Welcome to Into Indie Games’ walkthrough for Chapter 7 of Crushed in Time.
After revealing his story, Emmet Placeholder falls and gets trapped in a smartphone. It’s up to us to help him find a way out of it.
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Table of contents
Helping Emmet Escape the Smartphone
As the cutscene ends, we can see four apps over Emmet. You can interact with the apps to see what’s inside them.
Interact with the Blotify app to find the TP-Tron stuck on the upper part of the screen.
Interact with the Play button to try to activate it. But this will activate a Firewall blocking your action.
Go back using the Cross button on the top left and enter the WBBE app. This will take you to a video game.
Drag the loading bar upwards three times before the meter fills up to dislodge it and start the game.
Bounce the ball on the paddle to break the eight bricks above you. You can drag the paddle to change its positioning.
After breaking all the bricks, you’ll earn a Trophy. Pull on it, and Emmet will catch the Trophy.
Switch to the Weather app next and change the date to Sunday by dragging the day to the side.
Then pull on the Trophy to make Emmet stand on the left side of the screen. Finally, squeeze the thundercloud to make it rain. The trophy will fill up with water.
Switch to the Cardio Fitness app next. Rotate the button in the middle to make Emmet run on the treadmill and get buffed up.
Go back to the Blotify app. Pull on the play button to trigger the error message. Then drag the trophy with water upward to splash the fire with water.
This puts out the fire and gets rid of the error message. Now you can pull on the Play button to activate the TP-Tron. This triggers a cutscene as the group gets hurled into a world of rhythm games.
Recovering the First TP-Tron’s Cog
In this segment of the chapter, you have to collect three TP-Tron Cogs. Watson has to collect the first one.
Make Watson move across the grid by stretching and releasing him on the beat as it turns green.
Guide him toward the key in the center and push it all the way off the ledge on the other side.
When the key resets, guide it to the last stable platform on the grid as shown in the image above.
Interact with all three unstable platforms to open them.
Push Watson toward the key one more time so that the key gets pushed to the middle unstable platform and jumps into the door.
Push Watson to the unstable tile in the middle to hurl him toward the Cog and collect the first one.
Recovering the Second TP-Tron’s Cog
In the next segment, you’ll find Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson riding the Bathtub across a line as the Cog is in front of them just out of reach.
First, pull the Cog downward so that it jumps and crashes on the line.
Then pull the Bathtub to the left so that Sherlock stretches out his arm.
Then make the Bathtub jump twice by pulling it upward so that the Cog is positioned above the Bathtub.
Finally, pull the Cog to the right, and it’ll go straight into Sherlock’s hands.
Retrieving the Third TP-Tron’s Cogs
This takes you to the final segment where Sherlock, Watson, and Emmet fight the final Cog. Pull on each character to make them attack the Cog.
But the Cog will also attack periodically and heal itself if it manages to hit you successfully.
You can pull the Cog downward to change its direction so that it misses its attacks.
Keep attacking the Cog with each of your characters and switch its direction as it starts preparing for an attack to complete this segment.
Once you manage to bring the Cog’s HP down to zero, it switches to phase two and surrounds itself with thorns and becomes immune to your attacks.
Interact with Emma’s Face so that the house in the corner near Emma goes down and you can see her Left Hand.
Pull Emma’s Left Hand to the left so that it gets pushed to the right.
Once that’s done, keep hitting Emma’s Face until Emma’s Left Hand is visible behind the middle house. Also rotate the Cog so that it faces Emma’s Left Hand.
When the Cog attacks Emma’s Left Hand, she will smack it, removing the thorns.
With its thorns gone, you can take out the Cog easily and complete the segment.
After recovering all the Cogs, a cutscene triggers, and you’ll see Watson and Emma flying through the wormhole. Watson is shaken, and Emma tries to console her.
Wait for her to get mad and interact with her raised hand to smack Watson on the face and transition into the next chapter.
This concludes the seventh part of our walkthrough for Crushed in Time. For more interesting articles related to indie games, check out the links below:
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Muhit Rahman lives off two things: gaming marathons and endless cups of tea. He writes guides, reviews, and occasionally forgets that real life doesn’t come with checkpoints. His favorite genres are Soulslike and Metroidvania, with Dark Souls III, Hollow Knight, and Dota 2 forever holding top spots on his all-time list.
