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Ep2: Get the Compass + Second Fragment

By Genghis Pawn

A spoiler-iffic guide for one of the most poorly designed puzzles in the game.

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Languages: English

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20 Sep, 2019 @ 11:41pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Rant

Finding the Compass

Getting the Second Fragment

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Rant

This is one of the worst-telegraphed puzzles I've encountered in a P&C game in decades.

If you're not using a walkthrough and you're actually trying stuff out, there's a good chance that you'll screw yourself on this puzzle. (And if you go to the existing walkthroughs on Steam out of desperation, they won't explain what you did wrong). You'll wind up at a dead-end for the whole Episode.

Even after you've hit the dead-end, the game still won't ever clearly communicate to you:

that a compass is something you need,
that a compass is something you could ever acquire,
or
where you might acquire a compass.

It sucks. Hard.

So, here's a guide for anyone else stuck like I was.

I appreciate you rating this guide up if you used it.

Finding the Compass

The compass is in the backyard of Wright Manor, in the statue garden.
To get it you need to make the 4 statues on the corners take off their masks, which causes the statue in the center to lower its hands and drop the compass on the ground:

The 4 statues around the corners depict 4 different figures or characters. Clockwise from top-left, they are: Sage, Clergy, Queen, and Peasant.
While almost nothing in the game has communicated it to you, each of the 4 statues' masks is controlled by 4 panels in various rooms in/around the house. You can change each of the 4 panels between 2 states, corresponding to "Mask On" and "Mask Off." (You could be forgiven for missing this since none of the panels looks anything like a mask, or a statue, or any of the 4 figures.)

Here's the correct state of each Statue/Panel to get the compass:

Statue Position

Figure

Panel Location

Correct Panel State

Top-Left

Sage

Outside, to the right of the front door.

Top-Right

Clergy

Beneath the Sillhouette puzzle, in the secret Study on the top floor.

Bottom-Right

Queen

In the Attic

Bottom-Left

Peasant

In the Basement

Getting the Second Fragment

I'll throw this behind spoilers.

Go to the Graveyard. Now that you have the compass that you didn't know you needed, clicking the anonymous tombstone will suddenly matter; like a complete maniac, you'll promptly dig up the grave without any hesitation (and with your bare hands, apparently) to recover the 2nd fragment.

This sequence of puzzles is a real low point in the series so far (which I otherwise rather enjoy), and it makes me very sad.

21 Comments

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rectifier 28 Oct @ 4:32pm

Wow ok, i spent hours wondering about what I had missed in the game, thank you!!

Murder is Meat 27 Jul @ 11:20pm

Getting the compass itself isn't too much of a problem. If you explore a bit you'll find the connection between the panels and the mask state, evne though I agree some sort of additional "cheat sheet" would have been preferable to just blindly guessing (especially if you find the first panel too late). The compass in itself is sort of clever (the item bar interacting with the world)... except that the map is not continuous so you just end up having to luck yourself into clicking the cemetery.

goblin_ 11 Jul @ 10:54am

I could cry, I've been trying for ages to work this out. This game is so weird in that some puzzles are well telegraphed and others are just like here are some rotating symbols, work it out. Like ok??

Normalzita 11 May @ 7:02pm

I think this was without a shadow of a doubt THE LESS INTUITIVE PUZZLE I’VE EVER SEEN. IN MY LIFE. Thank you so much for explaining this.

KittyKomplex | Ash Lynx' Waifu 13 Apr @ 11:09am

Currently playing this game and THANK YOU so much! I never would've figured this out myself.

Peter Dicklage 24 Jan @ 4:30pm

Thank you so much!!

Street Soul 21 Oct, 2024 @ 2:03pm

Thanks a lot for the guide man. Finding out I'd have to travel through the entire mansion to check if the masks are on or off just made me say "nah, I'll just look up a guide for this part".

mofasah 12 Jul, 2024 @ 3:09pm

Thank you you saved my butt

SonyExx 17 Mar, 2024 @ 2:56pm

Thank you so much, I've found this puzzle so annoying and nonsense, even some other guides are wrong when it comes to some panel state... I'm glad to find out I'm not the only one

Ed5263 22 Sep, 2023 @ 3:41am

I'll let the dev off, for making such a good series. But man, this puzzle fucking sucks. Mask on/off switches? looks nothing like it. And digging the grave with your bare hands, despite needing a shovel for it in the previous games...

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