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You’re on your way down to the B. Flame in this part ofAnimal Well, so you’re no stranger to how things work around here by now – you think. Now, though, revisiting the area where you found the Seahorse before requires you to think creatively to get your Disc to hit buttons your blob can’t reach.
One such time you’ll need to do this is during the Whale puzzle in Animal Well, the mini-boss puzzle set directly before a second showdown with the Seahorse. Use what you’ve learned in the area leading here to solve the Whale puzzle up ahead.
Where To Find The Whale
Like the other flames in Animal Well, you’ll need all the basic tool upgrades before you may access the Whale. This includesthe Disc,the B. Wand,the Yoyo, andthe Slinky. Similarly,the Animal Fluteprovides access to fast travel and isn’t necessary, but is quite helpful!
As you play through Animal Wellin search of all four flames, you’ll encounter the Whale puzzleon the path to the B. Flamein thesouthwest quadrantof the map, in the section where you got the B. Wand and have beendealing with the Seahorseand the water puzzles.
We started from the telephone to the right of the large chasm you ride down on a bubble and flip switches to cage a humming bird. It’s by the puzzle with the penguins, where you get one of the matches for the candles, as shown in the image below.
To find the Whale, you’ll need to descend the ladder here and solve an even more complicated fountain puzzle than the one you used to access the path to the B. Wand above the Storks just north of here. In this central room, there arethree cranksthis time, correlating to thethree platformsyou’ll use toget water into the center basin.
Only one crank is actually in this main room, though, with the left and right cranks in adjacent rooms. We began with the right crank, so head into the room to the right of the fountain puzzle. Here, there’s a penguin on the left half of the screen whowalks back and forth, going up the steps over the fan to hit the green button, which makes theblock on your side of the screen risetoward theblocked path in the top left corner.
When the penguin first makes the block rise,ride the block up and get off to the right, where you candrop your Slinky onto the green || button below. This makes it so theright fan on the penguin’s side of the screen turns on. Once it’s on, drop back down on the left side and wait for the penguin to make the block rise again.Run under the blockwhile it’s raised.
Here, you canstep on the green = button, which turns on the lower fan on the penguin’s side of the room. While you stay on the button, wait for the penguin to complete its circuit again. It will bounce around with the fans beforeit reaches the top platform and hits the yellow button.
With the path in the top left corner open now, head that way to findthe right crankfor the main fountain puzzle, where you canadjust it so it angles toward the basin below the fountainbefore returning to the main part of the room and heading to the left.
Here, you’ll seefour buttons in an inaccessible area on the left, but take notice of thefan in the floornext to anarrow opening for your Disc. Pass the green button for now andthrow your Disc into the opening. As long as you don’t jump to catch it, it won’t hit you in the lower area parallel to the fan, so drop into here,let the Disc bounce off the platform with the button, and hop back up.
While the Disc is inside the area with the buttons,turn on the fan to make the Disc steadily rise through this column, and it will bounce between the buttons in here.Make sure the Disc hits all four buttonsso you may open thepath in the top right corner, then head that way once it’s open to findthe left crankfrom the main room.
All pathways you’ve unlocked stay open once the yellow buttons have been hit, meaning you can quickly navigate back to the left and right cranks once the paths are unlocked, allowing for careful changes to your cranks.
Now, the goal is tofill the basin below the fountain with water. The formation we have in the image above was just enough to fill the basin with splashed water, which opens thepath to the ladder in the lower part of this room.
Once you’re satisfied, head on down this newly unlocked ladder, but be prepared for your next mini-boss puzzle.
Use The Whale’s Spray To Your Advantage
The Right Room
When you first drop into the room where you’ll face the Whale in Animal Well, you’re probably not expecting it. This is the Seahorse’s domain, isn’t it? Where the heck did this thing come from? Regardless of the questions, you’ll still need tocross the room and solve the puzzlehere before you’re able to move onto the showdown with the Seahorse.
Drop from the ladder onto the platform just below and take stock of the area. There are several platforms at various heights around the room, butthe Whale is always aware of where you areas you navigate. Its shadow will always lurk beneath the surface of the water just below you, waiting toone-shot kill you by eating youshould you get within range, forcing you to start from your last telephone save.
You’ll notice that plenty ofthe platforms are covered with spikes, but you may have already encountered the solution to those elsewhere depending on how you’re progressing through the game.Spikes like this can be broken with the Disc, allowing your blob safer passage.
In all, you’ll need toget to the left side of the room, but doing so requires forging a safer path. From the platform below the ladder,drop onto the small platform on the lower rightand quicklyjump onto the outcropping of walljust next to it.
This puts you at the perfect height tothrow your Disc so it bounces between the wall below the platform on the right wall and the spikes, breaking them and clearing the platforms as it bounces.
Once the path is clear of spikes, you’ll need to be quick as youjump to the lower platformby the water’s surface anduse the B. Wand to cross the low platforms, being extra careful of the Whale following you and trying to eat you all the while.
The Left Room
On the next screen, you’ll see several more platforms, as well as alarge structure in the middlethat featuresfour buttons, anda glass top platform. Theleft wall is slightly longer than the right wall, and there are two buttons on each of the walls leading up to the glass above.
You encountered a puzzle like this on the way here, though, so you’ll know you need to find a way toget the Disc up into the inner part of the platformto hit the buttons. Correlating is ablocked path on the left.
Here, you need to be quick as youdrop to the lowest platform on the rightso you canbreak the spike that blocks the pathto the left and then brieflyretreat upwardsto buy some time. As you move, though, you’ll notice thatthe Whale sprays water vertically at you if you’re on a higher platformwhere it can’t reach you to eat you.
Once the Whale is back underwater, drop back to the lower platform on the right andthrow the Disc at the left wall of the structure with the buttons, being sure tohop back up a platformbefore the Disc bounces back. This way, it hits the glass block on the right platform near the water and bounces back toward the structure with the buttons.
With the Disc bouncing, jump back on top of the central structure andstand on the glass in the middle of the platform. The Whale can still see you through this floor and willspray its water at youaccordingly.Stay here until the Disc is in the Whale’s spray, which will force it up through the structure sothe Disc will bounce, gain height, and hit the buttons.
The Seahorse Puzzle And The B. Flame
Just past the door you just unlocked is a second showdown with the Seahorse, but it’s another fairly simplebasin-filling puzzleagain. There are three basins high on the pillars in the room, so like normal,adjust the cranks to move the platformsso you canlure the Seahorse to you and angle the sprayso it gains height andfills all three basins.
Once thepath on the rightis unlocked when the basins are filled, head on through the new door andgrab the B. Flamefrom the next room.
