Contrast Walkthrough

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Contrast Walkthrough

Our Contrast walkthrough will guide you through the beginning to ending moments of gameplay with strategy tips for this puzzle platformer on the PC, PS3, PS4 & Xbox 360.

Contrast will take you way back to the 1920’s, to a time where jazz was king and the world was getting back on its feet after a devastating war. It was a world of class, depression, and the working stiff.

Let’s start the Contrast walkthrough with an introduction video from the creators!

Please note that viewers must be at least 13 to watch, so no harm comes to those with innocent eyes. This game includes Fantasy Violence, Suggestive Themes, Use of Tobacco.

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Contrast Walkthrough

Intro.

Contrast is a 2D/3D puzzle/platformer, set in a 1920’s vaudevillian, film noir dreamscape, full of cabaret, illusion and performance.

You play as Dawn, the imaginary friend of a little girl, Didi, and you have the power to shift from the 3D world into a 2D shadowscape, by becoming your shadow.

Didi’s family isn’t perfect – her mother is a cabaret singer focused on her career, and her father isn’t around any more. As her imaginary best friend, you must use your shadow shifting abilities to solve complex puzzles, in order to help Didi investigate the secrets that lie behind her troubled family.

Story.

Our story begins in the early 1920s in Didi’s bedroom. Didi is an independent, adventure-loving, spirited little girl who lives with her mother, Kat. Her father, Johnny, left Didi and Kat some time ago, but Didi yearns for her father’s return every day and compensates for his absence through Dawn, a friend, who always seems to be by Didi’s side when no one else is around.

As a single mother, Kat is doing everything she can to raise her daughter. She has been working hard for months to earn her spot as the headline act at the most popular venue in town: the Ghost Note Cabaret. Tonight is her big night, and possibly her last chance to secure top billing… but that means leaving Didi at home…alone.

In and around town, there’s a rumor that Johnny is back in town, trying to promote something big – a circus that is as entertaining as it is ambitious. But to do this, Johnny needs the help of the Great Vincenzo, the famous magician, to headline the show and draw some big crowds. Without Vincenzo’s help, Johnny could find himself in big trouble, as this deal isn’t exactly above board.

And this is where your adventure begins. As Dawn, Didi’s imaginary friend, you will step into the world of Contrast just as Kat puts Didi to bed and prepares for her big night at the Ghost Note.

Key Game Features:

  • Platforming: As you delve into the world of Contrast, you will experience the events surrounding Didi’s family through her eyes. The City that Didi lives in becomes a playground where numerous puzzles, enigmas and platform sequences take place.
  • Special Powers: Dawn, like all imaginary friends, has her own special powers. She can become her shadow, and shift between the 3D and 2D worlds, as the situation requires. You should therefore exploit the shadows and shapes you have created by parachuting Dawn into a world of 2D shadows and back again!
  • Shadow Puzzling: As you roam around in 3D, you move through the different backdrops in Contrast, and must use all your inventiveness to solve puzzles and access locations that may initially appear impossible to reach. The City and its surrounding areas have a large number of light sources that can be exploited to create shadows. Use objects and elements in the décor to create your own shadow scenes – for example, the shadow of a bicycle wheel cast on the wall becomes a staircase to reach a higher platform. Distort these shadows in any way you like to create a path that can only be accessed in the shadow world!
  • Child’s Perspective: Contrast provides a unique atmosphere, where magic and the dream-like universe become blurred in a little girl’s imagination, as her life is turned upside down by her day-to-day existence and her parents’ separation. Her daily life and the challenges she faces with her mother are visually represented to convey the feelings of this 9 year-old girl.
  • Film Noir: Contrast borrows from film noir – from style and tone to the performance, we tell the story of a protagonist who is in a tight spot faced with difficult decisions. Sinister motives, infidelity, betrayal and jealousy are the essential elements of the genre, and are imaginatively reflected in the world of Contrast.
  • Cabaret: Contrast also takes a number of influences from vaudeville, a genre of performance and levity, full of drama and interspersed with poetic moments and songs that echo the thoughts of 9 year-old Didi. The cabaret ambiance envelops you in Contrast and has a very special place in Didi’s heart, as her mother is the star of the most famous venue in town, the Ghost Note. — These genres combine seamlessly in Contrast; delivering a form of artistry that transforms a dark town in the late ‘20s into an enchanting place full of magic and poignancy.
  • Soundtrack: Contrast carries a moody ambience that will whisk you away to an exquisite world embodied by the jazz music. The melody caresses you throughout the adventure; each song and composition reflecting and amplifying the challenges Dawn and Didi face. — The sublime Laura Ellis provides the sultry singing voice of Kat.

Listen to some samples of Laura Ellis’ songs especially written for the game by the creators.

Introduction & Chapter 1: Didi and Dawn / Invisible Friend

Welcome to the Contrast walkthrough! Jake will be your voice-over commentator showing you around the game’s levels.

The Covered Areas & Objectives Are:
• Move the ash cart back into place
• Make your way out of the alley
• Meet Didi at the Ghost Note
• Carmine Bruni
• St. Clair Daily Post
• Turn on the spotlights
• Aim the spotlights at the band
• Repair the spotlight

Act 1: Of all the Gin Joints / The Illusionists

The Covered Areas & Objectives Are:
• Of all the Gin Joints
• Follow Johnny
• The Great Vincenzo
• Find the film reel in the Jazzbar
• Bring the reel to the cinema
• Finding 3 luminaries
• Find a way into the theater
• Get the reel onto the big screen
• The Illusionists
• The Usual Suspects

Act 1: Three Little People / Excelsior Hotel

The Covered Areas & Objectives Are:
• The problems of three little people
• Get to the Excelsior Hotel
• Umbrellas
• Get to the fifth floor suites
• Luminaries
• Get on to the balcony
• Unlock the doors for Didi
• The return of the Prodigal

Act 2: The Return of the Prodigal / Tortuga’s Revenge

The Covered Areas & Objectives Are:
• The return of the Prodigal
• Get to the Circus Tent
• A Spirit from the Vasty Deep
• Tortuga’s Revenge
• Repair the 3 attractions
• Repair the three attractions
• Get Didi onto the boat
• Boxes
• Crates
• Find a way to keep the doors open
• Get the tentacle off the track
• Fire the cannon again
• Deliver the final blow
• Luminaries
• Find a way to open the door
• Follow Didi
• Restart the generator

Act 2: The Princess / Unstrung Hero

The Covered Areas & Objectives Are:
• The return of the Prodigal
• Repair the 2 attractions
• Repair the two attractions
• Fill the role of the princess
• Circus
• Unstrung Hero
• Dawn
• Show
• Princess Puppet

Contrast Walkthrough continues on Page 2 with Acts 2 & 3.

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