Mind Diver

Mind Diver

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Mind Diver - Hint Guide [WIP]
By bearsbearsbears
A nonfully spoiled guide for memory restoration
   
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Introduction
Author Note: I have my notes and most of my screenshots, I just work Sundays. Trying to have this done by the end of the day

Like the games this draws influence from, it's no fun to give someone the full answer, so I'm giving out hints. Spoiled out hints cut to the heart of the matter

If you're stuck, consider the following
  • Pressing F will reveal all nearby items and holding F will keep this mode up. it will reveal echoes and memory holes. Any item you don't recognize because you haven't looked directly at it will be an unknown item
  • You can zoom in with Z to look more closely at items
  • Items can only be taken between memories in a region. This means the solution has to come from one memory in that cluster
  • Enlarged images and echo transcripts can be read anywhere in the memory log once saw/listened to once. This allows you to chew on information without physically being there
  • The main goal of the game is to complete the party memories to get to the bottom of the mystery of what happened to Lina and Sebastain. You don't necessarily have to fully figure out a cluster to get there (but that's no fun).
  • I would say that all memories can be solved at their first introduction. Some might be a little easier if you go ahead and come back with more context, but you can fully solve a cluster before starting the next.
  • Party memories are in chronological order while the clusters are not. Keep an eye on dates and times
  • Many later puzzles build upon earlier ones. If you skip ahead to later region, you might be a little perplexed

After conlcuding the story, you can still head back to earlier regions to complete them fully.The epilogue region is beneath The Killing Region, so you can swim back and take the Neural Pathway back to the party
Region 0
Party: Outside

Echoes:
  • Bikes
  • Memory Hole 1/Micheal
  • Sebastian
  • Lina: Complete Memory Hole 2
  • Memory Hole 2/Unknown Tech

Memory Hole 1:
  • Sebastian is pushing someone named Micheal
  • Lina says he’s wearing a labcoat
Answer: Micheal, man in white labcoat


Memory Hole 2:
  • Lina picked up what she thinks are headphones
  • We’re looking for something that looks like headphones, so a head wrapping band with two speakers
Answer: Unknown Technology, on bench near bags

Region 1
Waking Up

Echoes:
  • Bed
  • Memory Hole 1/Broken Gin Bottle
  • Memory Hole 2/Crown
  • [spoilerPhone[/spoiler]: Complete all three memory holes
  • Lina
  • Memory Hole 3/Unknown Tech
  • Truck: Complete all three memory holes

Closeups:
  • Notebook (held by Lina)
  • Instant Camera: On Memory Hole desk
  • Poster: Above Bed

Memory Hole 1:
  • Whatever it is, it clinks and has blood on it
  • In the police station, Lina clarifies she had a bloody bottle
  • Her notebook at the station clarifies that it was broken too
  • Which memory has a group of bottles?
Answer: In At Micheal’s, on the coffee table next to Lina. White base, missing top Broken Gin Bottle



Memory Hole 2:
  • Lina gives no useful information in the this one, other than confusion and a light rustling noise
  • Her journal at the police station says something was made of snapped off branches
  • She mentions wearing a crown to the police officer
  • A sharp eye can see that Lina is wearing a twig like circlet in her Instant Camera Photo
Answer: Crown made of branches, Police Station, on desk next to Lina


Memory Hole 3:
  • This is the easy one
  • Headphones that Lina distantly recognizes and Micheal instantly knows
Answer: Unknown Tech, Waking Up, on Bed



At Micheal’s

Echoes:
  • Lina: Complete Memory Hole 1
  • Micheal
  • TV: Complete Memory Hole 2
  • Mind Diver Flyer: Complete Memory Hole 2
  • Memory Hole 1/Laptop

Memory Hole 1:
  • Lina’s typing on a keyboard
  • We know for a fact she has a laptop, as its case is next to her in this memory and in her bedroom. The case is not a valid answer, as you cannot type on that
  • There’s eight different Laptops in the Police Station, so we’re going to need to think of what would make a laptop Lina’s
  • The main tell is task. For example, the laptop with her police report would not be hers as she would not write it out
  • At the time she was talking to Micheal, she was looking up a police station to report to. She would travel there by bike
Answer:Leftmost Laptop on front table with GPS bike path to police station, At the Police


Memory Hole 2:
  • Micheal says Mind Diving can help her remember and that she needs to watch something
  • He appears to be placing a disc into a video player
  • With one exception, every disc on his shelf is either a real world game or movie with similar themes/gameplay
Answer: [DVD: Mind Diver


At the Police
Echoes:
  • Lina
  • Police Officer: Complete Memory Hole 1
  • Mind Diver Flyer: Complete Memory Hole 1

Memory Hole 1:
  • Whoever this is, they’re filling out Lina’s police report
  • From the voice acting, they’re a woman
  • The police report contains a sign off not of name, but of identification number
Answer: Police Officer E1261, At The Police


Party: Welcome

Echoes:
  • Strange Dancer
  • Speakers
  • Lina: Complete Memory Hole 1
  • Sebastian: Complete Memory Hole 1
  • Alexandra: Complete Memory Hole 1
  • Memory Hole 1/Crown: Complete Memory Hole 1

Memory Hole 1:
  • Alexandra is handing Lina a gift, so whatever she gives has to makes sense in that context
  • Alexandra says that she shouid take it and she'll "fit right in." Is it wearable?
  • The Strange Tech cannot be it, as we saw Lina pick it up in Party: Outside
Answer: Crown. Taken either from At Police Station or Waking Up


Region 2
Protest

Echoes:
  • Memory Hole 1/Sebastian
  • Memory Hole 2/Bike
  • Lina: Complete Memory Hole 2
  • Bag: Complete Memory Hole 1

Memory Hole 1
  • You might want to turn your volume up and see if you’ve heard this voice before.
  • Whoever’s talking, they ran head into Lina and they ask about her bike
  • At the start of Invitation, why are Lina and Sebastian discussing her bike?
Answer: Sebastian, taken from either of the two other memories

Memory Hole 2
  • Lina’s posed likes she’s riding something
  • The man talking to her says her bike is all messed up, but this might not to be enough to distinguish this from the dozen bikes in Invitation
  • In Invitiation, Lina says her bike has a horn
Answer: Invitation, Bike with Horn on far left



Invitation

Echoes:
  • Bike Shed
  • Lina
  • Sebastain
  • Memory Hole 1/Sign
  • Note
  • Door

Memory Hole 1:
  • Lina comments that this is Sebastian’s sign at the protest. It is uncolored and talks about family
  • Sebastian does not appear to be at the protest?
  • More specifically, Lina doesn’t recall him holding his sign in this memory, and since most everyone else here has a unique face, we can massively narrow down the suspect list of signs
  • It has to be one carried by a silhouette
Answer: “Nothing can replace a child’s family” sign, held by first blue silhouette next to the right of the main protesters


Rooftop:

Echoes:
  • Sebastian
  • Lina
  • Instant Photo
  • Note
  • Memory Hole 2/Instant Camera

Memory Hole 1:
  • Lina and Sebastian are posed like they’re sitting, but nothing is beneath them
  • This one’s weird, as multiple things are not where they should be. This is immediately after invitation, so Sebastian should have his bag and Lina should have her Digital Camera
  • The scene as it should be is mistnatkly placed somewhere else in it’s entirely and needs to be brought back
Answer: Sofa in grill corner with digital camera and backpack in Rooftop


Memory Hole 2:
  • Lina and Sebastain are talking about taking pictures and she's holding something at arm length. A shutter flashes
  • A sharp eye might notice that Lina keeps both an instant camera (like a polaroid) and a digital camera on her in other scenes, making it unclear which one she took this photo with
  • This is made instantly clear with Memory Hole 1 completed
  • Lina would use her Digital Camera for work as a photojounrlaist and her Digital Camera for personal memories. Which one is this?
Answer: Instant Camera. Can be taken from Lina in either Protest or Rooftop


Party: Backrooms

Echoes:
  • Door
  • Lina
  • Alexandra
  • Memory Hole 1/Mother
  • Groom: Complete Memory Hole 1
  • Ballerina/: Complete Memory Hole 1

Memory Hole 1:
  • Lina recognizes a woman relieving a memory of her child. Her memory photos are of a pink stuffed bear
  • The pink bear is on the Note in Invitation. It belongs to Sofie, a woman whose daughter was abducted by a police break in
  • As Sebastian says, the people on that note are all at the protest
  • Every protester has a sign relating to their story. For example, Zara, the one whose child was put with family against UN law would be holding the “Is Denmark above UN law?
Answer: Sofie, protester on left with “They broke into our home and took my child sign” from Protest

Finale [WIP, pictures pending]
The Irregularity
These final 3 memory holes are difficult to describe indivudally, as they all work together for one conclusion

Overall Hints:
  • Nina knows where Sebastian went but needs three coordinating pieces of information to fully recall
  • This area is a massive medley of previous sections: going clockwise. We have symptom reports, full stim applications, graves, photos of Sebastian and his mother, travel ads, lighters, photos of Sebastian and Lina, tarot cards, and patient reports
  • If you completed Region 1 fully, you might remember that Sebastian said he was “going to his mother’s place,” but he was not found at his mother’s house. What if he’s telling the truth but being metaphorical?
  • Where we last left off in the Party memories, Sebastian insisted on a full stim and Alexndra was biking off with the two reminders for it. This means something important: the full stim is not taking place in the party building
  • Back in the first Party scene with the speakers, there was a Strange Dancer wearing a self diiving headset, in contrast to the more normal room dives we've seen. Why is he specifcally on the floor?
  • The Strange Dancer matches one of the Full Stim applicants, the one who wanted to relive a party. From this, we can conclude that when they say a Full Stiim should closely replicate the orignal memory, they mean that in the real world: they fully recreate the scene of the memory for the diver
  • If that's the case, Sebastian is diving in a memory of the woods but is also literally in the woods

Memory Hole 1: A description of where he wants to go
Note that is says description, like a written out summary
Answer: Sebastian's Full Stim

Memory Hole 2: An ad of the place
Answer:Safe Travels memory, the travel ad cut describing a mountain hike

Memory Hole 3: Have we been there?
Answer:Office Visit Memory, Instant Photo of Lina and Sebastian in woods

When complete, the game will conlude and we'll unlock the epilogue memories. All memories here are in a row under orange stalactites. After wacthing all echoes, the game will conclude
Animal Hunter
In certain memories, you might hear animal noises. For the achievement, you need to find and pick up four animals. Using the F key to find objects is going to be very helpful

  • No one has pets, so these must be in memories that take place outside
  • By the Lake is a good guess, but nothing's there
  • The main outside memories are the Graveyard and the Amusement Park of Prophecies

Animal 1, Bird
Location: Graveyard, in the branches of the tree at eye level


Animal 2, Squirrel
Location: Graveyard, beneath the "always loved, never forgotten" tombstone


Animal 3, Cat
Location: Prophecies, top of boxing machine


Animal 4, Cat
Location:Prophecies, left of Fortune Teller entrance stairs
1 Comments
handsinthegarden 11 Oct @ 7:07pm 
I feel like you're missing some chunks here.... :( You're mentioning things I've never heard of. I appreciate what you DO have though! :)