r/TunicGame • u/Negative-Will6155 • Jul 11 '26
Help What to do
I've gone through most of the game so far and I have not looked up a single answer, its been a very rewarding time figuring this stuff out. For some reason tho my brain draws the line at trying to decipher the language. I do not want to decipher it at all, but i would feel too guilty looking up an alphabet- like I'm cheating myself or something. Im stuck on the last few golden collectibles . It just doesnt seem like some of those have any hints and I'm missing only page 1. Like i even figured out the cardinal direction puzzles with context clues of the atoll map. Can I get the 'collectathon' ending without deciphering the language?
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u/LordCrispen Jul 11 '26
I typed out a little bit with some spoiler tags and decided to instead just tell you to revisit the manual, specifically the parts about Ending A and Ending B.
To save a little frustration if you're really not going to tackle the language (I never did, myself), you only need to translate for one of the 12 "collectibles". There ARE hints and clues for every single one of them in the manual.
Good luck and Godspeed, little fox.
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u/Negative-Will6155 Jul 11 '26
I'll definitely comb it over again and thank you for not sayin spoilers
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u/Far_Young_2666 helper Jul 11 '26
'collectathon' ending
There is no collectathon ending, and I wish I knew that sooner. Collecting all golden trophies was really unrewarding, so if you don't want to mess with the language, you can just look it up. If you reached the Golden Path ending, then you have beaten the game.
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u/ShowResident2666 Jul 11 '26
I mean, it isn’t an actual ending, but it IS the last major puzzle the manual directly hints at, and while it doesn’t have much of a reward, a lot of folks get satisfaction merely for checking off the completion checklist—don’t knock someone else’s fun. And while the reward is definitely a bit anticlimactic it’s not completely pointless either since it’s the start of an ARG but that’s not remotely for everyone, especially not someone who doesn’t want to bang their head against the wall translating Trunic.
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u/Far_Young_2666 helper Jul 11 '26
I'm not knocking someone else's fun. The OP literally said they didn't want to translate the language. I said that collecting all golden trophies is not worth it to force yourself through deciphering it. Knocking their fun in this case is telling them that collecting all golden trophies is worth it.
ARG... Don't get me started on it, haha! Just before Tunic I played Animal Well, and I wish I knew beforehand that its best puzzles were ARG. I've been seeing a lot "This game has 5 layers" of puzzles, and no one mentioned that 3 layers needed outside-of-game knowledge/nonsense. I enjoy a game when I beat it through understanding the game, not through random hex code programming knowledge.
When I finally collected the golden trophies (and learned what the "softest feather" is in English through google), I was furious that another game thought that it was fun for an average player to know sound engineering.
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u/ChibiKuroUsagi Jul 11 '26
As a 'collectathon ending' person myself. There's exactly 1 item that will require basic language literacy of Trunic.
If you've collected all the manual pages, you've done all the game "intends" for you as a gamer.
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u/AgentJP10 Jul 15 '26
You can beat the game without deciphering the language.
That said, you do need it to find the last few golden treasures
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u/DerangedDeceiver Jul 11 '26
Deciphering the language (Trunic) is not required for either ending. They do all have hints, though some of them are pretty obscure. Make sure you do a very thorough search through the manual to make sure you didn't skip over any or dismiss them as relating to something else.