When a storm crashes his airship into the sea, our bearded protagonist awakens on a strange island with his companion missing, and must collect eight instruments from dangerous dungeons to wake the Wind Fish and... what? Oh. Whoops. Wrong game. This is Antennaria Games' point-and-click adventure The Island of Earthly Delights, and while he might not need a sword or a shield, Beardy is still going to need a lot of help if he wants to find his friend in this strange place. Click on the ground to walk around, and on items to interact with or pick them up. The sack in the lower-right corner of the screen is your inventory, and clicking it will open it up, whereupon you can just click once on an item and then anywhere onscreen to use it, or another item to try and combine. Since there's no changing cursor, you'll have to explore everywhere... and, sadly, since the game's alien, enchanting environment has its own set of rules and logic, you'll need to experiment too. That, as it happens, is the main complaint you can make with the game, which really needs more contextual clues for the player to make the necessary connections on how to proceed themselves rather than the tried-and-tested "fling everything at a wall and see what sticks" method. It's too bad since otherwise the game is a stunner, with wonderful imagination and personality. Though there are a few kinks and you need to expand your mind in some strange ways to figure it all out on your own, The Island of Earthly Delights is a short but wonderfully surreal adventure we hope to see get polished up and visit again soon.
Walkthrough Guide
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The Island of Earthly Delights Walkthrough
On The Beach
You should see a Small Stone cradled in a collection of larger stones, resting in front of a tree. Click the Small Stone to pick it up.
Click the Pink Flowers near the bottom of the screen to pick them up.
Click the furthest right large window. A curious ghost will pop out, then back in. Open your inventory and use your Compass on the window. You will give the Compass to the ghost. In return he will give you a Red Pipe.
Open your inventory, and combine the Pink Flowers with the Red Pipe.
Head around to the back of the building by going through the hidden alcove just to the right of the tree behind the rock pile. You should see a gardener tending his plants, and a ladder.
Going Up
Open your inventory and use the Small Stone on the bonsai plant that's on top of the wall. It will get knocked down and distract the gardener.
Use the ladder to climb onto the roof. You will see a Shackled Sweeper Spirit. Open your inventory and use the Pipe-with-Flowers with the fire on the back wall. Now the Pipe is lit.
Give the Lit Pipe-with-Flower to the Shackled Sweeper Spirit. He'll shake off his shackles and free his friends.
Pick up the Black Box with a Button that the Sweeper dropped.
Go down the ladder, back to the gardener you befuddled.
Hey Diddle Diddle
Once on the ground, click on the door to knock on it. Looks like a cat doesn't want to let you in.
Open the inventory and use the small Black Box on the small arched window above the door. While the cat is rocking out, grab the Magic Sock on his left-from-your-perspective leg.
Open the inventory and use the Magic Sock on the gardener's Spade. This will shrink it, allowing you to add it to your inventory. Use the magic sock again on the Hedge-Clippers to do the same.
Go back up on the roof.
Open your inventory, and use the Magic Sock on the Shackle. Now you have more capacity in your inventory.
Go back down the ladder, then around to the left, back to the screen where you started the game.
Sleeping on the Job
Head around to the left side of the castle. There will be a guard snoring against the door.
Open your inventory and use the hedge-clippers on the red-fruited bush. You will get a Red Fruit.
Click the stone right below the red-fruited bush. That stone looks hungry. Open your inventory and give the stone the Red Fruit.
Click on the stone again, and he will gesture to a spot right in front of him. Open your inventory and use the Spade on the spot the stone gestured. A Bird-and-Fish Totem will pop out.
Open your inventory and use the Black Box on the Totem. After a playful licking, you will get a Tongue Amulet.
Open your inventory. Use the clippers on the Tongue Amulet, to divide it into a Tongue and an Amulet. Combine the Tongue with the Shackle to make a... Tongued Shackle, I suposse.
Use the Tongued Shackle on the single flower floating in the water on the left of the screen. Huh. That was unexpected.
Thanks to Tricky for the walkthrough!
Posted by: Dora Breckinridge
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February 21, 2013 11:27 AM