The Bard's Tale IV

The Bard's Tale IV

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amra305 Sep 19, 2018 @ 8:11am
Anybody who made it thru tower want to give walkthru?
I have through trial and error got the stone heart and almost everything else I can see except a couple of doors i cant get into.

I know it would be hard to describe the gear puzzles and how to beat but mabey a few of the stone moving puzzles and the rotating glyphs (which i beat by just luck) but mabey someone who is good at explaining stuff could make it bearable for the rest of us.

Im stuck and not sure what to do in the room with all the floating stones and the potion bottles. I got through it but im sure the glowing potion has a use. At the top of the same room there is a gate up the grappling hook i cant get in.

In the room with the 4 stones you move it opens one door but I cant get in the other. tried moving the stones differently but no good.

Mabey someone can shed some light on all this.
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BagOfBones-21403 Sep 19, 2018 @ 10:17pm 
The gear puzzles are quite logical once you find out what the stationary gears "activate". From there it's the puzzle to find out how to manipulate the moveable cogs so you get what you want. E.g. it opens a certain secret door and/or stops axes from swinging.

The rotating glyph puzzles have come in 2 varieties for as far as I've come.
1) Just match all glyphs from top to bottom with whatever is displayed nearby.
2) They are some sort of Sudoku puzzle, just make sure that there are no duplicate glyphs on any row or collumn. Start out on the row or column with the most stationary glyphs and figure out which one(s) is/are missing and fill in that blank. Work your way from there.

As far as that gate in the floating room, I haven't figured out to enter it but you can access the room behind the blocked door with the spikes in the middle. Right after your first gylph puzzle in the floating room, you can grapple down just next to the door with the note attached. Once you're down, you're in the room that's behind that blocked door.

Which only leaves the gate with the treasure chest.

Will update if I find a way.
Last edited by BagOfBones-21403; Sep 19, 2018 @ 10:23pm
BagOfBones-21403 Sep 19, 2018 @ 11:59pm 
Just found the entrance to the room beyond the locked gate in the floating stone room.
You'll get there a little later when you get to a library of some sorts. It's a "secret" entrance from there.
Ishmael Sep 20, 2018 @ 2:45am 
Originally posted by amra305:
I have through trial and error got the stone heart and almost everything else I can see except a couple of doors i cant get into.

I know it would be hard to describe the gear puzzles and how to beat but mabey a few of the stone moving puzzles and the rotating glyphs (which i beat by just luck) but mabey someone who is good at explaining stuff could make it bearable for the rest of us.

Im stuck and not sure what to do in the room with all the floating stones and the potion bottles. I got through it but im sure the glowing potion has a use. At the top of the same room there is a gate up the grappling hook i cant get in.

In the room with the 4 stones you move it opens one door but I cant get in the other. tried moving the stones differently but no good.

Mabey someone can shed some light on all this.
How do you actually get through the room with floating stone? I'm stuck here, just randomly kick the potions now they are floating.
BagOfBones-21403 Sep 20, 2018 @ 2:56am 
Originally posted by Ishmael:
Originally posted by amra305:
I have through trial and error got the stone heart and almost everything else I can see except a couple of doors i cant get into.

I know it would be hard to describe the gear puzzles and how to beat but mabey a few of the stone moving puzzles and the rotating glyphs (which i beat by just luck) but mabey someone who is good at explaining stuff could make it bearable for the rest of us.

Im stuck and not sure what to do in the room with all the floating stones and the potion bottles. I got through it but im sure the glowing potion has a use. At the top of the same room there is a gate up the grappling hook i cant get in.

In the room with the 4 stones you move it opens one door but I cant get in the other. tried moving the stones differently but no good.

Mabey someone can shed some light on all this.
How do you actually get through the room with floating stone? I'm stuck here, just randomly kick the potions now they are floating.

You can grapply up on both sides, but on the side where the Goblin? is standing on the ceiling, is the doorway to the rest of the Dungeon
To get there, you need to push some of those big blocks out of the way.
If you've made a mess of that puzzle, reset it by whistling the last learned tune on the glowing glyph on the ground.
Last edited by BagOfBones-21403; Sep 20, 2018 @ 2:57am
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