Game:

Repton 3 (1986)

Duration: 7:44

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The second half of the "Pain" screens (for background on this set, see notes to my previous video). These four screens show an appropriate increase in difficulty from the first four. Screen E is possibly my favourite, with some excellent spirit puzzles, and fungus in the top-right to force you to find an efficient solution. (My solution is perhaps a bit more efficient than necessary, and requires very careful timing immediately after taking the key!) Screen F is memorable for its "chains" of cages, the most efficient way to open them being stranding the spirits in a loop as shown. One egg on a safe will cause problems unless a rock is freed to kill the monster.

Screen G is an excellent design, with a few rooms of cunning rock puzzles (including one clearly inspired by Prelude G!) before we reach the spirits. These have to go round a couple of times to open all the cages, and the cage diamond immediately below the last transporter destination should be taken to speed them up, but it must only be taken after all the spirits have bounced off it from above, or they will end up stranded going round the skull maze. The last cage in the centre must not be opened too soon, or there will not be a spirit left to release the one in the bottom-left; but the cage blocking the time capsule must be opened as there is only just enough time for this section. Opening the cages in the correct order requires a bit of waiting around, and the synchronisation with the lyrics was entirely fortuitious :)

Finally, Screen H is similar to F, but as the cages are in a tighter cluster, there is no possibility of stranding the spirits in a loop around them. One spirit is behind a cage in the bottom-right, and must be freed at the appropriate time. In the long corridor between the transporter destination and the key, the fungus must be carefully contained; and this corridor must be cut off from the spirits as their journey would be greatly lengthened if they enter it.

The music for this video is "Waiting for the Miracle" by Leonard Cohen.

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