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You’ve done it, you tell yourself – you’ve lit all four of the main flames inAnimal Welland you’re about to proceed down this newly unlocked path. The end of the game has to be in sight soon, right? Wrong, you’ve got another upgrade to grab first!
The Lantern is the last of the upgrades in the first layer of Animal Well, and you’re not able to venture into the boss puzzle without getting it first. This part of the well is creepier than anything you’ve seen yet, and there’s danger lurking in almost every shadow, patiently waiting to strike.
Collect All Four Flames To Advance Toward The Lantern
You’ve been collecting plenty of inventory items and upgrades as you’ve pushed on through Animal Well so far, and up until now,there’s no right or wrong order in which to obtain the other four main upgrades, the tools you get after finishing boss puzzles around the map.
That said, you’ll need tocollect all four upgrades, as well aseach of the four flamesfrom around the map, before you can progress toward the Lantern. The requisite tools are:
Collectat least eight secret eggswhile you’re adventuring, so you can open the door in the egg room that leads tothe Animal Flute, permitting fast travel across the large map in Animal Well.
Additionally, you’ll need to double back to all of these areas a few times to keep pushing on with new upgrades, since you’ll need tosolve the flame puzzles protecting each flameto obtain them, so you cango back to the main area with the four statues.
Once you’ve got all of the above,light all four beaconsin the statues, andthe center of the floor will open upto reveal a previously inaccessiblelower area in the middle of the map. To proceed to the Lantern in Animal Well, simplyjump down this new openingto venture forward.
Lantern Puzzle Solution
As soon as you drop into the area below the four statues,go right until you see a ladder. The entire area is covered inspirits that hurt if you touch them, so be mindful of them when you jump around.
At the bottom of the ladder, you’ll see a crank on the left side of a platform and a block preventing you from heading through the pathway on the left. To raise the block,turn the crankon the platform, which actuallyraises a second platform from the water behind youon the right side of the screen.
This platform has another crank, and that’s the one that moves the block. You’ll need toquickly turn the crank on the second platform and run beneath the block on the left side of the screenbefore it hits the ground again. Once you’re past the block, you’ll be in adark room, but you’ll have tonavigate to the bottom-middle of the room, where you’ll find another ladder downward.
There are a few ways you can make it easier to see in here - you can toss Firecrackers to light up portions of the room, or your Yoyo casts a faint light when you toss it.
At the bottom of this ladder, you’ll see awhite bird blocking your way to a treasure cheston the left side of the room, with ablocked path to a telephoneon the right. For now, jump to the platform above the bird andgo leftinto a room with a green button on the ceiling above two trap door platforms. For now,use the ladder on the left.
You’ll enter a room withseveral shadow figureswaiting to follow and attack you, and you’ll also noticeseveral yellow buttonsyou can’t currently access. They open another area you’re unable to reach at the moment, with a ladder in the top right corner.
The figures in here canharm you with the lights from their eyes, so you’ll need to be careful of them! However,they’re scared of Firecrackers, so use them to your defensive advantage if need be.
To start,go to the top left corneralong the platforms and leave the screen to the left. Jump up a screen, and you’ll be in aroom with three yellow and pink buttonsin the floor that correlate to the blocked path in the room. However,the buttons don’t stay pressed when you step off of them, meaning you’ll need to get creative.
As you watch out for the dog creature that attacksin this room, hop to thetop left buttonand quicklydrop your Slinkyonto the button so it stays depressed. As soon as it’s placed,jump to the top right buttonand stand on it yourself. As the creature chases you around the room,the enemy steps on the third buttonand unlocks the path forward.
Carefully enter the path that just unlocked andwalk through the vinesand into an obscured pathway. It leads to thetop trap dooryou saw on the way down into the red room with the three shadow figures, sojump to hit the green buttonand fall through the trap doors. It leads to thetop button in the red room, so press it anduse the trap door to get back to the main portion of the room.
From here, quicklyhead to the right, where you’ll enter a room with more platforms and shadow creatures.Make your way to the vines in the middle of the rightmost wall, and go through this path until you reach theboar’s head fast travel point. Play the Animal Flute at the shrine if you have it, and thenjump up the platforms to the leftand into a doozy of a second puzzle.
There’s ablocked path in the upper left cornerof the next room that leads to a ladder, but you’ll need to hit theyellow button in the bottom right cornerto unlock it, a task that requires quite a few timely steps.
Once the path in the top-left corner is unlocked, jump up to this platform andclimb the ladder to reach the button in the lower left corner of the main red room.
Lastly, to get the final button in the bottom-right corner of the room,go back to the boar’s headand, instead of jumping to the left up the platforms nearby, there’s asection of false wall in the top middle of the screen. Hop through the vines to enter a narrow passageway with another of those creepyred-eyed creaturesthat chased you before.
Being careful of the creature,hit the green button on the right side of the screen, which will brieflyraise the block on the left. The creature will follow your blob, sowhile the creature is standing on the green button, you’ll need to quicklyrun beneath the blockand jump up this path to hit the final yellow button from the main red room.
With the final button pressed,the path to the ladder in the top right corner of the main red room is open. Hop your way up there and climb the ladder, which puts you on the other side of that pesky white bird that was blocking the path to the treasure chest.
Open the chest, where you’ll find Animal Well’s Lantern upgrade! Turning it on allows your blob towalk through certain enemiesas if they don’t exist, so turn on the light to make the bird transparent and head back on out into the main area with your new upgrade and head towardthe final puzzleof the first section of Animal Well!
