Category: Guides

See the Guides Index for an easy to browse, alphabetical index of all guides sorted alphabetically by game!

This is a chronological archive of all of my Guides and Walkthroughs, usually for niche/indie games it’s hard to find info for.

If you see something that’s missing or have a question to ask, feel free to reach out in the comments or over email! I read all comments and do my best to update any guide no matter how old any time there’s new information or improvements to be made.

These can be of the form of direct walkthroughs, general how-tos with relevant information, or more specific like trophy conditions, lists of unlisted secrets/cheats/unlocks, or just any info I wish I had known when I started playing.

La-Mulana 2 Guide: Outfit Locations, Walkthrough, and Secrets

La-Mulana 2’s PC release snuck up on…just about everyone, and so I haven’t had time to make a fully detailed guide like my old Axiom Verge guide, but I thought I’d get started since I couldn’t find much info and I got really, REALLY stuck. WIP as I complete the game myself and flesh it all out, check back for updates!

Update: The wiki’s fairly complete and I’ve been a lot less able to play the game than I’d hoped, so for now I’m shelving this

As a Metroidvania, La-Mulana 2 can be quite confusing, so as always in addition to the content of the guide, feel free to pop in my Discord Server or post in the comments below to ask questions or share info!

Here there be spoilers. The game’s huge and writing a spoiler-free walkthrough is pretty much beyond my time-allotment for now. Read carefully and I suggest only reading when you’re stuck.

Game Info

Title: La-Mulana 2
Platform: PC
Developer: NIGORO
Publisher: AGM Playism
Languages: Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese
Release date: 2018-07-30
Length: Long (Likely >40 hours)
Genre: Metroidvania

Updates

2018-08-12: Majorly expanded the item & item location list, starting to work on a map though it’s too ugly to share just yet; tomorrow probably! Added some boss info to Shrine of Frost Giants. My La-Mulana 2 streams have continued too if you want to see the footage!

2018-08-05: Started a video walkthrough. Added Divine Fortress. Added and fleshed out Items section. Greatly expanded the walkthrough, though there’s still much, much more to come. Added pictures of all the wall murals I’ve found, since I’m sure they’re a puzzle.

2018-08-04: Added info on the PS4 controller bug, and a workaround. Expanded the shops in the walkthrough. Finished La Mulana Ruins walkthrough.

2018-08-03: Published La-Mulana 2 guide

La-Mulana 2 Quickstart Tips & Tricks

Save often. If you beat a boss, get a new item, or do almost anything, save. La-Mulana 2 will have (almost) no mercy. Though it will save continue points automatically at save points you fast travel to, but these won’t persis forever. So save.

You can fast-travel at any time, to any unlocked place. Sometimes this is the only way to escape a certain death, and may even solve some puzzles.

Similarly, you can heal by fast traveling to Village of Departure at any time and resting in the hotsprings. Easily La-Mulana 2’s greatest mercy. Otherwise the only way to heal is to find a healing fairy (later on), or “level up” with experience.

The blue meter below your HP is your “experience”. When you get a “level” your health is refilled fully, but nothing else happens. There is no track of your “levels”, it’s really just a health restore method.

La-Mulana 2 is brutal. Expect traps at every corner, expect death, try not to get too frustrated. It can be healthy to take breaks and revisit areas later. With a fresh mind you might find something you missed.

Read (Y button on Xbox controller) every save point pedestal before leaving; this registers them in the Holy Grail’s fast travel menu.

Most bosses you can just leave the room from. Sometimes this is the intended way to handle them; if a boss seems impossible, you’re probably just not supposed to fight it yet. Explore elsewhere.

Some items must be equipped to use (or unequipped to turn off). Pay extra attention to your “apps” menu, as you can only hold so many apps. Create different sets for exploring/scanning if you run out of space.

There are sequence breaks (as more or less always in a Metroidvania), but they make La-Mulana 2 drastically harder until you’re back on track. Avoid them until a second playthrough IMO.

Surprise Fish, surprisingly, are not abundant from what I’ve played. Other surprises, however, are common. Huzzah!

Walkthrough

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Food Fantasy Guide, Quick Tips, & All Recipes

Food Fantasy just released for iOS and Android, a surprisingly complex and well-produced RPG/Restaurant Simulator. I’ve been impressed with it so I decided to start collecting info to help other players, especially in light of how complicated it is.

You can stop by my Discord server to chat about Food Fantasy. We have a guild (mostly) just for members of my Discord! You can also support my guides on Patreon!

This guide is a Work In Progress (Food Fantasy just came out after all), but as always feel free to ask questions, share info, or just chat about Food Fantasy in the Comments below! I’ll be updating as I play and figure things out.

Game Info

Title: Food Fantasy
Platform: Android & iOS
Language: Japanese, English
Release date: 2018-07-24
Developer: Elex
Price: Free with IAP/Gachapon. No ads.
Genre: JRPG/Restaurant Simulator
Filesize: 1.3GB (installed and updated)
Always Online: Yes, persistent internet connection required
Gambling element: Yes (standard character Gachapon a la FateGO etc)
Battery Drain: High

Updates

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Grow Comeback Guide & Walkthrough

Grow Comeback is the latest Grow game in the series by Eyezmaze, and since I didn’t find much info online when I first played it I made a tiny little guide for it! Grow Comeback is a double entendre; the game is about a literal comeback in-universe, but it’s also announcing the comeback of the Grow series via a crowdfunding campaign by On.

Play the game here on the official site; it takes a minute to load, then scroll down a bit under the ad to get the game. It’s HTML5 not flash so it works on PC and mobile regardless of platform! Watch out for malicious rehosts of the game, play Grow games on eyezmaze.com.

Grow Comeback Endings

Click the items to “use” them, the order in which they’re used affects the outcome. A specific order is required to “win” or see the endings.

To keep things fun, spoilers are staggered, so you can see which item to use first/last to help use process of elimination to figure things out, rather than simply looking at the whole list and spoiling it all in one go. If you know the first item, there’s much less possible mistakes to make.

Normal Ending

Item 1

Dumbell

Item 2

Heart

Item 3

Crowd

Item 4

Hair

Item 5

Armor

Item 6

Sword

Secret Ending 1

Grow games usually have at least one secret ending. This one has two!

AKA the

Ending spoiler

Hairy or Afro Ending

Item 1

Crowd

Item 2

Dumbell

Item 3

Hair

Item 4

Heart

Item 5

Armor

Item 6

Sword

Secret Ending 2

AKA the

Ending spoiler

Mario Ending

Item 1

Hair

Item 2

Crowd

Item 3

Dumbell

Item 4

Sword

Item 5

Armor

Item 6

Heart

Videos

My Let’s Play with the first two endings:

You can also see the Secret Ending here:

Credits

Thanks to users this reddit thread and Demonlord Lorence on my youtube for info on the secret endings!

Mothergunship Tips & Tricks Guide

Mothergunship is out now for PS4, PC, and Xbox One! You can buy it for PC here or digitally for Xbox One/PS4.

I’ve been having a blast with it so I’ve started a guide to share some important info and tips! I’ll be expanding it over the next few days/weeks, so feel free to suggest info, tell me what I’m missing, or ask questions in the comments!

Mothergunship Essential Tips

Progression

The game is a “roguelite” meaning it has progression systems between runs; you lose the currently held gun parts but nothing else upon dying. This means you’re always moving forward and at most you “lose” a short play session’s worth of progress, rather than starting over from the beginning.

This makes Mothergunship much more accessible for those who haven’t played many Roguelike games, but don’t think it won’t get harder as you go along! But generally, don’t be afraid to experiment and learn by doing, since there’s very little to lose.

Note that not all features are unlocked from the start; progress through the main story missions to unlock various features like the ability to spend Experience, the Smugger’s Shop, Endless Mode etc.

Experience (purple diamonds) are used to level up your mech between levels, and can raise your jump count, movement speed, HP, hazard resistance, energy cap, energy recharge rate, ability to find secrets, and resistance to landing stun.

Coins can be used inside or outside of a level; inside a level Coins buy very cheap gun parts that are often critical to surviving and progressing through the map. After a level, extra coins are added to a total from which you can buy (very expensive) guns in the Smuggler’s stop.

Gun Parts can be gained from shops inside levels, and are kept as long as you beat the level. Gun parts are never dropped randomly or found in secrets; only shops.

Gun Parts are the only thing in the game that can be ‘lost’, but you only lose what you found in the level, plus anything you decide to take along. By simply not taking a favored gun on a risky mission, you can avoid losing it. Even if you do lose a good one, you can potentially get it back from the Lost and Found part of the Smuggler’s stop (for a fee, of course!).

There is (for some ungodly reason) a limit of 100 gun parts, so after you pick up too many gun parts, you’ll have to sell some.You’ll never be unable to pick up a gun part and lose it instantly; at the end of a mission you pick which parts to sell.

Kiting and dodging

Kiting (the practice of running around enemies to avoid their shots) is critical in this game (it is a bullet ballet after all). Certain enemies have limited ranges, unusual bullet arcs, or limited turning radiuses.

Large cannons in particular you can often stand directly behind and hit, other enemies you’ll have to circle strafe around to keep them from hitting you.

It’s often best to clear out low-HP smaller enemies before engaging in a strafe-down with a larger, high-HP enemy. You can only keep track of so much at once, and the difference in health can be quite large.

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Tap Tap Fish Second Anniversary Event (2018) Guide

This is a guide for Tap Tap Fish – AbyssRium, with only the July 2nd Anniversary Event (2018) information. See the main guide for a more comprehensive set of information. Feel free to add any of my guides to your homescreen for easy access, and offline loading of guides you’ve used (on supported devices)!

Support me on Patreon to help me keep making great guides! Paypal also accepted.

Update 2018-07-16: Baby Corgi does not require the IAP! I made a video discussing problems with the event.

Last year’s fish are included, also the babies; the costs/unlocks for them can be found at the 2017 Anniversary Event Guide. Tap the orange clownfish in the event tab to switch tabs to the 2017 fish. The 2018 event themes work for the 2017 unlocks, you do not need to buy the IAP.

A new fusion fish update is also included but not part of the event. See the Fusion Fish Guide for that info.

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Tap Tap Fish – AbyssRium Fusion Fish & Farms Mini-Guide

This is a “mini-guide” for Tap Tap Fish – AbyssRium, with only the Fusion Fish & Farms information, split out to be faster & easier to load on mobile devices. Feel free to add to your Homescreen for easy access!
See the main guide for a more comprehensive set of information or the Addendum below for other relevant posts.

2018-07-07: All new fish found!
2018-07-04: Updated for the Krill Farm Update.

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Pokemon Quest Recipe Guide

Recipes in Pokemon Quest are one of the most important (and initially, most confusing) aspects of the game. They’re the primary way of getting new pokemon, and without the right recipe you just can’t get some pokemon. So here I’ve compiled the basic recipes, how to make them, and some supporting info to help get you going!

The information in this guide should apply 100% to both mobile (iOS and Android) and Nintendo Switch versions of the game, though I primarily play on Mobile.

If this guide’s successful (and I keep playing the game) I’ll look into making other guides for the game. I started with just this one since I find myself always having to look it up anyway. As always, feel free to comment to ask questions or point out new info!

Basic Recipe Info

Recipes are the primary way of getting new pokemon in Pokemon Quest so it’s important to understand how they work to get what you want and avoid wasting materials.

Higher quality materials attract rarer pokemon but take more turns/expeditions to complete; early on you should focus on low-quality recipes to quickly fill out your common pokemon list and keep a steady flow of new pokemon and not worry too much about rare ingredients.

Note that higher-evolutions are never obtained through recipes, you’ll always get basic pokemon. Pokemon in Pokemon Quest appear to always evolve via level-up rather than other conditions. (Not sure about Eevee yet).

Pokemon Quest Recipes List

Note Rainbow Matter can generally be substituted for recipes to raise their quality level.

1 Mulligan Stew à la Cube
- Cost: Any combination that doesn’t match another recipe
- Effect: Attracts a few specific pokemon
2 Red Stew à la Cube
- Cost: 4 Red ingredients
- Effect: Attracts reddish pokemon
3 Blue Soda à la Cube
- Cost: 4 Blue
- Effect: Attracts bluish pokemon
4 Yellow Curry à la Cube
- Cost: 4 Yellow
- Effect: Attracts yellowish pokemon
5 Grey Porridge à la Cube
- Cost: 4 Grey
- Effect: Attracts greyish pokemon
6 Mouth Watering Dip à la Cube
- Cost: 4 Soft 1 Blue
- Effect: Attracts water-type pokemon
7 Plain Crepe à la Cube
- Cost: 3 Sweet 2 Grey
- Effect: Attracts water-type pokemon
8 Sludge Soup à la Cube
- Cost: 4 Mushroom 1 Soft
- Effect: Attracts water-type pokemon
9 Mud Pie à la Cube
- Cost: 2 Mineral 3 Soft
- Effect: Attracts ground-type pokemon
10 Veggie Smoothie à la Cube
- Cost: 4 Plant 1 Soft
- Effect: Attracts grass-type pokemon
11 Honey à la Cube
- Cost: 4 Sweet 1 Yellow
- Effect: Attracts bug-type pokemon
12 Brain Food à la Cube
- Cost: 3 Sweet 2 Hard
- Effect: Attracts psychic-type pokemon
13 Stone Soup à la Cube
- Cost: 4 Hard, 1 Mineral
- Effect: Attracts rock-type pokemon
14 Light-as-Air Casserole à la Cube
- Cost: 3 Mineral, 2 Red
- Effect: Attracts flying-type pokemon
15 Hot Pot à la Cube
- Cost: 3 Mushroom 2 Red ingredients
- Effect: Attracts fire-type pokemon
16 Watt a Risotto à la Cube
- Cost: 4 Soft 1 Yellow ingredients
- Effect: Attracts electric-type pokemon
17 Get Swole Syrup à la Cube
- Cost: 3 Sweet 2 Mushroom ingredients
- Effect: Attracts fighting-type pokemon
- I swear it’s actually called this
18 Ambrosia of Legends à la Cube
- Cost: 4-5 Mystical Ingredients
- Effect: Attracts Legendary pokemon
  - Articuno, Moltres, Zapdos, Mewtwo and Mew are only available from this

Even if you don’t necessarily want pokemon of a specific recipe, I’d recommend going down the list and completing one of each recipe as one of your first tasks ingame. This not only completes your recipe book ingame for easy reference, but you get some rewards for completing Challenges as well.

Note that some combinations meet the requirements of multiple recipes, if this is the case the result is the lowest number from the list that it satisfies (not counting Mulligan stew).

In-Depth Recipe Info

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Yume Nikki -Dream Diary- Guide

Yume Nikki Dream Diary is here, now with a Version 2.0 update that brings it closer to what most of us expected! Here I’ve documented a walkthrough of (most) of what you need to do, what effects do, the endings, and other information.

Feel free to comment to ask any questions or share info! I’ve provided links to some key terms in the Yume Nikki Wiki, feel free to get lost in the wiki as well, it’s quite enjoyable. I’m trying to link all the references to the original game, as they’re a rather significant amount of the enjoyment to be had in the game, so point out any I’ve missed as well!

For purpose of clarity, the full name Yume Nikki Dream Diary will be used when referring to this game, and Yume Nikki alone will be used to refer to the original game by Kikiyama.

Game Info

Title: Yume Nikki -Dream Diary-
Platform: PC (Steam)
Languages: English, Japanese, French,Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese
Release date: 2018-02-23
Developer: Kadokawa Corporation
Price: $20
Length: About 4 hours
Genre: Horror/Exploration
Filesize: 3GB

Updates

2018-06-10: Adding info for Version 2.0! Thanks a lot to this reddit thread for help with The Wilderness updates.

2018-05-31: Version 2.0 is out and it sounds great! I don’t have the guide updated yet for the new worlds/changes but feel free to ask questions in the comments.

2018-03-09: Expanded walkthrough, The Wilderness info completed and added The Nexus info. The only major stuff missing is a complete list of Concept Art locations (arg)

2018-03-07: Added an interesting theory from Reddit to the Theories section.

2018-03-02: A number of bug patches have been applied to the game lately, including the infamous jumping issues when the framerate is low. Minor guide corrections.

2018-02-28: Added much more Walkthrough info and listed the general location of each Effect.

2018-02-27: Explained (spoiler)’s music puzzle in the secret ending. Added The Mall to the walkthrough.

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Version 2.0

As a quick overview, 2.0 adds:

The Sewers, Block World, and Snow World, which are all connected
- The Sewers is mostly a connection to existing worlds, plus a new puzzle/jellyfish is in it
- Block World is accessed via The Sewers and is a puzzle blocking access to Snow World
- Snow World has the Hat and Scarf effect, and access to Pink Sea/Poniko/Uboa
- Most existing worlds are untouched beyond The Sewers connections
Two new effects, Hat and Scarf and Uboa Mask
- Interact with Poniko’s desk while using the Lantern after triggering the Uboa Event (lights out) in Poniko’s room, then chase Uboa to get the Uboa Mask
- Get Hat and Scarf in Snow World from Mafurako
Uboa’s Trap room added per above, it looks amazing
Four new subsections of The Wilderness added via a Lost Woods/looping maze puzzle including the Aztec Rave Monkey, some purple pylons, the hot springs room, and a lake you freeze to get some concept art
A new NES minigame added, Witch Adventure, referencing the Flight of the Witch event
- This is found by finding the cat in The Sewers, then meeting it again at the roof of The Mall
The strangest addition, Madotsuki’s apartment now has a bathroom in the bottom corner, accessible only in the dream world. It has no apparent function.

All in all, 2.0 is a fantastic update that brings the game a fair bit more in line with the original and addresses several concerns of fans!

What is Yume Nikki -Dream Diary-?

As a heads-up in case you haven’t purchased the game yet (or haven’t started it), Yume Nikki is something closer to a “reimagining” of the original than typical remake or sequel.

Many are disappointed by what they find (as, well, was I) so it’s best to be aware of what you’re going in for. That said, if you’re a big enough fan of Yume Nikki, you’ll probably dive right in and play it like I did so I figured I would make a guide to help those who have already committed to it.

Walkthrough

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Tap Tap Fish – AbyssRium June Pirate Event (2018) Guide

This is a guide for Tap Tap Fish – AbyssRium, with only the June Pirate Event (2018) information. See the main guide for a more comprehensive set of information. Feel free to add any of my guides to your homescreen for easy access, and offline loading of guides you’ve used (on supported devices)!

This Event has ended.

Update 2018-06-03: This event/guide’s been so popular I had to pay to upgrade my server! As always contributing to my Patreon can help me make even more, higher-quality guides & articles, and it keeps the lights on of course!

I streamed the event earlier with my thoughts, and you can see a video guide instead below if you prefer:

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Tap Tap Fish – AbyssRium Ancient Egypt Event (2018) Guide

2018-05-29: The event’s almost over, but a method was discovered to get ankhs super fast from the crab without limit! Also I posted a video about the encouraging direction the game’s taken lately.

This is a “mini guide” for Tap Tap Fish – AbyssRium, with only the Ancient Egypt Event (2018) information, split out to be faster & easier to load on mobile devices. Feel free to add to your homescreen for easy access!
See the main guide for a more comprehensive set of information.

If you enjoy my guides, please consider contributing to my Patreon to help me make even more, higher-quality guides & articles!

All hidden fish already found! Thanks a lot to the /r/AbyssRium community for helping get info so early!

See what the new fish designs look like here (design spoilers)

Thanks to /u/ btbtiu13041 on Reddit for compiling the images!

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