Behind The Frame: The Finest Scenery - 5 Beginner Tips
The painterly puzzle game Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery takes you into the world of a painter preparing pieces for an exhibition while observing her fellow artist neighbor and his playful cat. The game was updated in June 2022 alongside its Switch and PS4 release to feature a new chapter to its story, which gives a new angle to the tale.
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While indebted in style to the art of anime (and the French film Amélie) Behind the Frame's gameplay takes its lead from point-and-click games, and the assumption that players will be able to work out the next step as it presents itself. Classically, this isn't always the case, and you might find yourself stuck on what to do next to progress the story and in need of a hint.
Explore your surroundings with a watchful eye, as even things you miss or think are unimportant at first, like the paintings on the walls, might become essential to progressing further. A good place to start is the fact that the painter enjoys her morning routine.
You may also be tripped up by the fact that the game's story progresses according to the next color she needs on her palette. Once you have done as much as you can with current colors you won't be able to continue painting, so use the notes acquired in the sketchbook as a guide to the next important object. If something is underlined, it's probably important.
The game creates a language of symbols and colors that match up, and if you're stuck with the game's later puzzles, remember that things you have collected throughout will hint at the answer, even if they're not one-to-one.
The symbols you've seen, and the locations they cropped up before may not be in exactly the same spot, but abstracting them to
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