Stuck just before trying to rescue baby. Save bug put me in wrong place? - POSSIBLE SPOILER

[oldskoolboarder]

OK, this is frustrating and I don't know if it's a bug.

I got to the point where P the baby is stolen by Vaugnaut (?). I took the buggy to the place where Beak-Beak has to solve the puzzle w/ 3 icons so that it can be arranged and you can go down instead back to the right (as controlled by the 3rd block/track). I was stuck so I saved it from there, hoping to go back and spend more time playing w/ those 3 symbols instead of resorting to a spoiler. I went back and instead of being on the left side of those 3 blocks, now I'm on the right side. That would seem like a SAVE bug to me. Now I can't solve the DANG puzzle to travel downwards. I can't even go back to that portion to have Beak-Beak rearrange it. Any ideas how to reset that puzzle? I'd hate to back to MUCH earlier save point I created.

I tried going WAY back to the other rooms (including the Emerald room where I'm supposed to end up), to try and reset the logic of the game but no luck.

[davetrowe]

I think you are screwed, unfortunately.

That is one of the worst portions of the game, imho, both in terms of design and technical bugs. You might have to revert, sorry to say... The puzzle resets itself later, maybe try going back a ways down the track and see if that resets it?

[davetrowe]

in response to edit:

I see you tried that.... I'm sorry man, you might just have to revert. I could see if I could drudge up a save file for you?

As luck would have it, I have a save file right at that location, because it looks like it didn't save when I went further. Good.

[oldskoolboarder]

Grr. Thanks for the offer but I'm playing the direct download on OSX. The save file directory doesn't appear to be the Library/Application Support/ folder like Steam has. I may have to revert but it's way back when I had to solve those 5 colored gems. I'm hoping maybe a dev sees this and can rescue me...

[davetrowe]

Sorry you have to do that, man. At least you know the solutions now :C

Oh, I can help a bit:

if the OSX version is as bugged as the steam version, at least you can just walk through the door at the 2nd tower without solving the sliding tile puzzle, which might save a minute or two. Also, If you use beak beak to push the button at the end of the long flying cave, go back up and wait under that pipe where the fuzzy thing was to get a faster car, which saves a few seconds. That's all I can think of to help speed this up.

[oldskoolboarder]

Worse than I hoped. My previous save was in the planet room. Even after I aligned, the release for the orange monster didn't happen. Back to zero.

I swear if it gets stuck again, I'm done.

[davetrowe]

Oh wow. ...that's unacceptable...

[Agneum]

Yeah, you want to save often in this game... but you shouldn't have to.

[oldskoolboarder]

Yeah, finished the game last night, making 7 different save points along the way. Great, old school point & click somewhat ruined by some pretty AWFUL bugs.

Not being able to properly solve that Beak Beak puzzle makes trial and error insanely hard. I shouldn't have to resort to 2 different FAQs and combine the solution to only get 2 of the 3 dials, leaving the 3rd to brute force. I muscled through because I missed Neverhood but any new player might just give up and never come back. I wouldn't blame them.

Also, I'm pretty surprised that it's a pretty short game.