Near the "true" end of the game, need a few hints.

[catsgomeow]

So I've got most of the fairies and secret items and have worked out the solution to the mountain door (just need to write it down) but there are a few things that are bugging me.

1: Wind chime puzzle. Are you literally just supposed to use the audio puzzle assist accessibility option to solve this? I could input the code for this one right now if I wanted but it wouldn't feel right. with the accessibility option turned on its obvious that it takes 14 inputs to solve the puzzle but no matter how I count the chime sounds I cant work it out to 14. I know absolutely nothing about sheet music so that may be part of the problem, I can kind of make out 4 unique chime noises but the stop/starting/looping point is totally unclear to me. on top of that the chime sounds seem to have randomized timings and volumes to the point they sometimes overlap and drown each other out (again don't know anything about sheet music so maybe its that). Id like to solve this one the "correct" way but im honestly beginning to doubt my ability to do so.

2: Little blue birds in Ruined Atoll. I haven't messed around with these guys much yet but im guessing its another audio puzzle, basically id just like that confirmed or denied.

3: Text. How doable is translating the text on your own? I haven't really given this a proper thorough shot yet but my few attempts so far have led to zilch. Like thinking that the letters on the page 34 compass were N W S E (they must be right???) or thinking that page 12 says "Controls" got me pretty much nowhere. Obviously there's more to it than being a simple 1 to 1 English alphabet cipher but the ""clues"" on pages 21 and 54 REALLY aren't helping. I don't have page 0/1 yet and am obviously missing a few other things too so maybe Iv'e just yet to find this games "Rosetta Stone". With that in mind should I A: not bother trying to translate, B: Start trying right now, or C: Wait to get some sort of obvious clue before trying (maybe I already have the "obvious clue" and just don't know it?).

4: The handwritten numbers on page 17. Page 17 isn't referenced on page 54 so I assume this is either something unimportant, something !v'e already done without knowing, something I should be able to figure out currently, or something I haven't reached yet.

5: Page 51 60 seconds Shhh clue. I assume this is related to page 1 (as indicated by page 54) or its related to the fire sword or they're all interrelated. So is this all one big late game puzzle? Several different puzzles? My questions the same as the others, should I be trying to solve this (or at least some part of it) now or later.

That's pretty much everything I can think of right now, I don't want any direct solutions but some minor guidance or telling me if id just be wasting my time trying to figure out some of these thing's would be great!

[AN]

1: What are you asking here? If you don't have the inherent pitch differentiation or the musical skill then you can't really solve the puzzle via the audio cues.

2: Not important iirc, definitely not for the good ending.

3: You're right that it isn't a 1 to 1 english cypher. It has a bit of a canadian accent.

4: that's just explaining the exponential money you get from breaking effigies.

5: Idk what that is, I didn't need it to get the fire sword or the good ending, it might have to do with one of the secret treasures, I didn't bother getting all of those.

[catsgomeow]

Originally posted by AN:

1: What are you asking here? If you don't have the inherent pitch differentiation or the musical skill then you can't really solve the puzzle via the audio cues.

2: Not important iirc, definitely not for the good ending.

3: You're right that it isn't a 1 to 1 english cypher. It has a bit of a canadian accent.

4: that's just explaining the exponential money you get from breaking effigies.

5: Idk what that is, I didn't need it to get the fire sword or the good ending, it might have to do with one of the secret treasures, I didn't bother getting all of those.

I've actually already done the wind chime puzzle the correct way since writing this. The thing that was messing me up is that its actually 2 concurrent notes in different sequences of low/high indicating the inputs. Knowing nothing about sheet music/music in general I assumed the four note symbols on page 34 indicated four distinct tones that I had to listen for which uh yeah bad call on my part. I don't know if its like this on steam (Im playing on PS5) but the randomized volume and timings of the notes made it next to impossible for me to tell when the damn sequence actually started and ended. Basically was just overthinking things due to the nature of the game and ended up thinking that the "accessibility option" was some sort of tucked away clue ala the secret "corrupted" savefile.

Also currently in the middle of translating the text :P. Pieced it together near immediately after cheating a bit by confirming what 1 word was: sword. Another case of me just massively overthinking things but thankfully a really fun well put together puzzle regardless.

Good to know about the birds and numbers, the exponential growth of the effigies is something I picked up on already, not really sure why that text is where it is on that page or why some of it is blue. I don't really feel that mechanic is worth obfuscating so heavily but eh.

Just to be clear I have the fire sword card but its pretty obvious it can be fixed/restored in some way, should have made it more obvious that's what I was asking about.

Thank you for clearing some of this stuff up, this helped a ton especially since specific information about this game is a bit hard/impossible to find without getting totally spoiled.