Words fail me

November 25, 2005 10:29 AM

Friday flash fun. I have no clue how to finish this one...
posted by DeepFriedTwinkies (23 comments total)

I have no clue how to get this to work / open.
posted by brautigan at 10:37 AM on November 25, 2005

I got as far as the butterfly landing on the flowers, then making them wave... but clicking the three figures only makes them mumble, and the mysterious lock in the cliff only rumbles faintly.
posted by CynicalKnight at 10:44 AM on November 25, 2005

I got past the apple (strawberry?) tree, but then there's a "cliffhanger" type of deal where your companion falls and is hanging by a thread, so you reach down to try and save them -- closeup on the two hands grasped in desperation -- then fade to a Japanese Yahoo Geocities page of some sort. No idear what's going on or if I did something wrong or if that's just the end of the story.
posted by Gator at 10:51 AM on November 25, 2005

I have a white screen.

Should I just have a white screen?
posted by Imperfect at 10:52 AM on November 25, 2005

Firefox: white screen.
IE: success.
posted by billder at 10:57 AM on November 25, 2005

try msie
posted by jsavimbi at 10:57 AM on November 25, 2005

It worked for me in Firefox. Just had to wait a minute.
posted by fatbobsmith at 10:58 AM on November 25, 2005

I have an animation, so I think you're not supposed to only see a white screen.
posted by raedyn at 10:58 AM on November 25, 2005

I had a white screen in FF at first too, then I viewed souce and just pasted the .swf address into the address bar. After that it worked for me.
posted by Gator at 10:58 AM on November 25, 2005

Ooh I got it. This is cool.
posted by brautigan at 10:59 AM on November 25, 2005

If you can't see it, you probably need latest macromedia flash app. The flowers need to be clicked in the order that the butterfly lands on them (click all 'clickable' flowers first), then you'll get a key.

More spoilers - to get past the bear you need to go back to first screen and collect an egg.

When I got to the cliffhanger, I got a short episode of something in Japanese, then continued on to play more.

Pretty cool game even if I don't understand the text.
posted by efalk at 11:00 AM on November 25, 2005

I'm with CynicalKnight, though. I think I'm missing the point of this. It's cute, though.
posted by raedyn at 11:01 AM on November 25, 2005

The boss at the end of the winter level is a pain in the arse.
posted by fatbobsmith at 11:06 AM on November 25, 2005

oh good, there is more after that "cliffhanger" part. i was gonna be bummed.
posted by freudianslipper at 11:06 AM on November 25, 2005

I got all the way thru. Yay me!
posted by konolia at 11:29 AM on November 25, 2005

Unrelated Friday Flash Fun... Aliens reenact Tom' Cruises anti-psychology rant.

Also, I only get a white screen. So I guess I should mosey on over to Macromedia and download the latest Flash is what I've gathered. Luckily I really enjoy moseying across the internet so I'm pretty excited. Also, Texas A&M just took the lead, that's freaking awesome.
posted by panoptican at 11:29 AM on November 25, 2005

i win! so...what happened?

cool art btw.
posted by freudianslipper at 11:33 AM on November 25, 2005

ooh, a new grow. grow cube
posted by freudianslipper at 11:36 AM on November 25, 2005

I win too! What fun. And I love the artwork. It's almost like Maurice Sendak meets Brian Froud.
posted by Gator at 11:40 AM on November 25, 2005

I won too. I found the game strangely disturbing... so I suppose, in a way, I also lost.
posted by RokkitNite at 12:17 PM on November 25, 2005

Dammit, Freudianslipper! Now I'm completely stuck! (*isn't good with puzzles, but tries them anyway*)
posted by kosher_jenny at 2:46 PM on November 25, 2005

Holy crap, check out the homepage (English version). Especially check out the gallery. Awesome artwork.
posted by Gator at 4:31 PM on November 25, 2005

This is reminiscent of Samorost! Love it! I'll be up all night figuring this out!
posted by WaterSprite at 8:55 PM on November 25, 2005