3 Comments to Escape from the Forest House

1. Sol says:

   July 12, 2011 at 3:07 pm

   Too bad it’s only available in Japanese.
   These are the controls, as found in a trial-and-error way:

   Start screen:
   Left button – Start new game
   Right button – Continue saved game
   Lower button – Overview over the game’s controls (in Japanese)

   In-game:
   Inventory, double-click on inventory object – Examine object
   Button in lower right corner – Options
   (Buttons under options are
   left, then right – save and exit
   right – return to game)

   Walkthrough to …
   First and second ending (unhappy):
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   Examine grandfather clock. You can turn the hour hand.

   Take star from brown table.
   Take screwdriver from right drawer in brown table.
   Examine white stain on floor (right of brown table). It’s an image that looks like an old rotary telephone dial.
   Examine hole in the wall, to the right of brown table. It’s too dark to see anything in there.

   Examine black old-fashioned telephone. It’s got a rotary dial.
   Click the painting a few times until it drops.
   Examine brown stain on backside of painting for another image reminding of a rotary dial.
   Click chequered blanket to reveal trapdoor.
   Examine chest of drawers. Use screwdriver to remove screwed-on angle.
   Open drawer and take oil/lubricant spray.
   Look under chest of drawers and take crowbar.

   Use crowbar to pry open crate in front of grandfather clock.
   Look inside crate. Take hammer and remove sacks.

   For the first ending, use crowbar with door to the right of grandfather clock.
   (Click left button for “yes”, right button for “no”).
   For the second ending, go to boarded window and break the boards with the hammer.

   Third ending (good, but still some riddles unsolved):
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   Proceed as for the first ending, but don’t break the boards.

   Click the empty crate until it’s under the vent and turned upside down.
   Examine stain on grandfather clock for a third image of a rotary dial.
   Open grandfather clock. Take torch/flashlight.
   Examine torch/flashlight in inventory. Turn it around and open it. There are no batteries.

   Examine pot with dead tree. Take red pyramid from flower pot.
   Open moon door in cupboard and take batteries.
   Insert batteries into torch/flashlight and turn it on.
   Use hammer with broken stool.
   Take stool.
   Use stool with blue ball to get a view of the top of the cupboard.
   The ball is still too far too reach.
   Look under cupboard. There are two rusty wheels (left and right side).
   Lubricate wheels with oil spray, and turn the stoppers to release the wheel brakes. The cupboard rolls right and reveals a door.

   In view with grandfather clock, use stool with vent.
   Unscrew vent with screwdriver and open it.
   Take windup key.

   Use torch with hole in wall. Take toy car.
   Wind up toy car with windup key.
   Return to cupboard.
   Use stool to get to blue ball. Use toy car to push ball off cupboard.
   Take blue ball.

   Open trapdoor with crowbar.
   Look inside. There’s a little chest with three openings.
   Insert pyramid, ball and star in openings. Open chest.
   Take key.

   For third ending, use key to unlock door next to cupboard.

   Fourth ending (haven’t finished this one yet):
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   Go to telephone and take receiver off hook.
   Enter one of the numbers from the rotary dial images (i.e. click the numbers on the dial that were in the image, in the order as given in the equations).
   It doesn’t have a visible effect, but is necessary for the next step to work
   Have a look at all the numbers from the rotary dial images. Which one is missing?
   Go to grandfather clock and use stool to reach clock face.
   Turn the clock hand at this number [not sure if that is the way we are expected to deduce it, but in any case, pointing the clock hand here does something].
   Open clock cover to find some Japanese writing.

   Now who can read Japanese and find the missing steps for the fourth ending?

   • Vert says:

     July 12, 2011 at 9:36 pm

     Got it. So for that fourth ending:

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     The writing on the inside of the clock face’s case is more or less the first line of the old Japanese alphabet, but more to the point it’s also a clue for how to get that one locked door on the cupboard open.

     In order, open up the doors with these marks: dog, candle, leaf, carrot, broom, snake, bird. The middle one’s unlocked with that, so grab the book, keep flipping until you get to the photograph. Take that. Also, do everything as described in the third ending order to leave.

     And that should be it.

     • Sol says:

       July 13, 2011 at 1:20 pm

       Thanks a lot for completing things, Vert! :)

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