzles backwards- look for an ideal end-state and try to work backwards from there.

2. Try to build mechanisms in your mind to understand the core of the puzzle: see three one-way paths between two areas? This limits your ability to travel between them, and taking this into consideration when planning your solution is usually very helpful.

3. Cut down on potential wrong-answers. Many puzzles have ways to softlock yourself from completing them, and you can limit your potential options to one that's correct by cutting those out.

4. Still stuck? Try to think outside of the box- maybe there's a mechanic you don't fully understand that the game is trying to teach you. Maybe you don't have the prerequisite knowledge to solve an optional bonus objective, so you can come back later and try it when you do.

5. And my biggest tip for conserving lives / locusts- take a screenshot of the room, and draw out potential paths in a paint program. (I use OBS with the downloadable Whiteboard Source script for this purpose and it works like a charm.) I like to walk through rooms one step at a time with this method and track enemy movements before they happen to more easily predict outcomes.

I hope these tips can serve to help you.

[TSprocket]

I would just give up. The game takes away all of the infinite idols on b143 so you have to redo the entire game again if you die anyway. Big waste of time.

[Spockus]

Originally posted by TSprocket:

I would just give up. The game takes away all of the infinite idols on b143 so you have to redo the entire game again if you die anyway. Big waste of time.

Just skip past B143? Alternatively, there is a way to get rid of the head.

[TSprocket]

Originally posted by Spockus:

Originally posted by TSprocket:

I would just give up. The game takes away all of the infinite idols on b143 so you have to redo the entire game again if you die anyway. Big waste of time.

Just skip past B143? Alternatively, there is a way to get rid of the head.

Let me just skip b143 with my locusts oh wait.
Let me just find the item the head mentions that solves the issue from somewhere in the 142 floors with nothing but air to guide me.

[Spockus]

Originally posted by TSprocket:

Originally posted by Spockus:

Just skip past B143? Alternatively, there is a way to get rid of the head.

Let me just skip b143 with my locusts oh wait.
Let me just find the item the head mentions that solves the issue from somewhere in the 142 floors with nothing but air to guide me.

IIRC there's a mural puzzle in the 130s and solving it will teleport you to B160, which will allow you to conserve your infinite locusts.

[brickey.8]

Focus on solving some of the mural puzzles before you try to reach the bottom unvoided--especially the first mural puzzle. Pursue that line far enough and you'll eventually gain more lives, shortcuts that don't cost anything to enter, and items that let you cheat at least half the puzzles.

[Utima]

Don't be afraid to die and start from the beginning. The game has a way of helping you and you also help yourself by redoing old puzzles.

Something obvious that you understand better as you get older is that the more you do something, the more experience you get. The more experience you have, the easier things get.

Another way to think outside the box is that you have to change your mindset. Approach this game with the thought of "I'm going to play this game to challenge myself."

To make things easier, just make yourself STRONGER! The easier things get, the HARDER PUZZLES YOU CAN TAKE! WAAAAGH!!!