Lol, yeah same here, I assumed the shop where you get the gold ring thing was the Big Brother's shop.

Why did Retro City Rampage release? I want to play La-Mulana again, but I don't have the time any more right now!

This just in:
Remember the puzzle with the two ice blocks in one room of the icy area, which we thought could render the game unwinnable if dropped in the "wrong" order? Well, turns out there was a way around that. At the very bottom of the map, there's a fake chest that spawns an enemy if activated. You can drop a bomb there to blow a hole in the ground. Drop through it and voila! You are in the grail tablet room.

EDIT: Also, this solution appears to be exclusive to the WiiWare version.

I too used a guide for that. At first I thought it was bordering on being too random secret, but then I thought that, well, there was a hint about a pointing finger and that level had already had several places where you had to put weights on. So basically it would be obvious that maybe that also is a place where you have to use weights, and trying to do that ends up solving the secret because you had to press down.

Things like that make me regret I have ever used a guide as it would've been fantastic to find that by myself. It looks like a random thing but it really is a faultless secret by the game's logic.

You mean that gamebreaking glitch was a hoax and I restarted for nothing??

I'm afraid so... But, well, back then we just didn't know better.

A few days ago, somebody sent an email to NIGORO complaining about the "bug", and they replied saying it wasn't a bug. They also hinted at the solution. A few minutes later, the secret alternate passage was found.

Anybody still playing this? I've taken a break for the moment. I got kind of burnt out on it. I may come back to it one day, or I may just watch the rest through Let's Plays lol.

Well, in fact, I beat it yesterday, 100%.
It was a fun game (even though at least 1/4th of the puzzles were beyond cryptic, especially toward the end), and I'm definitely playing it again sometime in the future.

I realized playing this game for short sessions while being distracted by like 7 other games was a BAD idea. Will wait, then play for longer sessions so I accomplish stuff more often.

can someone help me to get access to confusion gate?? (the other side of gate of guidance)
also, where should i put the skull i've bough on the big brother shop?
aaalso, how to wake the faries? ;x

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS :

ACCESSING GATE OF CONFUSION:

• Get the Eden Fruit in Temple of Moonlight (after solving the puzzle with the four small tresure chests and the big tresure chest in a row). Go to Eden and put a weight on the switch at the foot of the Tree of Eden.

THE DRAGON BONE:

• Use it in the statue at the bottom of the Shrine of the Mother to remove all the skull walls. Also used for one puzzle in the Chamber of Birth, in the room with the infinite pit.

WAKING THE FARIES:

• Get Isis' Pendant and take it to the Fairy Queen at the end of the first level of the Endless Corridor. Isis Pendant is found in a secret room in the Temple of the Sun. It's in the room with the entrance to Inferno Cavern, where you fought a weird multilegged miniboss. Find a breakable spot in the ceiling and whip it until it breaks.

Thank you, but how to solve the five treasure chests? the others seems to be further into the game

You have to scan four specific spots in the Temple of Moonlight:

1) In the room where you find the Grapple Claw, scan the demon face in the background.
2) In the pit with the three elevators, scan the place the four hands in the background point at.
3) In the room immediately to the right of where the tip of the inverted pyramid is. Scan the column in the background (the picture in this column changes every time you enter this room).
4) In the room at the bottom-left part of the map, where there's an obvious trap with a switch placed right below some spikes. Scan the switch without activating it.

There are clues about this spread throughout the ruins. They all say something like "Those looking for Eden ...something, something... in a place bathed in moonlight"

Also, bear in mind you have to enter the Temple of Moonlight from either the gate near the sun temple's boss room, or from the grail tablet room in Graveyard of the Giants in order to access some of those four spots. Once you have them all, open the four chests from left to right.

S**T !! I could never figure this out (ittentionally) specially (4)
I have already scanned (3) because I think I have saw a Michael Jackson sillouette hahahaha
Thank you for the info!

No problem!

back in there. attempt #3. nine hours in.

Sorry you had to restart for nothing.
At least now we can say the game is free of game-breaking bugs, right?

the game is just fun to play so i don't mind that much restarting over, although grinding money to buy all the stuff once again gets repetitive now.
it's a new game so i shouldn't have believed anything that wasn't tested enough anyway.

however, the latest item i got, the double jump, makes it possible to reach the part that i "blocked" in my former playthrough... now i'm really confused about what exactly i "missed" last time.

oh yes any suggestion for the twin tower boss second form? that beast is so lucky.

Handgun. Pump her face full of bullets. That's all.
What's that? Bullets are expensive? Nonsense. At this point in the game, money should no longer be an issue for you, so long as you can warp to the Chamber of Extinction and have awakened the fairies. There's a way to go from 0 to 999 coins in less than 10 minutes:
SPOILERS > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMQCW8UnVQg < SPOILERS

thanx that helps a lot