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Forgotten Ruins Exploration
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Forgotten Ruins Exploration

Navigate the treacherous Forgotten Ruins in Rotwood with our comprehensive guide. Discover hidden paths, solve intricate puzzles, and overcome formidable enemies to uncover the secrets within.

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Forgotten Ruins Exploration

Navigate the treacherous Forgotten Ruins in Rotwood with our comprehensive guide. Discover hidden paths, solve intricate puzzles, and overcome formidable enemies to uncover the secrets within.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Begin by entering the sewers from the end of Rotwood Outskirts.
  2. 2
    Navigate the sewers, solving a liquid balancing puzzle to obtain a medallion.
  3. 3
    Depending on your character (Jack or Natalie), you will access either the WRot Radio Station or Barlow's Meat Shop.
  4. 4
    WRot Radio Station: Solve a wave-matching puzzle to unlock a gate and defeat a boss to obtain the Radio Station key.
  5. 5
    Barlow's Meat Shop: Find a tape with a locker code, solve a skull-matching puzzle, and defeat a boss to obtain the Meat Shop Key.
  6. 6
    Use the obtained keys to unlock the gate to Rotwood Downtown.
  7. 7
    In Rotwood Downtown, locate three altars and find three unique canes hidden in different locations:
  8. 8
    Bethany's Curse and Crafts: Solve a moth puzzle by deciphering a riddle and matching portraits to the riddle's clues. Obtain the first cane here.
  9. 9
    The Crimson Reel: Obtain the Crimson Reel's key from Video Outlaw by using a hammer to break planks and searching a corpse in the basement. Retrieve the Serpent Cane from the cinema.
  10. 10
    The Rotwood School: Navigate the school, defeat zombies, and pick up the Skull Cane from a pedestal.
  11. 11
    Place the three canes on the altars in Rotwood Downtown to unlock the gate to the Rotwood Cemetery.
  12. 12
    Vincent Rypard's House: Optionally solve a portrait puzzle to access a basement laboratory and manually activate a lift to save your partner.
  13. 13
    Gunderson's General Store: Find a journal tape, a gun room key, and obtain the grenade launcher. Receive a Ritual Medallion from Zach.
  14. 14
    Use the Ritual Medallion to access The Crimson Reel area after exiting the sewers near Gunderson's.
Tips
  • Conserve your bullets; only engage enemies when necessary or when facing bosses.
  • Run past roaming zombies in open areas of Downtown.
  • The shotgun is effective in The Rotwood School due to enemy placement.
  • Pay attention to riddles and environmental clues for puzzles.
  • Utilize save points and storage access when available.

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