Hey, you! Where's your fedora? How can you expect to delve into ancient tombs without a hat? It's just not professional! Heart of Tota is the newest point-and-click adventure game from Pencil Kids, and your chance to prove you deserve to wield that adventurer's bullwhip you have hidden in the back of your closet underneath your Snuggie that you think we don't know about. You play an unnamed, faceless explorer who has landed on an island in search of the Heart of Tota, a legendary artifact inside a gloomy temple. Using your mouse to interact with the screen, solve the puzzles to get the items you need to progress. Pencil Kids continues their tradition of surprisingly sneaky puzzle solutions, so you'll have to explore everything and pay attention to your surroundings in order to proceed.
Pencil Kids has always been known for short, fun games, but in the past have made things a bit too easy with their tendency to point out every hot-spot on the screen. Heart of Tota feels like more of a challenge simply because the only help you get is when your cursor changes as it passes over areas you can interact with. You probably won't ever be stumped for long; if the solution to a puzzle isn't in the room with you, it's usually nearby, so keep your eyes peeled for unusual, um, embellishments. The one thing that feels like its missing, unfortunately, is a bit of character. While it's definitely refreshing to see Pencil Kids step away from the hand-holding area design, it's a bit disappointing to find a complete lack of the strange and interesting characters that usually live inside their games. Heart of Tota could definitely have done with a bit of story or context beyond "you are an adventurer, presumably, and thus enjoy shiny things" to flesh it out a bit.
Heart of Tota will probably take you about half an hour or less to run through, depending on the girth of your adventurer's glands, and earns its rating for a single scene that may make you jump if you're not expecting it. Even without a story, the game is just challenging enough to provide a nice snack to get all your cylinders firing, and comes packaged with a lovely aesthetic to boot. Just remember; real heroes never leave their hats behind.
Walkthrough Guide
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Heart of Tota Walkthrough
General Information:
On the Main Screen there are links to Instructions and you can check out your Achievements when you've completed the game.
You can check the High Scores and enter your score when you are finished.
There are more games from Pencilkids that you can check out or just click Play for this one.
The game has no timer or penalty for too much clicking and hints are available.
Your cursor will turn into a hand when you should pick up an object.
Most close ups will have an "X" to get out of them when you are done but a few are automatic.
Coins are available at each location and subtract from your final click score.
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When you have completed the game you will be able to view your Achievements as shown on the screen shot.
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Walkthrough
Collect 3 coins.
Click on the rock to turn it over and pick up the triangle mirror.
Pick up the anchor and rope from the boat and it will go into your inventory at the bottom of the screen.
Throw the anchor up on the tree branch and climb it to exit the scene.
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Collect the 3 coins.
Click on the apparatus for a close up view and move the arrow to match the insert in the screen shot.
Exit out of the close up.
Exit to the left of the scene.
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Pick up the 3 coins.
Click on the indentation on the wall to the right of the stairs.
In the close up you will need to click on the button at the bottom to open the door and collect the horn.
Exit out of the close up.
Exit up the stairs.
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Pick up the 2 coins and the crowbar.
Exit back down the stairs and go to the left of the scene to arrive at your next destination.
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Pick up the 3 coins.
Use the crowbar in your inventory on the crate and then put it back in inventory.
Take the square mirror and exit out of the close up.
Enter the tomb.
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You are now in Room 1 of the Tomb.
Each room will be numbered because you will be roaming around and there is no map available.
Pick up the 4 coins.
Turn the statues hands down.
Place the horn from you inventory on the right side of his head as you see it.
Click on the dying torch and light it from one of his eyes that are now glowing since you attached the horn.
The lighted torch will go into your inventory and even though it is still called "Dying Torch", it will be available to light up later rooms.
The floor has opened to produce a stairwell for you to exit so take it.
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Use your torch to light the room and then put it back in inventory.
Collect 5 coins and exit to the next room down to the right.
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Use your torch to light the room and then put it back in inventory.
Collect the 4 coins.
Take note of the door on the left and the way the code is arranged.
The back wall has the combination to the lock in Room 2 so note it and exit back upstairs to Room 2.
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Use the combination you just found to change the sliders on the back wall to match.
The door at the left will open so exit through it.
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Pick up the 4 coins.
Remember the door in Room 3...now you must use what your learned from that door so you can open it.
The code starts from the bottom up because you will be climbing the latter toward a higher level of the tomb so the first disc needs to be horizontal.
Exit up the ladder to the next higher level.
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For Room 13 you have the triangle mirror so place it.
There are 3 discs to be turned for your code to open the door in Room 3 so turn them as shown.
Collect the 3 coins before you exit up the ladder to the next level.
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Collect the 4 coins.
Turn the 2 discs as shown.
Place the square mirror.
Keep exiting down the ladder until you get to the bottom which is Room 4.
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Click down twice and go right twice to Room 3.
You have opened the room with the code so enter "Exit 1"on the left.
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Use your torch to light the room and then put it back in inventory.
Click on the block in the foreground twice to move it.
Pick up the 3 coins and the round mirror.
Click on the left wall and the back wall to check out the close ups for later use.
Pick up the staff.
Exit to the right out the door and go across the room and enter Room 8..
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Use your torch to light the room and then put it back in inventory.
Pick up the 2 coins.
You picked up the combo for the game off the wall in Room 7 so now is your turn to use it.
Check the insert to find out that you need to click on the dice in the following order numbered as 1-4 but actually needs to be 3 - 0 - 5 - 4.
When you are finished, exit right to Room 9.
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Pick up 2 coins.
Click on the red marking on the screen shot for a close up to remember later.
Click on the panel under the wall box for a mini game.
Make the panel look like the screen shot so that the wall will open and give you the gem.
Exit and follow the next directions.
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Go left twice and up the left stairs then through the left door.
Climb 3 ladders until you end up at the top in Room 10.
Pick up the 2 coins.
Move the 3 blocks as shown in the order indicated.
Click on the telescope and use the coordinates you received earlier as shown in the insert.
Click to enter the coordinates and then click on the telescope screen again to bring up another close up that will show you the symbols to use on the telescope.
Return to the telescope and click on the symbols you found to activate the telescope and open the door that will shine light and radiate on the mirrors.
Exit down to see the light shining on the level below.
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If you have not already done so, place the gem in the top of the scene and the circle mirror where it belongs and watch the reflection.
Exit to the next level below.
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Exit down 2 more levels to Room 4.
Place the rectangular mirror where it belongs.
Put the staff in the middle of the cake-like configuration and watch it all sink.
Exit down the stairway that is created by the sinkhole.
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Use your torch to light the room and then put it back in inventory.
Collect the 3 coins.
Click on the dial on the right wall to bring up a mini game.
Make it say "tota" and then click on the center to open the door.
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Use your torch to light the room and then put it back in inventory.
Collect the 4 coins.
Get your crowbar from your inventory and smack the crack on the wall 3 times to make a super big hole and find a heart.
Place the heart on the statue and Tota will start glowing.
When the heart turns blue click it.
Stand back because the whole place is now going to start to fall apart.
You need to figure out how to get out of the tomb so exit the door on the right.
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Room 11 is starting to crumble so go the stairs to Room 4.
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Room 4 is a disaster and crumbling so exit right.
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You are back in Room 2 but the upper stairway on the right is blocked so go downstairs to the right to Room 3
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Room 3 is blocked at the right exit so use the door on the left and go to Room 7.
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Everything is a mess in Room 7 so jump down the dark hole.
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You are finally outside so pick up the 3 coins and exit to the right side of the screen.
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Pick up the 3 coins.
Use your crowbar 3 times on the big bunch of rocks on the right side of the scene.
Put it back in your inventory and exit.
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You are back where you began so click on the boat and start rowing.
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You have completed your journey and now have the Heart of Tota so check out your achievements and see how well you did with the game.
Special thanks to Jazz for this kicking walkthrough!
Posted by: grinnyp
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June 10, 2010 6:50 PM