Principles of Evil II - now with music (AWSOME!!!)

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

I enjoyed the cutscenes (the ending in particular).  Nice work!

[reini]

The mollusc puzzle threw me a bit.  I thought the game would automatically tell me when I had things aligned correctly - didn't realise you had to press the lower right button at first.   

Yeah, that puzzle was really tough! I must admit after trying very hard to guess the combination I ended up spinning the wheels randomly until the right combination was found.

I hate it myself when I create a puzzle, and people don't bother to solve it but rather guess their way through, but in this case I was not able to recognise the names of the different species simply because English is not my native language ;-) (Probably just a bad excuse heh).

Anyone who can describe on how to solve this puzzle? I tried to solve it randomly but w/o a real mouse it's taking me aaaages

thanks!

reini

[paolo]

Reini

Here's how I solved it.

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Click on the question mark next to the dials. You'll get taken to a "cheat sheet" showing the names of all the creatures.

Go to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) and, for each creature, type the name of the creature into the search box (on the lefthand side of the page) and press "Go". On the right of the page, when you get there, you'll see a table that gives you the scientific classification of the creature, including the phylum. Make a note of it.

When you've done this for all the creatures (or enough of them) you'll see that there are several that fall into the same phylum, and that this is true for several phyla. Now go back to the puzzle, and for each creature in each phylum that has several creatures in it, write down which ring that creature is in (outer, middle, inner).

Note that there are only six creatures in the middle ring. Look through the list you've made. You'll see that for at least three of these six creatures, there is a creature in the same phylum in the inner ring, and a creature in the same phylum in the outer ring.

Now it's just a question of lining these creatures up so that they fall between the black needles in the puzzle, using the three knobs at the top right. When you've done this, use the knob at the bottom right to complete the puzzle.

As far as I am aware, there is only one solution, but there may be more than three phyla having a set of creatures in all three rings, so you might have to experiment a bit until you get there.

Hopefully this makes sense and is helpful.

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I liked this game very much - it was better than the first part, in my opinion. Some of the detail was a little hard to see because the rooms were so dark, but I got there in the end.

A few bugs I spotted (sorry if these have already been mentioned or fixed):

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* Once you've put one or more ingredients into the cauldron, looking at it again says "An empty cauldron hangs suspended".
* If you speak to the pharmacist after using the pills, the dialog option "What can you tell me about these pills?" still appears.
* When you look in the coop, the message "A box without treasures..." flashes up on the screen for a fraction of a second - far too fast to read. Is this meant to be there, as it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the game?
* Using the ember on the hay in the inventory gives a different response from using the hay on the ember, and one or both of the responses suggest this is not the right thing to do, even though it is. Perhaps these should say "Not yet" or something like that, as you need to put the hay down before you use the ember on it.

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Apart from that, a big thumbs up from me for the outstanding and beautiful graphics and a great game.

[Groogokk]

Reini

Here's how I solved it.

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Click on the question mark next to the dials. You'll get taken to a "cheat sheet" showing the names of all the creatures.

Go to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) and, for each creature, type the name of the creature into the search box (on the lefthand side of the page) and press "Go". On the right of the page, when you get there, you'll see a table that gives you the scientific classification of the creature, including the phylum. Make a note of it.

When you've done this for all the creatures (or enough of them) you'll see that there are several that fall into the same phylum, and that this is true for several phyla. Now go back to the puzzle, and for each creature in each phylum that has several creatures in it, write down which ring that creature is in (outer, middle, inner).

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No need to go to Wikipedia. Just look at everything (I mean by using the "look at"-action) and the game will tell you both what to do and which

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phylum the creatures

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belong to.

I am stuck with the cooking...

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I have all the necessary ingredients, I have stirred the cauldron, but I can't dip the egg in it. Do I have to make the mixture simmer? How?

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Yes, so far I like this game very much. Its jokes and cutsdenes are good for many a smile.

EDIT: It's okay, I finished it. I put in the

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salt

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again and it worked. Maybe I had only added it in an earlier try (after, not before saving), and it wasn't in there when I restored the game.

Very cool game! *runs off, singing

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"I can't see me lovin nobody but you..."

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[Frodo]

Hey Ola 

Just wondering, is this game still in beta testing?  I didn't find any bugs, but your website still sayis beta testing.  

Brilliant game!!   

[Guest]

The screen was too dark in some places, but having said that, both of your POE games are graphically the best I've seen. I think II is even better than I. Brilliant stuff.

The music was also very good in both games and very funny in spots. My favorite music was from the first game when the character was walking outside the stores.

If you had a compelling story and more character development and interaction you could create something really special.

Well done!!

[Shazzcat]

What a wonderful game. In my opinion it had it all, graphics were amazing (particularly liked the sweet shop - that river! and the mushroom caves) story was interesting and funky, tons of LOL humor, great soundtrack and my absolute ideal level of difficulty puzzle wise (I think I consulted the walkthrough once in each game just for the next step). Both parts were amazing and my heartiest congratulations to you, I would be very proud indeed if I had made it!

That said (enough gushing already) the only part that I found a little bit annoying (just a wee bit) was the botanical names puzzle. For me to log onto the internet to find those all out was not what I wanted to do in a game. That said, again, yay you, fabulous game!

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

You don't have to log in to the internet to find them out - I am honestly puzzled that people have done this. All the information is in-game, one single click away.

[ola_66]

ABOUT THE PUZZLE:

I knew it would be torture... but I wanted to force my love of invertebrates on everyone!!!

There were three versions:
1. no cheat sheet
2. cheat sheet with only names
3. cheat sheet with names and Phylums

So that's why some found it easier than others.

Thanks for all the feedback and compliments guys!!!

[gypsysnail]

What a great game!!! One bug I found though was when I clicked on the small twinkly house in the distance near the old couple's cottage after picking up their prescription from them, I clicked hand on the twinkly house further down and an error message came up and closed the game down. What happened?

[Atripple]

Awesome! I've been waiting for this for YEARS!