r/TunicGame

Just finished my first blind playthrough of Tunic on YT and found the game pretty challenging toward the end (doing the golden path route). I'm curious how many of you were able to beat the game this way without any help at all. What part did you find most difficult? I always like to ask these kinds of questions to gauge how bad I should feel about myself. 😂

I found some of the later puzzles in the game to be a little excessive or tedious at times - my only critique of the game. The broken door scattered across the map and the final mountain door combo were two of the biggest offenders. I know that it is likely intentional as a stylistic choice, but I was kind of over trying to draw out pictures to keep track of stuff. By no means did this ruin the game for me though, I had an incredible time and truly wish I would've had the patience to get through it all without help. Let me know your experience!

(Just ranting about my fantastic experience with this game and my brother) Where do I begin, probably with the fact that I have not beat the game and it still holds such a special place in my heart. My older brother (22) bought this game on his PS5 while he was home for Christmas break and I tried it but couldn't get into it personally, but whenever he would get on to play I would try and get downstairs to watch. It just looked super cool. okay now that you know a little bit here's the spoilers. . . . The yellow road or golden path whatever its called is by FAR the coolest puzzle I've seen in gaming and running around collecting parts of a guide to the game is crazy (and I'm sure you know this but the pages are NOT unlocks you can do everything in the game as far as I am aware away without picking a single one up) but okay enough blah blah, story time I came downstairs one time and saw my brother playing Tunic I sat down on the couch behind him watching, as he plays I'm asking questions about things trying to stay engaged and suddenly he starts talking about a secret path of sorts and how he thinks the top of this mountain holds some secret purpose I thought it was a cool idea but nothing was actually going to use it right? Just some cool worldbuilding well tbh I don't remember if it's used or not but he flips to a page in the book showing the start of a path one thing leads to another he has all of the lights downstairs on so he can see better, a pen and paper, mapping out some road and following it in game man just watching everything happen was so cool solving the puzzle the amazing sound track and in the end saving the final boss. . . with a different ending and different credits with even better music it was just perfect. the perfect end to us sitting in the basement for hours on end. . . . . I don't use reddit often but I feel like it is the perfect place to share stories like this and fuck, this game dude like I said before I didn't even beat it personally never even got out of the first area and it still left this impact on me. . . (as I read this again I'm realizing I didn't go very far into depth but hey I don't care I love this game I love my brother and you reading this thanks for reading this! Feel free to reply with any of your stories I would love to hear!)

So I started playing Tunic the other day on PS5. Woke up today and decided to play all day on my day off. Got all three medallions and became a ghost. Took a break, hopped back on. And my game's save data is just gone? It reverted back to my old save from yesterday. And now the file won't save anymore? What on earth is going on? I just lost about 11 hours worth of progress and feel so miserable and defeated.

Edit i started a new game file, and it is saving and tracking progress. But when I load the old file it refuses to save or track progress anymore at all. Did I lose all my progress for good? This game is really difficult and there's no way I can remember everything I found in those 11 hours

>!1. I'm struggling deciphering a lot of things. I only got this far cuz I'm used to metroidvania's and am naturally curious enough when wandering. 2. The movement is kinda janky so when I can't move a certain direction, I assume its because the path is blocked (it wasn't and I had to turn). Now I waste my time trying to turn into corners that probably are just dead ends and am fighting random obstacles in an otherwise straight path 3. I'm always left with the feeling of now what after finishing something and the path forward is confusing.

Current Progress:

• I got the red and green gems. I found my way back the quarry, I didn't think to use the mask there because I didn't know what it did.
• I found the graveyard. Can I even explore there with my current progress? I also forgot how to go back there and idt the map shows how to get there.
• I've unlocked most of the cards, except maybe 1 or 2. I don't know what the wells even do. I don't get what why in ruined atoll, I don't know why one section of the circuit (north-east parts) don't turn yellow in the map even though I activated it and wen to the library.!<

my friend somehow lost he's save game and he told me to find him a save file if you have save file after taking the third key (I hope that enough of description because I didn't play that game) he played it on pc if you have a save file with that state or know other sources or community to search into it

Ok, after my last post, I progressed ! I got into ghost form, explored the graveyard and cathedral, and did the quest to restore all my stats (highlight of the game so far btw, made me so glad to have taken notes !). Now I'm probably strong enough to give another go at the ghost fox lady (don't know what her name is in English), but I'm assuming it's the final boss and, like, there's so many unresolved things ! I tried to list all of them, if y'all would be so king as to give me gentle hints without completely telling the answer.

- The door in the mountains. It's the big one, that probably leads to a secret ending or something. If I understand correctly, I need to input a secret code that has something to do with the "golden itinerary", which the grid on page 49 is useful for. Can't figure out the rest though, I feel like I'm missing a sequence of numbers that, combined to the grid, will reveal the sequence of directions to input.

- The broken golden monolith in the southern forest. Again, I understand the full monolith had a pattern on it that reveals a sequence of inputs, and I've found two of the pieces near the entrance to the western garden, but I seem to be missing at least one more piece. I've probably found it a long time ago without taking note of it but now I'm unsure where to look for it.

- I can't figure out how to get back to the last section of the western garden, where there should be a warp pad for me to activate. There's this purple matter (which I'll call corruption, not sure if there's an official name) in the way, and I can't figure out any circumventing path.

- Similarly, now that I have the map of the eastern sanctuary, there should be a hidden path there that leads to a hidden western section of the forest fortress, and the spider area that's mapped on page 30 ; but there's corruption right in the alcove where the hidden path should be, so I can't do that either.

- In the manual I'm missing p.1 (which I'm assuming exists) and p.46-47. I got all the rest up to page 53 (the memos), not sure if there is any after that. I especially want page 47 because it seems to be about things on page 48 that I don't understand yet.

- Speaking of which, apart from the potion one, I haven't found the use of the secrets scribbled in the memos of page 52. I'm assuming they're all for secret treasures though, just like p.53, and I'm not planning on finding all of them. (For the reference, I have found number 1, 3, 5 and 6)

- I also remember finding a secret room in the first area that had a bunch of panel thingies that made a sound when I passed behind them. No idea where it is though, I've completely forgotten. I'm assuming this is for a secret treasure too.

- Oh, also, the last thing I did was find two friendly fairies (in the old house, and at that rotating block I had found when starting the game) and I don't know what it accomplished. Maybe something to do with the fairy council thingy on page 48 ?

I think that's all of them. Again, there's so many secret treasures that I don't feel like hunting down all of them, but I do want to visit all the areas (whatever's behind the mountain door, and that spider one). Thanks in advance !

EDIT : Finished the game ! Thanks everyone !

I had lost my game and now that I refound it, i restarted it.

When it comes to the text, how long does it take until we get the full code/translations? I started screenshoting the locations and items but there is a lot of text that isn't translated and I don't want to just dive into the book. They pages slowly revealed through the game is helpful but I am still lost when it comes to the language.

Is it an actual conlang or a code for English? Will i find out soon or is it a post game thing?

I have entered the proper sequence while standing right in front of them. They won't open. I've opened other golden doors. I know the proper sequence for the D-Pad is right on the door. Is this a glitch ? Anyone else with this issue?

Title basically. I just beat the matriarch after the Ziggurat, but I've had this lingering feeling that I'm rushing through the game and missing like half of the content. I mean, I'm trying to explore as much as you can, and I think I'm doing pretty good in terms of upgrades & potions ; but there are a bunch of areas where I seem to need some sort of flying/jump ability (the checkpoint in the Quarry, that pillar in the southeast, the manual page sitting in the river of the starting area, another one in the beach below the starting bridge...). Plus, I've explored several areas I didn't have the map of (Ziggurat, eastern sanctuary) and am almost certain I must have missed those. And then there's the contrary too, areas I have the map of but haven't been to. There's the warp pad in the western garden I haven't been able to find too, no idea where it is. And then there's the avatar's grave, I've found 5 out of 6 entrances but have no clue if there's supposed to be any kind of possible interaction there...

Basically, since I got all 3 keys and can now insert them in the Temple for whatever happens next, I'm getting a bit afraid that I'm approaching the end of the game. So if there's any of these points that I'm "supposed" to have done already, or at least that I could have, please give me gentle nudges. And I'd also like to know if I'm like almost at the end or something, since with the way the game tells as little as possible, I can definitely see myself reaching the end without seeing it coming if I push through without a second thought. Thanks !

Spoilers (duh!)

So I've had 2 attepmts to beat this game, started a year ago, got frustrated before getting shield and quit (that's all I remember) and picked it up last week to get a break from soulslikes (before new ER DLC).

While after getting shield and beating Siege I thought it's becoming fun to play it went downhill from there. What I noticed is I got stuck very often by missing hidden path that was actually main path - I didn't want to spend time trying to decipher game language (i know there are people who do, but I'm not one of them) - so I was left with basically licking walls to progress, many times checking same spots thinking that maybe something changed or I missed something. I was feeling less and less that I was doing puzzles and more like banging my head against a wall (since path was leading off-screen and maybe there is a hidden ladder or tunnel).

Later boses were quite easy, just noticed you can bash through them by just keeping very close to them - but I really hoped for last boss to be something special.

And then just before final boss - "dying" and having to restore my body.

I knew while exploring that those Hero Graves will be something I will have to go back to once I can jump or something. I knew but I wasn't excited for comming back to the same place. Yet Tunic managed to make it even more annoying by taking away every upgrade I had and force me to look for it...

At this point I just wanted to get over with it as quickliy as possible to face Hier, hoping for good fight. After getting to her though - it proved to be hard in very annoying way (and that's comming from a guy that has over 500h in Elden Ring). I decided that best strategy for her would be parrying, since dodges after getting "jump" were quite unplesant. Was I not ready for how weird parry timing is! And to make it worse, since it's on the same button as block I would often just not get parry animation for holding a bit too long (for at least an hour I was convinced that you have to press RT twice to get a parry - I was doing it for the whole game as it was not explained in any way!)

In the end it came to just trying again and again hoping not for improvement but for more parryable attack sequence - and not bullet hell that sometimes happens.

As for story - So basically by knowing nothing about the world you're making bad decisions and "unleashing evil", then fighting with this evil just to be imprisoned and possibly become evil yourself? That's the vibe I got, of a never ending cycle of clueless foxes.

So it came out a rant after all... maybe I'd have better experience if I paid more attention to booklet, maybe I'd have better experience if I tried to translate, maybe I'd have better experience if I googled some stuff (I didn't spoil anything for myself, no guides whatsoever). But I didn't do those things, tried to just play the game and that made this experience not worth recomending in the end.

Edit: Didn't expect so different experiences from all the comments. While it's clearly not game for me, it was fun discussing different approach to playing and how it impacts this game.
I get why people like this game, but as someone who doesn't play this type of games and didn't google anything, was just trying to play bit by bit after work - that's experience I got, which is quite sad since I pushed through to get to the end even when it became bit frustrating. I hope others will have more fun with it.