[SPOILERS] Does anyone know what these special secret areas are for?

[Chet_Awesomelad]

In Reflection, there is a hidden room that has six gems and some unusual symbols: https://i.imgur.com/WVH5lFC.jpg

In this room only, when you dash it plays a different musical note depending on the direction you dash in. I think the symbols are something to do with that, but I can't work out what they mean.

In Forsaken City, there is a hidden area with a satellite dish and some coloured birds: https://i.imgur.com/emjOQxD.jpg

The birds arrange themsevles into a gem shape, and then the screen below the satellite dish flashes colours in this order: White, purple, blue, orange, purple, yellow. This is the same set of colours and the same order as the hidden gem room.

Does anybody know what the symbols in the gem room mean, or if there is something that can be done with this information?

[PRinciple prickley!?!?!]

There is. If you go back to the room with the birds, there is a puzzle that you can complete there. It's all self contained, so just wiggle around until you figure it out. There's prizes.

[Index]

Yeah, the bird puzzle is seperate from the one in chapter 6. Once you figure it out and solve it the second one will be easier to understand.

[internisus]

The Chapter 6 puzzle actually follows from the bird puzzle, so take notes when you figure that one out in Chapter 1.

[Mr. Be Nice to Me Plox]

puzzle spoilers in case you wanna solve it yourself

I've managed to get 2 of the torches lit, basically the colors are based on the Chapter 1 Secret, where each color bird goes into the middle, and then goes outwards in a certain direction. The first torch is playing the sequence in order like in Chapter 1, the 4th torch is playing that sequence, but doing the exact opposite moves that each color represents. I have absolutely no idea what the middle two torches want, but I'm currently in the middle of solving it so I'll update this if I figure it out.

And if you don't wanna go back to Chapter 1 to figure out the movements:

white - up
purple - left
blue - down right
red - up right
yellow - up left

so to solve the first torch, the exact sequence of dashes you do is: up, left, down-right, up-right, left, up-left

and the fourth torch is: down, right, up-left, down-left, right, down-right.

again, will update when i solve the middle two.

update

the middle two are implying reversing singular directions, the second torch wants you to reverse left and right, third torch wants you to reverse up and down.

second torch: up, right, down-left, up-left, right, up-right
third torch: down, left, up-right, down-right, left, down-left

[elemental_knight1]

The above post (#4) was very helpful, thank you!

[Riikka YsiSeiska]

How did you figure out the 4th one? It has no logical clue like 1st, 2nd and 3rd torch have. (Amazing that you figured the 4th one out before 2nd and 3rd, even though it is kind of based on them if it is fully reversed.)

[Perseus]

Originally posted by Joel YsiSeiska:

How did you figure out the 4th one? It has no logical clue like 1st, 2nd and 3rd torch have.

It does! The clues for the 4th are the clues for the other ones. Through a logical elimination process, it's possible to figure out what the fourth is : Obviously, it can't be the same as 1, 2 or 3. That leaves us with 3 possibilities : symmetry from a upright-downleft axis, symmetry from an upleft-downright axis, and symmetry from a centerpoint. Given the fact that all(2) orthogonal symmetries and all(1) no symmetries were used, it would be logical to assume that whatever type of symmetry is left would also be completely used. Therefore it cannot be diagonal symmetries, because there are two left. That leaves us with only the centerpoint symmetry, which is the solution.

You could also think 4 is a combination of 2 and 3 and solve it like that.