flower lake rebound ball puzzle?

[Ghaleon]

I'm not getting something with this one. In flower lake there's a bounce puzzle where you have to hit a few redirection bubbles while stepping on switches to activate them. I see that there is a slowdown bubble to the far left, just before a go right bubble. However you have to stand on a switch to activate the go right bubble, and immediately after it is a blue wall that you have to stand on a switch to remove. I can't seem to get to the deactivate blue wall switch after it hits the go right bubble though, despite the slowdown bubble. I thought if I angle my initial shot correct, I can get it to hit the slowdown bubble TWICE, but... it seems to be made to only spawn when you haven't made a shot. Advice would be welcome.

[Ghaleon]

I managed to 'solve' this puzzle but I don't think I did it the intended way. Here's my way if someone else is stumped... I'd lke to know the 'proper' way to do this puzzle though.

Ignore all the switches but the last 3, stand on the tiny island directly east of the slowdown thing, shoot a ball left to the slowdown in a way so it rebounds directly back towards you, straight towards the switch that toggles the 'go right' arrow near the end (making it so its direction doesn't even change, but you need to do this to allow the ball to rebound more times), and proceed to the final two switches after.

[LVL99]

Originally posted by Ghaleon:

I managed to 'solve' this puzzle but I don't think I did it the intended way.

Haha, nice trick. Solving the game's puzzles in an unintended way always felt more satisfying for me than doing it the 'right' way.

Anyway, as for this puzzle, the intended way would be to let the projectile bounce off the blue wall once. I made a video of how to do it here: https://youtu.be/T4mG575ik6w

[Ghaleon]

thanks. but.. err. I don't understand. I swear the blue wall al ways vaporizes the ball regardless of the bounce count. weird.

[LVL99]

I think that happens if you start the puzzle by shooting upwards on the first button. Then the projectile will have bounced once before reaching the hourglass and two more times before reaching the right arrow, increasing the bounce count.

[UniTrader]

alternative way i just found: go to the island with the second switch so you respawn there when falling into water, then carefullly navigate the lilypads and edges of the other islands to get to the first switch. then bounce the ball from there to the slowdown, and when it redirects jump in the water so you respawn at the second switch