So I sat down to play Eternal Elements, the new point-and-click puzzle from a collaboration between Rosiana D, of Tealy and Haunted Mirror Maze fame, and others. And then a few minutes later I had to stand back up. Was there a time warp? Alien attack?!... no, it's just very, very short, though well made. Use your mouse to interact; click on something to pick it up, and click-and-drag objects from your inventory to use them on screen. Whenever your journal starts flashing, make sure to click on and read it for clues, or just a little backstory. Despite the calm music, all is clearly not well in this strange place of Mysterious Cavesville. Who are you? Why are you here? What happened?... and did you do something to deserve it?
As far as developers go, Rosiana and her cadre of creative consorts are fairly prolific, and it seems like every time they release one of their bite-sized titles they get noticeably better at it. Eternal Elements is a perfect example; it's considerably more polished, it has an intriguing backstory (even if constantly opening the journal to read it can get tedious), and is appealingly dreamlike and mysterious. All it's really lacking is length; something to engage and challenge you. At the moment, Eternal Elements is a fun but extremely short little diversion; not even so much a "coffee break" game, but rather an "espresso shot". A little bird tells me we may yet see a bigger project from them down the road. In the meantime, give Eternal Elements a play for a quick, intriguing adventure. Just don't blink or you'll miss it.
Walkthrough Guide
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Here's a walk through. I don't think it's necessary to complete the game (the journal gives lots of hints), but the coins are pretty hard to find.
1. Click play! :D
So you're in some place with a boulder blocking the exit, a dragon with a pretty blue ball, a dead tree, and some coins.
2.
what are you waiting for? Pick up the coins! 5/65
Okay, that wasn't hard! Now, let's read our journal. Looks like the world is in trouble. That sucks! So what next! What's with thta dragon?
3.
click on the blue orb.
Cool cool. Let's read the journal again. Seems like we have a wind ball?
4.
Click the wind orb and drag it to the rock. The boulder magically moves!!
Woah! THat was awesome! Ok, let's move forward!
5. Dark tunnel? There are
some tourch sockets, but we can't light them. Hey, wait, what's that brown thing? A stick? PIck it up! Now you have a tourch!
6. Moving along...we come to a cozy little place. read the journal if you'd like. But let's collect
some coins!! Who doesn't love money? 11/65!
Be careful. There is a sneaky coin hiding on the rocks near the back arrow
Don't forget to pick up the
windmill head near the red dots.
Let's go right, shall we?
7. Ok. The journal is flashing! A hint possibly?
That red thing is a windmill apparently. Take the windmill head and drag-an-drop it on the black circle near the top of the windmill.
8. Why won't it work? We just need a little bit of
wind power! Drag the wind orb to the windmill and get it moving!
9. Now we can grab the
water orb.
10. and don't forget my favorite item!
The coins!18/65 now!
11. Go left and up into that gray circle thing. Let's do the easy stuff first.
Grab some moo-la! 24/65 coins
Your journal gives you a hint if you wanna look at it!
this is a pond! we need some water! Use your water orb on the pond! and now we have a beautiful waterfall!
12. Go back to the windmill spot and keep going right. Looks like an ancient city. sweet. What the heck is that thing? Maybe we should read the journal...
Looks like it's a hungry dragon! Oh joy! Well, the journal says something about a pear tree at the beginning, lets go check it out! But first, grab some coins! 31/65
13. Now that we are back at the beginning, let's look at that tree. It isn't doing so hot. What do we give plants when they are dying?
water! use the water orb on the tree. You have to put it on the branches. Grab the juicy looking apple!
14. Back to the dragon. Give him
the apple.
Now collect
The stone orb.
Let's go back to the middle place.
15.Is it just me or is there something behind
the tree on the left? Click it!
16. This fills up page 9 of the journal! and look at that cute, but shy, lil monster! While your in this little place, collect
the coins. 39/65
17. Let's exit and go click the up arrow this time! Grab the usual things.
Your coins. 47/65
The journal is flashing! Let's read it! What's all this mumbo jumbo about "the first and the last of the rows of spears are all that change?"
see the dragon's teeth? click the one on the far left and the one on the far right. the teeth should look like the two top ones are facing away from each other and the two bottom ones are facing each other. tug the tail like the journal suggests.
And now you have the fire orb!
18. Back to the in-between place. What can we do with fire?
Oh hey! Why don't we go back and light that cave? You can now see some coins! Collect them to have 52/65.
19. Ok. Inbetween place again. How 'bout we go caving? Go into the cave, but it's to dark to see anything well! Good thing we have
a torch! Light it by dragging the fire orb to it. now collect the coins to get 59/65.
20. Ok. Let's keep moving! Go through the hole at the end. Read the journal!
Looks like we can escape now! Collect the rest of the coins to get all 65! Drag each orb to the crystal on the round thing.
Fire= red
Water= blue
Earth= gray
Wind= yellow
THE END! YAY!
Posted by: smartdogidiot
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July 15, 2010 3:47 PM