As before, the game will sync your save state across platforms, letting you start an episode on your PC and finish it on your tablet. It also supports the Share Charm, lock screen wallpapers, and a menu from which you can listen to the soundtrack. Performance, too, has been improved, although I did notice a few stutters here and there on devices with lower-end processors.
Great game! Perfect mixture of mini games, plus story and I especially loved the fact that the hidden games became more interactive. Far better than going mad just trying to find objects!
I thought the story line was great too, perhaps Hawk can have an episode of his own when he was left? He seems a resourceful guy!
Adera is a 3D point-and-click puzzle adventure game that follows Jane Sinclaire as she journeys to the mysterious city of Adera in search of her missing grandfather. Throughout the game, you will have to solve puzzles, collect artifacts, and explore the environments to reveal the mysteries of Adera. The game boasts vibrant, crisp visuals, but a rather weak, though sufficient storyline. Currently Episode Five of the game is $4.99 in the Windows 8 Store. Additionally, all 5 episodes can be purchased for just $14.99 as the Collector's Edition.
Play through the episode on the hardest difficulty, Trailblazer, focusing on being very thorough and finding all the Adera symbols. Hints are disabled, so you do not need to worry about using those by accident. If you are stuck, see the story-related achievements below for a brief walkthrough on finding items to progress through the story. If you have the Collector's Edition, you can also refer to the Strategy Guide at any point with no impact on any of the achievements. Take note of the miscellaneous achievements as you can do all of those as well. It is likely you won't get all of them on your first try, as they can require some practice and familiarity, especially those related to the mini games.
This achievement requires that you rebuild the bridge in the second part of the episode in only 6 moves. Once you lower the vines to the left of the bridge, you need to hit them in a specific order to raise the bridge. There are 4 vines to pull, from left to right, I am numbering them 1 through 4 (i.e. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4). Pull the ropes in this order to unlock the achievement: 2, 1, 3, 2, 3, 1.
This achievement requires that you complete the wire puzzle in the Glider AND the wire puzzle in the Radical's Camp BOTH in under 1 minutes each in the SAME playthrough of the game. Each of these games have three rounds that get more difficult as you progress. You have 1 minute total to complete all three rounds. This minigame has the gameplay of a puzzle game called Flow if you have ever played that. Basically there are electrical nodes on a grid that must be connected with wires while not overlapping with other ones. Looking at the solutions, you should have no problem getting this achievement. The first wire puzzle is right at the beginning of the game in the glider. The second one is about half way through the episode, just after you talk to the Radicals. See the photos below for solutions. I found it easiest to draw out the short paths first and save the long ones for last.
This achievement requires that you completely fill the boards on all three rounds of the Glider Wire Puzzle with wires so that not even a single space is open. You do not need to actually complete the puzzle this way, just fill the board and hit the "Reset" button in the top right corner of the screen. This should be done on a separate play of the game as doing this will prevent you from getting the "Fire Wire" achievement. This is no big deal because this is the episode's first mini game and only takes about 30 seconds to reach from the start of the Episode. Start the mini game, completely fill the first board, hit reset, complete the first board legit. Fill the second board up, hit reset, then complete it for real. Do the same with the third. The achievement will pop as soon as you fill up all spaces of the third board.
There are 7 in the first part of the episode. Make sure you have all of them and have already unlocked the achievement before progressing to far (the game will warn you when you wont be able to come back). Similarly, in part 2 of the episode, there are 10 Adera symbols to find. These should be collected before you complete the final puzzle, but do not have to be as you can load you last checkpoint after beating the game. There is one achievement for finding all the symbols in each part of the episode. See the locations below.
Thanks. I do know this. That is weird it was set like that. After I complete the game, I started as soon as I entered the very last area. Had to complete the two other puzzles to get the adera glyph pieces and then insert them to start the last puzzle. THanks for the reminder will add this.
2.5 play troughs. Good to be done though. Edit: Fire Wire took 3 attempts. safe to say I can do this episode real quick now. Easiest difficulty then skip everything except the fire wire puzzles. snap -stopwatch.com/
First I would ask that you make entirely sure you collected every item from shown in the collectibles screen. Some collectible types (i.e. butterflies, coins etc.) are the same as episode 1, but there are new ones as well (i.e. caste knots, memorial ribbons, etc.).
Please note that as there are no achievements related to collectables in this episode, you can choose to ignore the collectible notes, however, doing so may disrupt the flow of the guide for you. All of these collectables only require you to click on them once, so this is added to this guide for the completionists amongst us. For ease of reading, necessary storyline items that are new to your inventory will be highlighted in bold text. Collectable items will be highlighted by the use of the underline feature.
The third type of puzzle in this game is the fact that there are a lot and I really mean, a lot of hidden items in the game. There are close to 180 optional items hidden all over the game. From masks, pieces of clothing, coins, artifacts, butterflies to special items. There are even more items to collect. You can always see the items you have collected in the collection section of the main menu. These are separated in different sections giving you a hint in which episode you missed an object. And these items are truly hidden. After I had finished the game, I only found a bit over 80% of all the items. And I thought I was very good at finding these objects. To be honest, this is an interesting way to add a little bit of replay value to this really linear game.
The game gives you the impression that there are going to be more seasons, that the story of Adera will continue. With the game getting a Steam port last year, I have hopes that we will see another season in the (near) future. But, I highly doubt it will happen since there is no mention of seasons in the Steam version. Then again, it could be possible that the second season will start with episode 6 or something.
I purchased Adera episode 2 intending to play through it with my son. We each have our own user account on the same PC. When my son logged in, he was prompted to purchase the app which I had already purchased, installed, and played on the same PC.
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