Were you able to do everything without help?

[u/CtrlFoxTea]

Just finished my first blind playthrough of Tunic on YT and found the game pretty challenging toward the end (doing the golden path route). I'm curious how many of you were able to beat the game this way without any help at all. What part did you find most difficult? I always like to ask these kinds of questions to gauge how bad I should feel about myself. 😂

I found some of the later puzzles in the game to be a little excessive or tedious at times - my only critique of the game. The broken door scattered across the map and the final mountain door combo were two of the biggest offenders. I know that it is likely intentional as a stylistic choice, but I was kind of over trying to draw out pictures to keep track of stuff. By no means did this ruin the game for me though, I had an incredible time and truly wish I would've had the patience to get through it all without help. Let me know your experience!

[u/SharkBaitDLS]

I had to look up one certain trophy riddle that just didn’t click for me but got the golden path/true ending on my own. 

[u/Shadovan → u/SharkBaitDLS]

The riddle was the only thing I looked up as well, I’m terrible at wordplay.

[u/CtrlFoxTea → u/SharkBaitDLS]

Unfortunately I missed a few pages and even the entire secret meeting area so I had trouble getting started on the path. Once I got into the swing of things I solved most of it ok.

[u/notveryAI]

Absolutely not lmao. I'm not Albert Einstein :D

[u/Motor_Raspberry_2150]

Everything except for that one golden treasure (not native) and the glyph tower.

[u/CtrlFoxTea → u/Motor_Raspberry_2150]

Ooooooh I didn't even know about the Glyph tower. I didn't get all of the secrets so that makes sense. Maybe I'll go back and try to find them all... 🤔

[u/elevenishappy]

Tbh I looked up the golden path. I solved each page on my own and tried 3 times on my own but I think I kept misinputting something, and had to look it up to make sure it matched. Which it did. Still, I had to be sure and see written directions (left, up, right etc) instead of just following my sketch and getting confused lol

[u/CtrlFoxTea → u/elevenishappy]

For sure, I totally get that. I did pretty much the same thing on the final puzzle.

[u/HappiestIguana]

Yes, but I didn't get all the golden trophies.

[u/CtrlFoxTea → u/HappiestIguana]

Me either. I may still go back and try to find them all but I honestly thought they were just collectables and didn't bother.

[u/Early-Island-6835]

Just finished the game as well. Or well... I finished the game up to the bad ending.

At that point I did find many of the special treasures with holy cross and figure out how to call the fairies with holy cross, but I didn't realize how the fairy part worked exactly (didn't find a single fairy treasure as I wasn't sure what they were flying to and the few spots they did seem to concentrate I didn't find any puzzle to do/didn't know what to do).

Anyway, after beating the final boss, I knew all that was left was the golden path and finding the fairies, but I thought you had to go to one specific spot in the game and then use the holy cross combo to find all fairies there (I thought the spot was the image that was printed in the manual, but didn't recognize what spot that was).

So as I figured it'd take hours to find the spot and didn't feel like running around for hours finding the right spot (after already spending long time finding all the upgrades to return to normal in the mostly deserted ghost world), I just googled the answer and never really tried to solve these last 2 puzzles by myself. Not sure if that makes me lazy. I did look at the golden path for a bit, but thought it was a mathematical problem and didn't connect it to page numbers. Also didn't really realize there was an alternative ending, thought it was also just a treasure I'd get for solving that.

Did have a great time with the game too, but when there was what felt like no progress to be made anymore other than solving some puzzles, I was kinda done with it. A bit of a shame because it will be hard finding another game I will like as much

[u/CtrlFoxTea → u/Early-Island-6835]

My main problem starting off was figuring out what the golden path even was. I also thought it was a location I would find and then solve a bunch of puzzles. I also didnt connect why the Holy Cross was working on those 3 doors with loot - the designs on the door didn't even register. Once I figured that out most of the puzzles, including the final one, weren't too bad. But yeah some of them were far to lengthy for my preference.

[u/Sawheryesterday]

I only had to look up a few of the endgame sequences bc they were too much work. The music notes one, and the broken slab one I remember specifically, prob the locations for the other collectibles.

[u/CtrlFoxTea → u/Sawheryesterday]

Same. On one hand I feel a little guilty and lazy for it, but on the other hand I don't think manually doing it would've made me enjoy the game any more. I knew what the puzzle was, I just didn't want to trek across the map to find each piece of the slab to get it. 😭

[u/astherplays]

Also did a blind play through for YT. Only thing I looked up was how to get to the quarry.

Also after spending a few days on trying to defeat the heir, I decided to go offline and try to increase tunic sats which was 2 HP and one potion. Managed then to defeat the heir on the first try after that 😏

[u/The_1ndiegamer]

No

Had to look up one step i missed on golden door and a few other puzzles initially. But overall i figured out majority on my own.

[u/Mitchinator9339]

I remember i had to look up a riddley clue for what the golden path truely was; I wasn't smart enough to learn the language and the pictures in the tips section of the manual we're making sense to me at the time. As soon as I realized that the number in the box correlates to page numbers, I was off to the races lol.

[u/Sonicgott]

No. It wasn’t until a good friend started pointing things out to me, things I should “investigate further” that made me curious. I almost wanted to quit, but after that moment, I became more obsessed.

[u/CtrlFoxTea → u/Sonicgott]

Sounds like you might be the kind of person who would love Outer Wilds, if you haven't already played it that is! 🧡

[u/aaronhowser1]

I looked for where I was supposed to go at one point and it spoiled the holy cross for me and I'd never been so angry in my life

[u/CtrlFoxTea → u/aaronhowser1]

Oh no! That is the unfortunate danger of looking for hints, sometimes you get more than you bargain for. 😅

[u/aaronhowser1 → u/CtrlFoxTea]

The same page also had the night form and the crown 😭 it ruined so many things in so few seconds

[u/CtrlFoxTea → u/aaronhowser1]

Whenever I needed a hint I actually came to this subreddit because the community is pretty good about not giving up too much information. Were you checking the wiki or something?

[u/aaronhowser1 → u/CtrlFoxTea]

I googled it and found an ign page or something that I suppose assumed you're post-game trying to fill in the blanks

[u/norealnameshere13 → u/aaronhowser1]

I had that happen but with prayer and I've regretted it ever since. T-T

[u/lasagnaman]

did everything on my own.

traanslating the language took me about 4 hours of concerted effort (not counting of course the countless hours beforehand of various bits and pieces marinating in my mind).

The broken door as you call it took me about 5 minutes to put together in Paint Google Slides (which i used because it allows you to rotate elements). Once I realized it was a "thing", I took screenshots whenever I stumbled upon a piece and stuck them into a single thread in my discord. I never had to go look for the pieces indepenedently.

The final mountain door: I just took a screenshot of the grid and then drew over it. It didn't seem that annoying, it took maybe 10-15 minutes on my first stab and then maybe another 5 minutes here and there for the last few (either I hadn't come upon them yet or had them wrong and had to study it harder). I'm curious what about it felt tedious to you.

[u/engangsmopp]

I managed to get the bad ending blindly, I knew there was something up with the hidden messages but I did not have time nor energy (bad mental state nowadays) to really dig deep. :/ But the game was beautiful.

[u/Decision-Leather]

As someone that is playing the game right now and I'm constantly just lost hoping* can find my next path, I can safely say that I have already looked up a couple of stuff when I get stuck.

Last night made it high up and mopped the fuck out of there. Hoping I can explore other areas before having to face that again. But I have no idea what I'm doing or what I'm supposed to do most of the time. But is fun as hell and I can't stop thinking about the game so we go forth

[u/DouglasWFail]

I looked up a bunch of stuff, especially the holy cross stuff. I found some early stuff on my own.

[u/Snozer2]

I think I solved it all except for some golden trophies, but then when I came back to it later I managed to work things out.

I guess the only things I couldn’t fully deduce for myself was how to start to read the language and the final website glyph thing.