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Trying to figure out whether "A Short Hike" is in Night in the Woods continuity because there's a character who's clearly Bea or if it's in Celeste continuity because they're both set in Canadian provincial parks
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@aran there is an element of abstract thought this puzzle demands that i don't think the game clues quite well enough; it hints that there is some connection between the two passcodes and the antagonist's thoughts/motivations, but not to the alphanumeric cipher
i don't know what the finished translation patch goes with but i do remember offering some suggestions hinting a bit more explicitly at the passcode being a cipher
@aran more recently, i got asked for some assistance with an FDS adventure game called Dead Zone
the game's final puzzle is a doozy; it involves figuring out that the (wrong) passcode you've been given is an alphanumeric cipher for one word, and determining that the RIGHT passcode is a different word encoded into an alphanumeric cipher (mercifully, despite the game being in Japanese, the cipher and both words are in English!)
@aran thinking again about some of my adventures in fan translation
there's a bit in Breath of Fire 2 where the game tries to clue you towards finding a guy so you can take his place in a tournament
i gave my WIP to a friend to test, and he got stuck at that part, because the hint was too broad - you're told about the guy, but you're not given enough context to intuit why that information is important
i fixed it with a simple addition to the tune of "if you're not him, you're not getting in!"
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