Puzzle (Golden) Path [SPOILERS!]

[ihyw]

So I got "only" about 4 left, but they seem to be the most difficult ones. Would appreciate some mild tips and advice on how to approach these. This is what I got so far regarding this challenging quartet:

1. The one under the bridge where there's only a single money chest, everything is dark except for several shafts of light entering the space from above.
I believe I can hear some high-pitched sounds in the background, so my guess is, this is related to that annoying baby-bird in the Ruined Atoll, who upon moving in different directions makes different sounds/notes? (seems almost impossible to decipher, by the way).

2. Another one under a bridge, right after the room with the laser-shooting turrets, this time it's a tower with a maze pattern, very The Witness/Fez-like. I've tried everything e.g. simply entering the directions following the path from bottom to top (and vice verse of course), I'm pretty sure I'm missing something with those two vertical, adjacent blue-tiled lines at the top of the tower. Very frustrating.

3. Last one to be found under a bridge (the graveyard one), shifting lights counter-clockwise on a wall, showing a clear maze pattern. In a similar vein to the previous one, I've tried all sorts of ways to render the maze, to no avail.
Since the manual has a page showing a windmill spinning clockwise and in this puzzle the images in fact move counter-clockwise, I thought I should simply invert everything or start from the finish point going backwards to the start. Nothing.

4. East Forest, next to Guard House 1 (upper balcony).
There seems to be a faint greenish line running between two faded, similarly green flowers, a big flower (which signifies starting point) and a smaller one, but it appears nigh impossible to guess how it should be traced correctly, since it's practically illegible so to speak.

Phew, that's it. Thanks in advance everyone!

[Perseus]

A general "hint" : Just to make sure, do you know that you need to input the things fast enough?



1 - Hint 1 (light) : I believe that's the room where the floor is invisible? It's unrelated to light or sounds.

Hint 2 (somewhat heavy) : It'll be obvious once you don't see it.



2 - Hint 1 : Do you truly have no idea what the blue lines could mean?

Hint 2 (heavy, related to hint 1) : You've already seen them in other places.

Hint 3 (unrelated to hint 1 or 2) : Corners don't count as inputs.



3 - Hint 1 (light) : It's unrelated to the windmill.

Hint 2 (heavy?) : How did you try to "render" the maze? In any case, the directions shouldn't suddenly reverse.

Hint 3 (very heavy) : Try drawing it.



4 - Hint 1 : Your thing isn't even close to related to the solution.

Hint 2 : It's unrelated to the purple miasma goo thing nearby.

Hint 3 : It's the only puzzle where you can be at the correct location, and righteously have no clue how to solve it.

Hint 4 : You might wanna try seeing things under a different light...
A refracted one.
From the moon.

Hint 5 : Something something HOLY CROSS.

[ihyw]

Thanks Perseus, as for #2, of course I knew what those blue lines are!
Even so I was unable to trace the correct path (maybe not fast enough?). Still not sure how, that's the whole point, doesn't seem so trivial to me.

[Perseus]

Originally posted by ihyw:

Thanks Perseus, as for #2, of course I knew what those blue lines are!
Even so I was unable to trace the correct path (maybe not fast enough?). Still not sure how, that's the whole point, doesn't seem so trivial to me.

Can you give me an example of how you interpret the entire thing? It would help me give more helpful hints.

[ihyw]

Originally posted by Perseus:

Originally posted by ihyw:

Thanks Perseus, as for #2, of course I knew what those blue lines are!
Even so I was unable to trace the correct path (maybe not fast enough?). Still not sure how, that's the whole point, doesn't seem so trivial to me.

Can you give me an example of how you interpret the entire thing? It would help me give more helpful hints.

Like I said in my original post, and I quote: "I've tried everything e.g. simply entering the directions following the path from bottom to top (and vice verse of course)" also incorporating the blue lines and otherwise. Obviously it's yet another maze pattern, only it's not clear to me how those two blue lines integrate with the rest of the maze, they seem to "break the rules" of the maze by more or less bridging a concrete wall that is dividing two separate sections of the maze.

[Perseus]

Sorry, i was a bit unclear : I meant an example of what you think the correct sequence is.

[Grug]

Originally posted by ihyw:

Originally posted by Perseus:

Can you give me an example of how you interpret the entire thing? It would help me give more helpful hints.

Like I said in my original post, and I quote: "I've tried everything e.g. simply entering the directions following the path from bottom to top (and vice verse of course)" also incorporating the blue lines and otherwise. Obviously it's yet another maze pattern, only it's not clear to me how those two blue lines integrate with the rest of the maze, they seem to "break the rules" of the maze by more or less bridging a concrete wall that is dividing two separate sections of the maze.

For the tower, there's only one path to the top. Not sure what you mean by separate section. Think of it like a cylinder instead of a box.