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Welcome to the Into Indie Games walkthrough for Ruffy and the Riverside.

For more information on Ruffy and the Riverside beyond this guide, check out the official website here.

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The Beginning

Intro

In the first scene, you’ll learn to use your Swap ability. Copy the green ivy and paste it on the waterfall.

Master Quin’s Gallery

Here, you must satisfy each of the customers’ requests. Talk to each of them to learn what they want, and copy-paste the right painting into the frame next to them.

• Minna: Flowers painting
• Quintus: Forest painting
• Pix: Sunset painting

To The Beach

Go to the town gate (to the North) and break through the wooden crates blocking the way.

Then, follow Sir Eddler to the lookout point, and then to the beach (use your map for guidance if needed).

After talking to Sir Eddler again, you’ll have to cross the sea. Copy wood (you can use trees, logs, wooden signs, etc.) and paste it on the blocky stone pillars in the sea.

Remember to use your Bee Jump by holding space after jumping, as that’s the only way to cross the sea.

Water Point

Climb up the wooden ladder with the arrows around it, then up the ivy to find another marble.

To proceed further up, copy the ivy and paste it on the waterfall above. Climb the new ivy, and you’ll get to the top of Water Point.

Here, copy the yellow check mark and paste it on the red cross marks.

Now head down to Sir Eddler and talk to him. To activate his Snoop Decoder, copy the marble symbol on the giant claw and paste it onto the monitor.

After the cutscene that follows, return to the mainland the same way you came – over the wooden pillars.

Go talk to Sir Eddler and then follow him to the pond.

The Emblem and the World Core

After talking to Silya, follow Sir Eddler to the Riverside sign.

Talk to Sir Eddler at the Emblem, and follow the red and blue cables to the site of the World Core.

To access the World Core cave, copy the up arrows and paste on the down arrows.

Jump through the opening to reach the World Core. Head to the highlighted wooden stump.

After you’re done, return to Sir Eddler to learn about the Hands of Hope.

Hands of Hope – Noble Tower on the Mountain

If you bring up your map, the Noble Tower on the Mountain can be found to the south of the snowy mountainous area on the map. This is the eastern exclamation mark.

Reach this location and you’ll find an elevator. The key to the elevator is on the left: Triangle for the lowermost level, Square for the Middle Level, and Circle for the topmost level.

For now, copy the square symbol from the block and paste it on the Elevator Controls, then quickly jump on the elevator.

Follow the path on the middle level to find another block on a minecart.

Go behind the minecart and hit it to get it rolling. 

Hit the log to get it out of the way, and then hit the minecraft from behind again.

Now drop down to the lowermost level again, and copy the triangle symbol, pasting it onto the elevator controls to bring the elevator down.

Finally, copy the circle symbol that you just dropped from the minecart, and paste it on the elevator controls.

As before, quickly jump on the elevator to be carried up.

Up at the tower, you’ll find three gates: one wooden, one stone, and one metal. Our goal here is the stone gate directly opposite the tower, which we will designate Gate 1.

Copy wood and paste it on Gate 1. Then, hit the gate to drop it in a suspiciously convenient position.

Next, copy metal (from the metal gate or the chains, for eg.) and paste it on Gate 1.

Head into the tower to grab the first Hand of Hope.

Hands of Hope – Rather Noble Tower in the Forest

This tower is at quite the height, but you can get there by looking for two big waterfalls.

Climb up here by copying the ivy and pasting it on waterfalls.

When you get to the tower, you’ll find that the Hand of Hope is in fact on top of the tower.

Copy the rain cloud over the rivers and paste it onto the white cloud above the plant sprout.

Once the tree is grown, climb up the ivy, step onto the branch, and head to the top of the tower.

The Basilica of the Besties

To find the Basilica of the Besties, head back to path leading up to the Riverside Emblem, and take the fork to the right.

The Basilica is on a floating island, so jump up to it and enter the Basilica after talking to Minna.

Stand on the platform to talk to the High Priest here. This concludes the beginning of the game.

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