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You can't rebind buttons, but the controls are already pretty simple. The game instructs you to use the keyboard, which is awful for a game like this. While different players may have different problem-solving approaches, puzzles don't allow much player expression because the game does not reflect your approach, only your answer.

I don't hate puzzles, but I consider them to be a limited type of gameplay because much of the solving process happens outside the game. This can make it easy to waste time wandering the mansion aimlessly if you're stuck. This adds some challenge by requiring you to remember details of areas you've been to, but it may also require you to do a lot of backtracking. The open nature of the mansion means some puzzles are presented to you, but require things that can only be acquired by solving other puzzles first or doing something in another room. Some puzzles 'kill' you if you pick wrong, and there is one case I know of that prevents you from getting the hidden ending, which is all the more reason to save often and load your game instead of spending matches and chocolates. It was particularly baffling because the letter 'y' is counted as three strokes instead of two and the font the game uses makes a capital 'Y' look like a lower case 'y' but bigger.

Fausts alptraum gelbooru how to#

Most puzzles don't rely on obscure patterns, but there is one I recall where there are letters associated with numbers and you had to count the number of writing strokes for each letter to understand how to decode another word to get a combination code. You will most likely require a pencil and paper to write down the clues and piece them together.

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The puzzles are challenging because you often have to consider multiple pieces of information or follow a series of steps to connect the logic. There are a variety of puzzles involving arithmetic, matching, patterns, and reasoning. As far as exploring goes, there isn't a whole lot of gameplay to be found here. Matches and chocolates are for those cases where you forget to save. There's no limit to saving, and loading the game is pretty quick, so the whole health mechanic seems pointless when you can just load the game if you 'die' rather than spend your limited resources. You can save your game at journals found in specific rooms. Speed is mainly a convenience for navigating the mansion, although there are a couple of chase sequences that require you to be fast. If you 'die' you will wake up slowed and have to eat a chocolate to get your speed back up. It also lasts forever, but it doesn't drop from taking damage. You can also find chocolates, which increase your movement speed up to a maximum. Rats slowly attempt to approach you, so you shouldn't stay in one place for too long.

Matches are limited, so you should be careful, although avoiding rats is easy unless you have terrible eye-hand coordination, a poor sense of strategy, or are impatient. If the light radius goes to zero, you wake up in the bed you first wake up in at the beginning. The radius increase lasts forever, but touching a rat lowers it, requiring you to spend more matches. You can pick up matches that, when used, extends the radius of your viewing area up to a maximum. You get a lantern giving you a limited view around your character in the dark mansion and you have to avoid rats that roam around. You go around a dark and mysterious mansion interacting with things and solving puzzles to get keys to unlock previously inaccessible areas so you can learn more about the story and solve more puzzles. This is a top-down, 2D exploration and puzzle game in a horror setting. Being reminded of those RPG Maker games and seeing that it was free, I decided to give it a shot. A let's play of Fausts Alptraum by ManlyBadassHero appeared on Youtube and it caught my attention with its distinct art. It was those games that showed me that small developers can produce elegant stories rarely seen in big-budget, mass-media games. I never saw games like those, and combined with let's player commentary, they had me wanting to see more. They are all 2D horror games with charming, anime character designs that contrasts with the horror while telling emotionally impactful stories. Ib and Witch's House got me into watching let's plays years ago. A horror-exploration and challenging puzzle game about family tragedy and self-identity.