Knock Harder

Knock Harder

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HARD/ WAKE UP DIFFICULTY AND SECRETS
By Arithmya
In this guide I will leave you some hints on how to beat hard and wake up difficulty and also how to find secret endings.
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Hard/ Wake Up difficulty
In this part, I will describe my own tactics on beating the game. Chack out the video for more tips.


I started checking out the house from the right part, then to the central (which is open from the easiest difficulty) and then to the right. Check every drawer and interact with everything you can.

1. Right off the bat check your inventory. It should contain only bullets for your gun.
2. Always close the doors behind you. First of all, if the doors can not be closed that means you are dreaming. Second of all, you will deal with less amount of enemies that way.
3. Start from talking to Victor. Remember what he says about Jackie and don't forget to check that Victor actually kills enemies.
4. Go to the upper rooms. Most importantly check the message on the computer, the body under the blanket (if any) and your reflection in the bathroom.
5.The points of major interest in the central section are note on the table, photo of the owners of the house and your reflection in the bedroom.
6. Before going to the left part of the house you really want to shoot the power box near the angel, see if something unusual happens with the statue.
7. In the left part of the house start with the kitchen, check the newspaper and make sure the information there does not contradicts anything you have already seen.
8. Go to Jackie, check that their story mathces Victor's.
9. You now definitrly have the key for the locked metal door. Open it and check the room for last contradictions.

The viseo describes this tactics way better but what you really want to do is to leave the metal door for the last and don't go through the rooms again because lots of enemies will spawn there and you could actually die trying to go back for some pieces of information. Cover as much ground as you can. Before waiting for the timer, try every item in your inventory: check that pills heal you, lightsticks glow, flashlight works as it should and bullets don't fly.

Hope this was useful! Following this tactics you will not forget simple minor details that usually gets the player killed.

Thanks for reading!

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Secret endings
Check out the vid, it may explain how to unlock the secret endings clearer:


So, there are 4 secret endings:
1. You open the locked door and shoot a certain somebody.
2. You open the locked door and find gold (you really want to do that after the first ending).
3. You open the locked door and don't shoot a certain somebody.
4. You open the locked door and leave.

To be able to open the locked door you need to find 3 secret notes. To find them you need to go through all encounters with yourself in the dream world (it's pretty easy to do, just lock yourself in the room before dying (it's important that the doors are locked) then check all the rooms, if you can't find yourself you either locked yourself in the wrong room or the encounter didn't spawn, just try again).

1. First note can be found after you encounter yourself and saw the place in which the note is hidden. Just interact with it. I know that paintings are randomized for people so the place for the note might be random as well, I am not sure. For me it was in the main corridor under the lamp (you can see that in the video).

2. Second note can be found after lightning 6 candles near the objects that represents fire. The order is not important. These objects are: the game that says "press fire to start", the painting with a candle and the eye, the painting with phoenix, the fireplace, the poster with flamethrower which covers the safe and the picture with owners near campfire.

3. The third note can be found in the safe. To open it, you must found 3 digits and try out their different combinations: the first digit is behind the statue of the angel, the second one is the part of the game that is running in the Jackie's room and the last is the number of volume of the book about angels.

Now all that is left is to KNOCK HARDER! Don't rush and don't go through the light, knock really hard and the door will open.

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6 Comments
Arithmya  [author] 10 Feb, 2021 @ 9:34am 
Hi, Cubefarmer!
Sorry, I haven't noticed your message before :(
OK, so 1st I didn't know that it's a certain combination but, honestly, it doesn't matter because you have to try 6 combinations max so it's no biggie. I was aware that some numbers might be the same, then the number of combinations you have to try is even less.
Secondly, the paintings in each playthrough are in different places. That's why in the guide I didn't specify the place like "hallway" I said what the pictures have to depict. Your hallway might be different from my hallway.
Cubefarmer 29 Dec, 2020 @ 2:01pm 
What do you mean "guess the combination"? the first digit is the sequel number on the game console, the second is scratched onto the angel, and the third is the volume number of the novel, and they can match so the numbers aren't always different. Also the hallway candle seems to be one you have to not light, if you light that one, the bedroom or the locked room candles it doesn't work.
Falmingkitter 12 Aug, 2020 @ 9:51am 
That's fine, I figured it out eventually. I thought the hallway candle should still be lit because the phoenix was still in the hallway
Arithmya  [author] 12 Aug, 2020 @ 8:42am 
Oh, so sorry I missed your comment! The positioning of candles is different for each player. Still, they always correspond with the paintings. Maybe that was the problem? Sorry, I believe it's not relevant anymore, I am so sorry I missed the comment!
Falmingkitter 27 Jun, 2020 @ 10:03pm 
Yes thank you, I got past that but when I did the candles I never got a note from it, and now my game seems to be stuck in a loop. I open the safe again for another note and it just tells me to "look where no one else would think to look". I watched your video too.
Arithmya  [author] 27 Jun, 2020 @ 9:23pm 
No, you can get notes in any order. But to open the safe you have to guess the combination. If all the numbers are differnet, it takes just 6 tries.