You're Grounded! Words any kid hates to hear, especially when you're a child genius who just needs to dismantle a few more household appliances to make his inventions. But in Random Games' point-and-click puzzle game, your evening spent stewing in your room is interrupted by... you! From the future! Seems the city is about to be destroyed and only you can stop it, but you've only got a few minutes. Luckily, you've got a time machine that you can use to rewind (and only rewind) time, so all you need to do is gather everything on the list your Future Self left you (or build it... once you figure out what it is...), assemble the machine, and save the day! Easy!... right? To play, just click any item that highlights when your cursor passes over it to interact. Click any two items in your inventory to try to combine them, and click the numbers at the bottom of the screen to travel to different points in time, though be warned... you can only move backwards, not forwards, though at least you can do so as much as you like!
You're Grounded! is one seriously cute little game, packing in a ton of expressive detail and animation despite its simplistic graphics. What's interesting is how well the game plays with its core concept of time travel... you're not just gathering items and using them in simple point-and-click fashion, you need to figure out when to take certain actions and even work with the shadows of your past self in order to accomplish certain objectives. Heck, sometimes you'll even be working against yourself if you're trying to use an item for another purpose when your past self is already snatching it up for something you've tried before. There's so much to interact with in the room that it can be a little overwhelming, especially since most of the items on your list of necessities will take a little puzzling and ingenuity to figure out. The game offers few hints, so largely it's up to you to experiment and figure out what to do, and not everyone is going to appreciate wandering or waiting around, trying to figure out what to do next, or when. Still, fiddling around is actually a lot of fun despite the way having to click each dialogue bubble closed is mildly annoying. You're Grounded! is a funny, clever little gem of a point-and-click puzzle game that's definitely worth a play, and its creativity and bright design means we hope this isn't the last from its developer.
Walkthrough Guide
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Walkthrough
To open the box, use the pencil on the front table.
To find out how to use the machine, check the science fiction books on the shelf and read “The Domestic Time Travel”.
Materials to fix the motor:
Liquid Time (requires the switch)
Can be acquired after cutting the wire behind the dusty trunk. Combine the bandage box with the broken time machine and you’re good to go.
Four Legged Conductor
Grab the glass from the desk, fill it with water from the fish tank and pour the water into the bowl. Wait until Josephine stops in front of the dusty trunk and push it. Go back in time to help yourself push the trunk away. Take the toy sword and use it on the fork above the bed. Finally, 4 of you will be needed on top of each other to get the fork down.
PVC Stick
The PVC stick will fall off behind the trunk when the turtle chews through it.
Magnetic Tape
Once the trunk is pushed, grab the scissors from the opened drawer below the lamp. Use them to unlock each of the trunk’s locks at the same time. Lastly, use the scissors again on the Walkman to take the tape out.
Electrolytic Cell
Turn on the fan, get the robot down and use the scissors on it.
Rope and magnet – Grab the rope from the lamp. Give the cup of water to the cat so that he’ll get up and get the tape. Pull the bottom left corner of the carpet and go back in time after a while. Grab the key and use it on the desk drawer. Repeat the process to get a new key and open the second one. Then simply combine the tape, the rope and the magnet together.
Turning on the fan – get three of you on top of each other. With the 4th one, use the rope to reach the chain.
Getting the robot down – Check the bottom right corner of the list of materials. The number written there is the combination to break the fan and get the toy down:
2416
Getting the batteries – once the robot is on the ground, simply use the scissors to open it and take the batteries. After putting one in the flashlight and one in the RC radio you’ll have one extra for the motor.
9V Battery (requires Electrolytic Cell)
Put a battery in the RC radio and use it. Once you find the car, use the scissors on it to get the 9V Battery.
Switch (requires Electrolytic Cell)
Put a battery in the flashlight. Turn it on and wait for the blackout (the lightning icon in the timeline). Once the power is back on, go back in time and use the scissors to cut the wires behind the dusty trunk during the blackout.
Antenna
Click on the TV and then on its antenna.
Connecting four motors
Read the domestic time travel to learn how to travel to the future. Grab a motor and travel to the 5th minute. From the game over prompt select “Yes, I’m too young to die!” and repeat until you have 4 motors.
Shoot the beam and save the city
Flip the switch behind the trunk.
Take a nap
Wait until the “-1” button appears on the timeline and click on it to take a well deserved nap.
Posted by: Stinky
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August 6, 2015 8:12 AM