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This is the final hold in the series of three. The story is that Beethro has to find the potion on the top tower of the castle that saves Halph.

I think the hold is about 5.5 brains but none of the levels are in order of difficultly. Each level has some easy and some hard rooms. There are also a few victory demo's on the title screen which shows the solution of some rooms.

jbluestein
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OK, there's not really a story here. But that's OK. Possibly better, who knows?

That said, this is an enjoyable and at times fairly difficult hold. A few of the rooms are more difficult than they are fun, but for the most part it's the other way around.

I give this hold 5 brains of difficulty and an 8 rating for fun.

Josh

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Danteslives
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Finally done. This was a lot of fun. I rather liked the stories in the other two holds, but the puzzles are well thought in this one specially on later levels. My only qualm is that in some rooms it seemed that only a very specific set of steps worked and it was just trial and error until you got the right move. Some rooms hurt my head for a while: Tower 2 2N1E, Tower 7 1N1W, Tower 10 1S and Tower 11 1N. Overall a great intermediate hold. I give it 6.5 brains and 8 fun, Thanks!

Danteslives
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By the way, the secret rooms were excelent, but

Where am I going wrong?

jbluestein
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Danteslives wrote:
By the way, the secret rooms were excelent, but

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×Is the secret room in Tower 4 solvable? I kill the rattlers, then the top golem, the top asp, the second golem and finally the second asp. As far as I can see, the bottom asp MUST be killed last, but then the briar kills Beethro almost immediately.

Where am I going wrong?

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Danteslives
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jbluestein wrote:

Danteslives wrote:
By the way, the secret rooms were excelent, but

Click here to view the secret text

×Is the secret room in Tower 4 solvable? I kill the rattlers, then the top golem, the top asp, the second golem and finally the second asp. As far as I can see, the bottom asp MUST be killed last, but then the briar kills Beethro almost immediately.

Where am I going wrong?

Click here to view the secret text

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I don't kill the bottom asp last. Once the green door drops, I'm ready to leave.

So then I suppose you have to get by either one of the rattlers or one of the golems without killing it. I really cant see how to do this.

bomber50
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Danteslives wrote:
So then I suppose you have to get by either one of the rattlers or one of the golems without killing it. I really cant see how to do this.

Danteslives
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bomber50 wrote:

Danteslives wrote:
So then I suppose you have to get by either one of the rattlers or one of the golems without killing it. I really cant see how to do this.

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×The golems aren't going to help much.

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×That leaves the rattlesnakes.

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×How can you leave them alive?

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×Is there a way to get out of their way?

Ha! Who knew Beethro could skip? Thanks!

Rheb
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Wow i really like this hold
It's full of quite challenging puzzly puzzle rooms. It has some puzzles that feels very quickly made, but it also has some really great puzzles, (especially towards the end). The Hold was very fun to optimize too.

I gave it 8,5/10 overall and 6/10 brains. Great job Vipul!

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[Last edited by Rheb at 11-10-2007 10:40 PM]

larrymurk
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Cool hold.

I found level 8 and on harder and more fun. Lots of fun puzzles.

Neather2
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Good hold. I like the puzzles, but too easy.
I give it 7 fun and 5.5 brains! Good one.

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kingpr
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I have really enjoyed this hold. I am stuck though - I cannot find the secret room on level 3 - it is the only room (secret or otherwise) that I have to do and I simply can't find it. Thanks for any help.

CuriousShyRabbit
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Look for a crumbly wall in

kingpr
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And solved many thanks - I had looked for ages for that I don't know how I missed it

martz
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This was an enjoyable hold. Difficulty of puzzles was varied based on the level themes. Wouldn't say there were any filler puzzles either. Not too much in the way of story but that didn't dampen the enjoyment in any way.

Give this a go if you haven't already.

Difficulty: 6
Fun: 7

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tima
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I did not really enjoy the earlier levels as I felt most rooms were a uninspired and there was a lot of trial and error.
The later levels (tower 8 and beyond) had very good rooms and I liked them a lot.
The level design was nice. Difficulty was good, a bit on the easy side but a decent hold overall.
Thanks!