I had such a fun time figuring out all the secrets in this game, the puzzle design gives you just enough info to make you feel like a genius for figuring it out.
So true! It was one of the best gaming experiences. I'll be putting guides up for everything, before going deep into the ARG, but I'm trying to structure them in a way that allows people to maybe solve things on their own (by starting with the hints before giving away any actual solutions.)
When I figured out that each of the pages had a golden line, I was so excited! I felt like a genius! Then I put it all together. It took a while, some pages puzzled me for a bit. And I tried it. And it didn't work. Eventually, after I deciphered half or more of TUNIC's runic language, I caved and looked it up online. I was missing the one dash from P52. Just like that, with one little line, a great discovery and achievement was stolen from me. It's the only thing I regret.
For me it was the fact that it had been almost blatantly in your face for hours. And even though you reviewed the manual countless times, every time your poured over it something new revealed itself that had been there from the beginning. Its just brilliant.
I traced the golden line correctly across all the pages. But when I entered the sequence at the door, it never did anything. Thought I had traced the path wrong, went over all the pages, tried again, still nothing. So I looked it up here. My path was right, I just kept getting the inputs wrong! Similar issues in other fairy puzzles. Frustrating, but glad I gave it a go before looking it up.
I knew exactly which dash you meant without even needing to check, had the exact same thing happened to me - it was the only thing I had off after my first go. I never got around to solving the language (yet!) but I scoured through the manual again double checking my work and when I spotted that dash I *shouted* at it like it had personally insulted me.
I managed to get it right, but this was probably one of my biggest gripes with the puzzle. Because it's so long, it's fairly easy to get one part wrong and either need to re-check all of your work, or just look it up. I think it also turned into a tiny bit of a slog towards the end once I had already figured out how to solve it, but needed to write everything down. Some of the parts of the puzzles were really cool (like the save data part), but others just felt like busywork to me. I think I'm the odd one out here, though, since so many people refer to this as one of the greatest gaming puzzles ever, while I felt it was solidly above average.
Hearing the melody as the door opens was the most beautiful moment of this game, I almost cried out of pure pride and joy. So few games made me feel so incredibly good as this one as I figured out the secret, and it was doing it while I was solving the fairys, staring at the pages for so long made me realize the gold lines all over and with the holy cross recontextualized, made me realize (a little late) I must jigsaw it to uncover it.
@@FuryForged People thought it's just a shallow Zelda knock-off for kids, not realizing it's close in depth to Fez. Underappreciated masterpiece of a game for sure :(
@@FuryForged My favourite thing about the game IS the manual itself. The attention to detail is amazing and its such a good way of world- and storytelling
Eh, i felt it was a niche game for a community. the puzzles are not really singleplay focused making it kinda boring to play alone. If you were not there to enjoy the game in discord, well theres nothing left for you now. just follow the guide.
I just completed it a couple days ago! So cool to have those "aha!" moments, and adding each part of the path to my notes. The one page that I had a problem with was page 52, where the crossthrough line for the stop wasn't obvious to me, and I had to go back to figure that out when my code didn't work on the first attempt. Oh and I nearly forgot to mention; it was your fairies guide that put me onto this game in the first place. I saw the guide and thought, if FF is making a video about it, it must be a pretty cool game. I don't wanna spoil myself by watching the video so I'll go check out the game first. A few days and a true ending later, I can say I'm glad I did.
This is a puzzle/mystery that I never could have in a thousand years, solved on my own. However, I'm grateful to channels like these, and all the other members of the Tunic community, for sharing their wisdom, just as the game told us to, and allowing us casual players to experience the good ending to such a masterpiece. I had it spoiled for me early on, and Im so glad I did, because I would've had so disappointed with the bad ending.
love Tunic and the Golden Path puzzle sequence, there's even another enigma of this game that I rarely see people ever mention it: the endgame ARG. Its elaborate and the payoff was mindblowing for me, I highly suggest looking into it if you really love the game!
I've already recorded footage for another 10 more videos, including everything known so far with the ARG and more. I definitely plan on covering all the things :)
I put the path together by taking a screenshot of each page on the golden path and then using Adobe Illustrator resizing and fitting each path onto a screenshot of the board. I then traced a golden line through the whole thing and wrote out the inputs in a notebook and got the sequence right on the first try. Painstaking, but so worth it
Spoilers for something about this game you can't unlearn: When I cracked the secret of the language, I felt like I'd learned how to read again for the first time. Oh, I'll never forget it! When I read my first sentence in Trunic, it was like a whole new section of my mind opened up. I love this game to pieces.
@@thespeedyyoshi one of the memo pages (I believe 54) is the page that tells you how to decipher the language. It's the only page you need however it takes a lot of trial and error and is not typical.
@@thespeedyyoshi trust me - if you’ve invested enough in the game (and the game WILL make you invested), the challenge flies by. I took on the challenge as a person that has never interacted with language translation in their life, on and off over the course of nearly a year, and I don’t regret a second of it. Try 100%ing tunic!!! It’s about the most rewarding thing I’ve experienced in a video game
@@thespeedyyoshi Believe me, it took me weeks! But it can be done, and it's AWESOME. I regrettably had one tiny piece of the puzzle handed to me accidentally online, but it can definitely be puzzled out from the complete manual. There is a significant hint on the page with the overworld map, and on Page 54...
@@thespeedyyoshi Personally, I used the Controls page as a Rosetta Stone, and you can guess a few words and phrases in other places if you consider the context.
I was wondering about „why on some pages I can see those yellow line details” and „how can you figure out the door code??” But DAMN this would take me insane amount of effort on my own… which unfortunately I don’t have.
I had this puzzle pretty much cracked - except for page 12. I was reading the square as the clue to trace with the holy cross, since that’s the line that’s gold. Of course now that you point it out I can see what they were up to, but I’m bummed I couldn’t figure that one out.
Just finished getting the platinum on ps5 since they added it to the ps+ catalogue. I had to really fight the urge to look up the complete button combination for the golden path because something was apparently wrong with the combo i made. I did eventually figure out that I was missing a dash from page 44 (the one that is outlined on a golden door). Managing to solve it was so satisfying. I caved for the glyph tower though. Seeing the complete solution plus the secret audio file with the secret wave pattern was just wild
It's so cool staring at the jumbled mess of numbers thinking "how am I ever gonna solve this", then realizing what the numbers correspond to, then suddenly seeing golden lines everywhere you look, hidden in plain sight. I played this game shortly after Animal Well, and after solving that one "hands-on" bunny puzzle (if you know you know), I thought that was gonna be my favorite video game puzzle ever for a long time, and then the Golden Path immediately upstaged it (the bunny puzzle is still incredible though)
Tried to input the code nearly 10 times and assumed I had the puzzle wrong. If anyone is having trouble getting the code to work, it might be your d-pad. I have an Elite Xbox controller and was using the circular d-pad. Swapped it out for the more accurate + d-pad and got the door open the very next attempt.
I just solved it an hour ago. I got stuck with page 9 as my last one. Solving all of these solo felt so rewarding, especially since I saw some of the gold lines early game and was so confused by it.
Actually the pages are based off a blank manual with all the scuffs, tears, coffee stains, etc on it and then they scanned the blank pages in and put the digital pages over it. It was revealed in a very recent interview with the lead dev who showed off loads of cool stuff
I tend to tell people interested in trying this game that some of the secrets/puzzles were just not fun for me. For some this might be the best puzzle they've ever had the pleasure of solving, but for me I found it far too tedious and ended up looking it up on google. I just wanted to see the "True" ending and it was a little disappointing to find out it was hiding behind one of the longest puzzles in any game I've ever played. Aside from that I loved the game to bits.
Oh good, I'm not the only one who solved the door by taking a screenshot, blowing it up by 500%, and then screenshotting and cropping all the other page sections into their squares.
if anyone is getting to inputs wrong do this to help. Pause game, options, accessibility, auto open sequence assistance (switch it on) Hope this helps!
figuring it out is fun. the golden path itself, as someone who might be dyslexic because i easily get lost in long, long lists, is probably one of the worst. good god it gives me anxiety just looking at the final solution. and i assume it has to be done perfectly. i could open the smaller doors just fine, that's long enough....
instead of using a list just follow a diagram of the path as you input directions, just remember that the timing is a bit lenient, two seconds can be surprisingly forgiving.
@@Ghorda9 100%, I have no idea how people can do these things with a list of the same four words over and over again. My brain could instantly transliterate the code from the visuals; so shockingly quickly that I'm going to have to use such visual depictions for any strange sequences of inputs like this in the future.
It's too bad inputting the codes doesn't work half the time. I have tried the carpet puzzle probably 50 times in a row. I have no idea what the problem is. I have tried several codes from different places as well as tracing it from the carpet which is at a 45 deg angle which reduces your chance of getting the orientation right. Am I too slow? Does my d pad work well enough? Should I even try the golden path which has over 100 characters?
Me and my friend are not eanglish speakers and could not translate game language. But we figured out how to solve this. Me to my friend: look! This cloud seems like puzzle! But where we must use it? Friend: wait... Is this page shares the number with golden path puzzle? And then we see all pieces of path hidden in pages. It was greatest satisfing moment in game.
as a gigachad noita player I do not believe I will need this video to solve it... so have a good day and imma go play tunic... right after a "short" round of noita...
01:58 That is so clever! To put hidden directions for a puzzle IN actual directions of the manual itself. Bravo! 02:17 Kinda cool ? 02:30 I guess if it wasn't related to a secret, they wouldn't have made that color gold ? So it's kinda obvious but also clever ? Hmm 02:37 Also kinda obvious as that image doesn't need that path with the gold already perfectly placed to reflect the big moment 02:41 Another obvious one with the gold color indicating something extra, which is not related to that spot on the map 02:43 That is really cool! Especially since they are trying to cover it up by making the squares all gold. Just some of it goes outside to get YOU to try to think outside of the box haha 02:55 It's okay 03:00 Another obvious one with the gold color indicating something extra, which is not related to that spot on the map (almost like reading the same line twice hmm...) 03:11 It's clever because it is obvious while also trying to be deceiving 03:15 Very Clever! Because they are using gold here to try and put emphasis on the importance of the main character 03:19 Another very clever one! Those platforms in the game have no paths on them, so gold on gold is a nice touch here 03:23 It's okay 03:27 Genius! It's a symbol of their game which can basically be anything they choose. So very few people will question those golden lines 03:33 Hmm.... I feel that this one is a bit of a stretch. I love the idea behind it and yes it's a very clever placement. However I don't think they executed this one well, as it's too difficult to see any deliberate lines. 03:39 Obvious 03:42 Obvious, as it's the only page that has a gold corner (unless you count the top of page 6 as a corner lol but then they are the only ones) 03:45 Hmm..... Not sure if I feel it justifies any line/path to look for. Then again well hidden I guess.. 03:53 Genius! It's also (if I'm not mistaking) the only one that isn't a straight line, so they try to make it seem even more natural to have it be a swirly turn through the clouds. 04:02 Hmm.. Is it a path tho ? It doesn't look like it has any beginning as it's simply a G ? Not sure how I feel about this one. It is clever though, to have so much gold and lines going on in the center of the image to make you focus there instead of anywhere else. 04:05 Very clever! They seem to have used the color of the stain to produce a gold ish look! Also having another stain in the other corner to play it off as nothing special. 04:18 Yes i like that! A bit less clear gold would have made this even better in my opinion, because the lines are already there and it's not that hard to spot. 04:26 Genius! Using the reflection from the sunlight to make it look like a natural glow. Another example of how masterful they are at their craft. Piece of a puzzle within the explanation of puzzles! 04:37 Kinda obvious 04:41 Wtf... Is this next level secrets or other games have done this before ? Either way, I'm shocked haha. 05:20 As you mention the code being UP LEFT UP RIGHT RIGHT UP LEFT UP The path YOU TAKE as you are explaining it, is actually: DOWN DOWN RIGHT DOWN LEFT LEFT DOWN RIGHT DOWN THIS IS VERY CONFUSING and perhaps you didn't consider how this would totally clash with your commentary ? 06:23 Beautiful
omg I can't believe that showed it right there the entire time lmao, I found it through seeing all the small paths in the booklet and freaking out about it lmao. This game and its secrets were the most fun I have ever had on finding out all the secrets I could in a LONG time. makes me wish there was more!
Where are y’all getting the code for the golden obelisk at 35 secs??? At that point I had all the page’s except page 48,49 and I didn’t see that code anywhere 😑
if you just want the answer reply to me, but for a hint: look closely at the drawing/note that someone left at the bottom right corner of the illustration on page 44, and compare it with the obelisk
Surprisingly it’s not too unreasonable. Keep this in mind: this game puts you in a mindset of scouring these pages throughout the entire game, with plenty of secrets behind everything. If you spend the time to get to where you can actually solve this puzzle, it almost feels like the puzzle pieces fall into place and it feels incredible.
@@danboio1251 Agreed, it's logical enough that if you stick with it the puzzle falls into place in a way that's quite enjoyable. Definitely not as inscrutable as some of the noita mysteries, which to be fair aren't designed to be solved by most people alone.
1:25 I never understood what that picture meant, I thought it was telling me there were 22 secrets to find or something, but still figured out that the squares were corresponding to page numbers out of a random thought
This was the best puzzle ever. The loading screen one was definitely the hardest to figure out. Most people wont even use the function. And if they do out of curiosity, they wont find anything unless they do it twice. Thats a bit too cryptic
Man, the lengths gone to create these intricate puzzles is so impressive to me, I only did a few myself, looked up most, idk, like I think it’s cool and all but it gets to a point where I’m not playing the game anymore, I’m just sitting there for hours trying to solve these puzzles, and the rewards for the puzzles just aren’t there, great game, banger of a game, kudos to those who had the patience to solve them! I’m more of a action oriented gamer, I’d rather try and solve the puzzle of combat(sekiro) than sit there all day with a pen and paper, it’s fun, just not to the lengths the game takes it, if more games like this come out I’m still playing them, loved animal well.
This game is awesome, I've already got the platinum by myself and felt so good. I've never imagined that the runics could be translated into English. I just thought it was gibberish.
I thank you for making this because although it was easy to see that Tunic is a very special game, I lack the patience to get the most out of it and lost interest quickly despite its artistic merit. This lets me understand its value as a game I appreciate but will never finish.
jesus i figured the numbers were pages but i though the path you had to follow was the path with the "?" save file which reduced to amere 7~8 pages never i would think you had to follow all pages. also correction you dont need to return to the living form to access the "?" save file, i was able to do it because i killed the heir only missing the ATK upgrade and choose to move to new game+ but then i wanted to returne to my prview save file and went on load, after choosing the wrong save file and loading the new game+ file a second time. i went back to the load screen and the "?" file appeared.
I was so close!!!! I knew it was the lines hidden in each page. I just didn’t have the patience to spend so long for it to potentially fail! I’m quite annoyed I spent so long looking for an item called the “holy cross”. Also the golden obelisk, I kept returning there (after I got the manual page), forgetting I ever got a reward from it. Still. Amazing game. 10/10. So chuffed I found all the fairies.
I wish I could wipe my memory and solve this puzzle for the first time again. This was easily the best puzzle in gaming history and I’ll die on that hill.
I spent 3 days figuring out what the path for page 42 was. Suspected that highlighted word in gold left a hint or the golden badge, then started translating the language just to find out it was the background the whole time... The essence of not seeing the forest for the trees
When me and my mate were going through page 40 I was so annoyed at that clue. I had headcannoned that it was the Ruinseeker going over the map to try and figure out how to get into that part of the swamp, and the stains at the top were much more golden than the ones at the bottom.
I cannot, for the life of me, get this door opened. 😢 I figured out the code, wrote it down, twice, and made sure it was the same as yours (it is) and just straight looked at yours instead. I don't know if I'm just not inputting fast enough or what. It's so frustrating.
5:05 I randomly had it way early somehow, i was about to load the game and decide if I should go for the red or the blue key, and it was there. And as we know, all 3 keys are needed to enter the combat where you become a ghost, so idk if it was a bug or you can actually get it earlier.
I kind of feel bad that I needed help for some of this, but then again I only got one hint: You have to use all of the boxes. I got myself stuck trying to use the "Holy Cross" on the Golden Path rather than decoding the whole thing.
Towards the end of this video, you narrating over the gameplay would have been a great addition. Don't get me wrong, the game is already amazing as it is. But personally, I would've liked more surface level context to complement the between-the-lines stuff. Maybe in the next game!
There's a strikethrough in the top right corner box that's easy to miss, that might be it. If you think you have everything correct, you could google an image of the completed golden path chart and compare it to yours
I haven't gotten around to playing this game properly so there is only one thing I want to know, is there anything in the game that's permanently missable? like secrets or collectibles?
@@FuryForged Ok that makes me fear the game a lot less because for someone like me who really likes *knowing* things, the game being specifically designed to *not* tell you things is very very daunting.
It all comes together very well as you play. But if you don't want to 100% it or get the "true" ending, then a normal playthrough is simple enough. But, like I said, even after beating it, you have a choice to continue playing OR enter NG+ (and even if you chose NG+, the game creates a new save for you, so you can keep playing on the old one if you want to 100% it.) Lots of friendly options.
Yup. You can enable/disable infinite health and/or infinite stamina at any time while playing, and those don't disable anything at all (including achievements.)
I am so upset that I went through 39 from 12 instead of 16, I spent an hour working through the manual that way round and was *this* close to having it right the entire time, wow I'm sad but god it was fun.
youtube recommending me this now is nice because its narc type community is really putting me off from playing it aka the people who diss on valid negative reviews saying nothing but "skill issue" when people complain that the puzzles are way to complex or the combat is terrible.
I really wish the botton inputs had checkpoints, its so annoying to spend 3/4 minutes inputting it when tabbing in and out of the game to check my notes just to realise I either made a mistake in my notes or in my inputs and having to start again.
Did anybody ever figure out what was up with the gates on the way to the Door? As you progress up the mountain, the ruined gates you pass through have deliberate embellishments on the left side, right side, or both. I figure it's another code, but l never could make total sense of it
rly liked this puzzle... except for the part where there was no way to know u were supposed to quit out while on the mountain to get the extra save file or whatever it was that added it i got all others by myself and i thought i had gotten page 9 since at that point in the game you would have 27 pages found and if u go to page 27 that "path" fits in on the page 9 slot so yea only thing i ever had to look up in this game but after trying for 3 hours it just didnt feel as rewarding
@@FuryForged Thanks for the comment I'm going to try my best! This video is diffidently going to help so I can remember the code when I get all the other pages.
I’m so glad I watched this instead of figuring out myself. Although it looks clear and doable now, I didn’t want to spend a ton of time doing one big puzzle, anyone else’s thoughts?
I actually did it on my own in the game and it was extremely satisfying. It took a lot of time solving it, but once you realize the numbers on page 49 reference pages in the manual it's not too difficult. I got the idea to draw it out on a big piece of paper but wasn't sure if it'd work like that. You start to notice it's all connected and the rest falls in place from there
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I had such a fun time figuring out all the secrets in this game, the puzzle design gives you just enough info to make you feel like a genius for figuring it out.
So true! It was one of the best gaming experiences. I'll be putting guides up for everything, before going deep into the ARG, but I'm trying to structure them in a way that allows people to maybe solve things on their own (by starting with the hints before giving away any actual solutions.)
Much unlike a different game that almost 2 years later still hasn't had its secret solved because there was no proper help in figuring it out.
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Must not be FEZ. Because it's final puzzle is still not sovled properly avter a decade lol
When I figured out that each of the pages had a golden line, I was so excited! I felt like a genius!
Then I put it all together. It took a while, some pages puzzled me for a bit.
And I tried it. And it didn't work.
Eventually, after I deciphered half or more of TUNIC's runic language, I caved and looked it up online.
I was missing the one dash from P52.
Just like that, with one little line, a great discovery and achievement was stolen from me.
It's the only thing I regret.
For me it was the fact that it had been almost blatantly in your face for hours. And even though you reviewed the manual countless times, every time your poured over it something new revealed itself that had been there from the beginning. Its just brilliant.
I traced the golden line correctly across all the pages. But when I entered the sequence at the door, it never did anything. Thought I had traced the path wrong, went over all the pages, tried again, still nothing. So I looked it up here. My path was right, I just kept getting the inputs wrong! Similar issues in other fairy puzzles. Frustrating, but glad I gave it a go before looking it up.
I missed that one tiny line too, but I didn't need to look anything up, my girlfriend noticed it! Teamwork!
I knew exactly which dash you meant without even needing to check, had the exact same thing happened to me - it was the only thing I had off after my first go. I never got around to solving the language (yet!) but I scoured through the manual again double checking my work and when I spotted that dash I *shouted* at it like it had personally insulted me.
I managed to get it right, but this was probably one of my biggest gripes with the puzzle. Because it's so long, it's fairly easy to get one part wrong and either need to re-check all of your work, or just look it up. I think it also turned into a tiny bit of a slog towards the end once I had already figured out how to solve it, but needed to write everything down. Some of the parts of the puzzles were really cool (like the save data part), but others just felt like busywork to me. I think I'm the odd one out here, though, since so many people refer to this as one of the greatest gaming puzzles ever, while I felt it was solidly above average.
Hearing the melody as the door opens was the most beautiful moment of this game, I almost cried out of pure pride and joy. So few games made me feel so incredibly good as this one as I figured out the secret, and it was doing it while I was solving the fairys, staring at the pages for so long made me realize the gold lines all over and with the holy cross recontextualized, made me realize (a little late) I must jigsaw it to uncover it.
this game deserved so much more attention. its amazing
I 100% agree. It's pretty crazy that it hasn't received much more attention.
@@FuryForged People thought it's just a shallow Zelda knock-off for kids, not realizing it's close in depth to Fez. Underappreciated masterpiece of a game for sure :(
@@FuryForged My favourite thing about the game IS the manual itself. The attention to detail is amazing and its such a good way of world- and storytelling
Eh, i felt it was a niche game for a community. the puzzles are not really singleplay focused making it kinda boring to play alone. If you were not there to enjoy the game in discord, well theres nothing left for you now. just follow the guide.
conbat is aweful, just one little sword the entire game.
Had no idea how to solve this puzzle nor the patience so I just did the walkthrough. Kudos to those that pushed through it. Way too cryptic for me.
I just completed it a couple days ago! So cool to have those "aha!" moments, and adding each part of the path to my notes. The one page that I had a problem with was page 52, where the crossthrough line for the stop wasn't obvious to me, and I had to go back to figure that out when my code didn't work on the first attempt.
Oh and I nearly forgot to mention; it was your fairies guide that put me onto this game in the first place. I saw the guide and thought, if FF is making a video about it, it must be a pretty cool game. I don't wanna spoil myself by watching the video so I'll go check out the game first. A few days and a true ending later, I can say I'm glad I did.
Absolutely loved this game and its puzzles.
I noticed really early on the suspicious gold lines, but finally having it contribute to a puzzle in the end was so satisfying.
Wow that is some real attention to details.
The golden path was a wonderful puzzle. It really makes you feel like an omegabrain
that was incredible, never heard of any games where you use a book with markings to progress
This is a puzzle/mystery that I never could have in a thousand years, solved on my own. However, I'm grateful to channels like these, and all the other members of the Tunic community, for sharing their wisdom, just as the game told us to, and allowing us casual players to experience the good ending to such a masterpiece. I had it spoiled for me early on, and Im so glad I did, because I would've had so disappointed with the bad ending.
love Tunic and the Golden Path puzzle sequence, there's even another enigma of this game that I rarely see people ever mention it: the endgame ARG. Its elaborate and the payoff was mindblowing for me, I highly suggest looking into it if you really love the game!
I've already recorded footage for another 10 more videos, including everything known so far with the ARG and more.
I definitely plan on covering all the things :)
Opening the door always gives me chills.
I put the path together by taking a screenshot of each page on the golden path and then using Adobe Illustrator resizing and fitting each path onto a screenshot of the board. I then traced a golden line through the whole thing and wrote out the inputs in a notebook and got the sequence right on the first try. Painstaking, but so worth it
I really liked the obelisk fairy in the lower East Forest. Solving that puzzle helped to prepare me to solve the secret of the golden path.
Holy crap :o
This is so unbelievably in depth I love it. My mind is blown.
Like actually what the hell hahahaha
And the next thing is even more insane.
Spoilers for something about this game you can't unlearn:
When I cracked the secret of the language, I felt like I'd learned how to read again for the first time. Oh, I'll never forget it! When I read my first sentence in Trunic, it was like a whole new section of my mind opened up. I love this game to pieces.
Did you learn to read the language just based on the stuff in the booklet??? HOW?
@@thespeedyyoshi one of the memo pages (I believe 54) is the page that tells you how to decipher the language. It's the only page you need however it takes a lot of trial and error and is not typical.
@@thespeedyyoshi trust me - if you’ve invested enough in the game (and the game WILL make you invested), the challenge flies by. I took on the challenge as a person that has never interacted with language translation in their life, on and off over the course of nearly a year, and I don’t regret a second of it. Try 100%ing tunic!!! It’s about the most rewarding thing I’ve experienced in a video game
@@thespeedyyoshi Believe me, it took me weeks! But it can be done, and it's AWESOME. I regrettably had one tiny piece of the puzzle handed to me accidentally online, but it can definitely be puzzled out from the complete manual. There is a significant hint on the page with the overworld map, and on Page 54...
@@thespeedyyoshi Personally, I used the Controls page as a Rosetta Stone, and you can guess a few words and phrases in other places if you consider the context.
Thank you so much!!! I was having hard time reading Reddit threads that just made the puzzle more confusing. The visuals really helped
Excellent. I'm glad it helped!
I was wondering about „why on some pages I can see those yellow line details” and „how can you figure out the door code??” But DAMN this would take me insane amount of effort on my own… which unfortunately I don’t have.
I had this puzzle pretty much cracked - except for page 12. I was reading the square as the clue to trace with the holy cross, since that’s the line that’s gold. Of course now that you point it out I can see what they were up to, but I’m bummed I couldn’t figure that one out.
Same. Why are we following the blue lines here? Was the only square I didn’t get and a pretty important one!
Just finished getting the platinum on ps5 since they added it to the ps+ catalogue.
I had to really fight the urge to look up the complete button combination for the golden path because something was apparently wrong with the combo i made. I did eventually figure out that I was missing a dash from page 44 (the one that is outlined on a golden door).
Managing to solve it was so satisfying.
I caved for the glyph tower though. Seeing the complete solution plus the secret audio file with the secret wave pattern was just wild
The moment I figured out that the pages were the secret was the moment my puzzle skills changed forever, brilliant.
It's so cool staring at the jumbled mess of numbers thinking "how am I ever gonna solve this", then realizing what the numbers correspond to, then suddenly seeing golden lines everywhere you look, hidden in plain sight. I played this game shortly after Animal Well, and after solving that one "hands-on" bunny puzzle (if you know you know), I thought that was gonna be my favorite video game puzzle ever for a long time, and then the Golden Path immediately upstaged it (the bunny puzzle is still incredible though)
Tried to input the code nearly 10 times and assumed I had the puzzle wrong. If anyone is having trouble getting the code to work, it might be your d-pad. I have an Elite Xbox controller and was using the circular d-pad. Swapped it out for the more accurate + d-pad and got the door open the very next attempt.
Having to put in the whole thing in one go without any feedback on where you failed is probably the weakest part of the puzzle.
for anyone else having trouble there is an accesibility option that lets you see the code you've entered that was incredibly helpful for this
Solving this solo was one of the most rewarding things I've ever experienced in a game...
I just solved it an hour ago. I got stuck with page 9 as my last one. Solving all of these solo felt so rewarding, especially since I saw some of the gold lines early game and was so confused by it.
The manual was physically printed, scribbled on, and scanned. That coffee stain is a real one.
I also love the golden path. It's my favorite puzzle.
Actually the pages are based off a blank manual with all the scuffs, tears, coffee stains, etc on it and then they scanned the blank pages in and put the digital pages over it. It was revealed in a very recent interview with the lead dev who showed off loads of cool stuff
I tend to tell people interested in trying this game that some of the secrets/puzzles were just not fun for me. For some this might be the best puzzle they've ever had the pleasure of solving, but for me I found it far too tedious and ended up looking it up on google. I just wanted to see the "True" ending and it was a little disappointing to find out it was hiding behind one of the longest puzzles in any game I've ever played. Aside from that I loved the game to bits.
Yeah, I agree. My boyfriend said " I think it's clever". I said the devs needed to be throat punched for this one. 😂
@@scorpionzdezignz It's just one guy. You can throat punch him yourself if you want. Personally I loved every second of this puzzle. :)
never in my life would i figure this out. amazing thou
I already am fiending for those next secret videos!
Oh good, I'm not the only one who solved the door by taking a screenshot, blowing it up by 500%, and then screenshotting and cropping all the other page sections into their squares.
if anyone is getting to inputs wrong do this to help.
Pause game, options, accessibility, auto open sequence assistance (switch it on)
Hope this helps!
I finally opened the door thanks to this video, your a real one
figuring it out is fun.
the golden path itself, as someone who might be dyslexic because i easily get lost in long, long lists, is probably one of the worst.
good god it gives me anxiety just looking at the final solution.
and i assume it has to be done perfectly.
i could open the smaller doors just fine, that's long enough....
instead of using a list just follow a diagram of the path as you input directions, just remember that the timing is a bit lenient, two seconds can be surprisingly forgiving.
@@Ghorda9 100%, I have no idea how people can do these things with a list of the same four words over and over again. My brain could instantly transliterate the code from the visuals; so shockingly quickly that I'm going to have to use such visual depictions for any strange sequences of inputs like this in the future.
@@minerman60101 just be careful of overlaps.
This Game is so underrated.
I absolutly love the Graphik and all these awesome Secrets.
I would love to play it for the first time again 😂😂
If I was younger I would have challenged myself to solve this by myself. 40 year old me however is going to look up the password.
There is no WAY IN ABSOLUTE HELL a single person on this earth figured out the golden path puzzle all by themselves.
@@akonvict it’s possible, you just have to look closer than most
Me yesterday. My mind blew when i noticed the small lines hidden in every page. Until that moment i couldn't figure out what the 22/22 meant.
One of the best videos i had ever seen. Thank u man.
I loved doing this puzzle, I wanna do it all over again
finding out about the holy cross was one of the most enlightening moments i've ever had in a game like this
I remember the save file one stumping me for the longest time.
I used sticky notes on a big table! Such a great puzzle!
It's too bad inputting the codes doesn't work half the time. I have tried the carpet puzzle probably 50 times in a row. I have no idea what the problem is. I have tried several codes from different places as well as tracing it from the carpet which is at a 45 deg angle which reduces your chance of getting the orientation right. Am I too slow? Does my d pad work well enough? Should I even try the golden path which has over 100 characters?
Too slow.. i had the same problem and someone on RUclips Said to do it faster and it worked
there's an accesiblity option that lets you see what you've entered and take your time that was very helpful for me, idk if it was added later though
Me and my friend are not eanglish speakers and could not translate game language. But we figured out how to solve this.
Me to my friend: look! This cloud seems like puzzle! But where we must use it?
Friend: wait... Is this page shares the number with golden path puzzle?
And then we see all pieces of path hidden in pages. It was greatest satisfing moment in game.
as a gigachad noita player I do not believe I will need this video to solve it... so have a good day and imma go play tunic... right after a "short" round of noita...
01:58 That is so clever! To put hidden directions for a puzzle IN actual directions of the manual itself. Bravo!
02:17 Kinda cool ?
02:30 I guess if it wasn't related to a secret, they wouldn't have made that color gold ? So it's kinda obvious but also clever ? Hmm
02:37 Also kinda obvious as that image doesn't need that path with the gold already perfectly placed to reflect the big moment
02:41 Another obvious one with the gold color indicating something extra, which is not related to that spot on the map
02:43 That is really cool! Especially since they are trying to cover it up by making the squares all gold. Just some of it goes outside to get YOU to try to think outside of the box haha
02:55 It's okay
03:00 Another obvious one with the gold color indicating something extra, which is not related to that spot on the map (almost like reading the same line twice hmm...)
03:11 It's clever because it is obvious while also trying to be deceiving
03:15 Very Clever! Because they are using gold here to try and put emphasis on the importance of the main character
03:19 Another very clever one! Those platforms in the game have no paths on them, so gold on gold is a nice touch here
03:23 It's okay
03:27 Genius! It's a symbol of their game which can basically be anything they choose. So very few people will question those golden lines
03:33 Hmm.... I feel that this one is a bit of a stretch. I love the idea behind it and yes it's a very clever placement. However I don't think they executed this one well, as it's too difficult to see any deliberate lines.
03:39 Obvious
03:42 Obvious, as it's the only page that has a gold corner (unless you count the top of page 6 as a corner lol but then they are the only ones)
03:45 Hmm..... Not sure if I feel it justifies any line/path to look for. Then again well hidden I guess..
03:53 Genius! It's also (if I'm not mistaking) the only one that isn't a straight line, so they try to make it seem even more natural to have it be a swirly turn through the clouds.
04:02 Hmm.. Is it a path tho ? It doesn't look like it has any beginning as it's simply a G ? Not sure how I feel about this one. It is clever though, to have so much gold and lines going on in the center of the image to make you focus there instead of anywhere else.
04:05 Very clever! They seem to have used the color of the stain to produce a gold ish look! Also having another stain in the other corner to play it off as nothing special.
04:18 Yes i like that! A bit less clear gold would have made this even better in my opinion, because the lines are already there and it's not that hard to spot.
04:26 Genius! Using the reflection from the sunlight to make it look like a natural glow. Another example of how masterful they are at their craft. Piece of a puzzle within the explanation of puzzles!
04:37 Kinda obvious
04:41 Wtf... Is this next level secrets or other games have done this before ? Either way, I'm shocked haha.
05:20 As you mention the code being UP LEFT UP RIGHT RIGHT UP LEFT UP
The path YOU TAKE as you are explaining it, is actually: DOWN DOWN RIGHT DOWN LEFT LEFT DOWN RIGHT DOWN
THIS IS VERY CONFUSING and perhaps you didn't consider how this would totally clash with your commentary ?
06:23 Beautiful
I loved solving The Golden Path puzzle. It was amazing.
omg I can't believe that showed it right there the entire time lmao, I found it through seeing all the small paths in the booklet and freaking out about it lmao. This game and its secrets were the most fun I have ever had on finding out all the secrets I could in a LONG time. makes me wish there was more!
Where are y’all getting the code for the golden obelisk at 35 secs??? At that point I had all the page’s except page 48,49 and I didn’t see that code anywhere 😑
if you just want the answer reply to me, but for a hint: look closely at the drawing/note that someone left at the bottom right corner of the illustration on page 44, and compare it with the obelisk
The way the game uses the manual is absolute genius. You don't unlock things in Tunic, you unlock the knowledge about those things.
This looks beyond insanely difficult and cool
Surprisingly it’s not too unreasonable. Keep this in mind: this game puts you in a mindset of scouring these pages throughout the entire game, with plenty of secrets behind everything. If you spend the time to get to where you can actually solve this puzzle, it almost feels like the puzzle pieces fall into place and it feels incredible.
@@danboio1251 wowza
@@danboio1251 Agreed, it's logical enough that if you stick with it the puzzle falls into place in a way that's quite enjoyable. Definitely not as inscrutable as some of the noita mysteries, which to be fair aren't designed to be solved by most people alone.
Yeah when I saw this it looked so clear to me, but I know I wasn’t about to decipher all of that, I had other stuff to do
1:25 I never understood what that picture meant, I thought it was telling me there were 22 secrets to find or something, but still figured out that the squares were corresponding to page numbers out of a random thought
This was the best puzzle ever. The loading screen one was definitely the hardest to figure out. Most people wont even use the function. And if they do out of curiosity, they wont find anything unless they do it twice. Thats a bit too cryptic
This is definitely one of the best games I've ever played
Man, the lengths gone to create these intricate puzzles is so impressive to me, I only did a few myself, looked up most, idk, like I think it’s cool and all but it gets to a point where I’m not playing the game anymore, I’m just sitting there for hours trying to solve these puzzles, and the rewards for the puzzles just aren’t there, great game, banger of a game, kudos to those who had the patience to solve them! I’m more of a action oriented gamer, I’d rather try and solve the puzzle of combat(sekiro) than sit there all day with a pen and paper, it’s fun, just not to the lengths the game takes it, if more games like this come out I’m still playing them, loved animal well.
This game is awesome, I've already got the platinum by myself and felt so good. I've never imagined that the runics could be translated into English. I just thought it was gibberish.
Never played or heard of this game but it's secrets and music reminds me of Fez (2012)
It is sometimes referred to as a spiritual successor of Fez. It's also absolutely filled to the brim with secrets and crazy ARG stuff.
Fez made me so happy as a kid with its cool 2D 3D mechanics
@@FuryForged Its also quite similar to the game "La Mulana" which I highly suggest fans of cryptic secrets should check out.
This is the type of riddle i consider "too difficult for the average player"
I thank you for making this because although it was easy to see that Tunic is a very special game, I lack the patience to get the most out of it and lost interest quickly despite its artistic merit. This lets me understand its value as a game I appreciate but will never finish.
jesus i figured the numbers were pages but i though the path you had to follow was the path with the "?" save file which reduced to amere 7~8 pages never i would think you had to follow all pages.
also correction you dont need to return to the living form to access the "?" save file, i was able to do it because i killed the heir only missing the ATK upgrade and choose to move to new game+ but then i wanted to returne to my prview save file and went on load, after choosing the wrong save file and loading the new game+ file a second time. i went back to the load screen and the "?" file appeared.
I was so close!!!!
I knew it was the lines hidden in each page.
I just didn’t have the patience to spend so long for it to potentially fail!
I’m quite annoyed I spent so long looking for an item called the “holy cross”.
Also the golden obelisk, I kept returning there (after I got the manual page), forgetting I ever got a reward from it.
Still. Amazing game. 10/10. So chuffed I found all the fairies.
I wish I could wipe my memory and solve this puzzle for the first time again. This was easily the best puzzle in gaming history and I’ll die on that hill.
Feels like Fez all over again...
EXACTLY!
Excellent video!
I spent 3 days figuring out what the path for page 42 was. Suspected that highlighted word in gold left a hint or the golden badge, then started translating the language just to find out it was the background the whole time... The essence of not seeing the forest for the trees
When me and my mate were going through page 40 I was so annoyed at that clue. I had headcannoned that it was the Ruinseeker going over the map to try and figure out how to get into that part of the swamp, and the stains at the top were much more golden than the ones at the bottom.
I know you said you get an achievement for grabbing the last page, but does it alter anything if you grab it first/before completion?
What I meant was that you get an achievement for getting all the pages.
@@FuryForged ah ok thanks for the reply and keep up the good work i love your content
I cannot, for the life of me, get this door opened. 😢 I figured out the code, wrote it down, twice, and made sure it was the same as yours (it is) and just straight looked at yours instead. I don't know if I'm just not inputting fast enough or what. It's so frustrating.
There might be a setting in the options menu that could make it easier for you!
@@FuryForged I'll check it out. My bf suggested using the hour glass but that wasn't helpful. Lol appreciate ya replying.
Is there a tunic playthrough on this channel that I'm missing?
No, I just played Tunic on my own time and didn't stream it.
5:05 I randomly had it way early somehow, i was about to load the game and decide if I should go for the red or the blue key, and it was there. And as we know, all 3 keys are needed to enter the combat where you become a ghost, so idk if it was a bug or you can actually get it earlier.
This game looks so cool
SHARE
YOUR
WISDOM
I kind of feel bad that I needed help for some of this, but then again I only got one hint:
You have to use all of the boxes.
I got myself stuck trying to use the "Holy Cross" on the Golden Path rather than decoding the whole thing.
What does the Tuneic translate to when opening the door?
"share your wisdom"
Towards the end of this video, you narrating over the gameplay would have been a great addition. Don't get me wrong, the game is already amazing as it is. But personally, I would've liked more surface level context to complement the between-the-lines stuff. Maybe in the next game!
I've done the combination so many times and nothing happens.
What am I doing wrong?
Btw I am using the d-pad/arrow keys.
There's a strikethrough in the top right corner box that's easy to miss, that might be it. If you think you have everything correct, you could google an image of the completed golden path chart and compare it to yours
WTF I would never in a million year figure this out..
I stumped upon the page 9 solution on accident and was very confused
Hey! Did you figure it out? Have you tried checking out that screen for yourself?
Just completed the golden path and was almost ready to throw my controller. Messed up probably over 50 times
wait the secret save file has another secret????
I haven't gotten around to playing this game properly so there is only one thing I want to know, is there anything in the game that's permanently missable? like secrets or collectibles?
Nope. You can even continue playing after finishing it in order to acquire anything you may have missed.
@@FuryForged Ok that makes me fear the game a lot less because for someone like me who really likes *knowing* things, the game being specifically designed to *not* tell you things is very very daunting.
It all comes together very well as you play. But if you don't want to 100% it or get the "true" ending, then a normal playthrough is simple enough. But, like I said, even after beating it, you have a choice to continue playing OR enter NG+ (and even if you chose NG+, the game creates a new save for you, so you can keep playing on the old one if you want to 100% it.) Lots of friendly options.
@@FuryForged Alright cool, also another question, I remember there being some sort of easy mode, can you still do everything with that enabled?
Yup. You can enable/disable infinite health and/or infinite stamina at any time while playing, and those don't disable anything at all (including achievements.)
I am so upset that I went through 39 from 12 instead of 16, I spent an hour working through the manual that way round and was *this* close to having it right the entire time, wow I'm sad but god it was fun.
The save file does not require you to progress as far as you said to appear.
oh its tunic! dang i havent played yet i thought this was noita haha
youtube recommending me this now is nice because its narc type community is really putting me off from playing it aka the people who diss on valid negative reviews saying nothing but "skill issue" when people complain that the puzzles are way to complex or the combat is terrible.
I wish I could erase everything I know about this game so that I could play it blind once again.
you didnt comment on the strike through on page 52
I really wish the botton inputs had checkpoints, its so annoying to spend 3/4 minutes inputting it when tabbing in and out of the game to check my notes just to realise I either made a mistake in my notes or in my inputs and having to start again.
Did anybody ever figure out what was up with the gates on the way to the Door? As you progress up the mountain, the ruined gates you pass through have deliberate embellishments on the left side, right side, or both. I figure it's another code, but l never could make total sense of it
First of all: this puzzle is absolutely genius.
It is, however, not fun for digital console players.
rly liked this puzzle... except for the part where there was no way to know u were supposed to quit out while on the mountain to get the extra save file or whatever it was that added it i got all others by myself and i thought i had gotten page 9 since at that point in the game you would have 27 pages found and if u go to page 27 that "path" fits in on the page 9 slot
so yea only thing i ever had to look up in this game but after trying for 3 hours it just didnt feel as rewarding
Wow!
God this game is gonna take me forever But I'm not gonna stop till I get the true ending
It's worth it!
@@FuryForged Thanks for the comment I'm going to try my best! This video is diffidently going to help so I can remember the code when I get all the other pages.
Amazing!
thks alote!!
I cant type this code wrote for the lide of me >:(
hello there
Hello!
a conversation amongst gods
God I hate being stupid. It would have been so fun to figure this out on my own :(
I don’t see how p. 4 leads to p.2…
it took me way too long to figure out that each number in the door was a page number
I’m so glad I watched this instead of figuring out myself. Although it looks clear and doable now, I didn’t want to spend a ton of time doing one big puzzle, anyone else’s thoughts?
I actually did it on my own in the game and it was extremely satisfying. It took a lot of time solving it, but once you realize the numbers on page 49 reference pages in the manual it's not too difficult.
I got the idea to draw it out on a big piece of paper but wasn't sure if it'd work like that. You start to notice it's all connected and the rest falls in place from there