Navigate the treacherous Challenges & Trials in Rotwood. This guide provides detailed walkthroughs, strategies, and tips to overcome every obstacle and claim your rewards.
Welcome to the Challenges & Trials section of our Rotwood guide. This area is designed to test your skills and resourcefulness as you progress through the game. Below, you'll find detailed breakdowns of each challenge, including strategies for overcoming them and information on the rewards you can expect.
Walkthrough
- 1Sewers: Navigate the sewers, solve the liquid balancing puzzle to obtain a medallion, and defeat a boss to get the Radio Station key or Barlow’s Meat Shop Key.
- 2WRot Radio Station: Solve the wave-matching puzzle and defeat a boss to gain access to Rotwood Downtown.
- 3Barlow’s Meat Shop: Find a tape for a locker code, solve the skull puzzle (Cow, Deer, Pig, Goat), and defeat a boss to get the Barlow’s Meat Shop Key.
- 4Rotwood Downtown: Locate three unique canes hidden in the School, Crimson Reels, and Bethany’s Curse and Crafts. Place these canes on altars to unlock the gate to Rotwood Cemetery. Avoid unnecessary combat by running past roaming enemies.
- 5Bethany’s Curse And Crafts: Find parts of a moth, solve a riddle involving portraits (The Lovers/Stars, The Sun/Devil, Death/Moon), combine the moth parts, and place it on a monument to obtain the first cane.
- 6Gunderson’s General Store: Find a journal tape and a gun room key. Obtain the grenade launcher and crafting resources. Receive a Ritual Medallion from Zach. Navigate sewers with green zombies to reach another area.
- 7Vincent Rypard’s House: Defeat bloated zombies. Solve an optional puzzle involving portraits (Life, Pain, Death) to open a secret pathway to an underground laboratory. Use a control panel to activate a lift in the sewers, saving your partner.
- 8The Crimson Reel: Use the Ritual Medallion to enter. Find the cinema key in Video Outlaw, where you can also save, access storage, and find a hammer.
Tips
- Conserve ammunition for boss fights and unavoidable combat scenarios.
- Pay attention to environmental clues and riddles to solve puzzles efficiently.
- Utilize save points and storage access whenever available to manage resources and progress.
- Character choice (Natalie or Jack) determines the initial path through the sewers.
- Completing challenges and defeating bosses yields keys, medallions, and essential items like the grenade launcher, progressing you through the game and unlocking new areas.
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