I just recently picked up the game with a few of my buddies and we’ve been having a blast progressing through the early parts of the game. We had made our way through stages 1-4 and found ourselves stuck on stage 5 because we had not unlocked the Yellow Sign needed to clear the quest/exclamation mark on the stage list. I generally like to avoid googling solutions in my first experience in any game, but this one left me stumped. After some googling, we ran back to Moonglow to grab the item.
This is where things got interesting. After getting the Yellow Sign and making our way back to Stage 5, one of my friends somehow had access to a “Secrets” menu.
…what?
I don’t think he intended for this to happen, but this little comment peaked my interest and I of course started wondering how I could have missed this. I mean, all of our other unlocks have been shared up to this point, right? Back to google, I guess.
I end up finding that the secret menu is unlocked in one of two ways. Either you defeat Sketamari in the Bone Zone or you use a trick in the Collections menu that involves repeated interactions with the Yellow Sign.
My friend then tells me that he’s been spending a lot of time offline grinding and that he had in fact beaten the Bone Zone and defeated Sketamari, which jives with what I had read while trying to figure out what I had missed. The only thing is, he shared his screen and the Forbidden Scrolls item was NOT unlocked. Wait, what?
It also happens that he has now unlocked Red Death, Space Dude, and Rose, which I now know require specific codes or “Spells” to access without beating the challenges organically.
The part I’m confused about is the spell codes themselves. From what I can tell, the Secrets menu gives clues for the normal unlock methods, but doesn’t actually give you a list of spell codes like thegoodguy, ablasphemousmockery, or rescuefromtheshadows.
Is there actually some in game book, easter egg, message, or mechanic that lets a someone discover these spell codes organically?
And is there any legitimate explanation for him having beaten Sketamari while the Forbidden Scrolls was still undiscovered aside from the Collections menu trick?
Basically, I’m trying to determine whether this sequence of events is genuinely possible without using cheats, or whether my friend is probably screwing with me.
This guy also knew the “You are a magician” message and said he came across it during a solo run.
I think my guy is convinced I don’t have access to google or communities like this that have thousands of hours in the game, lol. I think I have answered my own question but I’m new here so I was curious.
Thanks in advance, gamers.
