Tales of the Neon Sea

Tales of the Neon Sea

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Tales of the neon sea walkthrough and achievements
By RatPudding and 3 collaborators
the first helpful acheivement-walkthrough of this troublesome i-spy short-story.

needs a total redo. WIP at the moment.
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Tips and tricks
community section and patch notes

Press E or examine everything!
some things give you lore not just the documents!
watch the videos with 1.5 speed! they're helpful in the long run.
read the patch notes so you can reset and have no trouble playing
each video contains at least one chapter and is 1 hour long.
prologue: Whats past is prologue
chapter 1: a day like any other.
this chapter/vid is about >1hrs 10 mins. but no-ones gonna watch it enitirely....

https://youtu.be/j6eplbwaTms
chapter 2 video
https://youtu.be/Sgwr4CYmYGk
timestamps:
0:43 the hangover cure
6:20 the retrieval of an arm
6:55 rod puzzle
12:24 side quest shenanigans
24:05 into miracle street
24:44 fixing the projector
26:06 rainbow club sidequest
26:57 first employee
28:35 "fixing" the time
30:25 second employee
33:45 the Edward clinic
36:20 the last employee
36:45 hideoshi's hero
40:15 the electro lock
40:50 investigation of brank.
45:20 back to rainbow club
48:00 the (new) sewer puzzle
59:57 pulling the sword
101:00 finding brank pt 2
104:00 end
chpater 3 vid
https://youtu.be/Rrk--ERP9n8
3:00 the meeting
4:45 the statue
6:05 the ritual
7:18 key puzzle
8:00 investigating charles workshop
12:35 electric puzzle
18:10 2nd key puzzle
19:00 BOMB!
20:30 crane game
26:20 conveyor belt puzzle
27;40 sharpshooter
29:05 tesla turmoil
31:50 KABOOM
34:10 destiny fire boat.
47:10 end
prologue acheivements




Predator instinct, Catch 3 Robo mice from behind! easy as pie!





finish the prologue.
chapter 1 puzzles
very secret code

this would normally be what you found for this secret code



the code is 7322 or ⅴ,工,♢,♢












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wavelength puzzle




1-[2,3,4 or right, down, left]

2-[1,4,2 or up, left, right]

3-[ 3,1,3. or down, up, down]







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first gear puzzle




















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dots puzzle





aim for the bottom, then to the bottom-left then try the top
this is related to the video.










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robo-jigsaw puzzle
















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necessary for the acheivement mental crime





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Ms.perry's calender code

You can find the code by looking at the wind chimes
match the colours of those to the pictures shown above
Count the cats vs colours and input that code :)

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Ms.Perry's 2nd timeline


chapter 1 acheivements




you should stumble across this when freeing the "curse" from the armor





figure out that dreaded cat-woman's death.






sharing a b-day card with a "innocent girl"


or



*aquire trust from the bourbon family. by not showing the evidence to the boss
Note: There are Indeed TWO ways to go about this
Confront the boss with tin foil - to get Biochemical God Father achievement
or
Report back to get the Bourbon Family achievement.






finish your wild adventure with william.






finish the chapter
missable 1st chapter acheivements















Equally well known as Twenty-One. The rules are simple. aim for >21 for a high number alike 19 to get a win.




This is a missable achievement,
In the bathroom at the bar after washing up DON'T leave!
Walk all the way to the right and you will see a woman on the floor drunk
Talk to her and choose help the woman for this achievement
chapter 2 puzzles
random rods

you were supposed to solve it by a visual standpoint from top to bottom.




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the electro puzzle

The route can CROSS itself but not OVERLAP, and you cannot go through the same yellow node twice and must go in the correct yellow number order




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Brank's timeline









chapter 2 achivements




You feed him at your first crime scene in chapter 1.
The second time you feed him is in chapter 2 at the laundry basket.



Mix the brew (add steps?) its simple drink me and ding!
drink up your secret solution.


After you do get the robots arm, he gives you his white card and this achievement aww nice!


Simply talk to the tarot card reader with the crystal ball Ding!


Simply find the VR guy dazed just left of the dogs, wake him up


After talking to her..ahem him, he will ask you to distract the jerk.
Use the controls under the stairs, aim the arrows so the box goes out the hole to the right of the wood
boom, achievement and a faster path to and fro


Solve the fix it puzzle for the electrical and water wheel
|More later if needed|


Just complete Chapter 2 !


Just start the day as the cat go to the workshop and you will see your character installing the god hand you built into BB * you must have found all parts before the drs office at the end, and build the gods hand for this to pop as the cat AKA missable* (move to missable)
"#5 is Alive!"


Just go to sleep as the cat! Official end of chapter 3!
Night night Kitty rest well!
2nd chapter missable achievments




the first file is in chapter 1 where you find a gigantic robot in your first visit with your mechanic.
the second is where you retreive a head in chapter 2








these acheivements are a fetch-side quests.


Make sure once you build the laser to get use it on the ruby, easy just dont leave the scene until all this is done



Fix the plumbing by getting all the parts, using the crowbar on the wheel of the truck and taking the sign off.
Put the wheel on the toilet and charge the truck with the battery
Put the laser torch in and walla you now have all the parts for fixing the water
(only ONE solution) just dont leave the scene until this is done
The ruby is located on the statue just climb up and laser it!











Rainbow club

First you are given a task by Francesca near the rainbow club to find 3 showgirls
Find Melete just left of the clock save her friend by doing the vr achievement and go back to her, she will go

Find Aoide talking to a sales sign, turn it off and talk about Brick she will go

Find Mneme at the location where you hand the love letter over, she is near 2 dogs
answer the 3 questions,
(Panting, No, and No) and then she will go

Return to the rainbow club and you will be given a final task, to make the rooms the color of the rainbow on the sign
Start with the first one wait for the colours to be the same as the sign and press the button
Red-Orange-Yellow-Green-Cyan-Blue-Purple
Ding achievement and a party! whooot


After the water wheel and all power is restored,
now, get the battery from the middle of the wheel area, and remove the battery from the bridge you used to lower it

power the lift on the RIGHT side near the start of this puzzle, and go up to the two tubes

Enter the LEFT tube, Insert the batteries into both skull statues and a hidden room will open
If you didn't restored power and insert the batteries-the game will softlock by simply being unable to retreive the battery

Pull or try to pull the sword out there can be only one and you sir, aren't that one!
But a nice achievement is now yours!




chapter 3 puzzles
statue timeline



















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logic gate puzzle

1











2












3














the finished product.











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First is moving the boxes to get to the door which leads to-


Second is using your laser gun on the robot, on the red eye just as it primes to fire leading to-




remember to shoot it three times to get this achievement.

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tesla turmoil

Dont forget, to double click to make the cat run faster this helps save 20+ seconds
the 1st knob is for course tuning. theoretically goes by 50
the 2nd knob is for semi-course. theoretically goes by 10.
the third knob is for fine. theoretically goes for 1.

Completing this gives two achievements
One is missable so I will put that in missable section
Cant miss, just complete the 3 towers





250






320






490






consider the following:
somehow theres 2 or 3 different frequencies per coil.
destiny fire
yes. THAT boat.
DEV NOTE :ERROR on video HATT FIX pls idk what this even is
hatt: ok.
https://youtu.be/N-4nLIArffw
chapter 3 achievements

mandatory bomb defuse


During the start flashback, simply stand there dont fire.
Note: Unsure if this is missable or if it makes you miss anything


Upon arriving at the crime scene, examine Brake and you get a flash back memory
Follow the bad guy and in the end you get this. Not missable.


Inspect the computer in the repair shop, not missable that I know of


Tenacious D reference for the Pick of destiny
You get this when getting the red gear after both power cells are in place and you can lower the elevator to reach it


This is a Guardians of the Galaxy reference!
As odd as it sounds there is no real puzzle so you cant send the code incorrectly
just get the ship in working order, all the gears too.. and send the signal to get it.


Oddly you get this at the end of Chapter 3, not at the end of chapter 4.
I have no clue why it says beat the game for this. As you still have another chapter to do.
Shrug* Just complete chapter 3 and this will pop!

DEV NOTE: move to proper time position in order of obtaining it. End of line.

Simply complete the watch deduction
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2128607077
chapter 3 missable achievements




Finish the three towers in 120 seconds or less,
this can take a few tries and dont forget follow the video path.
use double click and/or sprint key to run faster
Chapter 4 Achievements

Story Related - Can't be missed.
Just clear out the spores under the ladder and go there.
You will need 2 pressure wrenches to clear the spores. One is inside the building where you need to put the wrenches and the second is on the robot body found after you clear some of the fog. Lastly turn the pipe with the big wrench.


Story Related - Can't be missed.


Story Related - Can't be missed.


Story Related - Can't be missed.


Story Related - Can't be missed.


In the containment chamber, examine each subject in their tubes. Its that easy.. eww
Note: There's no prompt to inspect while passing by the tubes so this is slightly missable.


Story Related - Can't be missed.
Free Charles with the crowbar! Easy


Story Related - Can't be missed.


These 2 are story related but only option one can be chosen/playthrough. As soon as you pick one though, you can immediately load the previous autosave which will be just as you entered this room which will allow you to pick the other choice as well.



Story Related - Can't be missed.
Miscellaneous Achievements





This can be completed before you finish chapter 3 if you collect everything, so should be easy to complete in chapter 4 even if you missed a few.

The Creator
Read the "A Brief History of Bio-Pets" file which is located on the lowest levels of Sunset Alley *playing as the cat
(accessed only by setting the platform switches to a certain configuration after obtaining lever handle #3)
You get this lever by showing the foil to boss cat and taking lever from the fire place.
use the levers to get to the lower window and blam, also go to the ground level and into mystics hut for mr know it all
Credits
This was a cool but very necessary guide.
Thanks to Kaldire for many of the pictures and thoughtful presentations.
Thanks to Matt for his help for knowing where the achievements are.
But thanks to you! We can acknowledge our mistakes and know what went wrong.
140 Comments
The Nothing Man  [author] 11 Jun, 2023 @ 6:09pm 
@Simon
note both methods work?
the devs gave many ways to solve things
so do it the way our guide says and you will see
the flags are there for a reason
just in case, you arent simon :)
some will miss this and giving the info is well,
its not the way the devs wanted it
its more fun and elaborate like the hidden room that does..nothing really other than be just that
hugs though!

also curious note what date is 0-4-21 or 21 4 0? hmm..
You arent wrong mate but again look at the puzzle. you found the fast way!
this means you rock at these games but also pay attention and read vs speed up the damn text'
hence the more elaborate puzzle + diary
Simon 11 Jun, 2023 @ 6:04pm 
The described method for the calendar puzzle is wildly inaccurate. the actual code is 0421, aka the date in the diary of her beloved's death
The Nothing Man  [author] 7 Apr, 2023 @ 12:02pm 
@מטסﬣ
yeah I loved ascii too but we needed more characters
you know we can even get hieroglyphics Unicode FTW
¸מטסﬣ 7 Apr, 2023 @ 11:44am 
Hi
I take it "fun with characters" is directed at me.
I will watch vid and try, try again to get Gud at this game!
The Nothing Man  [author] 6 Apr, 2023 @ 3:02pm 
@fun with characters
check the video, time stamp for this
Or are you trying to get it fast?
there is really no way to die other than going the incorrect way.
or inputting poorly

Mine I just reloaded got different options in the code
so try this
try again, after watching the video on this subject above..
then if you know you will fail, just exit the game and run it again to reload at that spot
the path is the same but sometimes the dials change in terms of easy or hard

1. follow the proper path
2. dont be slow with the dials
3. dont go for the cheev if you cant even pass the area!
4. GL post back if more info is needed,
the game changed a lot since this guide and even during the making of this guide
¸מטסﬣ 6 Apr, 2023 @ 2:19pm 
Hi. I now remember why I rage quit this game... I can't complete Tesla turmoil. Keep dying. I'm running around, but when I put the first code, she won't turn green. I've died so much, it's not even funny anymore. Any soothing words and top tip, so I may continue with story.
The Nothing Man  [author] 3 Jun, 2022 @ 2:28pm 
np matey!!
glad to have helped:winkkit:
Prismo 3 Jun, 2022 @ 10:49am 
Thanks a lot
I find the place with your informations
++
The Nothing Man  [author] 31 May, 2022 @ 4:02pm 
np mate
for all needing the Creator its at the bottom of this guide NOTE: it takes place early in game
playing as the cat

hugs to all
Prismo 31 May, 2022 @ 3:10pm 
Tanks for this rapid answer and for this good guide ^^. I'll look to this tomorow :)

It's a great work