Black Mirror III

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Table of Contents

• Walkthrough
• Chapter I
• Chapter II
• Chapter III
• Chapter IV
• Chapter V
• Chapter VI
• Maps
• Black Mirror I, II & III Image Comparison

Walkthrough

Black Mirror III: Final Fear is a 2011 release from the German video game publisher dtp entertainment, AG. Consisting of six substantial chapters, it is a lengthy and absorbing game that continues the saga of the cursed Gordon family from the previous game in the series, Black Mirror II. Graphics are crisp and immersive, and the visual effects of rain are particularly realistic. The sound effects are satisfactory, although the endless cawing of crows in every outdoor scene grows tiresome. The music is superb, and the game interface has a variety of features to streamline the gameplay. New in Game III of the series are places where you can (and must) play two different characters; in these cases, a green circle around an icon at the top of the screen indicates the active character. There are a few optional inventory items (identified in the walkthrough below), so don't pick them up unless you want to carry them in your inventory for the rest of the game.

There are several timed sequences in the game, but they are not difficult. Played in the third-person on static rendered backgrounds, a few of the scenes required side-scrolling to reach all exits. A trigger event in the game that allows the plot to proceed is often accompanied by the sound of scribbling in Darren's diary, which can be referred to for guidance.

Game controls are fully explained in the accompanying manual. For example, you can press [Esc] to skip the game startup logos or to bring up the game menu. Several of the controls facilitate moving through the game during replays. Left-clicking will skip through dialog, while pressing the [Tab] key will skip cutscenes and certain blocks of dialog. Pressing the keyboard [Pause] button will halt and resume dialog sequences. Double-clicking on an exit will accelerate the character's movement. Occasionally, an Exit or other hotspot is allowed to occupy the same space as the game menu that always occupies the upper-right corner of the screen. In these cases, the [Esc] key can be used to bring up the Save/Load menu. Entry of a saved-game name is echoed very slowly, and if you use mixed case, you may need to pause so that the release of the Shift key is recognized.

When holding an object, the arrow cursor icon includes an image of the object. In these cases, if the cursor does not seem to respond when clicking it on a hotspot, try double-clicking it on its target location. Also, when a task (such as opening a door or gate) seems to be disallowed, ostensibly due to its dependence on a trigger event, try performing the same task a second time and it may be successful.

This walkthrough provides a minimum path through the game; other gameplay sequences and dialog choices can provide additional backstory elements.

Chapter I

- End conversation

- End conversation

- Doughnuts
- Coffee

- Police file
- End conversation

Drag the horizontal red wire at the top to the two terminals at right that are connected to burnt-out wires
Drag the lower of the two parallel horizontal wires at lower left up into the middle position, closer to the upper horizontal wire
Right-click twice on the vertical wire at upper left to make it horizontal, then drag it on top of the damaged horizontal wire nearby
Press the black power button at upper right
Press the green button at upper center
The correct wire placements are:

- Photocopier
- End conversation

- End conversation

- graveyard
- End conversation

- Samuel's grave
- Father Frederick
- End conversation

Chapter II

- Church
- Samuel's grave
- End conversation

- Henry Stanton
- Robert Gordon
- End conversation

- Dr. Winterbottom
- Dr. Heinz Hermann
- End conversation

- Henry Stanton
- End conversation

Henry Stanton		Samuel Gordon		James
Henry Stanton		James		Samuel Gordon
Samuel Gordon		Henry Stanton		James
James		Henry Stanton		Samuel Gordon

- Bible quotation from anonymous grave
- End conversation

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	      (Speed)			   (Direction)

Chapter III

- Renovate facade

- Accident

Academy
Warmhill church
Riverside near hotel
Swampy area to the east of the castle
Woods location to the west of Willow Creek

- Letter from the Vatican
- Portals
- End conversation

Chapter IV

- Hieroglyphics
- Burial mounds
- End conversation

- Miss Valley's house
- End conversation

- Miss Valley's house

sector I3
animal bones from
land

- Effect of the medication
- End conversation

- Heartburn
- End conversation

- Packet of coffee
- End conversation

Chapter V

- Edward

- Mordred's book
- Mordred's wife

Chapter VI

- Missing jewel
- End conversation

- Missing jewel
- End conversation

House & jar

Pitchfork & flower

Bird & head

Fish & hand

- Pull rope
- End conversation

Under the house symbol, press the jar symbol at the top (North position)
Press the triangle button at far right
Under the trident symbol, press the flower symbol at the Northeast position
Press the triangle button at far right
Under the bird symbol, press the head symbol at the East position
Press the triangle button at far right
Under the fish symbol, press the hand symbol at the Southeast position

The Labyrinth

Once inside, you can right-click on the Old note in inventory to view the Labyrinth map. The Labyrinth is a network of rooms connected by doors (all of which are initially closed). Hotspots in each room are visible only when the active character is present in that room. Each door can be opened or closed by a nearby Switch, but several doors have Switches on only one side, which significantly limits the possibilities for positioning Adrian and Valentina, and requires their collaboration for a solution. Note the two evil black clouds ("shades") that are present here. Entering a room containing a black cloud is fatal to either Adrian or Valentina (although the resulting death sequence always shows Adrian). If a player is separated from a cloud by closed doors, he or she is immune from attack. A room is illuminated if the number of its open doors exactly matches the corresponding Roman numeral shown on the map for that room. If a room is lit but has an open doorway connecting it to a black cloud, the occupants of the lit room are immune from attack. Conversely, if the occupied room is dark and connected to a room containing a black cloud, an attack will ensue. Therefore, a player can safely open a connecting door to a room containing a black cloud only if the number of open doors in the player's room is one less than its map number, so that the room lights up just as the door to the black cloud is opened.

If the black cloud kills one of the players, the puzzle is reset to the very beginning when Adrian and Valentina first enter Room A. However, intermediate progress can be saved at any point in the puzzle.

Rooms are identified by the letters A through K on the Labyrinth map. A missing switch on one side of a door is indicated by a red bar. Doors are referred to by their compass direction from the center of a room; for example, Room G has doors in the North, Northeast and Southeast directions.

The overall objective of the Labyrinth puzzle is to find several items hidden within it, and escape with them back to the hieroglyphics chamber while avoiding black clouds.

Can a black cloud be eliminated? No. If lights are on in all rooms connected to a (dark) room containing a black cloud, and the dark room is then illuminated, the cloud will attack any accessible person. For example, on initial entry to Room A with the West door left open, have Adrian open the South door (lights come on) and move into the lit Room G. Move him into the L-shaped Room E. Since Adrian cannot himself close the door he just went through due to a missing switch on his side of the door, have Valentina move into Room G and close its Northeast door. Return Valentina to Room A, close the West (entry) door and open the East door to the black cloud, which causes the lights to come on in Room A and protect Valentina from the cloud. If desired, move Valentina away from the cloud, perhaps all the way into Room G. Finally, play as Adrian and have him open the North door of Room E, which causes Room B to become lit. Even though the black cloud is now completely surrounded by lit rooms, it will attack Adrian or Valentina (whomever is closest).

Can a black cloud be moved? Yes, as will be seen in the solution given below.

Solution sequence:
Start at the players' initial entry into Room A with its West door left open
Playing as Adrian, use the Switch to open the South door in Room A, then exit through it (lights come on in both Rooms A and G)
Open the Northeast door of Room G and exit through it into the L-shaped Room E
Play as Valentina
Close the West (entry) door
Open the East door facing the black cloud (lights come on)
Move south into Room G and close both its North and Northeast doors
Play as Adrian
Open the North door of Room E and the black cloud flees the light into the darkened Room A
Exit north
Close the West door to isolate the black cloud
Examine the Niche on the north wall to get a Bowl
Play as Valentina
Open the Northeast door of Room G
Open the Southeast door and exit through it
Play as Adrian
Click on Room H to join Valentina
Click on the Sarcophagus twice to get a Crown
Open the East door of Room H and exit through it
Open the East door of Room I and exit through it
Open the North door of Room J
Room K is not used in the solution, but can be visited if desired (its sarcophagus is empty)
Play as Valentina
Exit east into Room I
Open the North door and exit through it
Open the North door of Room F and exit through it
Open the West door of Room C
Open the East door of Room C
Exit south back into Room F
Close the North door of Room F
Open the East door of Room F and the black cloud flees the light into the darkened Room C
Exit east
Play as Adrian
Exit Room J to the north
Click on the Sarcophagus twice to get a bishop's Staff
Click on Room F
Play as Valentina
Click on Room F to join Adrian
Close the East door of Room F
Open the North door of Room F, and the black cloud returns to its original position in Room D
Make a place for the first black cloud:
Click on Room B
Close its East door and then open its West door
Exit south into the L-shaped Room E and close the door behind you
Exit west into Room G and close the door behind you
Play as Adrian
Click on Room G to join Valentina
Close the Southeast door of Room G
Open the North door of Room G and the black cloud vacates Room A
Play as Valentina
Exit Room G to the north
Play as Adrian
Click on Room A to join Valentina
Close the East door of Room A
Open the West door of Room A and exit through it

Back in the hieroglyphics chamber, pick up the Small boat between the headless statue and the chasm
Click three times on the Sarcophagus second from the right to get a Fish
Click twice on the Sarcophagus second from the left to get a "Sign" (shield)
Click twice on the Sarcophagus at far left to get an Arrowhead
Click twice on the Dish at the base of the statue to deposit 7 objects from your inventory
Drag any four of these objects into the dish, which causes it to descend
Back out from the dish, and several chains will move
Click twice on a Capsule to get a Golden key
Use the Golden key on the Stone door at left
Which four objects are correct for the dish?
There are 35 possibilities
Play as Valentina
Examine the Relief on the wall to the left of the statue
Click twice on the middle section of Hieroglyphics to learn that two of the four standing people are a priest and a hunter. Non-standing people include a king and a warrior. Making associations with the objects at the dish, we have:

Arrowhead (hunter) - standing (include)
Boat - unknown
Bowl - unknown
Stick or staff (priest) - standing (include)
Crown (king) - non-standing (exclude)
Fish - unknown
Sign or shield (warrior) - non-standing (exclude)

Arrowhead + Staff + two of {Boat, Bowl, Fish}

Arrowhead + Bowl + Staff + Fish

"At sunrise the king sent his warriors
into battle against the darkness"

- Dagger

Skeleton Puzzle

Click on the Altar. Neither the inventory nor the game control menu is available when in close-up on the altar, so the skeleton puzzle must be solved in its entirety before proceeding.

From the initial bone layout, drag the spine at left center up to the base of the skull until two white "proximity spots" appear:

The hip bones are the two center bones in the row of four near the front right corner of the altar. Right-click the rightmost one of these to rotate it clockwise, then drag it into proximity with the far side of the spine base, like this. Right-click the other hip bone to rotate it clockwise, then drag it into proximity with the near side of the spine base, like this.

The thigh bones (femur) are at the rear left corner of the altar. Right-click the left bone to rotate it clockwise, then drag it into proximity with the hole in the near hip bone, like this. Right-click three times on the other thighbone to rotate it counterclockwise, then drag it into proximity with the hole in the far hip bone, like this.

The shinbones (tibia/fibula) are next in position at the rear left corner of the altar. Right-click the left bone to rotate it clockwise, then drag it into proximity with the far knee, like this. Right-click three times on the other shinbone to rotate it counterclockwise, then drag it into proximity with the near knee, like this.

The shoulderblades (scapula) are the remaining two bones near the front right corner of the altar. Drag the right bone into proximity with the far side of the second spine vertebra from the right, like this. Right-click the other shoulderblade to rotate it clockwise, then drag it into proximity with the near side of the second spine vertebra from the right, like this. It is in the correct position when the third spine vertebra from the right is just touching it.

The upper arm (humerus) bones are the two lighter-colored bones near the front left corner of the altar, to the right of the ribs. Right-click twice on the rightmost one of these, then drag it into proximity with the shoulder blade on the far side of the skeleton, like this. Right-click three times on the other upper arm bone, then drag it into proximity with the shoulder blade on the near side of the skeleton, like this.

The lower-arm (ulna/radius) bones are to the right of the ribs. Right-click twice on the rightmost one of these, then drag it into proximity with the elbow on the near side of the skeleton, like this. Right-click twice on the other arm bone, then drag it into proximity with the elbow on the far side of the skeleton, like this.

Drag the ribs farthest away from you into proximity with the far side of the mid-spine, like this. Drag the remaining ribs into proximity with the near side of the mid-spine, like this.

Play as Valentina
In the Tea room of the castle, use the Dagger on the Black stain
Take the Sword
Exit the room

- Mordred's skeleton
- Can start

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Maps

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