Mild spoilers ahead. Ahh, progress: is there any better feeling, in a puzzle game, than finally just getting that door open just a crack--peeking behind it, seeing what's really going on?

I finished the manual today. All the pages. In theory, I think, I've got all I need to get to what would seem to be a true ending. But fuck me if it ain't hard to get there. Seems like most of the mysteries remaining are optional: the big one, the final one, is how to open that damn mountain door.

I admit, I was frustrated; I was stuck and turned to google for help and direction. Luckily, I am bad at using Google nowadays; it was mostly unhelpful. I saw some things about an optional windmill puzzle, I saw some mutterings about how that mountain door works. Nothing that actually impacted my progress, luckily.

It would be cool to figure out the end of this game myself. I hope I can get there.

Glad I came back to this. At this point in video games, most people have played a zelda-like. They'll get the idea. The way it's mixed up here keeps it refreshing, and the core gameplay is so well-refined. Combat is kind of shitty.