Is there actually someone who found all the stars by himself/herself without cheating?

[Mu'Ammar of Carthus]

Seems impossible.

[MikeSugs]

I got about 20% of the stars without help. Lol :P

[adamav]

I found them all without help, although the one in the center of the Egpyt map took me a couple days. I was tempted to look online for help, but I didn't want to deny myself the satisfaction I felt when I figured out how to get a few of the others.

Also, I spent HOURS on a few of the final stars before I found that one hidden box. It immediately solved several problems I was having.

[urfragmeat]

The dlc is full of aha! moments. I started doing the second world and was absolutely stumped on all the puzzles but one, cube driver. The haircut puzzle had me completely bamboozled. Then I revisited it, and I figured it out in less than a few minutes....and solving that allowed me to solve some other puzzles *hint hint. So far got 4 stars, know where another 3 of them are and have a general idea of how to get there, and I'm missing a star in the first world that's up above near the spawn area. I know it's cliche to say it, but thinking outside the box needs to be generously applied when solving these puzzles.

[adamav]

I should have specified that I was referring to the DLC. Regarding that star near the spawn point, that was the last one I got in that area. Took me forever, and I managed to get myself stuck in areas I couldn't jump out of a few times. Good luck!

Originally posted by urfragmeat:

The dlc is full of aha! moments. I started doing the second world and was absolutely stumped on all the puzzles but one, cube driver. The haircut puzzle had me completely bamboozled. Then I revisited it, and I figured it out in less than a few minutes....and solving that allowed me to solve some other puzzles *hint hint. So far got 4 stars, know where another 3 of them are and have a general idea of how to get there, and I'm missing a star in the first world that's up above near the spawn area. I know it's cliche to say it, but thinking outside the box needs to be generously applied when solving these puzzles.

[Mu'Ammar of Carthus]

Originally posted by adamav:

I should have specified that I was referring to the DLC. ]

I was actually talking about the base game's stars.
I only started the DLC yesterday and so far the stars don't seem as hard to get as the ones from the base game.

[Kein Zantezuken]

I did, one way or another. It just sometimes it wasn't via "proper" solution, i.e. the one devs intended for players to find.

[Gweihir]

I found 9 by myself and one with a hint only. Did not try for more.
I think all working solutions are "proper" ones and those that think they found "improper" ones are mistaken. Especially stars already were "anything goes" in the main game.

[M4NS14Y3R]

me) spent 50 hours on whole game with stars/secrets - was fun)

/e it's prettty easy(main game) once you know all conditions and mechanics the game can provide.

[Mu'Ammar of Carthus]

I gotta say, I cheated for a few stars.

For some I regretted it, because If I was more patient, I could have gotten them by myself.
But there's at least one I don't regret cheating for, I would never have found it, never would have had the patience.
Plus, even though I did really enjoy the puzzles, I was more invested in the story.

Now, I'm trying to get the "Road to Gehenna" stars by myself now. Does something happen when you get them? Is there another ending or something?

[Zloth]

Originally posted by M4NS14Y3R:

it's prettty easy(main game) once you know all conditions and mechanics the game can provide.

I don't believe I've seen a less true statement outside of the political arena.

I got 17 of them in the main game with 0 help. Plenty of those stars were HARD!

[Moises]

Originally posted by The Bat:

But there's at least one I don't regret cheating for, I would never have found it, never would have had the patience.

Was it the sphinx?

[Adderhead]

I managed to find every single star on my own, both in the original game and in the dlc. Then again, I sunk too many hours into this game. Also, Milton called me a sociopath. Maybe that's the consequence of trying to find all the stars on my own, breaking the contact with other human beings and spending hours looking for the sodding stars.

At least I'm proud of my achievement.

[Coops]

I have 13 of the stars so far with no help. I know where two others are located.
However, I did watch a video of one of the easter eggs which gave me some ideas on one of them.

[Mu'Ammar of Carthus]

Originally posted by Swiket:

Originally posted by The Bat:

But there's at least one I don't regret cheating for, I would never have found it, never would have had the patience.

Was it the sphinx?

No, it was the clock thing.
I never saw the ascii message, and even if I did, I can't seem to decode them on any ascii converter I can find on the web.

Hell, when I go back now and check it, the ASCII message doesn't even display

The Sphinx, I don't even know if I would have figured out you could smuggle stuff out of the puzzle areas if I didn't cheat to begin with.

Originally posted by Zloth:

Originally posted by M4NS14Y3R:

it's prettty easy(main game) once you know all conditions and mechanics the game can provide.

I don't believe I've seen a less true statement outside of the political arena.

I got 17 of them in the main game with 0 help. Plenty of those stars were HARD!

Depends what he means by "once you know all the conditions and mechanics the game can provide".
For instance I'd never would have taken the wild guess that you could leap unusual distances just because you were standing on the right spot.

Or that you could smuggle objects out of their designated puzzles.

Also sometimes you really have to search the whole map like a maniac to even know there's a star hidden behind or above a wall or something.

Originally posted by Adder_:

I managed to find every single star on my own, both in the original game and in the dlc. Then again, I sunk too many hours into this game. Also, Milton called me a sociopath. Maybe that's the consequence of trying to find all the stars on my own, breaking the contact with other human beings and spending hours looking for the sodding stars.

At least I'm proud of my achievement.

You can be. I would never have had the patience to find the tower star alone.

[Gargish🐸]

Got 10 stars in Gehenna by myself and that was enough to open the secret world, so I was satisfied. For example, I passed the one in so close so far (recorder headache puzzle) and two visible ones in the crater in Egypt after trying hard. Took me until the end of the game to even find the path to where the stars are used with another round of searching every inch of the hub world.