Welcome, friends, to the first edition of Weekday Escape, your own personal portal to the wonderful world of point-and-click! Every Wednesday I will be presenting one or more such games to ease you through the dull middle point of the work week. And what an auspicious beginning for the column...a new, beautiful game has just been launched by Neutral, creator of some of the most highly rated and anticipated room escape games here at JIG! How serendipitous.
Switch confines you once more within a stunningly rendered room (this time, it seems, a child's playroom?) and dares you to unlock its mysteries. Use your point-and-clicking fingers and your logical puzzle-solving skills, and be prepared to bend your mind and come to your wit's end before managing to escape.
We will be back with a more comprehensive review just as soon as we finish it ourselves. In the meantime, do help each other in the comments, ok? Ok!
The Neutral servers are, not surprisingly, under heavy load right now, so if you get a "Service Unavailable" message, wait a few moments and try again. Eventually you will get in.
Cheers to Martha for first word about this new game from Neutral! =)
Banner credit goes to Mat of Nitrome, whom we commissioned to come up with a smashing good banner for our new weekly feature! Cheers, Mat! =)
Walkthrough Guide
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Walkthrough
Zoom in on the table next to the couch. Click on the book and pick up the piece of paper. Zoom out.
Click underneath the couch. Pick up the stick. Zoom out.
Click on the couch. Note the tiny triangle on the top of the couch on the left side of the screen. Click on it. Pick up the star.
Zoom all the way out and click on the tree. Notice the green square on one of the leaves on the upper right side of the screen. Pick it up. Zoom out.
Move one screen to the right. Click on the yellow box. Notice the piece of paper now visible behind the red box. Click on it and note that the arrow points to the eighth track in front of the train. Zoom out.
Click on the ball in the lower right portion of the screen. Click on the bulge in the carpet. Get the blue triangle. Zoom out.
Move one screen to the right. Click on the train. Click on the eighth track from the front of the train.
Examine the train track. Click on it again -- it becomes a key. Zoom out.
Move one screen to the right. Click on the drawers in the middle. Click on the middle drawer (it is unlocked). Get the green piece of paper.
Use the red key to unlock the top drawer. Get the scissors. Zoom out.
Click on the trash bin on the right side of the screen. Notice that behind the drawers there is another stick. Get it. Zoom out.
Click on the "device with wheels" on the other side of the drawers. Cut the string with the scissors. Get the string.
Combine the two sticks and use the string to tie them together.
Zoom out and move two screens in either direction. Click on the trapdoor on the ceiling.
Use the elongated stick to open the trapdoor.
Go back down and click on the yellow box which now contains a pink key. Get the key and zoom back out.
Click on the red box and use the pink key to unlock it. Open the red box and click on the Origami book.
Open the Origami book and keep turning pages to the right until you reach the orange key. Get it and zoom back out.
Click on the blank green piece of paper in your inventory. Now that you know origami, you should be able to make a swan out of the paper just by clicking on it repeatedly.
Move two screens in either direction and use the orange key to open the bottom drawer. Get the hammer. Zoom out.
Use the hammer to hit the piggy bank. Keep hitting it -- at the fourth smash a coin will pop out. Zoom out.
Click on the trash bin. A coin now appears on the lower right. Get it.
Examine both sides of the coin. A three-digit number will appear on the other side (different each time around). Zoom out.
Click on the big drawer on the right-hand side of the screen. Click on the lower left corner of the drawer and input the three-digit number from the coin.
Zoom out and open the drawer that you just unlocked. It appears empty. Click on the upper section of the inside of the drawer and get the circle taped to the top. Notice that you now have all four shapes. Zoom out.
Click on the wheel device and put the shapes in their appropriate places. Click on the device to open it and get the pliers.
Zoom out and move one screen to the left. Click on the fish painting. Click on the nail. Use the pliers to remove the nail.
Zoom out and click on the painting. It should fall down. Click on the white outline.
Place your origami swan in the outline. Zoom out and click the big button above the swan. The area should light up.
Click on the first piece of paper you picked up-- the one with the grid on it. Examine it and click on it to see the other side. There are four animals that correspond to buttons you have to push in a particular sequence.
The first button is the "fish" button, located above the swan. Push the button.
The second button is the bear button. You can find this button by clicking on the teddy bear inside the train tracks. Push the button.
The third button is the dog button. This can be found by clicking on the painting of a dog that is sitting on the drawers. Push the button.
The final button is the swan button. This is located on the wall opposite the origami swan, specifically right at the point of the long wingtip of the projected swan image. Peel back the wallpaper and you'll find the fourth button. Push the button. The room should now darken.
Move one screen to the left and click on the big drawer on the left side. Open it and you will find a button grid.
Here you will need to refer to the grid that is drawn on the paper you picked up first. You need to click the buttons that correspond to the boxes that are NOT shaded. Plus, the projected sequence that is controlled by the buttons is flipped HORIZONTALLY so you need to take that into account as well.
After you have inputted the correct button sequence, insert the coin into the slot. If the coin does not come back out, you got the code right.
Zoom out and move two screens in either direction. Get the key from the string (You'll need to click it twice).
Zoom out and move one screen to the right. Use the key to unlock the door and...
You win!
Posted by: DLand
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June 25, 2008 2:32 PM