Please help on some last secrets [Spoilers]

[jeiaz]

So this post is addressed to very late stage players having already beaten the game, who can either hint me towards solutions to some mysteries or want to see what they might still have missed. Here we go:

1) What's up with the website? That was pretty underwhelming after finishing the trophy riddle. I cannot manage to extract any knowledge from the sounds of image. I feel like I didn't actually finish solving the secret there...

2) Might be related to 1). Exiting the trophy room and going north, one arrives to a holy cross door. I might have forgotten what happened when I opened it earlier in the game, but at this stage the room is just an empty corridor with an invisible floor. There is definitely something going on with the weird buzzing sound, but what?

3) On p. 55 of the manual, there is a riddle to translate. Solving it only yielded me a chest with one (1) gem and I feel there might be more, especially as the riddle says: "Near an ancient tomb plundered for its blade lies a special place." "Near" might imply that the riddle talks about somewhere else (and the one gem chest would then be a sort of trolling saying 'close, but not quite'); and also a chest is not a "place"...

4) What the hell is with the changing room? I notice that the square elevated sorta pedestal in the center of the room seems to be a movable thing (when you throw bombs, they go through it)

5) Is there a specific use to the hourglass?

6) In the room behind the holy cross door near the fountain, the back wall seem to be able to open (lasers go through), but if yes, how?

7) Under the well: if you dash through the rubble behind the checkpoint, you get to a small corridor which corresponds to the skull on the map. What then?

8) On p. 34, obviously I already translated and understood the NSEW diagram and the direction/music relationship, but I still wonder if the little bird that's drawn means something. There are a few harmless birds in the level but I can't quite hear that there is a spell in their song.

9) On p. 52: what's with the drawing of a constellation of stars? Maybe I already solved the puzzle related to it but I can't quite place it...

Thanks for any help!

[Yal]

If I remember correctly 4) is addressed directly by the devs in the semi-recent Games Done Quick speedrun where they watched and commentated live - one of the donation goals involved it so they spent a while in that room.

2) If memory serves there's just a page there (one of the later ones with just space for notes)

3) Might refer to the broom puzzle? That secret is accessed from the forest temple's hero grave (not the one you get the sword from originally) - I guess if the all the graves had swords originally this riddle would make sense; this tomb doesn't have a sword because somebody else plundered it before you even got here. (Even the Garden sword is located very close to a hero grave)



My guess (I don't have the manual at hand, I'm writing this from memory) is that 9) is a clue about how the dot-based Holy Cross puzzles work and not a post-game supermystery - I remember figuring out those after seeing one of the drawings. It might just be illustrative and not actually a spell.


I wouldn't read TOO much into "there has to be a secret here, this thing has wonky collision!" occurrences, it could just be that the devs made an invisible wall a teensy bit too short by mistake (or there was something there originally but it was removed later). Most of the puzzles are hidden in plain sight, not actually hidden.