Forgotten Hill: The Wardrobe

Forgotten Hill: The Wardrobe

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Fatum Nov 1, 2024 @ 3:37am
Crow/duck translation error?
I think I found an error, the chapter 2 crow/duck translation puzzle or the manual is wrong.

The crow ask us if we can understand crowese and wants us to repeat what it said. The manual excplititly states that a crow composite sound must be split into two single duck sounds (manual page 7) and we must read crowese in the opposite direction, from bottom to top and right to left (manual page 6). It doesn't state if it applies only to sounds or the whole sentence.

The crows says:

1. diamond
2. diamond
3. diamond with line
4. diamond
5. line

These are 5 symbols and according to the manual you have to compress the first two diamonds into a double circle (1+2) and compress the diamond and the line (4+5) into a circle with a line. Also you have to separate the diamond with line (3) into a circle and a line (circle comes first because of the opposite direction, see page 7). Don't forget that according to page 6 in the end you should reverse the whole thing because you have to read crowese from right to left. So the solution should be:

Duck:
1. circle with line (from 4+5)
2. circle (from 3)
3. line (also from 3)
4. double circle (from 1+2)

This does not work however, the solution in the game is:

1. double circle
2. line
3. circle
4. line with circle

This is the normal direction. Please fix the puzzle/manual page!
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Ultra Taco Nov 13, 2024 @ 8:10pm 
>in the end you should reverse the whole thing
I think it mentions that you read it backwards, but that doesnt apply when its spoken
Ultra Taco Nov 13, 2024 @ 8:20pm 
but yeah I fell for this too. The text should be a bit more clear
Forgotten Hill  [developer] Nov 15, 2024 @ 7:51am 
Hey, thanks for reporting this. English is not our mother language and out English proofreader should have missed this. We are about to release an update and would like to fix this, would "Groups of sounds are read from bottom to top and from right to left." would be explain better that you have to reverse not the whole sentence but only words?
Ultra Taco Nov 15, 2024 @ 6:24pm 
you could say "sound pairs are reversed". The word 'pairs' unambiguously indicates groupings of two
Last edited by Ultra Taco; Nov 15, 2024 @ 6:25pm
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