Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Antrim Escape Walkthrough: Alternate Exit

It is very cool of Game Hive to release an update of Antrim Escape.
Why? The version 2.0 update added an alternate exit!!
I really enjoyed playing through this room escape game with such sophisticated graphics. Now I get to relive it with an alternate exit! And this time around, the puzzles are much harder. Game Hive really needs to pay back the sleep hours they took away from me.

Important: you need to RESET the game before starting.
Read my original walkthrough if you haven't solved the first exit.

Here's the walkthrough for the alternate exiting. Again, from my last post, these are the walls:
North - Wall with clock and large desk.
West - Wall with glass door to the balcony
South - Wall with bookshelves
East - Wall with a small table and a wooden door
  1. Tap on the cat and its eyes will move left and right ...and up!!
    Keep tapping its eyes until it moves up and this completes the sequence of Lefts and Rights. Take a note of it.

  2. Now in the NORTH wall with the grandfather clock, tap on the pendulum!! Voila~ this brings up another view with the pendulum actually swinging left and right as you tilt the iPhone left and right. You can swing it LIGHTLY or HEAVILY (you will hear a different sound).

  3. Use the cat eyes sequence from step 1 and swing it HEAVILY to enter each Lefts and Rights in the sequence.
    Here's the tricky part: you have to do it in the opposites.
    ie. cat eye Left becomes a RIGHT swing of pendulum. and vice versa.

    I believe the reason is because the cat saw the castle owner did this to the pendulum, but the cat is looking from the opposite wall. Hence, cat's eyes moving to the Left in the player's point of view is actually pendulum's Right point of view looking at North wall.

    After entering the pendulum's swing sequence correctly (remember opposite to cat's eyes sequence), you will hear a clock sound. Now, remember the cat looked UP as its final sequence? Go to the clock view with the Bird, and it will give you a key.

  4. This key unlocks the 'fake door' in the WEST wall. but the door has 2 locks!!!!

  5. Opens the compass from the right cabinet in NORTH wall (read my original walkthrough for how to open compass) to obtain the other key for the 'fake door'.


  6. Now, with the fake door opened, you thought you'd have escape?? Not so easy. There is another door!!, Now tap on the top right side of that door to bring you to a close up view.

    There will be some english words such as 'Sheesh...'
    Use the Candle and put it there to light up the rest of the words in shadow.

  7. Here's the hard part: Rotate your iPhone to look at the words UPSIDE DOWN. and they become numbers.
    Gotta get creative here: 'I' is 1, 'Z' is 2, 'E' is 3, 'h' is 4, 'S' is 5

    The message is different each time you start up a new game (just like the cat eyes sequence). Take note of this code and the patterns on this metal door! You can't always come back for the numbers. Some puzzles trigger the candle to burn off. Gotta do it before that happens.



  8. Now if you head up to the Music Box in the SOUTH wall, you will see the music box having the same pattern as the metal door. This is the hint to playing the tunes on the music box.

    On the music box:
    leftmost bar is 1, then 2, then 3, then 4 and rightmost is 5.
    Play the tune (the sequence of numbers upside down you found earlier) and tap music box.
    Then you will hear a sliding door sound.

  9. For the middle lower drawer in the SOUTH wall, you have to keep on tapping it a few times to get it open. You will see a metal plate with sockets if you have played the new tunes to the music box. It is similar to the wooden box behind the painting on the wall. You will need to insert the coins and yellow/white gems into it. Please see to my last post if you need help with finding the coins and gems as well as the pattern to insert the coins.

  10. Congrats. Escape through the tunnel and meet a secret character!

Props to Game Hive for this free update :)