Ep2: Get the Compass + Second Fragment

A spoiler-iffic guide for one of the most poorly designed puzzles in the game.

Rant

This is one of the worst-telegraphed puzzles I've encountered in a P&C game in decades.

If you're not using a walkthrough and you're actually trying stuff out, there's a good chance that you'll screw yourself on this puzzle. (And if you go to the existing walkthroughs on Steam out of desperation, they won't explain what you did wrong). You'll wind up at a dead-end for the whole Episode.

Even after you've hit the dead-end, the game still won't ever clearly communicate to you:

• that a compass is something you need,
  
• that a compass is something you could ever acquire,
  or
  
• where you might acquire a compass.

It sucks. Hard.

So, here's a guide for anyone else stuck like I was.

I appreciate you rating this guide up if you used it.

Finding the Compass

• The compass is in the backyard of Wright Manor, in the statue garden.
  
• To get it you need to make the 4 statues on the corners take off their masks, which causes the statue in the center to lower its hands and drop the compass on the ground:

• The 4 statues around the corners depict 4 different figures or characters. Clockwise from top-left, they are: Sage, Clergy, Queen, and Peasant.
  
• While almost nothing in the game has communicated it to you, each of the 4 statues' masks is controlled by 4 panels in various rooms in/around the house. You can change each of the 4 panels between 2 states, corresponding to "Mask On" and "Mask Off." (You could be forgiven for missing this since none of the panels looks anything like a mask, or a statue, or any of the 4 figures.)

Here's the correct state of each Statue/Panel to get the compass:

Statue Position	Figure	Panel Location	Correct Panel State
Top-Left	Sage	Outside, to the right of the front door.
Top-Right	Clergy	Beneath the Sillhouette puzzle, in the secret Study on the top floor.
Bottom-Right	Queen	In the Attic
Bottom-Left	Peasant	In the Basement

Getting the Second Fragment

I'll throw this behind spoilers.

Go to the Graveyard. Now that you have the compass that you didn't know you needed, clicking the anonymous tombstone will suddenly matter; like a complete maniac, you'll promptly dig up the grave without any hesitation (and with your bare hands, apparently) to recover the 2nd fragment.

This sequence of puzzles is a real low point in the series so far (which I otherwise rather enjoy), and it makes me very sad.

[Normalzita]

I think this was without a shadow of a doubt THE LESS INTUITIVE PUZZLE I’VE EVER SEEN. IN MY LIFE. Thank you so much for explaining this.

[KittyKomplex | Ash Lynx' Waifu]

Currently playing this game and THANK YOU so much! I never would've figured this out myself.

[Peter Dicklage]

Thank you so much!!

[Street Soul]

Thanks a lot for the guide man. Finding out I'd have to travel through the entire mansion to check if the masks are on or off just made me say "nah, I'll just look up a guide for this part".

[mofasah]

Thank you you saved my butt

[SonyExx]

Thank you so much, I've found this puzzle so annoying and nonsense, even some other guides are wrong when it comes to some panel state... I'm glad to find out I'm not the only one

[Ed5263]

I'll let the dev off, for making such a good series. But man, this puzzle fucking sucks. Mask on/off switches? looks nothing like it. And digging the grave with your bare hands, despite needing a shovel for it in the previous games...

[Rover Dangerfield]

Thank god you posted this. Every walkthrough out there seems to be copy pasted so all versions skip on explaining this part, and the connection between the symbols and the statues alongside how far apart they are and how the pixel art makes noticing anything about the statues super hard... Just an awful puzzle. Glad I can move on and enjoy the rest.

[invi]

This had me pulling my hair -- was relieved to find I wasn't the only one. I get that it clicked for some people straight away, but I definitely feel like there should at least be an indication that moving those panels is doing something. As it stands they just rotate with no sound or text to suggest that they've changed something somewhere.

[sampoggiali]

Thank you SOOOO much. I almost gave up on this game