Stuck in "The King of Shreds and Patches"
Irfon-Kim Ahmad
reviewed as being a prime example of a game where you'll never be stuck
and the plot rolls right along, and given all the in-game help and
hints, but I'm feeling stuck in The King of Shreds and Patches. *sigh*
Now that I've outed myself as a simpleton, here's the situation:
***SPOILER SPACE***
I'm in the laboratory, and on the throne's arms are figures. One of
them has an eye with a gem. If I push the eye, there's a click from the
plinth that the throne is on and the eye pushes in.
If I look at the plinth, there's a rectangle visible now. if I push the
rectangle, it pushes in and the eye pops back out again.
The two basically toggle each other. That seems to be all I can do
with either thing, and I can't find anything else to usefull bring to
bear on the situation. It feels like I should be able to do more, and
the hints imply that the throne is necessary in some way.
Any help would be appreciated
Erik Temple
<ir...@ambienautica.com> wrote:
If I remember right, you need another object, a trusty friend you've made
use of a couple of times before...
--Erik
Irfon-Kim Ahmad
Okay, that was weird. When you said this, I thought, "I'm SURE that I
tried anything that fits this description." And it turns out that I'm
pretty sure that I had. I went back to my save and tried it and it
didn't work. I tried lots of other things. Finally, in frustration, I
left the building and went to work on another puzzle elsewhere. After
some "find the verb" frustration there, I went to the hints, and a new
hint about the throne had appeared. I read it and it told me to do
exactly what you're hinting at and exactly what I'm sure I did before,
but I went back and did it and this time it worked. However, a
*different* hint that I had been pursuing for another problem
disappeared from the hint list. So I went back to my save game from
before *again*, copied and pasted the other hint into a text editor, and
then went through the whole sequence for both successfully.
Later, there's more weird stuff happening, like a spot where I'm asked
for some information then told to continue on to another person and then
that person asks me for some information but when I tell them, the first
person responds and I've looped back, but performing the same actions a
second time works. (???)
I don't know if this is all some weird glitch of Spatterlight or what,
but it's been a bit frustrating. :/ All said, though, I seem to have
gotten past those areas okay, so no long-term harm done or anything.
Jacek Pudlo
> so no long-term harm done or anything.
I guess that means we can all heave a sigh of relief?
Seriously, get a girlfriend.
Peter Pears
Don't mind Pudlo. He can't get a girlfriend himself (or a life), so he
comes here and is hostile instead. Thanks for letting us know your
problem is solved. :)