Like Father, Like Son mystery in Vatican (spoiler)

[jazzycmk]

(spoiler)

So I finally figured this out, somewhat by accident, but I just want to see if I'm dumb or blind or if others had problems with this as well.

The Like Father, Like Son mystery is in a hidden room in the Vatican. You get the key to unlock the room after you rescue the nun in the tower. Room has the cat and dog in it and a safe to unlock.

So upon a quick inspection of room you easily find 2 documents. One with a poem with 8 letters circled / highlighted. The second document has a grid allowing you to match the combination of letters to a number. Easy enough. 8 letters to produce 4 numbers to unlock the safe.

So the letters in the poem LOOK (look being operative word) to be (in order from top to bottom) I-R-I-A-T-A-S-A. The grid to match to the letters has a T-I-S across the top columns and LOOKS to have D-R-A going down the rows.

Matching the letters to the above produced a code of 5-8-7-9. But nothing. Safe didn't open.

So I had matched the letters in the order they were listed so I became convinced that there must be a different order. In the journal, the mystery noted that there were 6 documents related to this mystery and I only had 2 so I figured I had to be missing documents to give me the proper order. Scoured the room - nothing. Went outside and searched the immediate area - nothing. Went back into the tower where the nun had given me the key to get into the room thinking there might be something there. And - nothing.

Gave up for a bit at that point. Finished the campaign but came back to the Vatican post-game to clean up any missing mysteries, discoveries. relics, etc.

I was still stuck. Started randomly experimenting with different combinations but that was never going to work.

At long last, I became convinced my original rationale was correct. I then noticed that what I thought was the "D" in the solution grid was the only letter that hadn't been utilized in code. A "D" would correspond to either 1,2, or 3.

I used my original logic and applied my original solution of 5-8-7-9 but swapped out the "9", and when I hit "3" on the dial, lo and behold the safe opened. So final solution was 5-8-7-3. Inside the safe were 4 documents to bring me to the total of the 6 documents for the mystery, so I hadn't been missing anything.

Still thought it was strange for solution to be a bit random and illogical, so at that point I did look up solution online.

Turns out the last circled letter in the poem was not an "A". It was an "O" Granted the poem was in cursive, but it did not look like anything like an "O" to me.

But wait, there was no corresponding "O" in the grid. Yeah. Well, that "D" turned out to be an "O". And sure enough that made the last combination "SO" which matched up to the "3" on the grid.

Don't know if that was made intentionally confusing or it just went over my head.

But I got it. Rather be lucky than good sometimes.

[Thud]

This absolutely stumped me as well, because I miss-read that last letter.
Thanks for posting this. Was gratified to see I'd followed the exact same logic as you.
Was going nuts trying to figure other ways the letter pairs could somehow line up.

[joridiculous]

Reading notes in this game is not the easiest thing too do.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3420298191
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3420298159
Often best if you can read them in the journal. And the cursive is bad. Why they made the O and A look almost identical? Fake difficulty.