Fausts Alptraum [2d puzzle game] pt 1/3 w/timestamps for select puzzles
0THIS GAME IS FREE ON STEAM
And holy shit do you get bang for your non-invested bucks, I wish most pay games were this good, and intrigate.
I admit that I'm a little lost in regards to the plot, and expect an info dump or something later. But as we all know Goete wrote Faust - and if you know anything about that story, it follows pretty close somehow... so recap of Goetes Faust if needed
Faust is an alcymist who is close to killing himself because he doesn't find the answers and get the results he want, he strikes a deal with the devil (Mefistofeles), and gets 24 years to get all the answers he want, to any questions he might have, in return for his soul. Faust meets Margurite and falls in love. Margurite (or Gretchen, depends on the language you read it in), is from a very religious family - and in order for them to have fun times, she spikes her mothers soup with some pills that Faust gives her (probably sleeping pills i guess). Mother dies from these pills, and Margurites brother catches Faust as he escapes from their house. Brother challenges Faust to a duel for the sake of their familys honor - they duel and brother dies, cause Faust cheated and got help from Mistofeles. Faust then has to run from the village, and leaves Margurite alone and pregnant, she gives birth to the child and drowns it, and she is convicted for child murder and dies. Well the ending is a little more "secular" than this, cause Faust wants to save Magurite from this fate, and so Mefistofeles comes to the prison to pursuade Faust that it is not his monkey or circus, and says that Magurite is doomed, and then an angelic voice says 'she is saved'... But since we haven't had too much religion in this game, I doubt this is how anything ends.
So similarities, they are that Faust is also called Heinerich Faust, like Elisabeths daddy, and her mother is called Margurite, oh and the devil is Mefistofeles - so far so good. I bet the confused man we meet in the second part is the brother, looking for Margurite. But how it fits together I don't know, I haven't finished the game, I still need to finish the last part.
The story's Faust was an alchymist, and I think that game Faust is a scientist? but pretty close no matter what.
Fun fact - one is in Denmark we have a word for when you don't really want to answer a question, and that is derived from Faust, it's a borrowed word (we have many of those) and is called a "Gretchenfrage" (Margurite-question), cause Faust don't want to answer her questions about God and religion.
And also i felt like explaining in case you don't know, Alptraum is German for nightmare.
Timestamps for the puzzles that I found slightly hard, I won't timestamp all puzzles at all! Because after all, you do need to use your head a little :P And most of the puzzles can be solved with looking in every drawer, and in general investigave EVERYTHING, game is good at giving hints that is useful.
SAFE IN STAR ROOM PUZZLE EXPLANATION & SOLUTION 59:50
SAFE IN CLOCK ROOM (COLOR PUZZLE) EXPLANATION & SOLUTION 35:33